CART FedEx race fans may be in that quiet period that the old wive's tale reminds us comes just before the storm. There's little news as CART prepares for its season opener, the March 11 Tecate Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey Presented by Herdez in Monterrey, Mexico on a 2.1 mile street course.
The series did announce the appointment of a new Chief Steward, a man who will replace the legendary Wally Dallenbach, Sr.
CART NAMES VETERAN RACER CHRIS KNEIFEL CHIEF STEWARD OF FEDEX CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Championship Auto Racing Teams announced today that veteran race car driver Chris Kneifel has been named Chief Steward of CART’s FedEx Championship Series.
Kneifel, 39, is an accomplished racer who was in victory circle just last month after winning the 24 Hours of Daytona as a member of the Chevrolet factory-backed Pratt & Miller Engineering Corvette team. Kneifel raced competitively in the CART FedEx Championship Series from 1982-84, starting 19 races over those three years and finishing tied for 17th in the final series points standings in 1983. His career-best finish was an eighth on three occasions.
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If you watch the tube with any regularity, you've probably noticed commercials teasing the April opening of Sly Stallone's new movie, Driven.
Check these quotes from the film's Web site.
"International box-office star and Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone (Get Carter, Rocky) wrote, produces and stars in Franchise Pictures' Driven, which reunites him with director Renny Harlin, with whom he made the blockbuster action thriller, Cliffhanger.
"For Stallone, the film, which focuses on the lives of four drivers, is also a highly personal exploration of regret, success, fame and the redemptive power of love. Driving and racing are great symbols for many things, Stallone says. When you think about it, each one of us engages in one type of a race or another in our lives.
Sounds suspicously like Days of Thunder, that slightly off-kilter and generally unrealistic paen to NASCAR, doesn't it?
I'm cynical, true, but I like good movies. And I especially like good movies about auto racing. There are truly only a few that encompass a strong story line about racing and racers. Most tack on a romance, a rivalry, and a wreck or two to add a little glamour or tragedy to the narrative.
Here's a list of some I've watched recently. I like Le Mans so much I intend to pick up a VHS copy.
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