Posts Tagged ‘Falken’

151. Meetings in Braselburg, Phoenix. PTG and the Abruzzi. Slash and Burn? (Correction on IMSA changes)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Braselburg Happenings

No sooner than the cats left town than the mice were out. Actually not out, but “in” a meeting. With the RRIC underway in Phoenix on this past Tuesday – that’s where the Bear was – Murphy’s mole (the Moroccan Mole, some call him) reported a ‘big, big meeting’ at 1394 Broadway in Braselburg. The Bear doesn’t know if it was a sanctioned meeting or an incipient revolt, but he’s heard the subject matter was anything but trivial. (more…)

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149. Murphy’s Expected Sebring Entry.

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…)

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103. le meilleur des mondes possibles – Gottfried Leibniz, 1710

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Murphy’s projections of the 2009 American Le Mans Series grid have been among the most pessimistic in this silly season. Braselton, and a few scribes close to the Broadway Avenue palace, have insisted all along that there will be “mid twenties” on the grid at every stop, and sometimes more. One IMSA insider said the series expected an “average grid of 30 entries.” At the other end of the range, the Bear quoted one participant who put the likely full-season entries at 18.

Murphy doesn’t want to always play the Grinch, so he dug around a bit to try to find those entries. (more…)

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