Sentences with phrase «gto championship»

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As founder and CEO of the motorsports marketing agency Just Marketing International, he has mastered the building of brands through motorsports, which has, in turn, enabled him to acquire a collection of some very famous race cars, including those he will share driving with his best mate Richard Dean at both the Pre-Reunion and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion: the 1980 Williams F1 Alan Jones Championship F1 car; the 1986 IMSA Ford GTO with which Scott Pruett won the IMSA championship; a 1986 Porsche 962 and the 1982 Porsche 935 that won at Daytona and Sebring; and for the first time, the Lola T 332 Formula 5000 car that Mario Andretti drove to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 1975.

I was also at the season finale events when the Chevrolet Corvettes and Pontiac GTOs captured their championships in ALMS and Grand American GT competition, respectively.

This year brought many memorable moments for me, including standing trackside at Homestead - Miami Speedway as Jimmie Johnson drove his Monte Carlo SS to his first Cup championship, watching Kevin Harvick hoist his Busch Championship trophy and standing at the starting line as Greg Anderson and Jason Line dueled it out at Pomona in their identical Pontiac GTOs.

For 1990, they decided to focus on the German championship and the 90 GTO was retired, but not before becoming an icon.