Frontstretch Newsletter: March 31, 2022
Volume XVI, Edition XLIV
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- Today, NASCAR teams will continue to prepare for this weekend's action at Richmond Raceway. We'll have any news that breaks for you at Frontstretch.
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Around the World in Motorsports: March 30
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- Wright Motorsports announced
Wednesday that they will return to Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS competition in the Pro-Am class in 2022. The team will field a Porsche 911 GT3 R for Jan Heylen and Charlie Luck. Heylen is the defending Pro-Am champion alongside Fred Poordad. Meanwhile, Luck, who competed in 106 races in what is now the NASCAR Xfinity Series in the 1980s before stepping aside to focus on The Luck Companies in the Richmond area, is the defending GT America Powered by AWS
champion. Luck is pictured above during Race No. 1 at Watkins Glen for GT America Powered by AWS last September, a 40-minute race that he won. The team will also switch numbers from No. 20 to 45, the number that Luck has used since his NASCAR days.
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2023
In a press conference Wednesday night, Formula 1 announced that the World Championship will return to Las Vegas next year for the first time since 1982 to race on a street course on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Photo is courtesy of Peter Fox of Getty Images.
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Frontstretch Line of the Week
"Really, I don’t feel like we’ve made near enough. Matt and I and Jessica want to be way better than we are. Starting out with a new car this year, in a way, wiped out everything we accomplished last year. I kind of feel
like we were back to square one when we got the week past Phoenix last year other than we knew that we were going to be more competitive with the limited amount of stuff you’re allowed to do with this car. It definitely set us back as far as what we learned last year, but this is the reason we got into the Cup Series." - BJ McLeod, on the progress that Live Fast Motorsports has made
in the NASCAR Cup Series.
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