Peter Holden Gregg (May 4, 1940December 15, 1980) was an American race car driver during the golden age of the Trans-Am Series and a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. He was also the owner of Brumos, a Jacksonville, Florida car dealership and racing team. Background Gregg was born in New York City, the son of a mechanical engineer and manufacturer of marine incinerators. He graduated from the Deerfield Academy, a private prep school, in 1957 and moved on to Harvard University, where he earned a degree in English in 1961. He had a brief career in filmmaking while also competing as a squash player and then eventually settling on auto racing. After graduating from Harvard, he moved to Europe and attended the Centro-Sud Driving School. He then joined the U.S. Navy and became an air intelligence officer. He was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and served there until discharged in 1965. He was married to Jennifer Johnson and had two sons, Jason and Simon. His legacy lives on in the Peter Gregg Foundation. Racing career While at school, Gregg began his motorsport career in gymkhanas and ice races after an initial appearance in a hill climb in 1958 in Laconia, New Hampshire. In 1963 he drove an unmodified production Corvette in Osceola County, Florida and won the SCCA sanctioned race. He became a serious Porsche racer in 1964 with a Porsche 904 and then moved into competition with a Porsche 906. In 1965 he purchased Brumos Porsche, a local dealership, after the death of the owner, Hubert Brundage. He was the SCCA's Southeastern Division champion in 1967 in two classes and scored victories in Daytona and Sebring. In 1968 he acquired a Mercedes-Benz dealership and entered competition in the SCCA's Under-2-Litre section of the Trans-Am Series. He won six Trans-Am races in 1969 and also took the SCCA's B Sedan National Championship. In 1970, he opened a third dealership, SportAuto, selling Fiats and MGs. In 1971, he was part of the major Trans-Am Series, driving Bud Moore Ford Mustangs, alongside teammate George Follmer. He won the Trans-Am Series in 1973 and 1974 in a Brumos Porsche. By this time, he was involved with IMSA and won the IMSA GTO overall championship in 1971 and 1973, earning him the nickname "Peter Perfect", possibly a reference to a character in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon called the