THE SILLY SEASON
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Ambrose to race in NASCAR's Truck Series
Here's the speedtv link if anyone wants to look....
www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/nascar/20837/
2-time Australian V8 Supercar champion Marcus Ambrose will be heading across the pond to race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for the Wood Brothers/JTG Racing team next year. The multi-year deal is seen by many in the NASCAR community as the first step to a future ride in NASCAR's top-level Nextel Cup Series. Here are some quotes from the principles in the news article.....
Marcus Ambrose, Australian V8 Supercar racer....
www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/nascar/20837/
2-time Australian V8 Supercar champion Marcus Ambrose will be heading across the pond to race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for the Wood Brothers/JTG Racing team next year. The multi-year deal is seen by many in the NASCAR community as the first step to a future ride in NASCAR's top-level Nextel Cup Series. Here are some quotes from the principles in the news article.....
Marcus Ambrose, Australian V8 Supercar racer....
Eddie Wood, Owner, Wood Brothers Racing:It's an honor to be chosen from a long list of drivers who would love to be with Wood Brothers/JTG Racing. The team provides a career path through the NASCAR major series all the way to Nextel Cup. My dealings with Ford and with Ford Racing both here in Australia and in the US as well as Wood Brothers/JTG Racing have been excellent. Ford Australia President Tom Gorman has been outstanding and without his direct input this deal would have never got off the ground.
We have been blessed with some great drivers in our 55+ years in NASCAR and we had the opportunity to do some testing with Marcus in the summer. He adapted quickly to these cars and we believe that, given time, he can add to our rich driving history. Marcus has quite a driver resume. We will start him in the Craftsman Truck Series next season and watch his development closely.
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I don't normally follow NASCAR's three series, but the trucks are a good series, the season about twice as long as a V8 Supercar season(25 vs. 13 or so), and they race at tracks as varied as Daytona and Talledega, to high-banked ovals like Texas and Charlotte, to long ovals such as Michigan and California and even short tracks such as Martinsville, Richmond and Bristol(for the record, Bristol's banked at 36-degrees ), and two of the races in 2006(Texas and Kansas) are co-run w/the IRL races those weekends.rah wrote:mlittle will have to keep us in the loop as to how he goes.Julian Mayo wrote:Ambrose and family are currently winging their way to their new home in Charlotte, Norh Carolina.
Bon Voyage and good luck.
That said, I'll keep everyone abreast of how Ambrose does.
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V8 development series Champion Dean Canto has signed a 3 year contract to dive with the Gary Rogers Valvoline team.
A panel beater by trade Dean has impressed Rogers in two recent outings with the team
" he can drive, certainly" said Rogers, " but also his work ethic is outstanding, he gets stuck in, and sticks it out til the job is done"
With Cameron McConville moving on there is still a vacant seat at Gary Rogers Motorsport.
Rogers said that he had taken calls from a number of out of work and off contract V8 Drivers, with a decision to be made in the near future.
One thing for sure after this silly season, is that the grid is going to look a lot different. I suspect the podium is going to feature some fresh faces also.
A panel beater by trade Dean has impressed Rogers in two recent outings with the team
" he can drive, certainly" said Rogers, " but also his work ethic is outstanding, he gets stuck in, and sticks it out til the job is done"
With Cameron McConville moving on there is still a vacant seat at Gary Rogers Motorsport.
Rogers said that he had taken calls from a number of out of work and off contract V8 Drivers, with a decision to be made in the near future.
One thing for sure after this silly season, is that the grid is going to look a lot different. I suspect the podium is going to feature some fresh faces also.
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I think this is the silliest silly season yet !!!!
Just to recap
SBR.......Ambose leaves...The sponsor leaves. A new Sponsor "Jeld-Wen" and a new driver, James Courtney ( those in the know say he is better than Lowndes). Ingall re-signs for two years. Glen Seton has been offered endurance drives
Tasman....Jason Richards stays....Jamie Whincup leaves for Triple 8.
Andy Jones joins.
FPR...Mark Winterbottom joins Jason Bright, having negotiated his way from Larkham Motor Sport
Perkins loses his sponsor Caltex, after a long assosciation, gains a grog company (a first for V8supercars)
LarkhamMotor Sport (Orrcon) Brgwanna stays....take your pick for the 2nd seat
HSV....gains Toll as major sponsor.Toll ceases to exist as an entrant
WPS.....possibly unchanged but strong rumours persist the David Besnard is out of favour
DJR.....Glen Seton booted with a fistfull of dollars for his contract. Will Davison relaces him. I have lost count of the number of team-mates His son Steven has had over the last few years.
aaaaahhhgggg my head hurts
there is a lot more but suffice to say that I believe there are no more than five entrant teams who will field the same driver combos or sponsors this season
Just to recap
SBR.......Ambose leaves...The sponsor leaves. A new Sponsor "Jeld-Wen" and a new driver, James Courtney ( those in the know say he is better than Lowndes). Ingall re-signs for two years. Glen Seton has been offered endurance drives
Tasman....Jason Richards stays....Jamie Whincup leaves for Triple 8.
Andy Jones joins.
FPR...Mark Winterbottom joins Jason Bright, having negotiated his way from Larkham Motor Sport
Perkins loses his sponsor Caltex, after a long assosciation, gains a grog company (a first for V8supercars)
LarkhamMotor Sport (Orrcon) Brgwanna stays....take your pick for the 2nd seat
HSV....gains Toll as major sponsor.Toll ceases to exist as an entrant
WPS.....possibly unchanged but strong rumours persist the David Besnard is out of favour
DJR.....Glen Seton booted with a fistfull of dollars for his contract. Will Davison relaces him. I have lost count of the number of team-mates His son Steven has had over the last few years.
aaaaahhhgggg my head hurts
there is a lot more but suffice to say that I believe there are no more than five entrant teams who will field the same driver combos or sponsors this season
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Mark Larkham has sold one of his V8 supercar licences to Craig Gore, and Mark Larkham Motorsport has merged with Craig's WPS Racing to form a "Super" supercar team. Craig will apparantly step back from the day to day running of the team to focus on North American Racing with Team Australia.
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Product lifestyle Management, official CAD supplier to FPR has renewed their alliance with FPR for the upcoming season. Quoting the "Synergies" between the two, PLM's spokesperson said they were proud to renew their relationship with FPR's desire to lead the field in V8 Supercar racing. The FPR cars will wear the PLM logo in the upcoming season.
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