ARCA RE/MAX: Dean Roper dies after Illinois crash
August 19, 2001 SPRINGFIELD IL, 8-19-01 – Veteran ARCA stock car driver Dean Roper died at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield this afternoon after an accident in which his Ford slowed on the frontstretch and impacted the inside retaining wall on lap 17 of the ARCA RE/MAX Series PAR-A-DICE 100 at the mile dirt ... Continue reading
CART: Junqueira collects first career win at Road America
August 20, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Rookie Bruno Junqueira of Target Chip Ganassi Racing used a perfectly timed splash-and-go pit stop on the 42nd of 45 laps to drive to his first career FedEx Championship Series victory Sunday in the Motorola 220 at Road America. Junqueira (Target Toyota Lola) took the lead on the 36 ... Continue reading
FORMULA 1: Hungarian Grand Prix Race Results, Budapest
August 19, 2001 : BUDAPEST, Hungary - Results of the Hungarian Grand Prix with position, driver, country, chassis, engine, tire, distance behind leader and reasons out, if any: 1) Michael Schumacher, Germany, Ferrari/Bridgestone, 77 laps 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brazil, Ferrari/Bridgestone, -3.363sec 3) David Coulthard, ... Continue reading
NORTH HILLS, Calif.-- Ford Motor Co.'s newest release, the highly anticipated "classic" Thunderbird arrives in Los Angeles this week at Galpin Ford. The L.A.-based dealer has been inundated with offers from car enthusiasts and will level the playing field by offering its first 2002 model in a charity auction on Tuesday ... Continue reading
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Everclear Presents Their All-New Custom-Designed 2001 Honda Civic To San Diego Fan, Desiree Martlett
Everclear Presents Their All-New Custom-Designed 2001 Honda Civic To San Diego Fan, Desiree Martlett CIVIC TOUR LOGO Civic Tour logo. (PRNewsFoto)[AG] VENICE, CA USA 02/15/2001 SAN DIEGO, Aug. 17 On Saturday, July 28, just before taking the stage at UCSD's Price Center Ballroom to headline that night's Civic Tour conce ... Continue reading
SAE Aerospace Standard AS9100A Available From SAE
SAE Aerospace Standard AS9100A Available From SAE WARRENDALE, Pa., Aug. 17 The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) announces the release of its aerospace standard AS9100, Revision A, still referred to as AS9100. This standard now includes the aerospace unique requirements and ASQ Q9001:2000 and the orig ... Continue reading
Billy Dee Williams Lands at Planet Hollywood for Oldsmobile Fundraiser
Billy Dee Williams Lands at Planet Hollywood for Oldsmobile Fundraiser NEW YORK, Aug. 17 More than 2,000 fans showed up to meet film icon Billy Dee Williams in New York's Times Square this week when the legendary actor starred in Oldsmobile's ambitious, month-long promotion to raise funds for historically black college ... Continue reading
Les Schwab Tire Centers Earns Top Award
Les Schwab Tire Centers announced today that it has been ranked the best passenger-vehicle and light truck tire retailer in customer satisfaction for the second year in a row, according to a recent J.D. Power and Associates Report. In the 2001 J.D. Powers study, Les Schwab scored strongly in the five areas that make up ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Race Results, Pepsi 400, Michigan
August 20, 2001 1. 13. Sterling Marlin, Intrepid, 162 2. 1. Ricky Craven, Taurus, 162 3. ... Continue reading
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CART: Dixon earns career best third in wet weather to lead Toyota effort
August 19, 2001 DIXON QUALIFIES CAREER-BEST THIRD - Scott Dixon (Powerware Panasonic Toyota) earned a career-best third today in qualifying to lead the nine Toyota-powered cars entered for tomorrow's Motorola 220 at Road America. The third place is Dixon's best-ever qualifying performance, surpassing his previous best ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Jeff Gordon Interview: Being the best in Happy Hour
August 19, 2001 Jeff Gordon, No. 24 Dupont Chevrolet Monte Carlo -- 1st in Happy Hour session #1: (On the fact that there were only two Chevrolets in the top 19): "The track is certainly changing conditions right now and if you didn't get a good clean lap early on, then you weren't going to put any good laps up there. ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Steve Park Interview: Making gains for raceday
August 19, 2001 Steve Park, No. 1 Pennzoil Chevrolet Monte Carlo - was 4th fast in Happy Hour session #1: "We're decent; we're just tight. I think everybody's fighting (being) tight. We're just continuing to work on what we need to get this Chevrolet to turn real good. We've made some gains on it. ... Continue reading
SCCA: Stilwell takes pole at inaugural Lunken Runway Enduro
August 19, 2001 CINCINNATI, Ohio (-- Native Buckeye Warren Stilwell, of Hartville, Ohio, earned the pole in the final qualifying session for tomorrow's Round Eight SCCA Pro Racing Pro Spec Racer race at Cincinnati's Municipal Lunken Airport- the first race ever organized on the historic runways of the airport. John Bla ... Continue reading
USAC: Paul White wins at Springfield
August 19, 2001 Springfield, Ill. - "I gotta go to the bank," said Paul White of Temple, Texas after winning Saturday afternoon's "Tony Bettenhausen 100" at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. White led all 100 laps of the USAC Coors Light Silver Bullet race at the 1-mile dirt oval in his Builders Electric C ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: James Ince Interview: Dealing with Michigan as a crew chief
August 19, 2001 JAMES INCE, CREW CHIEF, NO. 10 VALVOLINE PONTIAC GRAND PRIX: (ON THE POSSIBILITY OF RAIN THE NEXT TWO DAYS) "Rain is always a tough situation. It's a whole lot easier for everybody when we know going into the weekend that it's going to rain. I woke up this morning, looked at the weather and it looked li ... Continue reading
NHRA'S 50 GREATEST DRIVERS: Number 15; Ronnie Sox
August 19, 2001 There are no absolutes in life, but the claim that Ronnie Sox was the greatest four-speed driver that ever lived comes pretty close. The longtime racing partner of Buddy Martin was the winningest Pro Stock driver (with nine victories in 23 events) during the short-lived four-speed era (1970-72), and he ... Continue reading
NHRA: Bazemore, Dixon, Johnson, Brown take top qualifying honors at Brainerd
August 19, 2001 BRAINERD, Minn. -- Whit Bazemore led a parade of track record performances Saturday with a top qualifying effort in Funny Car at the 20th annual Colonel's Truck Accessories NHRA Nationals. Larry Dixon, Warren Johnson and Antron Brown also will lead their respective pro categories into tomorrow's 11 a.m. ... Continue reading
CART: Brack adds to points lead with pole position at Road America
August 19, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Kenny Brack of Team Rahal cut loose a spectacular lap on a damp race track in the waning moments of qualifying to capture his fifth FedEx Championship Series pole position of the season Saturday during qualifying for the Motorola 220 at Road America (1 p.m. ET Sunday, live, ESPN). W ... Continue reading
ASA: In the Right Place at the Right Time, Pyle Collects First Career Win
August 19, 2001 MADISON, Wis. – Robbie Pyle, starting his 37th career ASA race, was in the right place at the right time, collecting his first career American Speed Association ACDelco Series win, as leaders Gary St. Amant and Mike Eddy wrecked with just two turns remaining in the Wisconsin 300 at Madison Interna ... Continue reading
NHRA: Benza pleased with improved performance
August 19, 2001 BRAINERD, Minn. (Aug. 19) -- Pro Stock driver Bob Benza was pleased with his return to action at this weekend’s 20th annual Colonel’s Truck Accessories NHRA Nationals, even though he came up three hundredths of a second short of earning an elimination round berth. Driving his brand new Ponti ... Continue reading
NASCAR Trucks: Riggs wins again, Setzer second place at Chicago
August 19, 2001 Dennis Setzer had a strong Silverado today in an exciting race that saw 13 lead changes among eight drivers in the 175-lap event, including fellow Silverado drivers Jack Sprague (who led eight laps) and Travis Kvapil (seven). Starting from seventh position, Setzer ran steadily in the top seven until he ... Continue reading
NASCAR Trucks: Ford driver post race notes and quotes, Chicago
August 19, 2001 KYLE BUSCH-99-Eldon Ford F-150 (Finished 17th) - DID YOU RUN THE TRUCK OUT OF FUEL? "Yeah, we miscalculated a little bit on the fuel mileage, but nonetheless, we had a great run with the Eldon Ford. I just can't thank everybody enough for sticking with me through all of this, especially after the qualif ... Continue reading
NHRA: Focus shifts to raceday for Team Jeg's
August 19, 2001 Jeg and Troy Coughlin started the second and final day of qualifying sitting in the No. 6 and No. 16 positions respectfully. Team Jeg's kept their eyes on the threatening skies above as they set out to improve their qualifying positions before the field was set for raceday. Troy started the batting orde ... Continue reading
CART: Dixon, Gugelmin ready for racing at Road America
August 19, 2001 SCOTT DIXON - # 18 POWERWARE PANASONIC PACWEST TOYOTA Position: 3rd Time: 2:04.631s Laps: 10 Speed: 116.928mph "I was up one-and-a-half seconds on my lap time when the red flag flew, so I know I would have moved up a lot had we stayed green," said Dixon. "Then, when we did go green again, there wasn't m ... Continue reading
CART: Andretti to start from the fourth row at Road America
August 19, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard "Thank God we had that last little bit there at the end. I wish it had been dry because I think we had a car that was going to go pretty well in the dry but at least we finished in the top seven. Seventh isn't too bad, we can still win from there. In t he ... Continue reading
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TRANS AM: Lewis wins first race of career at Road America
August 19, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Michael Lewis (#12 AmeriSuites Jaguar XKR) won the first Trans-Am race of his career in 62 starts through driving rain, splashing puddles, standing water and foggy windows during the Johnson Controls 100 at Road America. Six different drivers have won a race so far in the 2001 ... Continue reading
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