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News Stories from 2005

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Dec. 20, 2005
2006 SPEED World Challenge Schedule Complete; Touring Cars Return to Denver, GT to Debut at Long Beach
SCCA Pro Racing announced today the addition of two venues to its 2006 SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge calendar, bringing the season total to 10 races each for SCCA SPEED GT and Touring Car.
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Nov. 18, 2005
Outgoing Pro Racing VP Wright To Miller Motorsports Park
Miller Motorsports Park , the new road racing facility under construction outside Salt Lake City , announced today that Mitch Wright, former Vice President SCCA Pro Racing, will join the Miller management team as Director of Racing.
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Nov. 15, 2005
Wright Resigns from SCCA Pro Racing Post; Mudd Named Acting President
SCCA Pro Racing Vice President and General Manager Mitch Wright resigned from his post today to pursue other career opportunities.
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Nov. 14, 2005
John Thawley Announces Release of SCCA Pro SPEED World Challenge Year In Review 2005 Yearbook
Motorsports photographer, John Thawley, announced today the release of his SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Year in Review 2005 book. The hardbound 54-page book will feature Thawley's photography and a race by race recap of the 2005 SCCA Pro Racing season.
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Oct. 27, 2005
2006 SPEED World Challenge Initial Schedule Announced; Nine of 10 Races Confirmed
SCCA Pro Racing announced today nine of the 10 races that will make up the 2006 SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT Championship season. The final race will be announced shortly.
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Oct. 20, 2005
REWARDS Weight, Points System Revisions in Store for 2006 SPEED World Challenge
SCCA Pro Racing announced today that it will make changes to the 2006 SPEED World Challenge Rewarding of Equalizing Weight Assigned to Reduce Driver Sensitivity (REWARDS) Weight system and Championship point structure.
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Oct. 18, 2005
SPEED World Challenge Champions, Award Winners Honored
SCCA Pro Racing and the SPEED World Challenge community honored their own Sunday night in the annual awards celebration held at the Monterey Marriott.
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Oct. 16, 2005
“Mad” Max Seals Deal in SPEED GT at Laguna Seca, Pilgrim, Cadillac Ear First Championship
“Mad” Max Papis, of Miami, Fla., made a championship-caliber pass on two cars on Lap 14 of the 20-lap SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT race Sunday afternoon at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and then held on through a late full-course caution to earn his second win of the year in his No. 16 XM/Mobil 1/Motorola/Bose Cadillac CTS-V and Cadillac its first SPEED GT Manufacturers’ Championship Presented by Racer Magazine.
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Oct. 16, 2005
Rookie Angelone Wins SPEED Touring Car Finale at Laguna, Cunningham, Acura Win Championships
Rookie driver John Angelone, of Bridgewater, N.J., earned the first SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car victory of his career Sunday at the Monterey Sports Car Championships, driving away from the rest of the field in his No. 19 Pit Bull Energy Drink/Stand 21 Audi A4 to win the 26-lap race by 5.214 seconds.
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Oct. 15, 2005
One Step Closer: Cunningham Inches Toward Championship With First SPEED TC Pole of Season At Laguna
Peter Cunningham, of W. Bend, Wis., moved even closer to his fourth-career SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Drivers’ Championship Saturday, earning his first Air Force Reserve Pole Position of the season for the SCCA SPEED Touring Car season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Cunningham’s chief rival in the Championship, Randy Pobst, will start second.
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Oct. 15, 2005
Henzler Earns Pole for SCCA SPEED GT Finale at Laguna Seca
Wolf Henzler, of Nuertingen, Germany, carried over his record-shattering times from Friday into Saturday’s SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT qualifying session, earning the top spot for Sunday’s season-ending race after ripping off a 1:30.387 (89.137 mph) in the No. 55 Applied Materials/Farnbacher Loles Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. The mark was 1.1 seconds better than the previous best of 1:31.469 he set a year ago.
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Oct. 14, 2005
Cunningham in Control After SCCA SPEED Touring Car Practice at Laguna Seca
It is too early to say he has thrown the hammer down, but SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car point leader Peter Cunningham, of West Bend, Wis., made a strong showing Friday during practice, handily sweeping both sessions in his No. 42 A-SPEC/RealTime Racing Acura TSX.
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Oct. 14, 2005
Henzler Fastest In Combined SPEED GT Practice at Laguna
Germany’s Wolf Henzler finished up practice for Sunday’s SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship 2005 finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in a familiar place, atop the time sheets.
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World Challenge
Oct. 14, 2005
SPEED World Challenge to Support U.S. Relief Efforts
Mitch Wright , SCCA Pro- Racing General Manager, announced today that the SPEED World Challenge Series will be supporting Remote Area Medicals US relief efforts during their season finale at the Mazda Race Way , Laguna Seca, in Monterey Ca., October 14-16, 2005.
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Oct. 13, 2005
Pilgrim's Process: Cadillac Driver Takes Shot at SPEED GT Title at Laguna This Weekend
It’s just days before Andy Pilgrim will take to the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit in Monterey, Calif., where, this weekend, he will attempt to finish off the 2005 SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT season with his first SPEED GT Driver’s Championship. But mention that to the cool-handed driver from Delray Beach, Fla., and all you’ll likely get is either a small grin or maybe just a shrug.
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Dec. 8, 2005
World ChallengeNathan McBride Named Jon Groom Racing Technical Director
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Nov. 28, 2005
World ChallengeReese Set To Return To SPEED GT With Banner Corvette In 2006
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Nov. 4, 2005
World ChallengeDerek, Justin Bell Announced as Part of Molyshield Racing in 2006 SCCA SPEED GT
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Oct. 14, 2005
World ChallengeCadillac Races for Drivers', Manufacturers' Championships at SPEED GT Finale
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Oct. 13, 2005
World ChallengeSTaSIS Engineering, Gidley Team Up for Laguna Seca
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Oct. 13, 2005
World ChallengeMacDonald to Drive Mazda for Tindol in SPEED Touring Car at Laguna
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Oct. 12, 2005
World ChallengeReese Heads to West Coast Looking for Positive Finish to Season
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Oct. 12, 2005
World ChallengeAndy Pilgrim to Appear on the JustRacing Seminar Series
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Oct. 12, 2005
World ChallengeSPEED World Challenge 2005 Concludes with Laguna Seca
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Oct. 12, 2005
World ChallengeAschenbach to Drive #07 Porsche in SPEED GT Finale
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Oct. 12, 2005
World ChallengeMolyshield, Autohaus Expand 2006 SPEED World Challenge Effort to Six Cars, Two Classes
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Oct. 11, 2005
World ChallengeSPEED Touring Car Driver Bradley Joins JustRacing.com Seminar Series
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Oct. 5, 2005
World ChallengeDobson To Pilot Tindol Motorsports Mazda6 in Season Finale
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Aug. 31, 2005
World ChallengeFellows to Drive Third Cadillac CTS-V in Mosport SCCA World Challenge
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Aug. 11, 2005
World ChallengeOptimism Returns to Team Cadillac Just in Time
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Aug. 9, 2005
World Challenge3R-Racing Looking Forward to Home Race in Denver
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Aug. 9, 2005
World ChallengeAschenbach To Drive Farnbacher Loles SPEED GT Porsche
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July 26, 2005
World ChallengeSpeedTechnik SRT-4 To Return to Action at Mosport
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July 26, 2005
World ChallengePapis Aims to Return to Top Step of Podium in Portland
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July 13, 2005
World ChallengeStu Hayner Infineon Raceway Pre-Race Report
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July 13, 2005
World ChallengePaul Bonaccorsi to Drive #7 Autosport Development GTO at Infineon
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July 13, 2005
World ChallengeLime Rock Winner Also Hopes to Repeat at Infineon
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