SCCA race car driver, Mike Skeen, was born on October 25, 1986 in Portsmouth, Virginia; by the age of 10, he was already on his way to a booming career as a professional racer.

As a matter of fact, Skeen was already racing karts by the age of 10, and since then he has driven everything from formula cars to GT. Skeen has had success on oval and road courses, winning the SpecE30 national championship in 2008, as well as two regional series championships with a 70% win ratio. That same year, Grassroots Motorsports Magazine named Skeen their Editor’s Choice award winner.

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Skeen made a debut at the SCCA Pro Racing Muscle Milk Trans Am Series that was record-setting, and it was a debut that earned him the “Hard Charger” and “Star of the Race” awards. Skeen’s SCCA record also shattered a previous Road Atlanta lap record set by driver Boris Said.

Skeen’s driving career continued to flourish during the 2010 SCCA racing season, as he nabbed-up such professional, race track accolades as the “Rookie of the Year” award. That same season, Skeen would go on to set lap records at Miller Motorsports Park and Road Atlanta.

Mike Skeen is a race car driver by definition, and it shows when one considers the collection of race car photos that Skeen himself has posted on his website. One of the most fascinating of Skeen’s race car collection, however, is his Cragar ’69 Camaro, seen racing in the featured video at the HSR Vintage Trans Am event at Daytona this last November. First-Gen Camaros carry a legacy of Trans Am racing as is, so it makes sense that this ’69 Camaro be one of the biggest–if not the biggest–part of Skeen’s SCCA racing resume.

In the featured video, Skeen drives the T/A Camaro with the accuracy and firmness that one would have expected from the Camaro when the Camaro series went head-to-head with Ford’s Boss 302 in the late ’60s. The Camaro is the perfect endurance racer, and Mike Skeen is the only man who can unleash the car’s true potential!