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INDIANAPOLIS, Sunday, May 20, 2012 – After learning she won’t be given the opportunity to compete in this year’s Indianapolis 500, British racer Pippa Mann is simply switching her focus to the remaining races on the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series schedule.

Mann’s efforts to get into a car and qualify for this year’s Indy 500 were relentless. The Firestone Indy Lights race winner was present at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for every practice session since opening day, exhausting every option and ready to jump in at any point.

However as fans began arriving at The Brickyard to take their seats in the stands for Pole Day, Mann was given the news that she would not be getting a chance to make this year’s field. “Sometimes these things are beyond our control,” said Mann. “When you know that you’ve done everything you can to achieve something, and it still doesn’t happen, it’s frustrating and of course massively disappointing. But I did all I could and to that end, I have no regrets. Ultimately my only option now is to pick up, dust off, and get back out there!”(...)
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 29, 2012 – TrueCar Racing experienced success and disappointment on opposite sides of the western hemisphere this weekend as two of its drivers ended up with differing results.  Shea Holbrook, competing in the Touring Car class of the Pirelli World Challenge, took home fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place finishes in three races this weekend while Katherine Legge was unable to complete her race in the IZOD IndyCar Series after contact with the wall damaged her car.

Holbrook, driving the #67 TrueCar Honda Civic Si, had what she described as the best weekend of her racing career thus far.  Racing in three events over two days at Miller Motorsports Park near Tooele, Utah, Holbrook scored a sixth-place finish in the first race yesterday morning (won by Todd Lamb) and then a fourth-place finish in the second race (won by Michael Cooper,) which was held back-to-back with the first.  She rounded out her weekend with a fifth-place finish today after having worked her way from the back of the field.

“I was third on grid today because I had the third-fastest time from the second race of the weekend, said Holbrook.  “I was in a really good position to just stay up front and battle the entire time.  On the start of the race, I’m not sure what happened.  Either we had a misfire or I was in third gear… I couldn’t get the car rolling.  The engine took a moment to breathe because I was on the throttle but then I got full power back and it was fine.  By then I was last. (...)
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 25, 2012 – Two members of the TrueCar Racing team will compete on opposite sides of the western hemisphere this weekend, tackling two very different kinds of tracks and unique sets of challenges.  Shea Holbrook, racing in the Touring Car class of the Pirelli World Challenge Series, faces off in three races at the PrivacyStar Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.  Her teammate Katherine Legge will compete over 6000 miles away in round four of the IZOD IndyCar Series Sao Paulo Indy 300 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

While both women share the experience of being a female race car driver as part of TrueCar’s “Women Empowered” initiative – along with Ashley Freiberg, Verena Mei, Emilee Tominovich and Shannon McIntosh – their weekends will be vastly different.  Legge will be racing on a long, unfamiliar street circuit (most likely in the rain according to local forecasts) while Holbrook has to contend with a dusty road course located at such a high altitude that it will affect the power output of her car’s engine.  Neither woman has raced at their respective venues.(...)
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 11, 2012 – British race car driver Katherine Legge made history in 2005 when she became the first woman to win a major open-wheel race in North America.  It was at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, where she drove a Toyota Atlantic Championship race car to a first-place finish despite daunting circumstances.

“That weekend didn’t start off well as I’d wanted it to, as I recall” said Legge.  “I crashed in qualifying and started the race off towards the back of the field.  It wasn’t a race where I depended on strategy, though.  It was just one of those memorable races – I was the underdog; I had to come from behind to win.  It was a pretty special moment, especially since it was my first race in North America.”

Legge, who is a newcomer to IZOD IndyCar series this season, is hoping for another memorable race this weekend as she takes to the track for the first time since 2007.  This time it will be behind the wheel of the No. 6 TrueCar Lotus Dallara DW12 campaigned by Dragon Racing, who also fields the No. 7 McAfee/Bing Lotus Dallara DW12.  Legge is looking forward to the race as it is probably the most significant event for her in her recent racing history – having raced in Germany’s DTM series from 2008 to 2010, this will be only her third event in an open-wheel car in four years.  Her team has struggled with engine issues in the first few races of the season, so she has that challenge to contend with. But her considerable experience there gives her optimism (she also scored two top-ten finishes in Long Beach racing in Champ Car in 2006 and 2007). (...)
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Williams have signed up German touring car driver Susie Wolff as the team’s development driver.

Wolff, 29, will join Williams as a development driver, which involves aerodynamic testing, simulator work and track tests.

Team principal Frank Williams said: “Susie is a talented racing driver who competes in one of the world’s most fiercely-contested racing series [DTM].

“Susie will also attend a number of races with us.”

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 30, 2012 – Katherine Legge and Ashley Freiberg, driving for TrueCar Racing’s “Women Empowered” initiative, had mixed results at Barber Motorsports Park today but both drivers left with a wealth of experience and a positive outlook for the season. In the IZOD IndyCar series, Katherine Legge (Dragon Racing) finished 23rd in the weekend’s marquee event – the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – while Ashley Freiberg (JDC Motorsports) left with 11th- and 12th-place finishes in the two Star Mazda Championship Presented by Goodyear races held today.

Legge, driver of the No. 6 TrueCar Lotus Dallara DW12, started 24th but had difficulty advancing much further throughout the 90-lap event. A lack of test time has put her and her team at a distinct disadvantage, and thus Legge and Dragon Racing have been experimenting (more than what is normal during a race) with tires, tire pressures and bar settings to optimize the car.

“We’re learning about the car during races,” said Legge. “When I got in a gap, our lap times were pretty comparable with everybody else, which means that we’re improving. But I don’t think we are up to speed yet. We need another couple of races or at least have some testing like everybody else out there.”

Legge suffered from traction issues for much of the race – won by Will Power, last year’s defending race winner – but the team was ultimately able to find a good setup for the car. Unfortunately it was not enough to make much of a difference in the race as by that point Legge was no longer on the lead lap.  (...)
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Last weekend, Ashley Freiberg (pronounced FRY-BURG) driver of the #91 TrueCar Star Mazda competed in her first race of the Star Mazda

Championship presented by Goodyear season at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg with team JDC Motorsports. “This was actually my first time ever on a street course, and I absolutely loved it,” said Ashley. “The facility was awesome, and I can’t wait to come back!” Ashley drove in her last race over a year ago, where she was the first woman to win two Skip Barber Championships and the first woman to win a Barber National race at New Jersey Motorsports Park in 2010.

“Being out of a car for a year, and coming from Skip Barber, I have had some adjusting and learning to do getting used to driving a car with more horsepower, slicks, and down force,” said the five time karting champion. “With the support from my team and my driver coach, Mike Zimicki, I have definitely learned more the past few times I have been driving my TrueCar Star Mazda car than I have in a long time.”(...)
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ST.PETERSBURG, Fla (Mar. 25, 2012) – Shannon McIntosh was a busy woman heading into round three and four of the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda on the Streets of St. Petersburg as the only locally-based competitor racing in one of the scheduled 10 events. During her first race of the weekend in her No. 18 TrueCar Mazda, she passed 14 cars to finish 11th and was also awarded the “Tilton Hard Charger Award” for passing the most number of cars.

“I’m really happy with our weekend result,” said McIntosh. “Although we didn’t get quite what we were hoping for in the second race, I took so much positive from this weekend. One thing I took out of the second race was that I can improve on my ability to adjust to new conditions as the race track had less grip after the rain in the morning. All in all, I couldn’t be happier or more thankful for TrueCar and Pabst Racing at my hometown race!”(...)
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Six Ladies are back to the track tomorrow for action from St. Petersburg.

USF2000 – @ColleteDavis & @Shannon_Mac

Star Mazda – @AshleyFreiberg

Pirelli World Chanllenge – @SheaRacing

Izod Indy Car Series – @KatherineLegge & @SimdeSilvestro

Sunday, March 25

8:00-8:20am – Ferrari Sponsor Hot Laps
8:35-9:05am – IZOD IndyCar Series Warm-up
9:15-9:55am – USF2000 Race #2 (Timing and scoring:www.usf2000.com/Multimedia/Live.aspx)
10:05-10:45am – Star Mazda Race #2 (Timing and scoring:www.starmazda.com/timing/)
11:00-12:00pm – Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, Pirelli World Challenge Race #2 (Streaming video: www.world-challengeTV.com)
12:00-12:30pm – IZOD IndyCar Series Pre-Race
12:30-3:00pm – Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, IZOD IndyCar Series Race (ABC TV)

3:30-4:20pm – Ferrari Race #2

All but Simona are sponsored by @TrueCarRacing!

Thanks to @Pressdog for doing the hard work for us on this one

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