The story of the new American team that will race in Formula One next season really begins in 1985. That’s when Honda was supplying its wonderful turbo engines to the Williams team and I was working for Frank Williams as his manager of sponsorship and public affairs.
We luxuriated in the 48,000 square feet, or 4,460 square meters, of the new Williams factory in Didcot, England, south of Oxford — a new facility that included a special Honda engine test area and a one-third scale wind tunnel that had originated at a company in northeastern England, Specialized Mouldings. There, in 1977… Details
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It didn’t matter to David Gilliland that his motorcoach was parked in Dover International Speedway’s equivalent of “the back 40” — outside the fence that encloses the rest of the driver/owner coach lot in the track’s infield.
Gilliland was plenty proud of what his TRG Motorsports team had accomplished in Friday’s qualifying for the second race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sunday’s AAA 400.
Gilliland put the unsponsored No. 71 Chevrolet into the field in 18th — better than two former NASCAR champions and 2009 Chase contenders, fastest of the nine go-or-go-home cars and, to a point made earlier in the day by Chase driver Greg Biffle, better than five of the seven Roush Fenway Racing-affiliated Fords…Â Details
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Jimmie Johnson turned a lap of 157.356mph to win the pole for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway.
The top four spots in Friday’s qualifying all went to Chase for the Sprint Cup drivers. Juan Pablo Montoya was second, with …Â Details
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At least part of the ongoing Danica Patrick saga has come to a definitive close. Patrick has reportedly signed a three-year deal to remain a part of Andretti Green Racing. As before, she will drive the No. 7 sponsored by Motorola. It brings to an end months of speculation on the Indy side of things, but plenty of elements of her 2010 and beyond remain very much up in the air.
Patrick’s future has been the subject of debate for years now; while she’s not the most talented driver on the Indy circuit, she’s …Â Details
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