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The Auto Racing Promoter's Bible
How High the Moon?
Wow! The Detroit Grand Prix. The best event in the history of American Le Mans
Series. Period.
Roger Penske has created the standard that all other racing events will be measured against; and with all things Penske, the bar is set high.
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Day for Night
"Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting" or so they say in the movie Le Mans ......... perhaps the sentiment could be applied more to the race itself as for some it is the centrepiece of their motorsport / social / personal / professional year (delete as necessary)
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League of Nations
An American car, run by a Dutch/German alliance and driven by a mix of Swiss, Italian and Dutch sounds a potential Tower of Babel scenario, but no, this cosmopolitan mix gelled and took outright victory in the 2007 Spa 24 Hours .... more >>>

Rock Around the Clock
The former Hendricks Field was witness last weekend to some of the finest racing in the contemporary sportscar scene...........Audi were top dogs again but Acura made an instant impact on their ALMS debut giving the boys from Ingolstadt and their cousins from Weissach plenty to think about.
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Time Travel
HG Wells started a thing or two with his novels, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The First Men in the Moon; well two out of three ain�t bad.
When it comes to travelling through time The Brits get Doctor Who, Hollywood gives the rest of the world the likes of the Terminator and Captain Kirk�our fantasy villains are rooted firmly in 50 and 60�s SFX, CyberMen not Cyborgs, you get the picture.
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Georgia On My Mind
Ten years ago it began with a dream. And on that dream, Don Panoz built Petit Le Mans. He believed it could provide a better solution and a superior product for the sports car world and he was correct.
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Lili Marlene
Desert Warfare broke out again last week in Utah, panzers from the elite divisions representing Audi, Honda and Porsche, slugged it out at Miller Motorsports Park in the latest round of the 2007 ALMS.
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Emotions and Abstractions.......
The transition from film to digital has greatly increased the number of images available in virtually every aspect of the human endeavor. Cameras are everywhere, from the latest iphone to the smallest credit card size shooter. What hasn�t changed is the difference between the pro and the amateur and that fine line of the moment and getting the shot. Timing is everything, the rest are just a false alarms. ... more >>>

That Low Down Southern Whisky...............
The 2007 edition of the Petit Le Mans was an absolute classic, thrills and spills, acted out in front of a record crowd......what a race, what a finish?
The David and Goliath act of Porsche and Audi, Dumas and Capello, ensured that we were glued to our seats and screens to the last second of the last lap. . .... more >>>

Travel the Breadth of Extremities
Are the ALMS and the LMS two sides of the same coin?
Probably not is the answer.
In fact, although they both take the same set of regulations as their basis, they couldn't be more different.

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Boys From Brazil
The 2007 WTCC got underway in Curitiba, Brazil last weekend ....... domination for BMW and Schnitzer was the order of the day but as ever the Champion, Andy Priaulx, scrambled a couple of seconds and emerges nicely placed to maintain his position as Top Dog. There was the usual grumbling from the pack about waivers, weight and other technical matters ... more >>>