![]() ![]() Fortunately for Tullius, early on he discovered a remarkable but raw young talent. With a young family to support, Tullius had to create his own industry, making business decisions with no business model to follow. In 1962, when forced by his boss to choose between his job selling copiers for Eastman Kodak and his hobby of racing sports cars on the weekend, he made the difficult choice to leave his conventional career behind. Sports car racing was basically a rich man’s hobby, and Tullius was not a rich man by anyone’s definition. Race teams did not represent clients in sports car racing-or any other form of motorsport. However, when Tullius began racing sports cars in the early 1960s, no such dynamic existed. had delivered hundreds of victories and 10 SCCA national championships to its clients: Triumph, MG, British Leyland, Quaker State and Goodyear. ![]() Through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, this team set the standard for motorsports marketing, sports car race preparation, and race team discipline.īeginning in 1962 with a single white Triumph TR3, by 1973 Tullius and Group 44 Inc. In the world of amateur and professional sports car racing, few combinations have worked together as beautifully as Jaguar and Bob Tullius’s Group 44 Inc. Some information or prices may be different. This article was first published in our May 2009 edition of Classic Motorsport.
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