Shifting Gears: Ferrari Panamerican 20000, two Unique Whips Nissans and Allmendinger to Toyota.

Let's Shift Gears:

Shell's long time technical partnership with Ferrari is about to get longer - 20,000 miles longer. The Ferrari Panamerican 20,000 mile Tour which includes two all new Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, will continue on a three-month tour that started from Brazil in August and will be rolling into Las Vegas, NV on there way to the conclution in New York on November 17th. During is tour, these Ferrari's will pass through Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, New Orleans, on down to Miami and up Washington, Chicago, Toronto and finally down to New York.(Read more...)
(Credit: Erin Caldwell - Edelman)

"Unique Whips Crew Executes Hot New Designs for Marc Ecko-Nissan Project".
I look at these two Nissans and I try to really see what they were going for, but the first thing that I thought when I say this photo above was "What were they thinking? (Read more...)
(Credit for photo: SPEEDtv.com article)

What a headline over at NASCAR.com,
"Allmendinger inks Cup deal with Red Bull". (Read more..),

Update, hears more of a headline...Speedtv.com is reporting that that Forsythe Racing has released A.J. Allmendinger and he will not race in the finale at Mexico City in November and replaced him with Buddy Rice.

My Take on this entire A.J. Allmendinger - NASCAR and Champ Car connection...
These two headlines have caught me off guard completely, I didn't know what to make of A.J. Allmendinger coming to NASCAR in 2007 for Red Bull Racing considering that he has only made a couple of starts in the Craftsmen Truck Series for Bill Davis Racing. A.J. Allmendinger history has been in champ car racing and his career has been headlined when him had been released from RuSport after the Milwaukee race and then stepped into the Forsythe Racing's second ride at Portland and not only won his first race out for Forsythe Racing, but has won a total of five races this season and now sits 2nd in points. This story on Speedtv.com gets even more out there, the story also says that Forsythe Racing may run a third car for another driver at the finale, what I don't understand, is why Forsythe Racing doesn't just run three cars with the 1st car with Paul Tracy, 2nd car with A.J. Allmendinger and the third car with Buddy Rice....

One more thing, don't get me wrong, I am happy to see Buddy Rice get his shot in Champ Car and I hope he wins too, but what a way for Forsythe Racing to look ahead at 2007, but not to cover his winningest driver in 2006.

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