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MX-5 Cup Programming Begins

MX-5 Cup Programming Begins

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MX-5 Cup Programming Begins This Weekend on SPEED TOPEKA, Kan. (Dec. 7, 2006) - Saturday afternoons just got a little more exciting with the start of SCCA Pro Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by Hankook programming on SPEED. All eight rounds of the inaugural season will be br ... Continue reading

Andy Belmont Racing Adds Bill Catania to ARCA RE/MAX Line-Up

Andy Belmont Racing Adds Bill Catania to ARCA RE/MAX Line-Up

Andy Belmont Racing Adds Bill Catania to ARCA RE/MAX Line-Up CONCORD, NC (Dec. 9, 2006) – Veteran ARCA RE/MAX Series owner and driver Andy Belmont announced today that his company Andy Belmont Racing has signed Bill Catania as a driver for the 2007 ARCA RE/MAX Series season. Bill Catania, 30, was born th ... Continue reading

Hankook Tire Race Team Dominates, Captures Titles

Hankook Tire Race Team Dominates, Captures Titles

The Hankook Tire/JIC Drift Team set personal records and left the competition in the dust at the Redline Time Attack series held recently at Buttonwillow Raceway. Below and attached please find the full release and photo for your use. Please contact us with any questions or additional media needs. For Immediate Release ... Continue reading

Douglas Motorsports Henderson 400 Race Report

Douglas Motorsports Henderson 400 Race Report

December 5, 2006 El Cajon, CA For Immediate Release Douglas Motorsports Wins ?Best in the Desert? Finale After taking the runner-up spot at the Vegas 300 back in October, Scott Douglas and co-driver Jeremy Runyen were looking to bring the Rancho, AMSOIL, Kumho Tire, Reider Racing, KC HiLites, Sycuan Resort & Casino, Fo ... Continue reading

NHRA Newsmakers: December 4, 2006

NHRA Newsmakers: December 4, 2006

NHRA Newsmakers Your inside glimpse at the world's fastest motorsport NEWS NUGGETS * SCHUMACHER WINS FOURTH QUARTER DRIVER OF THE YEAR: NHRA Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher, who made the greatest comeback in NHRA history to win his third consecutive and fourth overall NHRA POWERade Series world championship, was name ... Continue reading

Raceline (TV Show)

Raceline (TV Show)

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MEIJER ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF AGR FOR 2007 SEASON

MEIJER ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF AGR FOR 2007 SEASON

If the following text-only file is not easily readable, particularly any tables of numbers, try enlarging this window since every line has a forced end and there is no word-wrap. Otherwise, this report will look and print better from the following PDF file: http://www.sportssystems.com/applib/PDFload.cfm?file=/email/fi ... Continue reading

MICHELIN CELEBRATES F1 SUCCESS ON THE STREETS OF CLERMONT-FERRAND

MICHELIN CELEBRATES F1 SUCCESS ON THE STREETS OF CLERMONT-FERRAND

If the following text-only file is not easily readable, particularly any tables of numbers, try enlarging this window since every line has a forced end and there is no word-wrap. Otherwise, this report will look and print better from the following PDF file: http://www.sportssystems.com/applib/PDFload.cfm?file=/email/fi ... Continue reading

Bridgestone Again on Board for 33rd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Bridgestone Again on Board for 33rd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif.--The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach is pleased to announce that Bridgestone will continue as the Official Tire Sponsor of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach for the next three years -- an agreement that will see the tire company maintain that role for 14 consecutive years. The company, which t ... Continue reading

Honda Racing F1 Team - Barcelona Test Report

Honda Racing F1 Team - Barcelona Test Report

The PDF attached is safe and free from viruses BARCELONA, SPAIN 30 NOVEMBER TEST REPORT The Honda Racing F1 Team returned to action this week to begin its preparations for the 2007 Formula One season as winter testing kicked off at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. The main focus of this week´s test was an intens ... Continue reading

SCHUMACHER NAMED FOURTH QUARTER DRIVER OF THE YEAR

SCHUMACHER NAMED FOURTH QUARTER DRIVER OF THE YEAR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: NHRA Communications Dept., (626) 914-4761 SCHUMACHER NAMED FOURTH QUARTER DRIVER OF THE YEAR GLENDORA, Calif. (Nov. 29, 2006) - Tony Schumacher has been named Fourth Quarter Driver of the Year for 2006, it was announced today by Barry Schmoyer, president of the Driver of the Year Foundati ... Continue reading

Female drivers prepare to succeed at LSJ Foundation Driver Development Program

Female drivers prepare to succeed at LSJ Foundation Driver Development Program

LSJ FOUNDATION DRIVER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michelle Marquis, 317-244-9790 or 602-952-9243; memarquis42@aol.com Judy Stropus, 203-438-0501; cell 203-243-2438; jstropus@earthlink.net FEMALE DRIVERS PREPARE TO SUCCEED PHOENIX, Ariz. (Nov. 29, 2006) - On Dec. 9-12, 16 young and unique female r ... Continue reading

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Adds Lewis Hamilton To 2007 Driver Lineup

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Adds Lewis Hamilton To 2007 Driver Lineup

Posted by www.eMercedesBenz.com on November 28th, 2006 At 7:30 AM CST In off-season racing news, the newly-named Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team has awarded its second driving spot to none other than 21 year- old Lewis Hamilton, 2006 GP2 Champion and a long-term McLaren and Mercedes protégé. Hamilton will race alongsi ... Continue reading

Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure Doubles Corporate Event Revenue

Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure Doubles Corporate Event Revenue

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 28 -- Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: DJRT) announced today that they expect the soon to be completed 2006 season will set records in revenue and earnings for the company. "Although we still have two events at the Talladega Superspeedway to complete, it is obvious that 2006 wi ... Continue reading

Raffo Racing Baja 100 Race Report

Raffo Racing Baja 100 Race Report

For immediate release November 28, 2006 Arlington Hts, IL Raffo Racing Conquers Baja Long time desert racer Chris Raffo and his California Tomatoes, FIG Partners, Hot Creek Capital, Phil?s Inc., Powermaster, BFGoodrich Tires Chevrolet K5 Blazer came to Baja California to conquer the 39th edition of the Tecate SCORE Baj ... Continue reading

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