History
Four generations on one side. Three on the other.
Both of them racers. One family came up on ovals, the other on the quarter mile. Connor and Ryan are the first to carry both names.
Greenberg
Mother's side · 4th generation
Great-grandfather
Paul Greenberg
Helped build and found Albuquerque Dragway
Grandfather
Lyle “Bampa” Greenberg
The Cone Hunter — nitro funny car
Mother
Jennifer (Greenberg) Guthrie
First woman to win an open-wheel title in New Mexico
Connor
& Ryan
4th & 3rd generation
Guthrie
Father's side · 3rd generation
Grandfather
Jim “Pops” Guthrie
1997 Phoenix 200 winner, IRL Rookie of the Year
Father
Sean Guthrie
Firestone Indy Lights, 2006–2010
Paul Greenberg
Before any of this family raced on an oval, there was a strip of asphalt south of Albuquerque. Paul Greenberg helped build and found Albuquerque Dragway in the early 1960s — and his son Lyle grew up there, in the pits and at the fence line, because his dad was one of the men who put the track there.
He was racing long before that, and long after.
- BuiltAlbuquerque Dragway, early 1960s
- SinceThree generations of Greenbergs have raced there
Lyle “Bampa” Greenberg
Fifty years of racing, and still running nitro. Lyle campaigns the Cone Hunter — a Chrysler Hemi powered, Corvette-bodied nitro funny car — out of Albuquerque, alongside an altered. In 2023 he put it in the threes at his home track: 3.95 seconds at 195 mph, into the semi-finals of the A Field at Albuquerque Dragway's 60th Anniversary, one of only five cars from a 29-car field to run a three-second pass.
- Car“Cone Hunter” AA/FC
- Best3.95 sec at 195 mph, Albuquerque Dragway
- FirstNitro car into the threes at Albuquerque Dragway
- AlsoNew Mexico Nitro Championship winner, 2018
Jim “Pops” Guthrie
March 23, 1997, Phoenix International Raceway. No sponsor, a second mortgage on the house and a brand-new Dallara he had bet everything on — and Jim Guthrie led 74 laps to beat Tony Stewart and win the Phoenix 200. It is still called one of the biggest upsets in Indy car history. He kept the house.
- 1997Phoenix 200 winner · IRL Rookie of the Year
- Indy 500Three starts — 1996, 1997, 1998
- SeasonBest championship finish 12th, 1996–97
- SinceBuilt Car Crafters to five Albuquerque locations; owns Guthrie's Garage
Sean Guthrie
Born in Albuquerque in 1988, in a go-kart by eight. IKF champion at fourteen, SKUSA Long Track Nationals winner at fifteen, then Formula Ford, Star Mazda and five seasons in Firestone Indy Lights — running for his father's team against the best young open-wheel drivers in the country.
- 2007Career best 4th, Milwaukee Mile
- 200810th in Indy Lights points
- StartedKarting at 8 · IKF champion, 2002
- NowCrew chief and primary wrench for G² Racing
Jennifer (Greenberg) Guthrie
She started at thirteen, and went quarter midgets to mini sprints to midgets. In 2006 she became the first woman to win an open-wheel championship in New Mexico. In 2008 Autoweek named her one of the five fastest women in the sport.
Her first race car was a quarter midget. So are her sons'.
- 2003Quarter midgets — at the Albuquerque track the boys also started at
- 2006First woman to win an open-wheel championship in New Mexico, in a Mini Sprint
- 2007Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association Rookie of the Year; fourth in points
- 2008Autoweek's five fastest women; Ron Sutton Late Model programme
Same bricks
Three generations at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Jim started the 500 three times. Sean raced Indy Lights there in 2007 and 2008. In July 2025 and again in July 2026, Connor and Ryan raced quarter midgets on the same ground.
Three generations of one family, on the same bricks. Quarter midget racing runs on the IMS infield and main straight during NASCAR Youth Series weekends.