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The Official Newsletter Of The American Writers and Broadcasters Association

December 2010 Vol. 43 No. 9

January 9, 2011 Member tickets are $50.00 and non-members are $65.00 AARWBA All-American Dinner Event Tickets for members can be The banquet will be held at the ordered online with PayPal Target Chip Ganassi Racing www.aarwba.org headquarters in Click on BANQUET to order tickets. 7777 Woodland Drive Indianapolis, IN 46278 For program ads with table contact Dusty Brandel - Banquet headquarters will be the Hilton Garden Inn, located just a few [email protected] blocks from Ganassi Racing. Newsmaker Forum is at 5:30 p.m. reception at 6:00 and dinner at 7:00.

Hilton Garden Inn 6930 Intech Boulevard Indianapolis, Indiana 46278 Meet the newly elected (317) 288-6060 members of the The AARWBA rate is $79 per night with full AARWBA Board breakfast included, for up to two people per room. To make your reservation, call the hotel and tell Page 7 them you want the AARWBA $79.00 rate.

American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 2010 AARWBA All-America Team Selected Submitted By Rocky Entriken

The 2010 All-America Auto Racing Team has been chosen by members of the nation's motorsports press. The team includes the largest group ever named to the First Team, 21 drivers, as a result of the addition of a new category this year by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association.

In addition, AARWBA created a new Rising Star Award to recognize a fresh new name making his mark on the sport.

Drivers from the Open Wheel, Stock Car, Road Racing and Drag Racing catego- ries are in contention for the Jerry Titus Award -- the team's Driver of the Year, each of them dominating the vote in their category. Just nine votes cover the group, which includes two former multiple Titus winners. The Titus winner is not revealed until the All-America ceremonies in Indianapolis, IN, on Jan. 9.

Four former Titus winners are on the team this year -- Indy Car champions Dario Franchitti (2007, 2009) and (2004), and NHRA champions John Force (1996, 1999, 2000, 2002) and Tony Schumacher (2006, 2008). Schumacher is a Second Team selection this year and Kanaan earned Honorable Mention.

Chosen as the Rising Star of 2010 was IRL Firestone champion J.K. Vernay, 23, from France, who picked up votes from nearly a third of the voters on the 15-name ballot. Vernay ended up four votes ahead of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie of the year Austin Dillon, 20. Third in the vote was USAC driver Kody Swanson, 22, who raced in five different USAC series with victories in four of them.

Following in the Rising Star vote were Indy Light's James Hinchcliffe, 23; Grand-Am's Ricky Taylor, 21; Scott Tucker, 47, from American Le Mans, and a surprise write-in, LE Tonglet, 20, NHRA's Pro Stock Bike champion and rookie of the year. The poll does not include motorcycle racers because it is, after all, an auto racing team, but young Tonglet's stellar season was enough to inspire a number of voters to write in his name.

The Titus, given in remembrance of the late racer/journalist, signifies the top vote-getter on the All-America team regardless of category, is announced at the conclusion of the annual AARWBA banquet, which is open to the public. Two drivers from each of eight categories is elected to the First Team, two more to the Second Team, and all drivers receiving at least five percent of the vote (minimum five votes) earn honorable mention.

Force won his unprecedented 15th NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car championship this year, a triumphant return from a near-fatal accident in 2007. With his 6-win season he won his 16th selection as an All-America in the Drag Racing category, all but one of them First Team. Force's 15 First Team selections stands behind only World of Outlaws legend Steve Kinser, chosen 18 times. His 16 times as an All-America (chosen once as Sec- ond Team in 1991), trails Kinser's 23 and Mario Andretti's 18.

Joining Force is Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon, whose 12-win season ended Tony Schumacher's run of five championships. It is Dixon's fifth All-America selection, his third on the First Team.

Franchitti won his second and his third Indy Car championship in 2010, continuing as the most dominant driver in American open wheel racing three of the past four years and leading the Open Wheel cate- gory. The Scot has been a First Team All-America each of those years, six times total.

Will Power, the young Aussie who led the Indy Car championship most of the season, joins Franchitti on the First Team after a five-win season. It is Power's first All-America nod.

Jimmie Johnson is no surprise as a Titus contender after his landmark fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup cham- pionship. His six-win season plus a come-from-behind points chase in the year's final race got him his sixth se- lection on the First Team, his ninth time overall.

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A surprise, however, was the selection of Kyle Busch to join Johnson in the Stock Car category. The winner of 24 races in NASCAR's top three series (three Sprint Cup, 13 Nationwide, eight Camping World Trucks and that series' owner's championship), Busch out pointed Denny Hamlin by just one vote for his fourth All-America se- lection, his first on the First Team.

The pairing of and led the Road Racing category for the second time in three years. The Pruett/Rojas duo is the Daytona Prototype champions in the Grand-Am with a se- ries-record nine victories in 12 races. It is Pruett's 11th time on the First Team, third on that list behind Force, and his 13th time overall. His Mexican teammate is an All-America for the second time. In endurance racing where teammates share a car for the full season, they are voted on as one.

The second First Team pair in Road Racing are the American Le mans Series Prototype champions and Simon Pagenaud. The Australian/French pairing won four races including the Petit Le Mans at and were on the podium in all nine of the series' races. It is Brabham's fifth All-American selection, his second on First Team, while Pagenaud is First Team for the First time after an Honorable Mention in 2009.

Todd Bodine, winning his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship, easily outdistanced everyone in the Touring Series vote. It is his second All-America selection, both First Team, matching his 2006 championship.

Behind Bodine, however, it was a huge dogfight with all five of the other ballot contenders in a virtual dead heat. In the final tally only five votes separated the quintet, but atop the heap was NASCAR Whelen Modified Series champion and four-time race winner Bobby Santos. It is the first time a driver from the Modified ranks has achieved First Team status, and is, of course, the first All-America for Santos.

The category illustrated well that one vote can make a difference: Only one vote behind was NASCAR K&N East Series champ Ryan Truex, and two more votes back was ARCA champion Patrick Sheltra to make up the Second Team; one more vote down was USAR Pro Series champ Clay Rogers, and K&N West champ Eric Hol- mes was just another single vote down, earning Honorable Mention.

There was also an unexpected result in the Short Track category, where two U.S. Auto Club combatants won in a category long dominated by World of Outlaws champions. Brian Clauson out pointed Levi Jones by just one vote to form the First Team pairing. Clauson won USAC's National Driver Championship and Mopar National Midget Championship over Jones by winning the season finale Turkey Night Grand Prix at Irwindale, Calif. Jones, for his part, won both the K&N Silver Crown and the Amsoil National Sprint Car Championships. It is the first time on First Team for both drivers. Jones has been chosen Second Team or Honorable Mention three times previously.

The new Off Road & Rally category produced the only tie in the voting, resulting in a four-member First Team. Vote leader Rob MacCachren is the one familiar face, earning his fifth All-America nod, his third on the First Team -- in previous years chosen in the At Large category. MacCachren won in four different off-road series and leads the Pro 2 Unlimited class in the Lucas Off-Road Racing Series where he has won eight times. He has also won in TORC, SCORE and SNORE races.

Tied in the vote were Ricky Johnson, champion of the Traxxas TORC Series Pro 2 wd class, and Antoine L'Estage/Nathalie Richard champions of the RallyCar Rally America series. All are all-America for the first time. Johnson has six wins in the TORC series and two more in the LOORS series. Canadians L'Estage/Richard won two of the six Rally America events and are also leading the Canadian Rally Championship with three victories.

The At Large category went to an endurance racing tandem and a drag racer, All-America veterans all. Topping the vote were the American Le Mans Series' GT class champions, Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long, with four victories together in the nine races. Long also branched out to NASCAR and won a K&N West series race in Portland. It's Bergmeister's fourth All-America selection and Long's second, all First Team.

Frank Manzo, the NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car champ, is nearly the Funny Car clone of John Force but with alky fuels. With a 12-win season it is Manzo's 14 national championship and 20th divisional championship, and his eighth All-America, second time on First Team.

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FIRST TEAM OPEN WHEEL: Dario Franchitti, Will Power STOCK CAR: , Kyle Busch ROAD RACING: Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas, David Brabham/Simon Pagenaud DRAG RACING: John Force, Larry Dixon SHORT TRACK: Bryan Clauson, Levi Jones TOURING SERIES: , Bobby Santos OFF-ROAD & RALLY: Rob MacCachren, Ricky Johnson & Antoine L'Estage/Nathalie Richard AT LARGE: Jörg Bergmeister/Patrick Long, Frank Manzo (tie)

SECOND TEAM OPEN WHEEL: Helio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe STOCK CAR: Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski ROAD RACING: Tony Ave, /Alex Gurney DRAG RACING: Tony Schumacher, Matt Hagan SHORT TRACK: Jason Meyers, Tim Shaffer TOURING SERIES: Ryan Truex, Patrick Sheltra OFF-ROAD & RALLY: B.J. Baldwin AT LARGE: J.K. Vernay, Peter Cunningham

HONORABLE MENTION (At least 5%of the vote, five votes minimum) OPEN WHEEL: Tony Kanaan STOCK CAR: Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray ROAD RACING: Max Angelelli/Ricky Taylor DRAG RACING: none SHORT TRACK: none TOURING SERIES: Clay Rogers, Eric Holmes OFF-ROAD & RALLY: Jesse Jones, Tom Lawless AT LARGE: Randy Pobst, Von Smith

RISING STAR (All who received at least five votes) J.K. Vernay (IRL Indy Lights) Austin Dillon (NASCAR Trucks) Kody Swanson (USAC) James Hinchcliffe (IRL Indy Lights) Ricky Taylor (Grand-Am Daytona Prototype) LE Tonglet (NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle) [write-in] Scott Tucker (ALMS LMP Challenge) Jonathan Bomarito (Grand-Am GT) Robert Stout (SCCA World Challenge) Tanner Swanson (USAC) Lucas Wolfe (WoO Sprint Cars))

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American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 4 Time to talk to your racer pals . . . Submitted by "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth

I’m betting there isn’t an AARWBA member that doesn’t have a friend who drives, tunes, builds, or owns a race car. I am also willing to bet most AARWBA members have one of these friends who live in, or around the greater Indianapolis area.

It is time to call them up and personally invite them to the AARWBA banquet. Not wanting to induce cardiac arrest, I am not suggesting you buy them a banquet ticket, just have a nice conversation with them about showing up and bringing some or all the team along with them.

Ok, so maybe you buy them a drink. Why not, you like them, right?

If each AARWBA member does this, we’ll have a great crowd in January and we’ll have a helluva good time for only putting in a small measure of advance work.

I’ve done my part, called a hot-shot, congenial motorcycle racer and discovered he would really enjoy coming provided his sponsors don’t have him dancing on the head of a corporate pin that weekend.

Remember, our banquet is a chance for both sides – media and racer – to have an evening to enjoy themselves without having to worry about filing a story, or winning a race. We have a chance for great company and conversation.

So c’mon, pick up the phone, be a pal and call a pal. Let’s make the banquet a rip snorting memo- rable evening. I’ll call Chip and tell him to hide all the breakables. . .

Speedy Regards,

"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth

January 9, 2011 AARWBA All-American Dinner Event The banquet will be held at the Target Chip Ganassi Racing headquarters in Indianapolis 7777 Woodland Drive Indianapolis, IN 46278 Banquet headquarters will be the Hil- ton Garden Inn, located just a few blocks from Ganassi Racing. Several of the 2009 Honorees

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American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 5 News & Notes Jim Hunter Honored With Jim Chapman Award Jim Hunter, NASCAR’s vice president of corpo- rate communications who died Oct. 30, today was announced as winner of the 2010 Jim Chap- man Award for excellence in motorsports public relations. The Chapman Award is considered by many in the industry as the highest honor in racing public relations. It is named in memory of Chapman, the legendary PR executive and innovator, who worked with Babe Ruth and was named Indy Car racing’s “most influential man” of the 1980s. Chapman died in 1996 at age 80. The announcement was made before the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix Internation- al Raceway by Michael Knight, chairman of the Chapman started as sports editor or managing editor of selection committee, and one of Chapman’s clos- several Southern newspapers before joining the New est friends. The award is determined by vote of York Times. He served in the U.S. Air Force during media members, most of whom knew Chapman, World War II. He entered the PR business in 1946, as and is authorized by the Chapman family. PR regional PR director for Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. representatives from all forms of motorsports are Soon thereafter, Chapman hired Ruth as consultant to eligible for consideration. the automaker’s sponsorship of American Legion Ju- Knight said the committee selected Hunter for the nior Baseball. They traveled together for more than two honor a few weeks before his death. years for personal appearances and became close “We had hoped to make this presentation in De- friends. Chapman was one of only three friends at cember, as part of NASCAR’s Champion’s Week Ruth’s bedside when he died in August 1948. celebration in Las Vegas,” said Knight, the long- In 1950, Chapman left Ford to start his own PR firm. time journalist/publicist. One of his first clients was Avis founder Warren Avis. “In several important ways, Jim Hunter’s career Chapman devoted much of his time to financial PR, mirrored that of Jim Chapman’s. Most important- which he once called his “favorite form of PR,” and ly, both deeply believed in the ‘old-school’ ap- helped companies get recognition among analysts and proach to working with the media – that it was even gain admission to the New York and American essential to build one-on-one relationships with stock exchanges. journalists. That’s too often missing today, but Chapman’s first venture into motorsports was in 1951, both Jims understood the value of actually talking when he joined with NASCAR founder Bill France to to people and getting to know them, and that hav- promote the Motor City 250. The race was part of ing those professional relationships best served Detroit’s 250th birthday celebration, a Chapman client. their clients.” In 1967, Chapman entered Indy Car racing with client Hunter’s career as a journalist and PR profes- Ozzie Olson’s Olsonite sponsorship of ’s sional spanned portions of six decades. He was team, which later featured Bobby Unser as driver. the Columbia Record sports editor, writer at the “Jim was one of the most innovative and imaginative Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and author of sever- PR men ever to grace a pit lane,” said Gurney. “Jim al books. He began in PR in the 1960's with practically invented most of what is now considered ’s racing programs before stints as PR di- routine sponsor PR work. He was the first, as far as I rector at both Darlington Raceway and Talladega know, who thought of putting up a sponsor hospitality Superspeedway. He joined NASCAR as vice tent alongside a racetrack (at the old Riverside Race- president of administration in 1983. In 1993, way), filling it with extravagant race car ice- Hunter was named president of Darlington Race- sculptures,beautiful food and beautiful people from the way and corporate VP of International Speedway business, sports and movie industries. He started an Corp. He returned to NASCAR as VP of corpo- ‘open house’ tradition in Ozzie’s hotel suite in Indianap- rate communications in 2001. He died of cancer olis, where journalists could rub shoulders with John at age 71. Wayne or (astronaut) Scott Carpenter.”

Continued on next page All Contents©The AmericanAuto Racing WritersBroadcasters & Association 922 North Pass Avenue Burbank, CA 91505-2703 (818) 842-7005 American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 6 News & Notes Hunter Continued 2010 AARWBA Officer Election Results Chapman also coordinated Olsonite’s sponsor- ship of the Driver of the Year award, orchestrat- The following people were elected to ing an annual luncheon at New York City’s famed the AARWBA Board this year. ‘21’ Club. Chapman’s greatest professional acclaim came President - Dusty Brandel from 1981-1992, as director of CART series [email protected] sponsor PPG Industries’ program. Chapman was instrumental in raising PPG’s prize fund from $250,000 to more than $3.75 million at the time of his retirement in February 1993. The all-female PPG Pace Car Driving Team was another Chap- National man innovation, as were the PPG Editor’s Days, Vice President - when he brought business and feature writers to Kathy Seymour the tracks for lunch, pace car rides, and driver [email protected] interviews. Indy Car Racing magazine named Chapman the sports’s “most influential” man of the 1980's, say- Western Vice President ing he turned “a public relations assignment into - Anne Proffit an art form.” After his retirement, Chapman con- [email protected] tinued to consult PPG, and agreed to Mario Andretti’s personal request that he serve as hon- orary chairman of Andretti’s “Arrivederci, Mario” farewell tour in 1994. “The true honor of the award is not the plaque,” Midwest Vice President said Knight. “The true honor is having your name - Ron LeMasters forever associated with that of the great James P. [email protected] Chapman.” PREVIOUS JIM CHAPMAN AWARD HONOR- EES: 1991 – Michael Knight Eastern Vice President - Lewis Franck 1992 – Tom Blattler [email protected] 1993-94 – Deke Houlgate and Hank Ives 1995 – Kathi Lauterbach 1996 – Marc Spiegel 1997 – Mike Zizzo 1998 – Tamy Valkosky Southern Vice President 1999-2003 – (Award not presented) - Joe Jennings [email protected] 2004 – Doug Stokes 2005 – Susan Arnold 2006 – Kevin Kennedy All members of the AARWBA are 2007 – Dave Densmore and Bob Carlson encouraged to reach out to the elected officers and ask how they can volunteer to 2008 – Judy Stropus help grow the organization and support the 2009 – (Award not presented) objectives and goals of the AARWBA. The board members can’t do it alone!

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American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 8 A Memory News & Notes Submitted By Nick Dettman A Witness To First Wins Growing up, Road America was only an hour away from my home in Milwaukee. My dad had season pit passes for all the races. We went to the June Sprints, the IMSA races, CART and AMA series. If it was there, we were there. I can remember playing catch with my dad while standing beyond Turn 3 at the track. That's what I always thought made Road America neat. You can walk around the track and you can feel like you're in a different county. This year, covering the Nationwide race there — the Bucyrus 200 — Ron Fel- Dusty coaches Jon Asher out of the tires to lows joked that Canada Corner, or Turn 12, receive his "Straight Shooter Award" is located in Canada, right? Well, not quite, but that's the way it seemed. Then, as I was doing some research on Jacques Villeneuve, I came across the fact that his first CART victory came at Road America in 1994 and he did it again in 1995. When I pulled old video footage off YouTube, I suddenly remembered those races. I was there! I remember watching the race from Turn 9. Every once in a while, you can see my dad's car (at least I can). I was a big Emerson Fitti- paldi fan when he raced. But I became a Jacques fan. If you've never experienced a race at Road America as a fan or as a media member, it's unlike any other and that's not an understate- ment. Nick Dettmann, Sports Editor West Bend Daily News Dusty finally gets to present the Award to John at the NHRA Auto Club Finals at the Pomona Drag Races

Do You Remember “The Bridge”?? If you have attended races at the old Bridgehampton Race Circuit on Long Island, you must have good stories to tell about the experience! Please share your anecdotes, memories, lies or other tales with your fellow members.

Send your memories to: Andy Hartwell - [email protected] or to: Dusty Brandel - [email protected]

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American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association, Inc. (www.aarwba.org) “Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports” 9 Member Spotlight Wolfgang Monsehr

By Gil Bouffard Like many of us, Wolfgang Monsehr's career in motorsports has followed a long and winding path. AARWBA member Wolfgang Monsehr is the founder and owner of Rennsportpresse- Agency. He began his journalistic endeavors in 1972, writing for local newspapers about the German Kart Championship while still in high school. A year later, he was racing in selected Kart Events in Germany on his own Kart manufactured by Hetschel GmbH, the leading German Kart-Manufacturer. In 1975, Wolfgang was working as a Public Relations representative for Austrian racing driver Harald Ertl. Ertl competed in both European Formula 2 and selected Grands Prix in a privately entered Hesketh-. Warsteiner Bier provided the sponsorship money for 4 rounds of the World Championship 1976, found Wolfgang working as a Public Relations representative for Mike Korten a leading German Karting racer, at both the European and World Karting Championships. He also began writing for the German magazines Rallye-Racing and Sportfahrer (Sport Driver) as well as the Swiss publica- tions Motorsport-Aktuell and Automobil-Revue He also contributed to the British Motor- sports weekly Autosport. During this same time, Wolfgang worked in various freelance positions for the famed Nürburgring during the German Grands Prix; His duties ran the gamut from writing-media releases to paddock-organization. In 1977, Wolfgang had moved on to the Villiger-Cigarillo-Company as their media-representative. Villiger provided backing for Hans-Joachim Stuck to the U.S. Shadow Team. The race driving bug bit Wolfgang again and he was soon behind the wheel of a Kaimann Formula V 1300. A "big," crash at Zeltweg, Austria in 1978 put paid to his racing career. He became the media representative for the German TOJ (pronounced "Toy,") Formula Super V and Formula 3 racing car manufacturer. Next came a stint as the media representative for the Warsteiner Braueri and racer Helmut Henzler in European Formula 3. From 1979-1984, Wolfgang covered the European F3-Championship as a reporter for most of the German-speaking publications. He also worked at selected events for Sachs-Sporting, a sponsor in the highly popular Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM) (aka German Racing Sport Championship) for Group 5-Silhouette Cars for various Porsche racing teams. The DRM ran from 1972 to 1982 and was the catalyst for the current DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft). Wolfgang moved on to the Interserie Organization as a Public Relations person. The Interserie was essentially the European version of the U.S. CAN AM-Series with big-engined McLaren's , Porsche 917's, Lola's and such. He also found time to provide selected media-work for the European Formula Drivers Association (EFDA) and Managing Director Dan Partel during German rounds of the various Racing Series including the Golden Lion Trophy and Euroseries for both Formula Ford 1600 and Formula Ford 2000. He also created the Rennsportpresse-Agency during this period. Continuing his trek through the National and International racing series, he was the Public Relations representative for German driver Mario Ketterer, who raced occasionally in European F2 and German Karamalz Team and its driver Thomas von Löwis of Menar in the German F3-Championship and selected European events. Wolfgang spent nineteen years covering the FIA F3000 Championship providing Public Relations support for most of the German racing drivers including , Volker Weidler, , Tony Schmidt, Oliver Tichy and Jörg Müller. In 1978, Wolfgang began making trips to America covering any kind of American racing primarily CAN AM and IndyCar/ChampCar. In 2005,Wolfgang also covered GP2, a ladder racing series for Formula One. He also began marketing American racing, specifically IndyCar, NASCAR, Drag Racing and Sprint Cars, to media clients of Rennsportpresse-Agency. Since 2005, Wolfgang has been a regular visitor and supplier to media clients of Rennsportpresse Agency concerning the U.S. racing scene and American US motorsports events.

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