Frontstretch Newsletter: April 10, 2024
Volume
XVIII, Edition XLIX |
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- Work continues at team shops in North Carolina ahead of this weekend's action in Texas. With garage load-in Friday morning and a fairly long haul to Texas, teams will be packing the haulers up to leave late tonight or early Thursday morning. We'll have anything that breaks for you news-wise at
Frontstretch. |
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| OLIPOP Sponsoring John Hunter Nemechek in 8 Cup
Events Legacy Motor Club announced Tuesday that OLIPOP, a plant-based soda, will serve as the primary sponsor on John Hunter Nemechek's No. 42 in eight races this year. |
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| Katherine Legge Running Indy 500 for Dale
Coyne Dale Coyne Racing announced Tuesday that Katherine Legge will attempt the Indianapolis 500 in their No. 51 entry. |
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| Bob Labonte, Father of Labonte Brothers, Passes
Away Bob Labonte, father of Terry and Bobby Labonte and two-time champion car owner in what was the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series, died earlier this week at the age of 90. |
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| Bobby Zalenski Bests the Field at Brands Hatch for 15th
Career eNCCiS Win Bobby Zalenski continued his mastery of road courses in the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Tuesday night, claiming victory at the virtual Brands Hatch GP circuit. Steven Wilson was second, then Tucker Minter, Nick Ottinger and Vicente
Salas. |
Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography, iRacing via Justin Melillo and our own Jared Haas. Have news for Frontstretch?
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Around the World in Motorsports: April 9 |
- Flying Lizard Motorsports announced Tuesday that they
will make their return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship during the sprint race in Long Beach. They will field the No. 28 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 for Andy Lee and Elias Sabo, their regular drivers in Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, in the GTD class. Both drivers will be making their IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debuts. For Flying Lizard
Motorsports, Long Beach will mark the team's first start in IMSA competition since 2016. Since then, the team effectively merged with K-PAX Racing and focused on what was previously Pirelli World Challenge GT, first with McLarens, then Bentleys and Lamborghinis. Under the Flying Lizard Motorsports banner, the team also competed in the GTS class (now Pirelli GT4 America SprintX). In
recent years, Flying Lizard Motorsports has primarily stuck to Pirelli GT4 America SprintX with Sabo. Sabo and Lee have been teammates for the past couple of years there, while Sabo has also raced in GT America powered by AWS in an Aston Martin and (on a couple of occasions) an Audi R8 LMS GT2. Lee and Sabo moved up to Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS for this year and just made their debut there last weekend at Sonoma. |
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