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03.MAY.01
Lehigh
Valley Grand Prix Nazareth Speedway Pre Race Notes and Quotes
Max
Wilson - #25 Arciero-Blair Racing winnerB2B.com Ford powered
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Race Specifics:
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Race Name: |
Lehigh
Valley Grand Prix |
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Location: |
Nazareth Speedway, Nazareth, PA USA |
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Date: |
May 6, 2001 |
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Configuration: |
0.946 Mile Tri-Oval |
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TV Broadcast: |
ABC-TV, Sunday, May 6, 2000; 1:00 PM EST (Live) |
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Race Number: |
3 of 20 in the CART FedEx Championship Series |
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Max Wilson Highlights:
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- This is Wilson's
first season in the CART FedEx Championship Series.
- The 28-year-old native of Brazil started racing karts at age
11.
- He progressed to Formula 3, where he won the Brazilian F3 and
South American F3 championships in 1995.
- Moving to Europe he campaigned the German F3 series and then
F3000.
- For two years Wilson was a test driver for the Williams F1 team.
Last year he helped Michelin prepare for their return to Formula One
by serving as their test driver.
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Arciero-Blair Racing Highlights:
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- Arciero-Blair
Racing
enters the 2001 FedEx Championship Series as a new program, but
with some familiar names.
- Brooke Racing, the company,
was formed by three partners, Barry Brooke, Matthias Czabok and
Larry Blair, and is registered as a California partnership (LLC).
- The team has also joined
forces with past CART owner Frank Arciero, forming the official
Champ Car team Arciero-Blair Racing.
- Brooke, formerly the team
manager for Project Racing Group, and Czabok, the past marketing
director of PRG, run the company on a day-to-day basis.
- Blair serves as an
investment partner, carrying expertise in high-tech marketing
and business-to-business communications.
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Max
Wilson Quotes:
"Even though we didn't get to run the race last weekend in
Texas, the experience was invaluable to me due to the fact that I
hadn't had a chance to do any pre-season oval testing. I know that
the Nazareth track is really different from Texas in many ways, like
the banking, the downforce that we will run, and the fact that I'll
have to shift on each lap, but I learned a lot last weekend and I
look forward to getting back into the car on Friday."
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