Posts Tagged ‘Lord Drayson’
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
The Abruzzi Archives
It’s not like it’s a big recall. You are dealing with two copies built on left-over Canadian-built race-car chassis. A torch, order some glass, and viola! (The body panels never did fit, anyway.) The bookkeeping makes the Bear a bit crazy, and leaves him wondering how this project can ever produce a competitive race car. Winchester need a part from Hoschton? The Don writes a check in Braselburg, mails it to Winchester, then Winchester writes a check and mails it to Hoschton. Meanwhile, Gordon’s got a consulting job with the Abruzzi at Sebring. Murphy expects he’ll be in charge of the tent flap.
It’s all pretty odd. The Bear remembers a big dust-up 2001 when not enough Bavarian touring cars were built. That led to our first ALMS one-make racing class. (more…)
Tags: Abruzzi, ACCUS, ACO, ALMS, Archimedes, Audi, babysitters, Bahrain F1, CART, Charlie Whiting, Corvette, Doug Fehan, DTM, FIA, Gil de Ferran, Highcroft, ILMC, IMSA, Intersport, Jay Penske, John Dagys, Katherine Legge, Kirk Russell, Lord Drayson, Lou Gigliotti, Luca Moro, Luciano DaSilva, Paul Collins, Petit Le Mans, Rahel Frey, restricted events, Road America, Road Atlanta, Scott Elkins, Signature Motorsports, Tony Kanaan, Trevor Bayne
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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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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
In an off-season that’s been frighteningly quiet, the Bear’s been able to keep up with most of the rumors with an occasional Tweet. Here’s some rehash and a bit of new perspective on the stories Murphy’s heard. (more…)
Tags: ALMS, Brumos, Cytosport Racing, Dyson Racing, Ferrari, Grand Am, ILMC, Krohn Racing, LMS, Lola, Lord Drayson, Milka Duno, Oreca, Porsche, Riley Technologies, Rolex 24, Tony Dowe, TRG, TWR
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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…)
Tags: Abruzzi, Andy Lally, ARES, Audi, Autocon, Bailey Edwards Cars, Baltimore, BMW, Bobby Labonte, Corsa Motorsport, Creation, Cytosport, Drayson Racing, Dyson Racing, ECO Racing, Highcroft Racing, Intersport, IRL, Jaguar, Jan Magnussen, Kevin Buckler, Le Mans, Long Beach, Lord Drayson, Loudon, Mid-Ohio, NASCAR, Paddy's, Paul Gentilozzi, Petit Le Mans, Peugeot, Porsche, R18, R8, Rocket Sports Racing, Schnitzer, Sprint Cup, T-Mobile, Tom Milner, TRG, VICI Racing
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Sebring – Screwing on your Wheels
Falken sent three wheels bounding down the track. One took out the Flying Lizard’s defending champions. Does that trifecta wipe out a previous Robertson Racing record of two stray wheels in a single race?
Sebring – Competence (continued)
All excuses (and resigned shrugs) aside. The fact that the GT2 race was ended nearly five hours before the checkered flag by IMSA rules (or the sloppy implementation of same) is stupid. Murphy thinks the ALMS is in the entertainment business, not just for the ticket-buying public, but for the sponsors of Flying Lizards Motorsports and Rahal Letterman Racing, and the rest, struggling for sponsors, all of them. The Braselburg puzzle palace better figure out how to keep those competitors in the show until they lose (or win) the race through their own efforts. (more…)
Tags: Abruzzi, Alex Job Racing, American Le Mans Series, Aston Martin, BMW, Butch Leitzinger, Corvette, Corvette Racing, Cytosport, Doug Fehan, Falken Tire, Ferrari, FIA, Flying Lizard Motorsports, Graham Rahal, GT1, Highcroft Racing, Kohler, Lola, Lord Drayson, Nissan, Paul Edwards, Porsche, Rahal Letterman Racing, Risi Competizione, Scott Tucker, Sebring, Stephane Ratel, Taquila Patron, World Center of Racing
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