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Simko Steers Towards Career Finish In Salem

Simko Steers Towards Career Finish In Salem

Simko Steers Towards Career Finish In Salem Salem, Indiana - - If there is one track where Michael Simko is waiting to return, it’s Salem. The second-generation driver returns to the Indiana based track looking for vengeance after a powerful start to his last trip to the track last fall ended with a poor ... Continue reading

Leonard Ready For Salem Thunder

Leonard Ready For Salem Thunder

Leonard Ready For Salem Thunder Salem, Indiana - - Buckle up and hang on tight. After competing in Superspeedways for the first two events on the ARCA RE/MAX Series schedule, Johnny Leonard and his Florida Motorsports Group (FMG) team head to Salem Speedway, for the first of several short track events on the 2005 RE/MA ... Continue reading

Panoz Esperante GTLM Scores First AMLS Class Victory and Sets Two New Track Records

Panoz Esperante GTLM Scores First AMLS Class Victory and Sets Two New Track Records

HOSCHTON, Ga.--April 19, 2005--The Panoz Motorsports Esperante GTLM Factory Race Team made history on April 17, 2005, by capturing their first class victory and setting two records during the American Le Mans Sportsbook.com Grand Prix of Atlanta. An Esperante battled through a field of 911's, including a wheel-to-wheel ... Continue reading

SHEAR SUSPENDED, PLACED ON PROBATION

SHEAR SUSPENDED, PLACED ON PROBATION

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (April 19, 2005) – NASCAR announced Tuesday that Joe Shear Jr., crew chief of the No. 1 Dodge driven by Johnny Sauter in the NASCAR Busch Series, has been suspended until May 18 (the next four races beginning at Phoenix) and placed on probation until December 31, 2005 after rule violations Sat ... Continue reading

Madusa Wins 2005 Monster Jam World Finals Racing Championship; First Woman in History Ever to Earn This Title

Madusa Wins 2005 Monster Jam World Finals Racing Championship; First Woman in History Ever to Earn This Title

AURORA, Ill., April 19 -- The 2005 Monster Jam World Finals in Las Vegas on March 19 will go down in history as having opened new doors for women everywhere. In front of 37,000 fans at Sam Boyd Stadium, Debrah Miceli, better known by her fans as Madusa, became the first woman ever to earn the esteemed Monster Jam World ... Continue reading

Terry Borcheller - Road Atlanta race

Terry Borcheller - Road Atlanta race

short wing Terry Borcheller and ACEMCO Motorsports scored a fourth-place GT1 finish in the April 17 American Le Mans Series race at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga., despite a rule change that significantly altered the aerodynamic balance of the team's No. 63 Saleen S7R. ACEMCO was forced to reduce the size of the car's ... Continue reading

School Bus Racing Returns to SSP on Thursday

School Bus Racing Returns to SSP on Thursday

Contact: Todd Fisher (717) 292-1696 -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Great American School Bus Racing Returns to SSP on Thursday NEWBERRYTOWN, PA (April 18, 2005) – This Thursday night, April 21, the Great American School Bus Races return to the Susquehanna Speedway Park for the first time this season. Also featur ... Continue reading

Robby Gordon Motorsports: Jim Beam Texas Race Report

Robby Gordon Motorsports: Jim Beam Texas Race Report

Post Race Report<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Jim Beam Racing/<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Robby Gordon Motorsports No. 7 Jim Beam Chevrolet Samsung Radio Shack 500 Sunday, April 17, 2005 Race 7/36 Dallas, TX (April 18, 2 ... Continue reading

Inside Track Readers' Choice Award Nominees Announced

Inside Track Readers' Choice Award Nominees Announced

For immediate release: April 18, 2005 From: Inside Track Motorsport News Inside Track Readers&#8217; Choice Award Nominees Announced Program aimed at celebrating the best of Canadian motorsports opens balloting TORONTO, ON &#8211; The voting has opened on the third annual &#8220;Castrol Presents the Inside Track Reader ... Continue reading

Strong Texas Finish Puts Waltrip and NAPA Team Back on Track

Strong Texas Finish Puts Waltrip and NAPA Team Back on Track

Strong Texas Finish Puts Waltrip and NAPA Team Back on Track Grapevine, Texas (April 18) - Michael Waltrip qualified the NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevy in the 21st position, but when the green flag dropped at the Samsung/RadioShack 500 he headed straight toward the front. After avoiding wrecks on lap four and lap nine, Waltrip' ... Continue reading

Leonard Uses Lakeland Test To Prepare For Short Track Assaults In 2005

Leonard Uses Lakeland Test To Prepare For Short Track Assaults In 2005

Leonard Uses Lakeland Test To Prepare For Short Track Assaults In 2005 Cape Coral, Florida - - Itâ&#8364;&#8482;s been nearly two years since ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Johnny Leonard has endured a short track event. However, that will change this season as Leonard along with his Florida Motorsports Group have made it ... Continue reading

Marlin Gets Best Finish of 2005 at Texas Motor Speedway

Marlin Gets Best Finish of 2005 at Texas Motor Speedway

Contact: Jennifer Powell, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, cell: (704) 658-8540, jpowell@ganassi.com For Immediate Release Marlin Gets Best Finish of 2005 at Texas Motor Speedway Ft. Worth, Texas (April 18, 2005) --- Sterling Marlin and the Coors Light crew battled back from a loose wheel and going a lap down, t ... Continue reading

Suzuki's Carmichael Wraps Up World Supercross Title

Suzuki's Carmichael Wraps Up World Supercross Title

SEATTLE April 17, 2005; The AP reported that Suzuki's Ricky Carmichael wrapped up his first THQ World Supercross GP championship with two races to go Saturday night, finishing third in front of 49,532 fans in the series' first race at Qwest Field. "This championship means a lot to me and I look forward to the rest of t ... Continue reading

Near-perfect light doesn't get Stevens the win in Vegas

Near-perfect light doesn't get Stevens the win in Vegas

DON SCHUMACHER RACING 2005 NHRA POWERade DRAG RACING SERIES Round 5 of 23 NHRA SUMMITRACING.COM NATIONALS THE STRIP AT LAS VEGAS Race Dates: April 15-17, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Judy Stropus, 203-438-0501; cell 203-243-2438; jstropus@earthlink.net A NEAR-PERFECT LIGHT DOESN'T GET THE WIN FOR STEVENS LAS VEG ... Continue reading

Autosport Development Road Atlanta Race Report

Autosport Development Road Atlanta Race Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Thawley 248.227.0110 johnt@c2group.com GMAC / Trenton Forging #5 GTO Road Atlanta Final Race Report Good day for Hayner ends in 11th place. Braselton, Ga. &#8211; April 17, 2005 The #5 GMAC Commercial Finance / Trenton Forging GTO, driven by Stu Hayner, finished in 11th place after s ... Continue reading

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