Blair Racing announced on January 9th, 2002 that it will compete in the 2002 Indy Racing League Series (IRL). The driver will be Alex Barron of San Diego. Blair Racing will enter a Dallara chassis with Chevrolet engines.

Entering his second year in the motorsports arena, team owner Larry Blair of San Jose, Calif. announced a new partnership for his IRL venture. Hayden Harris of Chelsea, Mich., a dynamic and successful businessman, has joined forces with Blair to compete in the 15-event IRL schedule.

Continuing to reorganize and build the team, Blair and Harris have hired industry veteran Tom Gloy of Incline Village, Nev. to be president of Blair Racing and oversee the team. It has moved into expanded facilities on the north side of Indianapolis, the city that is home of the world's most famous race. John Dick of Indianapolis will serve as engineer.

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John Dick's vast engineer-
ing experience includes working with winning drivers Al Unser, Jr., Danny Sullivan, Hut Sticklin, Arie Luyendyk, John Andretti, Paul Tracy, Max Papis, Tom Gloy and Davey Jones. He has engineered cars in the CART, NASCAR, IMSA GTP and Trans-Am arenas. In 1990, Dick was on the winning Indianapolis 500 team with driver Arie Luyendyk.

Veteran
Robert (Bob)
Sprow
is the
general
manager
for the Blair Racing team.

Sprow’s impressive career spans more than 20 years in the automotive industry and motorsports. Since graduating from the Ford Motor Company Technical School in 1972, Sprow has worked as either team manager or crew chief for some of the sport’s most successful organizations, including Penske Racing, Newman-Haas Racing, Patrick Racing and the Arciero Racing Teams. With many championships already under his belt, and experience in setting up equipment for CART’s upper echelon drivers including Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Sr., Roberto Moreno, Andrian Fernandez and Max Papis, Sprow gives Blair Racing an
immediate head start. His diversity will also play an important role in the innovative approach the team is taking. Aside from his accomplishments in CART, Sprow managed the manufacturers’ and drivers’ championship-winning International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) GTP teams in 1990 and 1991, and the MTEG Manufacturers’ Championship winning teams in 1987, 1988 and 1989.

Larry is the owner of Blair Racing.

As a business-
man and entrepreneur, Larry Blair enters the motorsports arena not only as a team owner but also as a futurist with the acumen, creativity and experience to ignite and develop a successful racing brand and organization. In the technology sector, Blair held key positions with businesses that literally laid the foundation of the Internet, including posts as Vice President of Marketing for both Redback Networks, Inc. and Ipsilon, but only after co-founding Kalpana (the inventor of the Ethernet switch).

Recognizing the similarities in the information-driven cultures of technology and motorsports, Blair intends to add the speed and agility of new economy thinking to the existing conventional wisdom found in racing. This will mean “taking action and taking risks”, but it also draws upon the proven business-to-business and partnering models that are critical to accelerate any new venture toward its goals.

Harris is a general partner and co-founder of EDF Ventures, a venture capital company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1977, Harris founded Enterprise Management, Inc. a provider of financial and managerial assistance to companies with high-growth prospects. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Emerald BioAgriculture, Inc., and Media Station, Inc. He co-founded TherOx, Inc. and Xtera Communications, Inc. He was Chairman, CEO and majority shareholder of Software Services Corporation. Harris was appointed by the Michigan governor to the Corporate Board and Executive Committee of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's leading economic development authority. He is also Chairman of the Board of McLaren Performance Technologies, Inc., a provider of high performance automotive equipment and services.

Gloy's gift for steering a top-flight racing program is an extension of his versatility and diligence behind the wheel. His accomplishments as a driver and team owner rank among the most significant over the past 30 years. Gloy has consistently attracted top drivers, celebrities, high-profile sponsors and leading manufacturers. His team competed in the NASCAR Truck Series for three years and the SCCA Trans-Am Series for 14 years. Personally, he also raced on many different circuits, winning the 1979 North American Formula Atlantic Drivers' Championship, the 1984 Trans-Am Drivers' Championship as well as competing in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) Series and in the Indianapolis 500.