A Twist On Tradition Defines Event
Registration is open for the Air Race Classic’s shorter one-day test, the ARC Air Derby, with a new twist for 2024: Co-ed teams are permitted to enter. The Air Race Classic (ARC), the epicenter of women’s air racing which began 95 years ago with the Women’s Air Derby and evolved through the All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race (aka the Powder Puff Derby) to grow into the competition it is today, created a second event during the pandemic year of 2021 when the ARC was canceled two years in a row. The one-day contest is known as the ARC Air Derby, and the 2024 edition has a twist that breaks with traditional women’s air racing: men will be allowed on teams for the first time.