Posts Tagged ‘ALMS’
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The General is Busy
Pratt & Miller is in pre-build engineering a Caddy for GM. What effect on other GM programs, if any? Seemingly nothing for ALMS fans, since Murphy’s been told that Corvette Racing (the Pratt & Miller American Le Mans Series program in its entirety, he believes) has been approved/funded by GM to race through the 2013 season. (more…)
Tags: Abruzzi, ACO, ALMS, Audi, BMW, Corvette, Jaguar, Panoz, Peugeot, Porsche, Pratt & Miller, Risi Competizione, Road Atlanta
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Murphy’s Rolex Punting Rools
For the third year, the Bear’s picking five entries likely to contend for the win in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. In 2008, his list of five captured 1, 2, and 3. Last year, they grabbed the top two steps. (more…)
Tags: Action Express, Alex Job, ALMS, BMW, Brumos, Cogs, Corvette, Dallara, GAINSCO, Ganassi, Godstone Ranch, Grand Am, Gray's Anatomy. Krohn Racing, Hurley Haywood, Kia, Magnus, Matt Connolly, McDreamy, NASCAR, Penske, Porsche, Riley, SunTrust, Thomas Merrill, TRG, Turner Motorsports
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
It’s time – after much procrastination and with a healthy dose of prevarication – for the Bear to make his first prognostication of the likely Sebring grid. (more…)
Tags: ACO, Acura, ALMS, Black Swan, BMW, Comprent, Corvette, Creation, Cytosport, Dyson Racing, Falken, Ferrari, Flying Lizard Motorsports, Genoa, Gunnar Racing, Highcroft, IMSA, Intercontinental Cup, Intersport, Kolles, LMS, Mazda, Oreca, Peugeot, Porsche, Rahal Letterman Racing, Richard Berry, Risi Competizione, Robertson Racing, Rolex 24, Sebring
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
July
With Le Mans behind us – an perhaps too much time on everyone’s hands – the rumors of a Grand Am-ALMS merger/acquisition came roaring back. A.C. surreptitiously met with Murphy at a Daytona watering hole, dutifully reported by the Bear in 130. Shocking news at a Clandestine Meeting.
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Tags: A.C. Guillermo, Acura, ALMS, Audi, BMW, Comprent, Cytosport, Dinan, Dyson Racing, Grand Am, Greg Loles, Henri Zogaib, Panoz, Peugeot, Pratt & Miller
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
On a dry Sunday after a wet Saturday at Road Atlanta, a “full house” was on hand to test the Challenge LMP. One from the dark side there only to report to the Dark Lord of the Sith, (he who rules on the Peninsula to the south). (more…)
Tags: Acura, ALMS, Audi, Daytona, Grand Am, Haas, Knuckles, Laguna Seca, NASCAR, Panoz, Road Atlanta, Roger Penske, The Mucky Duck, The Sardine Factory, Toyota
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