SANTA CLARITA MOM WILL DRIVE PACE CAR IN 30TH GRAND PRIX.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer LONG BEACH - As the only daughter of famed racing-school owner and instructor Danny McKeever, Allison Altzman grew up surrounded by professional drivers and roaring ROARING. A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation. 2. engines - a far cry from the dollhouses and dress-up parties that filled the weekends of other girls her age. Pit row at the Long Beach Grand Prix
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is the premier circuit in the Champ Car World Series. It is an open-wheel race held on a temporary road course in Long Beach, California. was familiar territory to Altzman and her younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
By the time she was in college, however, Altzman had caught the racing bug. The same girl who once shrugged off the sport is back in Long Beach, but she's no longer here as McKeever's daughter - Altzman will drive the pace car in today's 30th Long Beach Grand Prix. ``I remember sitting in my dad's classrooms watching him teach (racing school),'' Altzman said Saturday, after the celebrity race. ``I heard him teach a hundred times, but it was just my dad's work. But when I went through racing school myself, I realized how much I'd picked up. It just kind of clicked.'' Seven years ago, Altzman was selected to join the 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. Pace Car Team, an elite group of nine women, all professional race car drivers, who travel to races across the globe and pilot the pace car in 18 events each year. When the Pace Car Team rumbled out in the race-modified, custom cars before Saturday morning's celebrity race, the stares from fans milling in the stands were par for the course. ``In some countries it's much more of a novelty Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension (e.g. a new style of art coming into being, such as abstract art or impressionism) it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. to see women drivers,'' said Trisha Hessinger, a Pennsylvania-based driver who joined the Pace Car Team 18 years ago. ``It's such a male-dominated sport. We really get (confused looks) from fans in places like Japan and Mexico.'' Beyond the responsibility of driving the pace car and slowing down drivers when there's an crash during a race, the Pace Car Team routinely takes a lucky few - sponsor guests, VIPs and members of the media - out for ``hot laps'' before the official race. Altzman said she and her teammates are accustomed to being underestimated, especially by some of the male guests who buckle into the passenger seat. ``It's not always the case, but sometimes you'll get a guy who's pretty relaxed,'' Altzman said, demonstrating by slouching slouch v. slouched, slouch·ing, slouch·es v.intr. 1. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture. 2. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat. v. in her seat and throwing an arm over the seat back next to her. ``Once you get out there and you get the speed going, you notice (the passengers) sitting up, bracing bracing, n a resistance to the horizontal components of masticatory force. the door, trying to push the imaginary Imaginary can refer to:
As the team's only Southern California-based member, Altzman usually gets pace car duties at the Long Beach Grand Prix, just as the Toronto-based member is behind the pace car wheel when the tour stops in the Canadian city. When the Courtney Cox look-a-like isn't touring the racing circuit, Altzman attends to her duties as vice president of business development for Danny McKeever's Fast Lane, her dad's racing school in Rosamond. ``She's smarter than I am,'' McKeever said of his daughter. ``She brings personality, passion and a desire to the job. I don't think she's in this as much for the money as she is because she really loves it. She's good at what she does.'' Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Allison Altzman of 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, will be driving the pace car in today's Long Beach Grand Prix. Brittany Murray/Staff Photographer |
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