Sentences with phrase «racing team owner»

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

«We're all really looking forward to kicking off the weekend,» stated Magnus Racing team owner John Potter.

In the opening sequences, Jimmy loses his coal mining job in West Virginia on a technicality, then promptly goes to Clyde's bar where he gets into a fight with an obnoxious racing team owner named Max Chilblain (an unrecognizable Seth MacFarlane, complete with long curly locks and a British accent).

After Jess gets burned by Nicky at the end of the job, the two go their separate ways until they cross paths again three years later when Nicky is hired by a wealthy racing team owner (Rodrigo Santoro) to help ruin his competitors.

That's why RAB Racing team owner Robby Benton's decision to indefinitely suspend driver John Wes Townley for DUI on Friday was a significant statement — and why it shouldn't go unappreciated.

RAB Racing team owner Robby Benton said he was still gathering facts about the incident and preferred to withhold public comment until he had more information about the situation.

John Wes Townley will return to the NASCAR Nationwide Series this weekend at Iowa Speedway, RAB Racing team owner Robby Benton told SBNation.com on Tuesday.

You wear a number of hats: broadcaster, car dealership owner, race team owner, wine entrepreneur, charitable foundation, family... How do you balance your time?

Watch for driver and team announcements in the coming months, but you have to think that race team owner Rick Hendrick — who won NSX chassis # 001 at the Barrett Jackson auction earlier this year — will have something to do with it.

In January the first production copy of the Corvette Stingray coupe was bought by car dealer and race team owner Rick Hendrick at the Barrett - Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., for $ 1.05 million.

It partnered with Dragon Racing, a team run by Jay Penske, the son of famed race team owner Roger Penske.

Not exact matches

He co-owns the Mooresville, N.C. - based pro race team and management company with his sister, Kelley, and American NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick.

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

As long as we don't have a owner willing to invest in big money into the team, then there's very slim chance the club can compete because you already are losing at the race's starting line before it even begins.

Ferrari: Race to Immortality takes a close look at the early days of the Scuderia in F1 when it was much less of a powerhouse than it was now and when Enzo Ferrari was just trying to establish himself like any other team owner.

Many believe his actions were not an appropriate way a NASCAR team owner should act, yet Richard Childress Racing drivers Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick are glad to have Childress in their corner.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

NASCAR team won a combined 53 races, two driver championships and one Truck Series owner championship.

Annett's car owner Rusty Wallace, for example, said last year that removing his driver from a race would hurt the entire team because it would be a severe points hit.

In a shrewd move by team owner Richard Childress, RCR kept the sponsorship money Townley brought to the team (albeit for less races) without having Townley actually in the seat.

David Reutimann and his team owner Tommy Baldwin insisted the No. 10 car had a problem that caused it to stop on the track with three laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR race at Martinsville, but other drivers weren't convinced.

NASCAR worked with the Race Team Alliance, a consortium of team owners, in crafting a rule mandating universal pit gTeam Alliance, a consortium of team owners, in crafting a rule mandating universal pit gteam owners, in crafting a rule mandating universal pit guns.

Franchitti told reporters after the race at Mid-Ohio on Sunday that he would like to return for a 17th Indy car campaign and that his team owner Chip Ganassi and primary sponsor Target would also like to have the 40 - year - old back.

In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.

His best option going forward may be to stay at Phoenix Racing, helping owner James Finch grow the team in the same way Tony Stewart took Gene Haas from backmarker to Cup champion.

He paid his dues on the legend - car and late - model circuit before Jack Roush, the owner of one of NASCAR's most dominant teams, signed him to race in the truck series, in 2000.

Team owner: Dietrich Mateschitz Team principal: Christian Horner Advisor: Helmut Marko Chief technical officer: Adrian Newey Head of aerodynamics: Dan Fallows Chief engineering officer: Rob Marshall Chief engineer (car): Paul Monaghan Chief engineer (performance) Pierre Wasche Race team manager: Jonathan Wheatley Race engineer (Daniel Ricciardo): Simon Rennie Race engineer (Daniil Kvyat): Red Bull featured artiTeam owner: Dietrich Mateschitz Team principal: Christian Horner Advisor: Helmut Marko Chief technical officer: Adrian Newey Head of aerodynamics: Dan Fallows Chief engineering officer: Rob Marshall Chief engineer (car): Paul Monaghan Chief engineer (performance) Pierre Wasche Race team manager: Jonathan Wheatley Race engineer (Daniel Ricciardo): Simon Rennie Race engineer (Daniil Kvyat): Red Bull featured artiTeam principal: Christian Horner Advisor: Helmut Marko Chief technical officer: Adrian Newey Head of aerodynamics: Dan Fallows Chief engineering officer: Rob Marshall Chief engineer (car): Paul Monaghan Chief engineer (performance) Pierre Wasche Race team manager: Jonathan Wheatley Race engineer (Daniel Ricciardo): Simon Rennie Race engineer (Daniil Kvyat): Red Bull featured artiteam manager: Jonathan Wheatley Race engineer (Daniel Ricciardo): Simon Rennie Race engineer (Daniil Kvyat): Red Bull featured articles

Team owner: Dietrich Mateschitz Team principal: Franz Tost Technical director: James Key Team manager: Graham Watson Head of aerodynamics: Nicolo Petrucci Deputy head of aerodynamics: Jon Tomlinson Head of vehicle performance: Laurent Mekies Chief designer: Luca Furbatto Chief mechanic: Corrado Cardinali Race engineer (Max Verstappen): Race engineer: (Carlos Sainz Jnr):

Mets owner Fred Wilpon has given the governor a $ 65,000 campaign contribution just before Wilpon's organization began seeking state approval of an arena for the Islanders hockey team at Belmont Race track — nearly double the $ 35,000 Wilpon's firm donated to Cuomo for all his prior campaigns.

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.

As a graduate student in the mid-1990s, Warren bumped into the owner of Kranefuss - Haas Racing (now Penske Racing) when visiting a friend at the team's North Carolina headquarters.

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

Michael Dweck's «The Last Race» visits a blue - collar American racetrack that has been owned by a husband - wife team for years, but whose very existence is being threatened by urban development and the illness of the owners.

Instead of a huge team effort to score big like in Oceans's Eleven, it's just Nicky playing the other race car owners.

Now 300 hunk Rodrigo has been cast as the powerful owner of an international car racing team who becomes a rival for her affections, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

According to SpeedSource team owner and driver Sylvain Tremblay, Mazda's performance on the racetrack is a huge part of Mazda's engineering and research efforts to bring the Mazda6 diesel to the U.S. «We put together a full report after every race for the people in [Mazda headquarters in] Hiroshima,» said Tremblay in the paddock at Belle Isle.

I borrow a suit from Ryan Eversley, who drives the number 43 RealTime Racing Acura TLX GT for team owner Peter Cunningham, who drives the number 42 car.

This was a race car without an impressive race history, campaigned in club - level racing events by its first owner, rather than in professional series with top - flight teams and drivers.

He will retain his role as CEO for at least three years, and that's entirely logical given that he's been involved in race contracts and so on for more than four decades, from the time he represented the teams as the owner of the Brabham squad.

Michael Shank, team owner of Michael Shank Racing, has brought his IMSA WeatherTech Series LMP2 team (a crew of 20), his drivers John Pew and Ozz Negri, and the young Belgian sensation Laurens Vanthoor to Le Mans to race for the first time.

Early on, when Penske was building his own chassis and Carl Haas (of Newman / Haas, the other top Indy - car team of the day) was the distributor of Lola, Ganassi became the first Indy - car owner to race a Reynard chassis, and by mating the Reynard with Honda engines and Firestone tires — both relative newcomers — he put together a nearly unbeatable package.

Virtually every team owner who's come into the sport of racing during the past half century has begun with the avowed or unspoken dream of becoming the next Roger Penske.

Baltimore - based Team Lexus is the defending Sport Touring I class champion and is also leading the 2003 team owner points rTeam Lexus is the defending Sport Touring I class champion and is also leading the 2003 team owner points rteam owner points race.

Highlights of the field include the race - inspired Aston Martin Vantage GT12 driven by company CEO Dr Andy Palmer, while the festival race will also be the first outing for Beechdean AMR's new Vantage GTE with team - owner Andrew Howard taking the wheel.

«Corvette Racing benefits from the high quality of SONIC Tools products, while we can provide our enthusiastic group of Corvette owners and fans a chance to purchase a very unique toolbox in full Corvette Racing branding — just like the team will use starting in the 2017 season.»

Media coverage of Corvette has increased dramatically, new marketing initiatives have improved Chevrolet's return on its investment in road racing, and Corvette owners and fans have rallied around the team.»

MINI USA and the MINI JCW Race Team, with LAP Motorsports Team Owner Luis Perocarpi at the helm, are getting ready to compete in their second full season in the Street Tuner class of the Continental Tire...

The Speed Business is a web - based documentary / reality show detailing a behind the scenes look at Blackdog Racing and team owner / driver Tony Gaples.

Dempsey and Davis will be joined by Joe Foster and one additional driver yet to be named for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Jan. 23 - 26, while the No. 28 Dempsey Racing / Konrad Motorsport Porsche 911 GT America will be co-driven by Christian Engelhart, Rolf Ineichen, Lance Willsey, Klaus Bachler and team owner Franz Konrad at the Daytona opener.

MORE RACING: Team owner Barry Green signed six - time International Motor Sports Association sports car champion Parker Johnstone for 1997.