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Le Mans By The Numbers - What It Takes To Race In the World's Biggest Sports Car Race

Le Mans By The Numbers - What It Takes To Race In the World's Biggest Sports Car Race

Le Mans By The Numbers What It Takes To Race In the World’s Biggest Sports Car Race LE MANS, France, June 13, 2005 – If a team leaves Las Vegas, wins after racing a Porsche 911 for 12 hours in Florida, racing to third in two hours and 45-minutes and second in another, travels 3,000 miles with 15 people from ... Continue reading

Bobby Labonte Back in No. 47 Chevrolet Silverado at Michigan

Bobby Labonte Back in No. 47 Chevrolet Silverado at Michigan

Bobby Labonte Back in No. 47 Chevrolet Silverado at Michigan Texas Native Looking for Second NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Win FOR RELEASE JUNE 14, 2005 Brooklyn, MI – Bobby Labonte will drive the No. 47 Chevrolet Silverado at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in the Paramount Heath Insurance 200. Th ... Continue reading

Wheelie Contest Highlights SSP on Thursday Night

Wheelie Contest Highlights SSP on Thursday Night

Contact: Todd Fisher (717) 292-1696 -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sprint Car Wheelie Contest Highlights Thursday Night at SSP NEWBERRYTOWN, PA (June 13, 2005) – This Thursday night, June 16, the Susquehanna Speedway Park will host the 2nd Annual Sprint Car Wheelie contest presented by the Beer Hill Gang along w ... Continue reading

"Einstein" Eclipses 400 Races, Sets Sight on 600

"Einstein" Eclipses 400 Races, Sets Sight on 600

For Immediate Release "Einstein" Eclipses 400 Races, Sets Sight on 600 Whether you realize it or not, if you've been to even a handful of Sports Car Club of America Club Racing events over the years, you know Mark Weber. It might be name recognition, as Weber has spent the better part of his SCCA tenure as a photograph ... Continue reading

OKLAHOMA FOCUSES CONTINUE THIS SATURDAY

OKLAHOMA FOCUSES CONTINUE THIS SATURDAY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: MICHAEL HARKER/DICK JORDAN 05-135 OKLAHOMA FOCUSES CONTINUE THIS SATURDAY The USAC Oklahoma Ford Focus Midget Car Series returns to action Saturday at the Tulsa (Okla.) Speedway for the fifth race of the season. Jasiel Randolph of Tulsa, Okla., who seeks his first career USA ... Continue reading

RAY TARGETS THIRD STRAIGHT CAROLINA/VIRGINIA FOCUS WIN THURSDAY AFTER ANOTHER SERIES VICTORY

RAY TARGETS THIRD STRAIGHT CAROLINA/VIRGINIA FOCUS WIN THURSDAY AFTER ANOTHER SERIES VICTORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: MICHAEL HARKER/DICK JORDAN 05-138 RAY TARGETS THIRD STRAIGHT CAROLINA/VIRGINIA FOCUS WIN THURSDAY AFTER ANOTHER SERIES VICTORY It took nearly 20 races for Robbie Ray of Davenport, Iowa to win his first USAC Carolina/Virginia Ford Focus Midget Car Series feature, and now the ... Continue reading

MARTZ EXTENDS MIDWEST FOCUS LEAD WITH KALAMAZOO VICTORY; LAKEVILLE RAINED OUT

MARTZ EXTENDS MIDWEST FOCUS LEAD WITH KALAMAZOO VICTORY; LAKEVILLE RAINED OUT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: MICHAEL HARKER/DICK JORDAN 05-136 MARTZ EXTENDS MIDWEST FOCUS LEAD WITH KALAMAZOO VICTORY; LAKEVILLE RAINED OUT Tate Martz of Rushville, Ind. padded his USAC Midwest Ford Focus Midget Car Series points lead Saturday with a victory at the 3/8-mile Kalamazoo Speedway in Kalama ... Continue reading

Art Schmitt Records a Victory as Nissan Trucks Dominate CORR Race in Antigo; Chad Hord Finishes Second and Ranks Second Overall After Four Rounds

Art Schmitt Records a Victory as Nissan Trucks Dominate CORR Race in Antigo; Chad Hord Finishes Second and Ranks Second Overall After Four Rounds

ANTIGO, Wis.--June 13, 2005--If Art Schmitt had his way, he'd race in Antigo every weekend. Schmitt recorded his first victory of the 2005 season in Round Three at the Mole Lake Regency Casino Off-Road Championships. The victory was Schmitt's 9th career Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) victory; four of them taking p ... Continue reading

Henkel and McLaren Mercedes MP4-20 in Top Form for the Green Light at Indianapolis

Henkel and McLaren Mercedes MP4-20 in Top Form for the Green Light at Indianapolis

Team McLaren Mercedes Sets its Sights on the Grand Prix Lead with Henkel DUSSELDORF, Germany and GULPH MILLS, Pa., June 13 -- Henkel Brand is in the driver's seat this weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fusing strength, speed and reliability for Team McLaren Mercedes, currently ranked second in the 2005 Formula ... Continue reading

Terry Borcheller - Mosport preview

Terry Borcheller - Mosport preview

winning program If past success is an indication of future results, Terry Borcheller should enjoy a strong performance at Mosport International Raceway on June 18. Borcheller, of Gainesville, Ga., has won twice and collected eight class podium finishes in twelve races on the 2.5-mile road course in Bowmanville, Ont. He ... Continue reading

MIDGETS JOIN CRA FOR SANTA MARIA "DOUBLE" SATURDAY KAPLAN'S VENTURA WIN SLICES FLOCK'S POINT LEAD

MIDGETS JOIN CRA FOR SANTA MARIA "DOUBLE" SATURDAY KAPLAN'S VENTURA WIN SLICES FLOCK'S POINT LEAD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: DICK JORDAN/MICHAEL HARKER 05-133 The USAC Western Midgets return to Santa Maria (Calif.) Speedway for the first time in three years this Saturday night and former series champion Wally Pankratz hopes to get back to victory lane as he did in 2002. Pankratz was the fastest qu ... Continue reading

WILLIAMS TAKES HEALTHY CRA LEAD TO SANTA MARIA DESPITE GAUNT'S VICTORY AT THE PAS

WILLIAMS TAKES HEALTHY CRA LEAD TO SANTA MARIA DESPITE GAUNT'S VICTORY AT THE PAS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: DICK JORDAN/MICHAEL HARKER 05-134 Rip Williams of Yorba Linda, Calif. enjoys a 90-point lead in the latest Valvoline USAC/CRA Sprint Car standings following his second-place finish in Saturday night's race at Perris (Calif.) Auto Speedway. The series continues this Saturday ... Continue reading

STOCKTON NEXT UP FOR WESTERN SPRINTS VEENSTRA NOTCHES 1ST USAC WIN AT REDWOOD ACRES RACEWAY

STOCKTON NEXT UP FOR WESTERN SPRINTS VEENSTRA NOTCHES 1ST USAC WIN AT REDWOOD ACRES RACEWAY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: DICK JORDAN/MICHAEL HARKER 05-132 The USAC Valvoline Western Sprint Car Series now prepares for a June 25 race at the Stockton (Calif.) 99 Speedway, with Kody Swanson of Kingsburg, Calif. heading the series standings. Swanson finished second to Cody Veenstra of Emmett, Idaho ... Continue reading

KAEDING EYES REPEAT "BUCKEYE NATIONALS" TITLE AT LIMA, ELDORA; STEELE TOPS IRP 30_LAPPER, WINCHESTER'S "IRWIN" RACE RAINED OUT

KAEDING EYES REPEAT "BUCKEYE NATIONALS" TITLE AT LIMA, ELDORA; STEELE TOPS IRP 30_LAPPER, WINCHESTER'S "IRWIN" RACE RAINED OUT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 13, 2005 Contact: DICK JORDAN/MICHAEL HARKER 05-130 KAEDING EYES REPEAT "BUCKEYE NATIONALS" TITLE AT LIMA, ELDORA; STEELE TOPS IRP 30_LAPPER, WINCHESTER'S "IRWIN" RACE RAINED OUT Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. is the defending champion of the "Buckeye Nationals" USAC Valvoline Sprint Car eve ... Continue reading

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