Indy Car Info: 2/9/14

Saturday

How Could F1 Change The Qualification Process?

Formula One is arguably going under its biggest season of change in its illustrious history. The engines are most affected with the sport looking to use green technology. There will also be a change to the design of the cars with them being lowered to 415mm for safety reasons. But the latest rumour in the [...]

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Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu Slim Borgudd Luki Botha

Friday

Riders For Health Press Release: Day Of Stars Comes To Austin MotoGP Round

Riders For Health today announced that they will be running their Day of Stars program at the Austin, Texas round of MotoGP in April. The press release with details appears below:

DAY OF STARS COMES TO AUSTIN TO SUPPORT RIDERS FOR HEALTH

14 February 2014

MotoGP™ returns to Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas in April, and Riders for Health is giving fans the exclusive chance to get behind the scenes of MotoGP at Day of Stars.

They say that everything is bigger in Texas. Now fans of MotoGP can have a bigger and better MotoGP experience than ever before as Riders for Health’s Day of Stars comes to the Lone Star State on April 10, 2014.

To find out more about Day of Stars, visit www.riders.org/day-of-stars.

Day of Stars offers a small group of fans the opportunity to peer behind the curtain of the world’s premier motorcycle racing series while helping to raise money for Riders for Health - the official charity of MotoGP – to transform access to health care in Africa.

Day of Stars guests will receive a guided tour of the MotoGP paddock led by one of the stars of the MotoGP. The lucky fans will then have a chance to chat with some of the current stars of MotoGP and their crews at their pit boxes.

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2014

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Allen Berg Georges Berger Gerhard Berger Eric Bernard

Thursday

Additions of Wurth and Alliance round out 2014 sponsorship for Brad Keselowski

When Team Penske announced in October that Brad Keselowski and sponsor Miller Lite had inked contract extensions, there was an interesting caveat. Miller, which sponsored a full season in 2013, was dropping back to 24 races at team owner Roger Penske's request.

Penske wanted to sell the available 12 races to another company. Actually, make that companies.

The team announced Wednesday that Wurth, a previous Penske associate sponsor, would sponsor Keselowski for four races in 2014. That compliments Tuesday's announcement that Alliance Truck Parts -- the company that was Sam Hornish's primary sponsor in the Nationwide Series in 2013 -- would be on Keselowski's car for eight races.

The first race for Alliance will be at Phoenix on March 2, the second race of the season. Wurth will appear on the 2012 Sprint Cup champion's car for the first time at California on March 23.

Wurth also appeared on the hood of Hornish's Nationwide car last season. However, Team Penske parted ways with Hornish after the season. Hornish, who finished second in the Nationwide points standings to Austin Dillon in 2013, is set to drive part-time in the series for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2014.

After his title run in 2012, Keselowski missed the Chase in 2013. He was winless until the October Charlotte race, where he ran away from Kasey Kahne over the race's final laps for his only win of the season.

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