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A State of Vine

With insight and commentary from many members of the wine world – including Two Buck Chuck’s Fred Franzia, champion racecar driver and winery owner Mario Andretti, award winning winemakers, Bob Foley of Pride Mountain Vineyards, Daniel Barron of Silver Oak Cellars and Randy Pitts of Harvest Moon Estate Winery, along with many others.

Al Holbert

The son of racecar driver Bob Holbert, who also ran a Volkswagen-Porsche dealership in Warrington, PA, near Philadelphia, Holbert worked for Roger Penske while studying at Lehigh University.

Arno Klasen

Arno Klasen (born 1967 in Karlshausen, Germany) is a German racecar driver best known for his long career in VLN endurance racing series on the Nürburgring.

Augusto Monaco

1935 Trossi-Monaco with Carlo Felice Trossi, a 16-cylinder (250 bhp, 3982 ccm) racecar, never winning anything due to an unsuitable 75/25 weight distribution.

Charlie Jarzombek

Charlie Jarzombek (September 30, 1942 – March 22, 1987) was an American racecar driver from Baiting Hollow, New York.

Christopher Titus

Chris Titus dedicated his entire Norman Rockwell is Bleeding special and an episode of his show Titus ("The Pendulum," where Christopher is in a coma following a racecar crash and Ken played by Stacy Keach narrated the episode, "Christopher's Neutral Space") to his late father.

Cornelian automobile

The 1914 Cornelian was manufactured by Howard E. Blood (of the Allegan, Michigan-based Blood Brothers Machine Company), who had joined forces with Swiss racecar driver Louis Chevrolet.

Davis Motorcar Company

Founded by Glenn Gordon "Gary" Davis (d. 1973) acquired a prototype called "The Californian" from designer Frank Kurtis, who built it for millionaire racecar driver Joel Thorne.

Ferrari 156 F1

The Ferrari 156 was a racecar made by Ferrari in 1961 to comply with then-new Formula One regulations that reduced engine displacement from 2.5 to 1.5 litres, similar to the pre-1961 Formula Two class for which Ferrari had developed a mid-engined car also called 156.

Gabby Chaves

Gabriel "Gabby" Chaves (born July 7, 1993 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian-American racecar driver.

Gitanes

In the original Transformers series, Mirage transforms into a Formula One Ligier racecar sponsored by "Citanes" (altered so as to get past the law forbidding tobacco advertising).

Jamestown, Indiana

Davey Hamilton, American racecar driver who competed in the Indianapolis 500

Jürgen Barth

Jürgen Barth (born December 10, 1947 in Thum, Saxony) is a German engineer and a former racecar driver.

Lucas Ordóñez

Lucas Ordóñez Martín-Esperanza (born May 1, 1985) is a Spanish racecar driver, who entered professional racing by winning a spot in a PlayStation 3 Gran Turismo competition.

Marc Goossens

Marc Goossens nicknamed The Goose (born 30 November 1969 in Geel) is a Belgian racecar driver who drove in Formula 3000 from 1994 to 1996 and part-time from 1999 to 2001.

McLaren M838T engine

For the GT3 racecar, the engine produces less power at only 493 hp.

Menlo School

Jon Beekhuis is a former racecar driver and current television commentator.

Michael Pickens

Michael Pickens (born 7 January 1983) is a racecar driver from Birkenhead near Auckland, New Zealand.

Mickey Curtis

Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a racecar driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro, Tokyo.

Mister Atom

Again Atom was brought back to Earth, this time by Mr. Mind, who employed him to attach his head to an atomic racecar and challenge Captain Marvel to an auto race in Indianapolis with the threat that he'd level the city with an atomic blast.

Peter Helck

In 1941 Helck acquired the famous Locomobile Old 16 racecar, which had won the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup, the first American-made car to win a race against international competition.

Philippe Gache

Philippe Gache (born May 31, 1962, Avignon, France) is a French racecar driver.

Rosemary Smith

Arlene Francis, Mark Goodson, Ginger Rogers, and Bennett Cerf were on the panel and successfully guessed her "line" as a racecar driver.

Sun Drop

The soft drink has also recently become a leading sponsor for racecar driver Ryan Hunter-Reay and his #1 car in the Indycar Series for Andretti Autosport.

Ulrich Baretzky

Ulrich Baretzky is "?title=Audi">Audi Sports' Head of Engine Technology, and has been credited with developing the V12 TDI engine, used in the Audi R10 racecar.

Y.O Concept

Y.O Concept is a French racecar constructor based in Cornillé, Brittany.


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