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Lux and White Each Take Salt Lake Race Win - Vipers Overcome Ferrari and Corvettes to Take Seventh and Eighth Victories of 2006

Lux and White Each Take Salt Lake Race Win - Vipers Overcome Ferrari and Corvettes to Take Seventh and Eighth Victories of 2006

Lux and White Each Take Salt Lake Race Win Vipers Overcome Ferrari and Corvettes to Take Seventh and Eighth Victories of 2006, Pacific Raceway Next TOOELE, Utah, May 31, 2006 - NayKid Racing drivers Cindi Lux (Aloha, Ore.) and Scotty B. White (Puyallup, Wash.) broke the seal on the spectacular new Miller Motorsports Pa ... Continue reading

SAMAX - Watkins Glen preview

SAMAX - Watkins Glen preview

The SAMAX/ Doncaster Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car will carry a new number in this week's Rolex Sports Car Series race, but the same talented team will be behind the wheel. The Toronto trio of Dave Lacey, Greg Wilkins and Mark Wilkins will switch from No. 71 to No. 17 for the six-hour race at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Inter ... Continue reading

SAMAX - Lime Rock race

SAMAX - Lime Rock race

SAMAX Motorsport had a short track day at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., as both team cars made an early exit from the May 29 Rolex Sports Car Series race on the 1.53-mile road course. Mark Greenberg of Boston was at the wheel of the No. 17 SAMAX Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car when it tangled with another car 10 minutes ... Continue reading

Daniels Finishes Wild Weekend With MX-5 Cup Win at Lime Rock

Daniels Finishes Wild Weekend With MX-5 Cup Win at Lime Rock

For Immediate Release Daniels Finishes Wild Weekend With MX-5 Cup Win at Lime Rock LAKEVILLE, Conn. (May 29, 2006) - After missing practice for his children's graduations and then losing a transmission during qualifying, a clean race just would not have fit the type of weekend Jim Daniels, of Germantown, Tenn., had. So ... Continue reading

Daniels Takes Lime Rock Pole, Then Breaks Transmission During MX-5 Cup Qualifying

Daniels Takes Lime Rock Pole, Then Breaks Transmission During MX-5 Cup Qualifying

For Immediate Release Daniels Takes Lime Rock Pole, Then Breaks Transmission During MX-5 Cup Qualifying LAKEVILLE, Conn. (May 27, 2006) - A weekend that started out less than ordinary for SCCA Pro Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by Hankook competitor Jim Daniels, of Germantown, Tenn., took anothe ... Continue reading

Ian Global Shipping to Sponsor #35 TPC Racing Porsche

Ian Global Shipping to Sponsor #35 TPC Racing Porsche

BALTIMORE, May 25 -- Ian Global Shipping has announced that the company will sponsor the #35 TPC Racing Porsche GT3 competing in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve for the remainder of the 2006 season. The car is set to debut this weekend during the Rolex GT Series Chall ... Continue reading

Guy Cosmo Mid Ohio Report

Guy Cosmo Mid Ohio Report

For Immediate Release Contact: johnt@c2group.com Cosmo Finishes Fourth In American Le Mans At Mid-Ohio Mansfield, Ohio - Guy Cosmo, driving the #8 Road & Track, Kumho Tire, B-K Motorsports Mazda LMP2 car finished fourth in class for the American Le Mans at Mid-Ohio race Sunday. Pleased with the B-K Motorsports team's i ... Continue reading

The Last Corvette

The Last Corvette

THE LAST CORVETTE Bound For Barrett-Jackson By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau In the quaint little northern Ohio town of Napoleon we found a nondescript gathering of warehouses with a small sign out front that says “Pro Team.” Dedicated Corvette folks will know that business as the largest Corv ... Continue reading

PENSKE PORSCHES WIN HISTORIC MID-OHIO OPENER

PENSKE PORSCHES WIN HISTORIC MID-OHIO OPENER

PENSKE PORSCHES WIN HISTORIC MID-OHIO OPENER Lexington, Ohio (May 21, 2006) - The #7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder, forced to the rear of the grid after pole-setting qualifying times because of a vehicle weight violation, used spectacular driving at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by German Timo Bernhard and Frenchman Romain Dum ... Continue reading

Herr Takes Maiden SPEED Touring Car Win At Mid-Ohio

Herr Takes Maiden SPEED Touring Car Win At Mid-Ohio

For Immediate Release Herr Takes Maiden SPEED Touring Car Win At Mid-Ohio LEXINGTON, Ohio (May 21, 2006) - Chip Herr, of Lititz, Pa., captured his first-ever SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car Championship win in his STaSIS Engineering/QVALE Audi A4 at the Mid-Ohio SPEED World Challenge Weekend Presented ... Continue reading

Hornish Leads 13 SCCA Grads in Indy 500 Time Trials

Hornish Leads 13 SCCA Grads in Indy 500 Time Trials

For Immediate Release Hornish Leads 13 SCCA Grads in Indy 500 Time Trials INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 21, 2006) - Former SCCA Pro Racing standout Sam Hornish Jr. took one step closer to winning the 90th Indianapolis 500, winning the pole position on Saturday and leading 13 of the 32 qualifiers who have SCCA racing on their ... Continue reading

Gigliotti Wins SPEED World Challenge GT at Mid Ohio

Gigliotti Wins SPEED World Challenge GT at Mid Ohio

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: johnt@c2group.com LG Motorsports At Mid Ohio.... PERFECT Lou Gigliotti, driving the #28 LG Motorsports, ProLong Tube Header Corvette C6.R went wire-to-wire to win Saturday's SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT race taking at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The race will be broadcast on ... Continue reading

Gigliotti Wraps Up Perfect SPEED GT Weekend With Win at Mid-Ohio

Gigliotti Wraps Up Perfect SPEED GT Weekend With Win at Mid-Ohio

For Immediate Release Gigliotti Wraps Up Perfect SPEED GT Weekend With Win at Mid-Ohio LEXINGTON, Ohio (May 20, 2006) - At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, Lou Gigliotti, of Dallas, Texas, went flag-to-flag in his No. 28 LG Pro Long Tube Headers Chevrolet Corvette C6 to win the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challe ... Continue reading

PENSKE PORSCHE TO START ON MID-OHIO OVERALL POLE

PENSKE PORSCHE TO START ON MID-OHIO OVERALL POLE

PENSKE PORSCHE TO START ON MID-OHIO OVERALL POLE LEXINGTON, Ohio (May 20, 2006) – Admittedly, this wasn’t how Sascha Maassen wanted to win his first overall pole position in the American Le Mans Series. Nevertheless, that’s where his Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder will start in the American Le Mans at M ... Continue reading

Rocketsports Racing Monterrey Report - Saturday

Rocketsports Racing Monterrey Report - Saturday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Haupt ▪ cell: (517) 927-8472 ▪ e-mail: heatherh@rocketsportsracing.com TROUBLES EARLY ON HINDER POSITIVE QUALIFYING RESULTS IN MONTERREY FOR PASTORELLI MONTERREY, Mexico (May 20, 2006) – A disappointing day for Rocketsports Racing in Monterrey, Mexico today, as th ... Continue reading

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