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Toyota Expands Daytona Prototype Engine Availability

Toyota Expands Daytona Prototype Engine Availability

Toyota Announcement Expands Daytona Prototype Engine Availability DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 25, 2002) -- With an announcement today by Toyota Racing Development (TRD), the list of engines being made available to power Daytona Prototypes next year now extends to manufacturers from around the globe. According to a press ... Continue reading

TACH Goes Gumball

TACH Goes Gumball

Gumball by Nicholas Frankl. Photos by writer and Bruce Korman. – 160 cars, 6 days, 2800 miles = 700 speeding tickets and $100k in fines! Shotguns have a funny ability to make an English gentleman, even one with the stiffest-of-upper-lips, do unspeakable things. You won’t, therefore, be surprised to learn th ... Continue reading

Ford Focus Daytona Prototype Annoucement

Ford Focus Daytona Prototype Annoucement

Ford Racing annouced this today, and I wanted to make sure you received it. A response from Grand American will be issused on Wednesday. Thanks! MULTIMATIC TO BUILD FORD FOCUS DAYTONA PROTOTYPE Ford Racing, Multimatic and Robert Yates to Cooperate on Development FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DEARBORN, MI (July 16, 2002) - Cana ... Continue reading

SunCruz Casinos 200 Florida State Late Model Championship

SunCruz Casinos 200 Florida State Late Model Championship

Press Release Template Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Gene Crane PR and Media Relations P.O. Box 90097 Lakeland, FL 33804-0097 863 984-RACE (7223) 800 984-RACE (7223) 863 984-2442 Fax genecrane@usaspeedway.com July 10, 2002 Florida State Late Model Championship has a nice ring to it. Lakeland, FL – ... Continue reading

Microchip Technology Named Presenting Sponsor of the Trans-Am on the Tarmac Race in Cleveland

Microchip Technology Named Presenting Sponsor of the Trans-Am on the Tarmac Race in Cleveland

CHANDLER, Ariz.--July 9, 2002--Microchip Technology Inc. Tuesday announced it has been named the presenting sponsor of the Trans-Am on the Tarmac race by the Trans-Am Series, headquartered in Clearwater, Fla. The Trans-Am on the Tarmac Presented by Microchip Technology, Round 5 of the 2002 Trans-Am Series for the BFGoo ... Continue reading

Alex Job Racing - Road America 1-2

Alex Job Racing - Road America 1-2

Road America race, July 7, 2002 1-2 Alex Job Racing finished first and second in the GT class in the first American Le Mans Series race held on the four-mile Road America road course in Elkhart Lake, Wis. Although both have won major endurance races worldwide, Jörg Bergmeister and Timo Bernhard scored their first win ... Continue reading

Kristensen, Capello win American Le Mans at Road America

Kristensen, Capello win American Le Mans at Road America

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. The AP reported that Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello came back from two in-race penalties to win the American Le Mans Series Road America 500 sports car race Sunday at Road America. Denmarks Kristensen and Italy's Capello scored a 32-second win in their Audi R8 Prototype over the Audi driven by Fr ... Continue reading

Sheehan Motor Racing Wins Round 3 of the U.S. Touring Car Championship at Summit Point Raceway

Sheehan Motor Racing Wins Round 3 of the U.S. Touring Car Championship at Summit Point Raceway

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July, 2002 Sheehan Motor Racing Wins Round 3 of USTCC at Summit Point Raceway Gary Sheehan took the victory in an abbreviated race at Summit Point Raceway in his Subaru of America sponsored WRX. Gary Hutto finished in 2nd place driving the Global Motorsports Group BMW 328i and David Lang claimed ... Continue reading

FunTech, Quaife Join List of Approved Daytona Prototype Constructors

FunTech, Quaife Join List of Approved Daytona Prototype Constructors

EDITORS NOTE: The latest Daytona Prototype renderings are available on the Grand American media-specific website at www.grand-am.com/media. Additional information may be requested from: Grand American Road Racing Association Christie Hyde (386) 681-4182; email: CHyde@grand-am.com *************************************** ... Continue reading

Daytona International Speedway Offers Race Fans the Perfect Fourth of July

Daytona International Speedway Offers Race Fans the Perfect Fourth of July

EDITORS NOTE: Additional information may be requested from: Grand American Road Racing Association Christie Hyde (386) 681-4182; email: CHyde@grand-am.com *********************************************************** * Daytona International Speedway Offers Race Fans the Perfect Fourth of July DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 1, ... Continue reading

Per Eklund's Saab 9-3 Viggen Takes Unlimited Class Victory in the 80th Running Of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Per Eklund's Saab 9-3 Viggen Takes Unlimited Class Victory in the 80th Running Of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 1 -- Swedish rallycross racer Per Eklund piloted the most powerful modified Saab ever -- an all-wheel- drive 750-hp Saab 9-3 Viggen -- to victory in the Unlimited Class. Eklund clocked the second fastest overall time of the day in the 80th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb ... Continue reading

Rand Racing - Daytona advance

Rand Racing - Daytona advance

NASCAR guest Rand Racing hopes to celebrate the fourth of July with its seventh-consecutive SRPII victory in the Rolex Sports Car Series. The team has reason for optimism as it returns to the site of its first two victories - the 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway road course in Daytona Beach, Fla. With six class ... Continue reading

SCCA ProRally at Pikes Peak - Final News & Results

SCCA ProRally at Pikes Peak - Final News & Results

The press release text included below is also available in a formatted Word97-Word2000 document. If you would prefer to receive our press releases in that format, or if you wish to opt out of these distributions, please send your request to: sccaprorally@aol.com. For immediate release 29 June 2002 UK's Lovell, Subaru V ... Continue reading

MCINTOSH CAPTURES FIRST POLE AT MID-OHIO

MCINTOSH CAPTURES FIRST POLE AT MID-OHIO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MCINTOSH CAPTURES FIRST POLE AT MID-OHIO LEXINGTON, OHIO (June 29, 2002) –Sean McIntosh, of Coquitlam, B.C., Can., captured the pole for Round Eight of the 2002 Formula Ford 2000 Zetec Championship at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Completing the top-three was JW Urlin, of London, Ont., Can ... Continue reading

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