Team owner Buckler looking to make a big splash in 2010
Bobby Labonte has signed a one-year contract to drive TRG Motorsports’ car in 2010 — and at least for the season-opening Daytona 500 he’ll have a teammate in TRG’s hoped-for full-time second car.
On Saturday morning at Phoenix International Raceway, TRG owner Kevin Buckler and Labonte announced the deal and a 12-race primary sponsorship with TaxSlayer.com, a provider of online tax preparation software, that Buckler hopes will be the first of several.
“Bobby’s the total package, and …Â Details
Michael Waltrip Racing on Saturday announced the extension of its partnership with Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series. The new agreement will keep the organization with the manufacturer through the end of 2012.
MWR launched its full-time Cup Series teams in 2007 during Toyota’s inaugural year in the premier series. With Toyota’s support, MWR has won three poles, the 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600 and competed for a berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup until …Â Details
Maria Riesch of Germany won the opening women’s World Cup slalom Saturday, edging Lindsey Vonn of the United States by 0.08 seconds.
Riesch, the defending world slalom champion, finished with a two-run time of 1 minute, 48.71 seconds on the Black Course at the World Cup circuit’s northernmost venue above the Arctic Circle.
Tanja Poutiainen of Finland was …Â Details
After a week of near calm, broken only by bizarrely unseasonal rainstorms and drizzle, today dawned bright, clear and windy.
The speed strip was opened again, and competitors had another opportunity to train and familiarize themselves with it.
A number of new people have arrived in the past few days – Fred Kloren, Hennie Bredenkamp, Marc Avela pulled into town yesterday evening from Cape Town, and needed … Details