Posts Tagged ‘Thunderbolt’

91. About those “ifs.” New team, new venue(s).

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Damn, the Bear hates this. No sooner does he post a poop than his phone starts ringing and the emails roll in.

Well, it’s not all bad if a poop brings the denizens of the paddock out of the wordwork, is it?

Murphy said that there was an “if” associated with each of the prototypes that had indicated they’d be at Road America. (more…)

84. Auf Wiedersehen R10, 2009 Venues, A Murphy Top Ten Reasons

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Shared Events to Wane

Is this 2009 schedule stuff ALMS or IRL? Both, Murphy thinks. American Le Mans Series brass doesn’t see more than four shared events in 2009, and they aren’t bashful about identifying the races and the rationale. Long Beach and Detroit (Markets we have to be in.) Mid-Ohio (A spectacular racing show.) Tampa Bay (Some say it’s the same market, but we had a big attendance increase.). For those latter two, you can add H-O-N-D-A to the motivation. (more…)