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Competition.(car racing news)(Brief Article)
Panizzi takes Corsica Rally
* Frenchman Gilles Panizzi, Peugeot's tarmac specialist, won the Corsica Rally. Panizzi dominated from start to finish in the dry and in the wet. Panizzi led home Marcus Gronholm and Richard Burns, both in Peugeots. It was the first 1-2-3 for the team and the first podium position for Burns in a Peugeot. Gronholm's second-place moves him further into the championship lead. He has an eight-point advantage over Tommi Makinen and Panizzi.
Trouble in paradise
* CART insists it will race in the streets of Miami this season (AW, March 11), even though the France family's International Speedway Corp., owner of nearby Homestead Miami Speedway, looks ready to go to the mat to keep the Miami race from happening.
ISC's gripe has little to do with CART or the ALMS, which is scheduled to race in Miami the same weekend. Fact is, a successful street race in Miami might seal Homestead's fate. The oval has been a marginal operation almost since it opened in 1995, because it can't seem to draw people south from the population center in Miami. CART didn't draw well at Homestead. The IRL didn't draw well in its inaugural race there this season (there were no official attendance figures, but estimates put the crowd between 20,000 and 25,000), and the Busch Series hasn't drawn well. While NASCAR Winston Cup has been able to almost fill Homestead's 60,000 seats, one successful event per season makes a tough go for an expensive, relatively ...
- Budweiser Unveils Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Schedule and Car.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 12, 1999 700+ words
...138 days from now -- the NASCAR Winston Cup Series welcomes its most promising young...Earnhardt Jr. makes his much anticipated Winston Cup debut for Budweiser in the Coca-Cola 600. The race is the first of five 1999 Winston Cup races Earnhardt Jr. will run for the...
- Quest for Winston Cup Crucial to Future of Colorado Springs, Colo., Racetrack.
- Newspaper article from: The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) June 9, 2002 700+ words
...it does not have a lucrative NASCAR Winston Cup race on its schedule and has no clear...government. Not long after, the track got a Winston Cup race and saw revenue skyrocket. El...on NASCAR's premier circuit, the Winston Cup, where superstars such as Jeff Gordon...
- It's Here: All-New Dodge Intrepid R/T Winston Cup Race Car Makes Its Debut At...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 11, 2000 700+ words
...long-awaited return to NASCAR Winston Cup racing in 2001. The Flame Red flagship of the new Dodge NASCAR Winston Cup program was developed within the...have developed a stunning NASCAR Winston Cup race car that looks unmistakably...
- MAKING IT TICK.(Winston Cup, automobile race)
- Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics McCRAW, JIM March 1, 2000 700+ words
The Winston Cup-street car resemblance is only skin...Racing/Exide Ford Taurus made a solid Winston Cup-winning team throughout all of last...possible 10,138 laps that make up a full Winston Cup season, and 12,314 of the 13,054...
- Melling Racing Unveils New Number as Newest Member of Dodge NASCAR Winston Cup...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 9, 2000 700+ words
...Intrepid R/T in next year's NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Melling becomes the fourth...lineup when the manufacturer returns to Winston Cup racing beginning with the Daytona 500...long and successful history in NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing. We are pleased to have...
- Robinson wants to blaze Winston Cup track, not trail.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Covitz, Randy April 26, 2001 700+ words
...fulfill her goal of driving in the first Winston Cup race of her career in Sunday's NAPA...she'll be the first woman to start a Winston Cup race since Patty Moise at Talladega...excited, getting ready to run their first Winston Cup race?" Robinson said. "But I want...
- ROBINSON READY TO BREAK WINSTON CUP GENDER BARRIER.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Cain, Holly April 26, 2001 700+ words
...on this. "I'm not crawling into a Winston Cup car to make history or to be the first...break into NASCAR's major league, the Winston Cup Series, and Robinson's venture this...stunt. Robinson is scheduled to run six Winston Cup races this year for respected car owner...
- Take a Joy Ride Around Winston Cup Circuit With Professor of NASCAR Studies.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service September 23, 2002 700+ words
...people went to the tracks to watch a Winston Cup race live and an estimated 6 million people tuned in for one of the 31 televised Winston Cup events. Even pre-race practices are...comes in. Wright is not your typical Winston Cup fan, but he's not your typical college...
