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| 12 Women Drivers Confirmed for Lyn St. James' Women in the Winner's Circle Foundation 2008/09 Driver Academy |
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Phoenix, AZ (Nov. 11, 2008) – Twelve young women drivers accepted invitations from Lyn St. James to participate in the 15 th class of the Women in the Winner's Circle (WWC) Foundation Complete Driver Academy, which is a comprehensive educational and training program for talented women race drivers who aspire to the professional levels of motorsports.
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| New Zealand's top rallying couple, Sara & Richard Mason, win the 2008 Dunlop Targa Rally |
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Sara Mason - after a win in China! |
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The 2008 Dunlop New Zealand Targa will go down in our memories as one of the most fun, exciting and adrenaline packed weeks of our lives. As you can probably tell, we had an absolute ball!!!
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Alli Owens Moving Up |
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Alli Owens |
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D'Hondt Motorsports (DMS) has signed twenty year old Alli Owens to drive in the 2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series. Her ARCA sponsors National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) are also making the move and will sponsor the #19 Toyota Camry.
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European Champions 2008: Nina Prinz - Superstock 1000. Iris Ten Katen - Superstock 600
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 During a race declared wet, but where the rain stops some minutes before the start and the riders go for different choices, some with dry and some with rain tyres, the difference is made by who choose the right type
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Bell heads to Virginia to participate in NASCAR Drive for Diversity |
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Mackena Bell |
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Racing is all about timing, and for Mackena Bell, hers couldn't be better. The 18-year-old Carson High graduate dreams of someday competing in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, just when NASCAR is looking to broaden its appeal by adding minority and female drivers.
Those two goals will collide next week, when Bell will be one of 25 drivers participating in this year's NASCAR Drive for Diversity combine in South Boston, Va.
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Six Spots to be Awarded in Driver Talent Search
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SACRAMENTO , California - The national talent search for the driver development program conducted by Ron Sutton's Winner's Circle launches today. Supporting sponsors, K&N Filters, Lucas Oil & Sunoco Racing Fuels will be awarding six spots in the 2008 Shoot-Out to young, talented drivers from various forms of youth motorsports .
Ron Sutton's Winner's Circle (RSWC) is an established talent scout and development program, providing long term, comprehensive racing and career development for up and coming drivers focused on NASCAR careers. RSWC drivers are raced, coached, groomed, trained and molded, within a professional racing environment, into what top pro teams look for when hiring drivers.
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Supporting Women in Racing - Free Layout Graphics from Autoillustrations
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Autoillustrations is offering a FREE Sponsor Placement layout for any race team featuring a female driver.
These personalized layouts show your team's Primary and Associate sponsor placement, and can be freely copied and distributed with your sponsorship proposal literature. They are delivered to you as print-ready Adobe Acrobat .pdf files.
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Shea Holbrook Wins the Cooper Tire Scholarship At The Women in The Winner's Circle Driver Development Academy |
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Shea Holbrook |
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Shea Holbrook, 18, was named the inaugural recipient of the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Scholarship for the first phase of the Women in the Winner's Circle (WWC) Foundation Driver Development Academy.
“Cooper Tire's decision to support the Academy and Shea demonstrates not only their support of training and educating young women drivers, but also their belief that women can be successful in all areas of motorsports,” said Lyn St. James, former professional motorsports driver and founder of the Women in the Winner's Circle Foundation and Driver Development Academy. “By choosing to partner with this program, Cooper Tire is helping move motorsports forward as a gender integrated industry.”
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Team DivaSpeed to Run 25 Hours of Thunderhill |
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Donna Gilio & Karen Salvaggio |
(Sonoma , CA) Fresh off another dominating victory in the E2 class, winning the 4 hour enduro at Infineon Raceway October 26, Team DivaSpeed owner Donna Gilio announced
today that the Team would be taking on the ultimate endurance racing challenge: The 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Now in its fifth year running, the 25 Hours is touted as the longest endurance race in North America,
and is held at Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, CA on the weekend of December 5-6, 2008.
Teammates Donna Gilio and Karen Salvaggio, both endurance racing veterans, backed up their June victory at the 6 Hours of Buttonwillow, by taking top spot in their Acura Integra
in this weekend's race at the famed Infineon (Sears Point) Raceway in Sonoma, CA. Team DivaSpeed's entry in the 25 Hours represents the first all-woman racing team to take on the 25 hour challenge, and
teammates Donna Gilio, Karen Salvaggio, and Puerto Rico's own Glory Fernandez say they are up for the ultimate test of driving skill and endurance.
Driver Search
The team is currently conducting a Driver Search for additional members of the DivaSpeed Team. Interested women should contact Thunder Valley Racing's Karen Salvaggio at vetteracers@msn.com
Sponsorship
To support these groundbreaking women in their effort to win the 25 Hours of Thunderhill contact: recmotorsports@yahoo.com
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NE Division GT-1 Champion Amy Ruman Heads to SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Heartland Park Topeka |
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Amy Ruman |
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Amy Ruman and the Ruman Racing team are heading to Heartland Park Topeka, KS on Monday to compete in the famed SCCA National Championship Runoffs. Ruman and the team competed in last year's Runoffs held at Heartland Park, but Amy's race was cut short on the first lap when she was hit from behind by another car.
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In the new book "The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World -- And How to Reach Them," Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen show politicians, activists and cause organizations what consumer marketers already know -- that when it comes to affecting change, women are not a niche audience; they are the audience.
Authors Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen used AskPatty.com as a case study on page # 103
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| Partnership - Thunder Valley Racing and AskPatty.com
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Thunder Valley Racing is pleased to announce our partnership with Ask Patty.com in their efforts to promote women in racing. The AskPatty.com website , blog and Second Life venue provides a safe place for women to get advice on car purchases, maintenance and other automotive related topics.
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