A WINNING COMBINATION.Byline: TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) HADDOCK Auto racing It looks like Ron Hornaday Ron Hornaday, Jr. (born in Palmdale, California on June 20, 1958) is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver. He is the father of former NASCAR driver Ronnie Hornaday, and the son of Ron Hornaday, Sr., a two time Winston West Champion. Jr. and Carroll Racing are making a good combination. Hornaday inched ever closer to winning his first NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. race in nearly two years. The former Saugus Speedway champ finished second in last Saturday's NASCAR Busch Grand National race at Gateway International Raceway Gateway International Raceway is a race track in Madison, Illinois, USA, just minutes from Downtown St. Louis, Mo. It hosts a NASCAR Busch Series event and a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on a 1. in St. Louis. Hornaday, a two-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champ, recorded the best finish for Carroll Racing, which is in its fifth season of Busch Series The NASCAR Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCAR's "minor league" circuit (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's "big league" circuit, the Nextel Cup. competition. He also led the most laps in the race, another first for Carroll Racing. `'This is a great stride for this Dr. Pepper team,'' Hornaday said. ``We have to learn to crawl before we walk. We ran up front and led a ton of laps. Our confidence grows with each passing week and the more we learn and communicate the stronger we'll be, and that's what we're shooting for.'' Additionally, Hornaday finished in the top five for the third time in his last four races. But the driver of the No. 26 Dr. Pepper Chevy is quick to give credit to his crew chief, Todd Lohse, and team owner Dave Carroll for the team's recent success. ``Todd Lohse, Dave Carroll and the Thirst Crew brought a real hot rod hot rod Automobile rebuilt or modified for high speed, fast acceleration, or sporty appearance. A wide range of automobiles may be called hot rods, including some of those used in drag racing as well as those used in recreational cruising. here and it didn't get banged up,'' Hornaday said, ``which is good because we're running it at Pikes Peak Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806. There are many higher peaks in the Rockies, but this is the best known and most conspicuous because of its location on the to try this again.'' The NASCAR Busch Series visits Pikes Peak International Raceway Pikes Peak International Raceway was a one mile oval Auto Racing track located in Fountain, Colorado, south of Colorado Springs and north of Pueblo. Capacity: 42,000 Grandstand seats, 20,000 Infield capacity. today for the Net Zero 250. --American Le Mans Series: The Panoz Motor Sports team on the American Le Mans Series The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada. It consists of a series of endurance and sprint races, and was created in the spirit of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. celebrated another victory last weekend in Washington, D.C. The team of David Brabham David Brabham (born 5 September 1965 in Wimbledon, London) is an Australian former Formula One driver who raced for the Brabham and Simtek teams. He is the youngest son of Sir Jack Brabham, the famous Australian Formula One champion. and Jan Magnussen Jan Magnussen (born July 4 1973 in Roskilde) is a race car driver from Denmark and a GM factory driver. Career history Lower series racing Magnussen had a dominating 1994 British Formula 3 championship with Paul Stewart Racing, winning 12 of the 16 events and , driving the No. 50 Panoz LMP-900 ``Spirit of America'' entry, won the inaugural American Le Mans Series event at Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the second win of the season for the pair. Valencia driver Bryan Herta and Bill Auberlen drove a second Panoz entry to a sixth-place finish in the D.C. race. Herta, a Hart High graduate, and Auberlen had to fight electrical problems midway through the race and struggled to stay with the leaders as the race progressed. ``The car started to misfire badly and I had to come back to the pits,'' Auberlen said. ``The crew replaced the steering wheel, which contains most of the buttons and driver controls, and that fixed the problem. For the second half of the race we had to fight our way back through the pack.'' The next race on the American Le Mans Series is at Trois Rivieres in Canada on Aug. 3. --NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series: It wasn't a productive visit to Altamont Raceway Park for the Santa Clarita-area drivers on the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series. M.K. Kanke of Frazier Park led all area drivers with an eighth-place finish in last Saturday' Altamont 150, the ninth race of the Southwest Series schedule. Sean Woodside of Saugus, who was contending for the Southwest Series championship, broke his ankle in an auto-shop accident last week and didn't race in the Altamont event. Woodside was second in points and closing in on series leader Eddy McKean before he broke his ankle. Now the Saugus High graduate is expected to be out of action for the next four to six weeks recovering from his injury. Kanke moved into second place in the championship standings. Eric Holmes of Escalon won the Altamont race, the ninth different winner in nine races this season on the Southwest Series. The next race on the Southwest Series is tonight at Madera Speedway. THIS WEEKEND NASCAR Winston West Series JaniKing 200 Site: Irwindale. Schedule: Tonight, race, 8:30 p.m. Track: Irwindale Speedway (half-mile paved oval). Race distance: 200 laps/100 miles. Posted awards: $122,659. Next race: Aug. 17, Stockton 99 Speedway, Stockton. Featherlite Southwest Series Madera Auto Center/IWX 125 Site: Madera. Schedule: Race, tonight, 7:30 p.m. Track: Madera Speedway (third-mile paved oval). Race distance: 125 laps/41.666 laps. Posted awards: $38,850. Next race: Aug. 10. Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale. CAPTION(S): box Box: THIS WEEKEND (see text) |
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