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Penske Deal Falls Through, GM to Shut Down Saturn

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Penske Deal Falls Through, GM to Shut Down Saturn

Penske’s deal to buy Saturn from GM and outsource manufacturing to another manufacturer has fallen through.  It was believe that Penske was negotiating with Renault to take over the manufacture of Saturns but the details apparently could not be worked out.
Penske Automotive released a statement that said they had negotiated an agreement with another manufacturer [...]

Indy Car: You Could Learn a Thing or Two from Grand Am

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Indy Car: You Could Learn a Thing or Two from Grand Am

On the About Us page of the Grand Am website they refer to the Daytona Prototypes (DPs) as an “extremely raceable and relatively affordable format”.  DPs cost between $400,000 and $500,000 and are available from five separate constructors and have approved power plants from seven different manufacturers (both import and domestic).  Each of these seven [...]

Dude! ING Terminates Sponsorship of Renault F1

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Dude! ING Terminates Sponsorship of Renault F1

It was my favorite livery for the last 2 seasons but alas all good things come to an end. Photo Credit: ph-stop

Amsterdam 9/24/2009 – Late today ING announced that effective immediately they are terminating their Renault F1.  Seriously?  How come?  Why couldn’t these two kids work it out?

XKR Unveiled at Road Atlanta & Pruett Moving to RSR in 2010?

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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XKR Unveiled at Road Atlanta & Pruett Moving to RSR in 2010?

According to AutoWeek Scott Pruett will not be assisting the the test of the new RSR (formerly RocketSports) Jaguar XKR this weekend at Petit Le Mans as was originally planned.  This is most likely due to the fact that it was originally to occur on Friday during practice and is now looking like it will be more [...]

NASCAR Pit Lane Marketing

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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NASCAR Pit Lane Marketing

First off, the views expressed within this blog are solely the views of the blogger, and angryracefan.com is not responsible for them.  OK, after recently watching some of the coverage from recent Indycar, F1, and even motorcycle races, I figured out what NASCAR needs to do to gain in popularity:  Grid Girls, Umbrella Girls.  Whatever you [...]

9/21/09 – Weekend in Racing Review

Monday, September 21, 2009

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9/21/09 – Weekend in Racing Review

My relatively random thoughts on this past race weekend 9/18 – 9/20/2009:

Grand Am Drivers’ Thoughts on Indy

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Grand Am Drivers’ Thoughts on Indy

Grand Am has posted a video of some drivers thoughts on the test at Indy. It’s worth checking out.
Come on 12 Hours @ the Brickyard!

Pre-Chase Musings

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Pre-Chase Musings

Photo Credit: ChevyGuy454

So this is in fact my first blog. Making me a blogger I suppose. Great, another person narcissistic enough to think their opinion is more important than everyone else’s and even worse, that someone wants, no needs, to read it. Steven Colbert said, “a blogger is a person with a laptop, an axe [...]

Graham Rahal Tweets of the Day

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