Posts Tagged ‘Falken’
Monday, February 14th, 2011
The Fast Abruzzi
The last program Murphy ever thought would move too fast to keep up with was The Don’s Abruzzi. Saturday started with Murphy’s Hoschton source saying the Abruzzi will indeed make the trip to Florida next month, where it will spend the Saturday after St. Patty’s day in a tent due to (excuse here) “problems with suppliers.” It ended when the real story – or a part of it – was told in a Gary Watkins AutoWeak article. (more…)
Tags: Abruzzi, Bud Shootout, Cytosport, Dyson Racing, Falken, Ferrari, Flying Lizard, Highcroft Racing, Intersport, Jay Cochran, Lord Drayson, Paul Miller Motorsport, Pirelli, Risi Competizione
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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…)
Tags: Abruzzi, Audi, Carl Haas, Comprent, Dick Barbour, Extreme Speed, Falken, Intersport, Le Mans, Nurburgring, PMS Group, Porsche, PTG, Rolex 24 at Daytona, Romain Dumas, RRIC, Scott Sharp, Timo Bernhard, Tom Milner, Weissach, Wolf Henzler
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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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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…)
Tags: ALMS, AMA Super Bike, Falken, Grand Am, Honda, IMSA, NASCAR, Porsche Spyder, VICI, WRC, WTCC
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