Lauren Gray returns to the Island to kick off Manchamps campaign
June 16, 2008
Melbourne driver Lauren Gray will contest the opening round of the 2008 Australian Manufacturers Championship at the iconic Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit this weekend ahead of a season-long campaign in the revitalised ‘Manchamps’.
Altona-based Gray, 21, will compete aboard a familiar ride; her long serving Toyota Echo being prepared for the weekends’ round ahead of an anticipated jump into a newly constructed Corolla later this year.
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Cassey Watson ‘Buliding’ up the pace with Gentoo
June 16, 2008
Ginetta Junior driver Cassey Watson has always been recognizable in both SAXMAX and Ginetta Junior for her cars purple paintjobs and pink tiger graphics. However from now on she will be recognizable for flying the colours for award winning Sunderland based housing firm and community builder Gentoo. The market leading company, and Sunderland’s biggest landlord, back the two cars owned by CBS Racing who have signed Cassey to run alongside team owner’s son Alex Austin.
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Pocono the Perfect Prescription for Gabi DiCarlo
June 16, 2008
Long Pond, PA (June 7, 2008) – Gabi DiCarlo and the Great Clips Racing Team were hoping for a change of fortune as they headed to the 2.5 mile Pocono International Raceway. It seems that the Pocono 200 was just what the doctor ordered for the besieged race team. After coming off a grueling six week schedule that had been filled with enough bad luck to last the whole season, DiCarlo masterfully guided the team’s Toyota Camry to a well needed 10th place finish. [Read more]
Nancy Matter Racing Riding High Into the Heartland
June 2, 2008
Topeka, KS–Following a successful outing at the recent LODRS event at Houston Motorsports Park, the Drag Strip Girl and Applied Tool Supply-backed TA/FC Team of Nancy Matter would like to keep the momentum rolling through the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka, Kan.
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Sam Burman aims to Thunder at Brands Hatch
June 2, 2008
Sam Burman is looking forward to what promises to be a successful weekend’s racing at Brands Hatch, on May 31st and June 1st, where she will be racing her Honda RS in the ongoing Thundersport Championship series.
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Driving ambition for Karen Andrews
June 2, 2008
Karen Andrews, female racing driver, looks set to have an exciting racing season ahead of her following a very promising performance recently at Mallory Park, Leicestershire.
Karen, Senior Engineering Technician for the multi-disciplinary consultancy group Scott Wilson, has been driving since the age of four and races competitively in her spare time. Mallory Park on the 17th May, in which she headed off the competition, helped Karen raise her profile on the racing circuit, gaining further recognition for her driving ability and attract sponsorship support.
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Three great heats for Shelley Wakeling
June 2, 2008
The Minis provided the best racing of the day as ever with a 16 car line up for Round three of the Minicross Drivers Associations Rallycross event on Bank holiday Monday held at Blyton Rallycross circuit.
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Misty Balser Race Report
June 2, 2008
Misty Balser, IKF Race Preview
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From The Desk of: Dave Lynch
Racing Sensation, Misty Balser has been racing more than half her life. At 13, she is a normal kid, but loves to spend the weekend at the track. (Weekdays at the mall, and race days at the track, it’s a girls life.)
This weekend, Karting Champion, Misty Balser will run her number 90 karts at, Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California, in the IKF Series.
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Barbara Terry heads to Baja
June 2, 2008
LAKE WYLIE — Gentlemen won’t be the only ones starting their engines today when the 2008 Baja 500 rolls off in Enseñada, Mexico.
Billed among the toughest automotive endurance races on the planet, the Baja makes history with its 40th annual edition as the first female racer, Barbara Terry of River Hills, competes in the Score Light series hoping to outduel 12 other teams in the 500-mile, two-day event.
Her professional racing career includes stops in New York and Los Angeles, although she “fell in love” with Lake Wylie and quickly set up shop for Barbara Terry Racing in February.
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Hillary Will Picks-up First NHRA Victory Of Her Young Career At Topeka
June 2, 2008
TOPEKA, Kan.– The question of “when” for Hillary Will has been answered – It’s today. Sunday at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kans., Top Fuel rising star Hillary Will, driver of the 8,000-horsepower KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, picked up the first NHRA national event of her young career at the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals, the 9th event of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, with a final round victory over Larry Dixon, 4.744 seconds, 304.53 mph to 4.960 seconds, 281.42 mph.Will becomes the eighth female Top Fuel winner in NHRA history and now joins other auto racing female winners in what has become the year of the woman racer so far in 2008. Recently, Ashley Force became the first female event winner in the NHRA Funny Car class, and Danica Patrick became the first woman to win in the Indy Car Series earlier this year. Two weeks ago Melanie Troxel became the first woman to win event titles in both of the NHRA’s nitro-fueled classes – Top Fuel and Funny Car.
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