Nobless Nobliege

Charlie Nearburg is a lifelong car racer with a career that includes driving a 333SP Ferrari at Le Mans and finishing 4th and 10th overall at the Sebring 12-Hours. He drove the late Walter Payton Indy car in the 1997 CART/FedEX Championship. In recent years he has focused on setting records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the “Spirit of Rett” streamliner. In September 2010 he set a 414 MPH FIA record with a top speed of 422 MPH breaking the 45-year old record of the Summer Brothers “Goldenrod”, making the “Spirit of Rett the faster normally aspirated car in history. He is a Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering graduate and has Advisor for 30 years and he is a Trustee of the Petersen Automotive Museum, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Art Center College of Design, and he is a Life Trustee of the St. Mark’s School of Texas.

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