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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Michael R. Argetsinger, a founder of the International Motor Racing Research Center and an award-winning motorsports author, has died. He was 70.
Argetsinger died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Chicago, according to Glenda Gephart of the research center.
Argetsinger was a member of the steering committee that in 1997 began planning for the Racing Research Center, an archival and research library dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports.