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ALMS: Speevision World Challenge Preview, Texas Motor Speedway

1 September 2000

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

Circuit:
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas

Green Flag:
Speedvision Touring Car: Saturday, September 2 at 3:05 p.m. (CT)
Speedvision GT: Sunday, September 3 at 1:00 p.m. (CT)

Race Lengths: 50 minutes

Television: Speedvision Touring Car: Friday, September 29 at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
Speedvision Speedvision GT: September 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET)

What to Watch: RealTime Racing has recorded six wins in 10 tries in 2000, winning all five Speedvision Touring Car races with the Acura Integra side of the team and the most recent Speedvision GT event with the teams BMW M3. RealTimes six-consecutive Speedvision Touring Car race wins (dating back to Laguna Seca, 1999) is the second-longest winning streak in World Challenge history.

While no one has ever raced on the new Texas Motor Speedway road course, several Speedvision World Challenge drivers consider it home and, including 1999 Speedvision GT Champion Bobby Archer and the entire Viper Speed team, based in Fort Worth. Other Texas drivers in GT this weekend include Terry Lackey, Kelly Bradley, Don Istook and Charlie Barnes. In Speedvision Touring, look for Drew Hagestad, Ed Schairbaum and Fred Meyer.

Its hot in Texasover 100 degrees, and its been 62 days and counting since the Dallas/Fort Worth area saw any rain.

Text provided by Eric Prill

Editors Note: To view hundreds of hot racing photos and art, visit The Racing Photo Museum and the Visions of Speed Art Gallery.