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rick catalano (Tatcat)
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Username: Tatcat
Post Number: 15
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 03, 2002 - 6:13 pm: | |
we will be at the DC race this year. new track to be constructed on the parking lot at RFK stadium. should be interesting to see how it works out. hopefully it will be an annual deal. also one of the support races is the Star Mazda Series, open wheel rotary rockets. zoom zoom |
Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 9:14 am: | |
That's great news, Nika -- my family and I look forward to meeting you! |
Nika (Racernika)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 8:03 am: | |
Eric - I'll be there working for a team - I'll e-mail you the details as soon as I get them - love to have you and the family drop by to say hello.
Nika |
Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 9:09 pm: | |
I've made reservations for my family and I to attend the Sebring races in March -- anyone else plan on attending? |
Hamlet Zadourian (Mysteven)
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2002 - 4:56 pm: | |
Thanks for the info Tom.
Hamlet |
TomD (Tifosi)
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2002 - 8:16 am: | |
Speedchannel is the new name for speedvision. go to www.speedvision.com, It has all the details and also tells you how to coordinate with your cable provider. I don't think a final contract is signed yet for 2002 but it usually happens at the last minute. |
Hamlet Zadourian (Mysteven)
| | Posted on Friday, February 01, 2002 - 11:47 pm: | |
As the F1 racing season is only one month away I still don't know where I can watch it. I heard from someone that it will be broadcasted at Speed channel. I have no idea where I can get Speed Channel nor our cable provider. Does anyone know how and where to get Speed Channel?
Thanks |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
| | Posted on Friday, February 01, 2002 - 8:43 am: | |
Nope, not even in Texas this year. Houston street race will be back in 2003 though.
Come support the club racers this weekend at Motor Sports Ranch CC. I race a Rx7 and another FC member, Mark McKenzie(Redcar) races a cobra. |
Ron Dallas (328infoseeker)
| | Posted on Friday, February 01, 2002 - 12:42 am: | |
No Dallas race this year? sh#t! |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 9:37 pm: | |
Forza Ferrari!!! |
Nika (Racernika)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:14 pm: | |
Team Olive Garden Launches 2002 American Le Mans Series
GTS Championship Bid
Riserva di Fizzano, Tuscany (January 24, 2002) - They're back with Ferrari
this year and they're hungry to win the GTS Championship of the 2002
American Le Mans Series (ALMS). The familiar faces of Olive Garden Italian
Restaurants and Gabriele Rafanelli's "Race Team from
Tuscany" have again joined forces as an independent team to compete in all
ten North American ALMS races.
While visiting the Olive Garden Riserva di Fizzano Restaurant and Culinary
Institute of Tuscany here in the heart of Italy, company President Brad Blum
revealed that the new effort in 2002 would be named, "Team Olive Garden."
True to its Italian heritage, the team will race a newly developed Le Mans
GT version of the Ferrari 550
Maranello. Team Olive Garden will make its debut at the 12 Hours at Sebring
(Fla.'s) 50th anniversary race on March 16. Sebring race fans can expect to
see a classic road racing battle as the independent Team Olive Garden
Ferrari takes on a brace of Corvettes entered by the Chevrolet factory team
as well as a number of Ford-
powered Saleen supercars.
"All of us are excited to be back in the ALMS," said Blum. "We began our
support of the Series with a Ferrari effort in 1999. We then joined forces
with Gabriele Rafanelli in 2000. But now, Team Olive Garden is really a
marriage made in Italy with a beautiful new Ferrari and an all-Italian team.
This partnership truly gives Olive
Garden great opportunities to broadcast our values of Italian authenticity,
excellence and teamwork. We look forward to providing fans - and especially
ALMS' many passionate 'Ferraristi' - with great new excitement in the coming
season."
Blum also revealed that Coca-Cola will join Team Olive Garden as a major
sponsor, adding, "Coca-Cola is a world-class brand and a committed business
partner. Coca-Cola is enjoyed at Olive Garden Restaurants across North
America and is the pre-eminent soft drink in Italy."
Driver Team Announced: Schiattarella/Naspetti
Mimmo Schiattarella will join with former Italian Super Touring Car champion
(1997) Emanuele Naspetti to pilot the Team Olive Garden Ferrari 550
Maranello. The role of challenger is not new to Schiattarella who is one of
only two independent team drivers in the entire history of the ALMS to win
an overall race victory against factory-supported teams. He also hails from
Ferrari's hometown of
Maranello, Italy. Like Schiattarella, Naspetti - who comes from Ancona,
Italy - drove for Rafanelli in the 2000 FIA GT championship in Europe with
one pole position and three top-five finishes to his credit.
ALMS Welcomes Team Olive Garden
Scott Atherton, President and COO of the Panoz Motorsports Group expressed
his pleasure at the Team Olive Garden announcement. "We enthusiastically
welcome Olive Garden and Gabriele Rafanelli back to the ALMS and we are also
excited about the participation of Ferrari
with the series. Olive Garden has been an active and innovative sponsor and
we are happy that this team will again be part of our series. I also believe
that the sponsorship involvement of a global brand like Coca-Cola underlines
the growth of ALMS."
Team Olive Garden is developing the FIA-GT version Ferrari 550 Maranello
into a Le Mans GTS contender. Changes include the addition of AP carbon
fiber brakes, a new front splitter with newly revised overall aerodynamics,
more horsepower and torque and a
revised gearbox. Team Olive Garden will race on Michelin tires and rely on
the company's expertise at each race.
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