The Juncos Racing quartet of Tatiana Calderon, Joao Horto, Gustavo Menezes, and Martin Scuncio completed a program of pre-season testing sessions in their 2011 Star Mazda machines at three very diverse tracks: Sebring International Raceway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Roebling Road. The testing session was done “boot camp” style where the team went from one track to the next in rapid succession without respite for the four young drivers. This forced the four drivers not only to become more focused on their own race craft, but also gave them the opportunity…
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Rally – Last Ditch Racing and TRX.
Rally – Sunday Service Park 1/30/2011
Welcome to the end of another weekend and another addition of the Sunday Service Park. We have a few items to discuss, but we also had the first round of the RallyCar/Rally America championship as well. The Landscape was different for Sno* Drift 2011 entirely. We had no Ken Block (WRC), no Travis Pastrana (NASCAR), and no Andrew Comrie Pricard. 2010 Rally America champion Antoine L’Estage was back alongside Nathalie Richard and Subaru Rally Team USA would now have David Higgins along side Dave Mirra. In the end, all of…
Read MoreRally – Surprise Ending at Sno*Drift
Here’s the press release from the RallyCar Series summarizing the final results of the first round of the Rally America National Championship, the Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan. It was quite an epic story for Super Production driver Travis Hanson as he became the first SP competitor to claim an overall victory. Shaun will have more commentary and insight into this phenomenal achievement later today in his Sunday Service Park column. Travis Who? Hanson Wins Sno*Drift 2011, Makes American Rallying History Atlanta, MI (January 30, 2011) — Travis and Terry…
Read MoreMazda Road to Indy Wrapup: 1/15 – 1/28
Not a lot has happened since my last update. Not much until this week, that is. A lot of things have started coming together for a variety of teams and drivers, and I’m expecting February to be extremely busy for US F2000, Star Mazda, and Firestone Indy Lights news. Also, in the coming weeks, we plan on having some chats with a variety of drivers and teams about their 2011 plans beginning early next week with Anders Krohn of Belardi Auto Racing. Anders has a very remarkable story, and I…
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IndyCar – Andretti Autosport’s Off-Season Preparations
IndyLights – Belardi Adds Liberty Engineering as Primary Sponor
Things are continuing to look upbeat for the Belardi team and their driver Anders Krohn. Today, Belardi Auto Racing announced that they have added Liberty Engineering as their primary sponsor for the entire 2011 Firestone Indy Lights season. In recent years, the Firestone Indy Lights series has been a hard sell, especially without having a television contract until a couple weeks ago. Hearing that a smaller team to the series was able to secure a solid sponsor such as Liberty Engineering is very good news. “Certainly the brand attributes of…
Read MoreStar Mazda – 24 for the 24
Its not just the IZOD IndyCar Drivers going down to Daytona to represent. As if you needed any more reason to watch the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, 24 drivers who have previously competed in the Star Mazda Championship are down at Daytona now to compete in both the DP and GT classes. Here’s the full release from the Star Mazda Championship: Two dozen alumni of the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear – including seven past champions and two defending Rolex 24 winners – will be competing in this…
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLunch with Randy and Simona This past Monday’s trip to Charm City was quite the informational voyage. Aside from the fact HVM had an amazingly tasty lunch spread in the middle of an announcement. They also was plenty of opportunity to talk with Simona de Silvestro, and IZOD INDYCAR Series CEO Randy Bernard. The Baltimore media was the dominant media in attendance, but was more a silent observer aside from a few obvious (and somewhat overused questions for female drivers). Myself; and the local…
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