Day: March 10, 2018

Scuderia Corsa enters Indy 500

Jens Jensen

Scuderia Corsa has been synonymous with Ferrari in the GTD category in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship plus GTE Am at Le Mans through the last few seasons, but the team will take on a brand new challenge this May. Team owner Giacomo Mattioli has made a deal with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, to enter the Indianapolis 500 race, that runs on the final weekend of May. It’s going to be the Spanish veteran driver Oriol Servia, who will pilot the white and yellow Dallara DW12 number #64 around the 2,5…

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Racing drivers wanted

Jens Jensen

Even though the start of the season is getting closer, there are still some seats available out there. One example for that is the Audi Sport ABT TT Cup, who still have some vacated seats for the upcoming season. The Audi Sport TT Cup had announced that 2017 would be the final season of the season. But Abt Sportsline has decided to take over the category, and will from now on do all the service en running of the fast one-make series. Like in previous seasons, they are going to…

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15 cars ready for World RX

Jens Jensen

The FIA has announced the full season entries for the FIA World Rallycross Championship 2018. 15 cars will follow the series through all 12 rounds, split over 3 continents. The defending World Champions, Johan Kristoffersson and PSRX Volkswagen Sweden will run the same line-up, where Petter Solberg – the PS part of the team name – will once again be teammate with Kristoffersson. GRX TANECO Team, Olsbergs MSE, Team Peugeot Total and EKS Audi Sport, who we already have mentioned, will be joined by CK Kompetition with two Renault Megane…

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Sebring 1965

Jim Casey

Growing up in Washington, DC, in the 50’s, my sports interests were limited to those I played myself. Baseball, football, and basketball, depending on the seasons. The only racing I was aware of was the Indianapolis 500, since it got lots of coverage in the daily newspaper, usually when someone was killed there. In 1961, when I was 10 years old, ABC began showing a program called “The Wide World of Sports.” They showed things like logrolling, barrel-jumping , and other oddities, but they also showed some auto racing.  From…

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