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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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