"One Year Later--Victory At Long Beach"
The last motor racing victory for Gil deFerran was an IndyCar win in 2003 at Texas Motor Speedway. He came close here in Champ Cars, one year leading 100 of 105 laps (1997) only to fall victim to mechanical gremlins. A year ago he announced his return to driving, and his entry into team ownership in an American LeMans Series LeMans Prototype 2 Acura. Fast forward to Saturday, where he led a 1-2-3 Acura sweep of the podium.
This is a big deal, since he started on the fly in 2008 with the LMP2 Acura. After the season ended, deFerran ramped up to the LMP1 Acura Program, starting with Sebring a few weeks ago.
He will have a tall order next race at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah...we'll have more previewing that race in an upcoming edition of "Race-Talk".
In other auto racing...Winnngs over Shanghai... Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel wins the Chinese Grand Prix; Jenson Button remains the Formula One point leader with a third place finish. Mark Martin showed Saturday night why Rick Hendrick picked him as a driver...the 50 year old Martin beat Tony Stewart to break a 98 race victory drought in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Comments from him on this week's Race-Talk, as well.
We'll blog a snapshot from the IndyCar winner's news conference later on.
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