AUTO RACING: ZANARDI SIGNS WITH MO NUNN.Byline: Tim Haddock Staff Writer Alex Zanardi Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi, (born October 23, 1966 in Bologna, Italy), is an Italian racing driver. He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. , two-time CART FedEx Series champion, will be returning to CART competition as a driver for Mo Nunn Morris 'Mo' Nunn is a motor racing team owner and engineer from England. He ran the Ensign Formula One team in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later worked for Chip Ganassi's highly successful Champ Car team, before striking out on his own again to found Mo Nunn Racing. Racing in 2001, it was announced Wednesday. Zanardi, who won two championships in 1997 and 1998 driving for Team Target Chip Ganassi Floyd "Chip" Ganassi (born May 24, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and educated at local Duquesne University) is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner. , left the CART series in 1998 to compete in Formula One. He returns to team with Brazilian Tony Kanaan Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho (born December 31, 1974) is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese Christian heritage from Salvador, Brazil. Kanaan is an IndyCar driver who holds the unique distinction of being the only driver in the long and storied history of the Indianapolis for the 2001 season. In addition to manning a two-driver team, Mo Nunn Racing also announced that its cars will be powered by Honda. The change was needed after Mercedes, which provided engines for Mo Nunn Racing in 2000, discontinued its CART efforts to focus on Formula One. Zanardi, a 34-year-old from Italy, won 15 races and 10 poles in his three years of CART competition from 1996-98. He won a record 29.4 percent of his starts. ``The opportunity is so good that I cannot continue with my `vacation,' '' Zanardi said. ``I am looking forward to working with Morris again and I am thankful to Pioneer and Honda for making this possible.'' Pioneer, which is based in Long Beach, will be Zanardi's primary sponsor. Zanardi is also reunited with Morris Nunn, his chief engineer when both were with Team Target. While with Team Target, Nunn was able to engineer both titles for Zanardi using a Honda-powered car. ``We're delighted to begin our association with Mo Nunn Racing,'' said Robert Clarke, general manager of Honda Performance Development, based in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . ``It will give Honda the opportunity to reunite with several individuals who each have contributed to our success in 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. racing: two-time champion Alex Zanardi; Tony Kanaan, a former rookie-of-the-year and U.S. 500 winner, and of course, team owner, Morris Nunn.'' |
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