Posts Tagged ‘Intersport’

184. Abruzzi fading. Highcroft upgrade. The Other Porsche. Risi plots its course.

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…)

177. Peugeot Power. The Proto Grid. A Brumos DP for the Lizards.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Scorched Earth

What do the Montreal Canadiens, Liverpool Football Club, and Richard Petty Motorsports have in common?  George Gillett, a scourge to all of them, or so most fans believe, and who was recently forced out of Liverpool by John Henry, also owner of the Red Sox and Fenway/Roush Racing. RPM owes $3 million Roush-Yates, and since Gillett has way more red numbers than black in his ledger, King Richard is scrambling to stay in the game. It’s tough on the King, with wife Lynda fighting a brain tumor diagnosed in February. The King will likely get through it, perhaps even field a Dodge team in the Continental Tire series and one Cup car. George’s empire might be out of options. (more…)

169. Jaguar to move on? Prototype Prospects. Mid-Ohio is “on” – for IRL. The Obligatory Abruzzi stuff.

Friday, June 25th, 2010

A car that won’t race is just part of Jaguar’s problems. When your best finish (by far) in an ALMS race is last place, 36 laps behind the Porsche class winner, it can’t get much worse, can it? Sure it can. It did at Le Mans. (more…)

155. The Entry at Sebring and Beyond

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Thank someone (S.A.?) for Peugeot. Otherwise, there’d be little of interest in this LMP1 entry. Of course, the rumor was (and Murphy is big on rumors) that Peugeot is the reason there’s no Audi, the Frog firm having nixed an ACO plan to approve a “transitional R15.”
Six cars will race in three packs as (different than three six packs), the first of which will be comprised of two Peugeots. (more…)

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…)