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TAGLIANI TO TAKE PART THIS WEEKEND IN FLORIDA KARTING WINTER TOUR WITH TEAM SRA KARTING |
Indianapolis, Indiana (January 21, 2011) - In the weeks leading up to the start of the IZOD IndyCar series 2011 season, the FAZZT Race Team's Alex Tagliani will be participating in the Rotax Max Series as part of the Florida Karting Winter Tour along with some of the top karting racers in North America.
Starting with this weekend's event in Orlando, Fl. (Jan 21-23), Tagliani will take the wheel of the Bowers & Wilkins TorcUp BIREL kart with a Rotax engine to compete in the DD2 Masters class with the SRA Karting International team. Tagliani will also compete in the February 25-27 tour stop at Palm Beach International Raceway.
The Formula Kart Productions Florida Winter Tour is one of the longest running, largest and most geographically diverse kart racing series in the Americas. The 2010 edition of the tour featured 482 unique competitors representing 23 countries, 25 American states, and five Canadian provinces.
"I am of course excited to add Alex Tagliani's name to a list of top level drivers participating at 2011 Florida Winter Tour," says Bill Wright owner and promoter of the FTW. "Also, taking part are Formula 1's Rubens Barrichello, NASCAR's AJ Allmendinger and fellow IndyCar driver, Dan Wheldon. Participation by drivers of this caliber is good for karting, the series, and the drivers who race with us."
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FAZZT Race Team Pleased With The Return Of The IndyCar Race In Edmonton |
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (January 11, 2011)- The FAZZT Race Team is pleased with the announcement that an agreement was reached in order to return the Edmonton Indy race to the IZOD IndyCar Series 2011 season schedule. Quotes from the team are presented below for the use by the media. More information on the announcement can be found at www.indycar.com/media
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A year later, wiser FAZZT looks forward |
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A year ago to the day, a sense of satisfaction was evident as FAZZT Race Team members watched Alex Tagliani guide the stark white car down the Homestead-Miami Speedway pit lane for its initial racetrack appearance.
The IZOD IndyCar Series start-up team – a misnomer actually given the experienced personnel and management team in place – was using Jan. 6-7 at the facility to get acquainted with the former Roth Racing equipment and, to a degree, each other.
Only four months earlier, team principals announced their intentions of competing in the series full time beginning in 2010.
“We started with a big project and the main thing is we didn’t want to be embarrassed at the track,” says Tagliani, who brought in fellow Quebec native Andre Azzi to take the operation from conceptualization to the track. “The only way I thought to be possible to do it was to start calling people that I thought were amazing in racing and the first one was Rob Edwards (chief operations manager). Everyone was very aware that time was playing against us. We looked at the pictures of what the shop look like in November (2009) and basically it was just an epoxy floor. While people in November were already testing and getting ready for the next season, our first shakedown test happened in January. We were really pushing it.
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FAZZT Tests Chinese Driver Ho-Pin Tung |
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Nov. 22, 2010)—Chinese Formula One reserve and test driver, Ho-Pin Tung, made sporting history this weekend as he officially becomes the first Chinese licensed driver to take the wheel of an IndyCar by testing with the FAZZT Race Team at Sebring International Raceway.
FAZZT kicked off efforts to add to its driver lineup by signing an agreement with Luxembourg based Gravity Sport Management to pursue and secure the proper commercial partnerships necessary to ensure Ho-Pin Tung a competitive full season in 2011. The Sebring test, funded by FAZZT’s primary sponsor Bowers & Wilkins, was the first part of the process.
“Our goal is to run a minimum of two cars for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar season and this test was a first step in that direction,” says FAZZT COO and General Manager Rob Edwards.“With the support of our primary sponsor Bowers & Wilkins, our team is actively seeking sponsorship for the second full-time entry for the 2011 season and beyond. Ho-Pin Tung’s talent and presence in an IndyCar can reach a whole new nation of fans in China and presents significant opportunities for our sport and our partners.”
Tung officially becomes the very first Chinese licensed driver to take the wheel of an IndyCar and his planned addition will undoubtedly generate worldwide attention as he works towards earning a spot among the 33 drivers on starting grid at the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” for the centennial celebration of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.
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Driver: Alex Tagliani
Entry: No. 77 Bowers & Wilkins/La Capsule Sportive/TorcUP FAZZT Race Team Dallara/Honda/Firestone
Event/Track: Café do Brasil Indy 300; Homestead-Miami Speedway; Homestead, FL; 1.5 mile oval
Race 17 of 17
Race Results
Start: 19th
Finish: 14th
Laps: 200 of 200
Status: Running
Race Winner: Scott Dixon, Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Championship Winner: Dario Franchitti, Target Chip Ganassi Racing
No. 77 Bowers & Wilkins/La Capsule Sportive/TorcUP FAZZT Race Team News and Notes:
Driver Alex Tagliani started in 19th position for the Homestead Miami event but with a lot of hard work from Tagliani, the engineers and the crew, he was able to finish a very respectable 14th. Tagliani did not have an easy time in the race but with a proper pit strategy he was able to move up through the field and even spend some time in the lead position. The original pit strategy that the team was running would have helped Tagliani to finish in the top ten with ease, unfortunately a late race yellow came out changing the plan and the outcome.
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Homestead Qualifying Report |
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Alex Tagliani will start from row 10 at Homestead-Miami
Homestead, Florida (October 1st, 2010) - Canadian driver Alex Tagliani qualified 19th in Friday's session held at the 2.414-km Homestead-Miami Speedway oval track located Southern Florida. The FAZZT Race Team driver posted timed-lap speeds of 338.921 and 338.676 km/h for an average speed of 338.798 km/h for his two-lap qualifying run. Driving the #77 Bowers & Wilkins-La Capsule Sportive-TorcUp Dallara, Tagliani will start Saturday's Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 from the inside of row 10 next to Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay.
"Qualifying was definitely a nasty surprise; it was a very disappointing result considering where we were in practice," said Alex Tagliani who was eighth in the morning free session. "Honestly I really don't know what went wrong; we just didn't have the speed. The car was not bad, but we just weren't fast enough in qualifying to challenge the top ten. Hopefully we will have a good car for the race and make it back towards the front to consolidate our position in the top twelve in points for the season."
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