...But Wait, There's More.(Auto trade shows)(Brief Article)

Perhaps she can replace Junqueira at Team Target/Chip Ganassi

This week the U.S. Tobacco/Ms. Motorsport 2002 Pageant takes place at the Auto Racing Trade Show in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Why do we care? For the 17 years the trade show has existed, the U.S. Tobacco/Ms. Motorsport Pageant has taken place. The lady who interviews well, who speaks to the audience and wears bathing suits and casual clothes better than anyone else wins $1,500 and the chance to go to races throughout 2002. The press release points out several past winners have used the pageant win as a stepping stone for a career in motorsports.

Living Words

In time for the 2002 race season

Now and then something wonderful slips through the cracks in our editorial driveway. Such is the case with The Dust and the Glory, Volume II by Leo Levine. While it might be too late to scoop up for holiday reading, there's time before the new race season starts. Levine's first book chronicled Ford's racing history from Oct. 10, 1901 until 1967; this treatise covers Ford's modern racing era between 1968 and 2000. It doesn't matter if you're a ``Chevy Guy'' or only follow Formula One: If you care at all about racing you must have this in your library. It's that simple. It sells for $39.95 and you can get it through www.sae.org.

Media-crity

Terry Jackson, editor of American Media Inc.'s AutoWorld No Longer Weekly, has recently finished his 60 days of Cipro antibiotic as a result of AMI's receiving an anthrax-laden envelope. The FBI has released ...