Last week, at the Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix, we spoke to Dr Lisa Lilley, Shell’s technology manager for Ferrari, about how Shell formulates the fuel and lubricants that it supplies to the Ferrari F1 race team.
How many Shell people work with the Ferrari race team?
Every race weekend three technical Shell staff travel and work with the Ferrari team. There’s myself, one person each for lubricant and oil analysis. Overall, the fuel and lubricants team consists of 50 tech guys and gals spread across Germany and the UK, although quite a few of them are part time. In the course of a race year, some 18,000 hours of research and development are dedicated to… Details
About an hour before Friday’s qualifying round, shortly before driver David Gilliland strapped into his No. 71 Chevrolet, conspicuous by the blank space on the blue car’s hood where a sponsor’s logo belongs, upstart team owner Kevin Buckler arrived at the TRG Motorsports hauler at Texas Motor Speedway.
Inside the outfitted 18-wheeler, the team’s race-week headquarters, Buckler touted his team’s modest successes through six races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit and its loftier goals, while scraping by.
A half-hour later, Buckler would climb atop the hauler to watch…Â Details
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Prosecutors allege that Indy champ Helio Castroneves failed to pay taxes on income from a Brazilian sponsor — posing an additional challenge to his defense team.
The Miami trial of Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves has spotlighted his alleged failure to pay taxes on a $5 million marketing deal with Penske Racing.
But evidence that he may have skirted his tax obligations on far less income from a Brazilian sponsor poses another threat to his career — and his freedom.
Castroneves, a U.S. resident in Miami since 1997, received $530,000 from a Brazilian trading company that sponsored him just before he hit the big time a decade ago as … Details
It’s Rick Hendricks Racing world and we are just watching it. Hendrick drivers Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson finished first and second Sunday in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and also match those positions in the overall series point standings. It was Gordon’s first win at Texas in 17 tries.
Kyle Busch made contact with another car early and cut a tire to move several laps down early and he… Details