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In what continues to be an interesting off-season in Formula One, Mercedes announced Monday they are going to purchase a 75.1 percent share of Brawn GP. The team will be operated as a works team starting in 2010. Mercedes went on to say that they will sell their 40 percent stake in McLaren over the [...]
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Word came out of Tokyo on November 4th that confirmed what many were expected. Toyota will be withdrawing from Formula 1 competition. The Toyota news release cited “… the current severe economic realities” as the reason for their exit from the pinnacle of open wheel motorsports.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
ESPN is reporting that Danica Patrick is nearing the completion of a deal to drive a partial schedule for JR Motorsports in the Nationwide series next year. According to their sources she’ll be running 12-13 Nationwide races for the team in 2010 and may start as early as the ARCA race during Daytona Speedweeks.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Kia Motors Motors America announced today that they will team up with Kinetic Motorsports to bring the Kia Forte Koup to compete in the Street Tuner class in the Koni Challenge next year. Stalwarts Andy Lally and Nic Jonsson have been tapped by Kia and Kinetic to pilot the cars in 2010.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Indycar just announced their first title sponsor since 2002, and it is none other than…Izod. Yep, the aged clothing brand of Phillips Van-Heusen more associated with golf than motorsports. Most everyone in tune with the sport, figured this is where things were headed with the title sponsor announcement, but it is just such a letdown [...]
Sunday, November 1, 2009
It’s the age old problem right? Motorsports is your passion, you love watching it on television, reading about it in magazines (and online of course), and attending events in person whenever you can. But in the end you don’t want to watch you want to race damn it! I know this feeling as well as [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
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