3dvillage and PacWest Racing Put CART Fans In The Driver's Seat.Entertainment Editors/High Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 6, 2001 Premier Provider of 3D Content Partners With Leading Motorsports Group to Deliver The Ultimate Interactive Race Team Experience 3dvillage, a rich 3D media Internet company and the PacWest Racing PacWest Racing was a Champ Car racing team owned by Bruce McCaw founded in 1993. The team's first full time season was the next year, 1994, with drivers Dominic Dobson and future Indy Racing League co-champion Scott Sharp. Group, a leading FedEx Championship Series CART motorsport team, today unveiled the world's first on-line, interactive 3D Tour specifically designed to put racing enthusiasts in the driver's seat driv·er's seat n. A position of control or authority. for the ultimate all-access professional race team experience. 3dvillage's newly completed Internet-based Race Team Tour showcases PacWest's premier trackside track·side n. The area near a track, especially a racetrack. venues in a rich, interactive 3D environment that is engaging, informative and highly entertaining. Starting today, sports fans around the world will be able to sample the excitement of the 'fastest racing on earth' by simply logging on to either www.3dvillage.com, or www.pacwestracing.com from the cockpit of their favorite Internet-connected PC. Online web visitors will obtain the required credentials they need to participate in a behind-the-scenes peek at PacWest Racing's VIP executive hospitality suite and conference center - known as the Summit; explore all the interesting sites around the racetrack including the team garage, pit area and the Toyota Championship Racing car transporter for Mauricio Gugelmin's No.17 Nextel PacWest Toyota and Scott Dixon's No.18 Powerware Panasonic Toyota race cars. In addition to these self-guided tours, shade-tree mechanics everywhere will appreciate the chance to join PacWest's 'over-the-wall' crew for an unprecedented close-up look at a fast-paced, full-service Champ Car “CART” redirects here. For other uses, see CART (disambiguation). Champ Car, an abbreviation of "Championship Car", has been the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades. pit stop. "PacWest Racing Team's hot new 3D Tour will greatly enhance our on-going marketing efforts by extending the reach of the current programs beyond our core audience to a growing number of emerging racing fans and potential new business partners, clients, and race team sponsors," said Mike Lowry Michael Edward "Mike" Lowry (born March 8, 1939) served as the twentieth governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1993 to 1997. Lowry is a Democrat. Lowry was born and raised in St. John, Washington, and graduated from Washington State University in 1962. , Senior Vice President of the team's race and business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . "The robust 3D content created by 3dvillage will enable us to maintain our technology leadership position while further differentiating the PacWest Racing Group from the rest of the other sports marketing Sport marketing (or "sports marketing" in the US) (1) the specific application of marketing principles and processes to sport products (e.g., teams, leagues, events, etc.) and (2) the the marketing of non-sports products (e.g., cigarettes, beer, long-distance phone service, etc. properties," Lowry added. The PacWest Race Team 3D Tour also features a unique, multi-lingual personal welcome message from current PacWest CART driver and former international racing champion Mauricio Gugelmin Mauricio Gugelmin (born April 20, 1963 in Joinville) is a former racing driver from Brazil. He took part in both Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. He participated in 80 Formula One grands prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. in your choice of English, Portuguese or Spanish. Future enhancements could include the use of the 3D Tour as an interactive framework to launch team merchandise sales, provide "point of view" seating choices for specific events or the creation of customized 'branded worlds' to showcase a team sponsor's products and service offerings. Today's announcement highlights the first of several sports marketing properties currently under development at 3dvillage's headquarters facility in Cary, NC. A revolutionary new sports entertainment Sports entertainment is a type of of entertainment that takes the form of a sporting event, but with more emphasis on dramatic storylines, humor, spectacle or titillation than on a contest of athletic skills. complex, an interactive 3D race adventure where you race against the clock through the streets of Columbia, SC and a virtual oval track  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. and drag strip called the Palmetto Speedway were also showcased at
the media breakfast earlier today.
About 3DVILLAGE 3dvillage is a rich 3D media publishing and Internet marketing company. They bring city guides, universities, sports arenas, golf courses, theme parks, travel destinations, tourist attractions, real estate properties and product training modules from all over the world right to PC desktops in interactive, real-time 3D. Unlike conventional 'virtual tour' or 'virtual reality' companies that deliver passive content in the form of still-images, movies or 'canned animation', their 3D Tours(TM) enable visitors to explore rich, interactive 3D environments that are entertaining and extremely informative. Located at 114 MacKenan Drive, Suite 100 in Cary, North Carolina Cary is the second largest municipality in Wake County, North Carolina and the third largest municipality in The Triangle (North Carolina) behind Raleigh and Durham. It is the seventh largest municipality in North Carolina. ; 3dvillage is headquartered about 18 miles Southeast of the world-renowned Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , NC. For additional information on 3dvillage please see http://www.3dvillage.com . About THE PACWEST RACING GROUP PacWest Racing Group has competed in CART competition since Bruce R. McCaw formed the team in 1993. PacWest had its most successful CART campaign to date in 1997 when drivers Mauricio Gugelmin and Mark Blundell combined for four race wins, three pole positions and finished fourth and sixth respectively in the PPG PPG Points Per Game (basketball player statistic) PPG Power Play Goals (hockey) PPG Planning Policy Guidance (UK) PPG Programmable Pulse Generator PPG Power Puff Girls Cup points standings. Gugelmin also set a world closed course speed record with his qualifying lap of 240.942 mph at the California Speedway. For 2001, PacWest will continue to field two cars in the FedEx Championship Series -Mauricio Gugelmin's No.17 Nextel PacWest Toyota and last year's Dayton Indy Light's Champion, rookie Scott Dixon's No.18 Powerware Panasonic Toyota; as well as entries in the Dayton Indy Lights Championship for newcomers Mario Dominguez and Dan Wheldon. The organization is based in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs 100 full-time staff. More can be discovered about PacWest Racing by logging on to www.pacwestracing.com. Source: Trianglepr.com - Promoting your company to the press |
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