Rocketsports Racing
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Rocketsports Racing is a motor racing team from the United States based in East Lansing, Michigan.
Rocketsports was founded in 1985 by racing driver Paul Gentilozzi to compete in the Trans-Am series. It competed in Trans-Am until 2004, when the championship was cancelled, and achieved 57 outright wins in 20 years. It has also raced in the IMSA sports car racing championship.
Rocketsports joined Champ Car in 2003 and has often fielded cars for pay drivers and frequently changed drivers. In 2007 the team fielded a car full-time for Alex Tagliani and shared technical information with the RuSPORT team. This alliance was dubbed RSPORTS and the alliance took a race win with Justin Wilson who was fielded by the RuSPROT team. However, but the end of the season the alliance had broken down and it was announced that it would not return in 2008. Late in the 2007 season, the team announced a new partnership with Australia-based PBS Equities.[1] Rocketsports will not compete in the newly unified IndyCar Series in 2008, but will compete in the Long Beach Grand Prix, the last event to be held using Champ Car equipment, with drivers Antônio Pizzonia, who competed for Rocketsports at Long Beach in 2006, and Juho Annala.[2]
[edit] Drivers that have competed for Rocketsports
Juho Annala (2008)
Mario Dominguez (2006)- Memo Gidley (2004)
Timo Glock (2005)
Ryan Hunter-Reay (2005)
Tonis Kasemets (2006)- Michael McDowell (2005)
Nicky Pastorelli (2006)
Nelson Philippe (2004)
Antônio Pizzonia (2006, 2008)
Guy Smith (2004)
Alex Tagliani (2003-2004, 2007)
[edit] References
- ^ ROCKETSPORTS SURFERS PARADISE PREVIEW, Rocketsports PR, October 17, 2007
- ^ Rocketsports confirms swansong line-up, Crash.net, April 8, 2008
[edit] External links
| 2008 Champ Car season | |||||||||
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| NHL | Forsythe/Pettit | Minardi | Australia | Rocketsports | Coyne | PKV | PCM | Conquest | |
| 1 Wilson 2 Rahal |
3 Tracy 7 TBA |
4 TBA 14 Doornbos |
5 Power 15 TBA |
8 Bernoldi | 11 TBA 19 TBA |
21 TBA 22 Servià |
28 TBA 29 Figge |
24 Perera 34 TBA |
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| Long Beach - Houston - Laguna Seca - Zolder - Jerez - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - Portland - Road America - Assen - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City | |||||||||
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