By Paul Maryniak | East Valley Trtibune
Franki Buckman has taken charge of one of the nation’s foremost performance driving schools with the energy of the 717-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcats in her stable of racing machines.
Only two months in her new job as CEO and general manager of the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, the Chandler mother of three is breathing new life into a 52-year-old internationally renowned institution that nearly crashed and burned in federal bankruptcy court just a year ago, grappling with over $3.5 million in debts.
Hired last month into a position occupied since May by one of the school’s three new owners who bought it in a court auction, Buckman revved into high gear with a series of changes at the Bondurant School.
