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CART hopes to get on a roll with Motorock.(Pace Lap)(Championship Auto Racing Teams)
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Auto Racing Digest
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December 1, 2003
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- Plagenhoef, Scott
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ON THE FACE OF IT, MOTOROCK seems like the silliest idea since Vince McMahon's XFL. According to its trademark registration, the newly formed company is dedicated to "organizing and conducting music festivals and concerts ... entertainment events, and contests in the nature of competitions, races, and exhibitions in the field of motor sports." It also is the new owner of the Trans-Am series and one of four investors that makes up the Open Wheel Racing Series LLC, the group that has purchased CART. As a result, CART--which faced liquidation and ruin--will stay alive but essentially will become Motorock, and its races will serve as the centerpiece of weekend-long entertainment ...
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ROCK ON.(The Motorock Trans-Am Tour.)(Calendar)
AutoWeek;
February 23, 2004 ;
310 words
......Although the official schedule has not yet been released, the Motorock Trans-Am Tour hopes to launch a 13-race season, with two more...will kick off at Long Beach. Meanwhile, all is quiet on the Motorock front. The music-and-lifestyle promotion is apparently in reconfiguration...
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Pruett Wins Motorock Miami Trans-Am Pole
AP Online;
September 27, 2003 ;
118 words
...AP Online 09-27-2003 Dateline: MIAMI Scott Pruett won the pole for the Motorock Miami 100 Saturday, moving closer to a third Trans-Am Series championship. Pruett, the 1987 and 1994 series winner, can clinch...
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All-singing, all-dancing Trans-Am.(Competition)
AutoWeek;
September 8, 2003 ;
787 words
......Denver the Trans-Am series announced Motorock LLC as its new title sponsor. Under a...continuing road racing series now becomes the Motorock Trans-Am Tour for the BFGoodrich Tires...conjunction with the Miami CART event. What's a Motorock? A new generation of pop culture that...
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Scott Pruett Wins Third Trans-Am Drivers' Title With Jaguar R-Performance...
PR Newswire;
September 28, 2003 ;
357 words
......driver of the number 7 Jaguar R-Performance XKR, secured his third Trans-Am drivers' championship with a 1st place finish at the Motorock Trans-Am Tour for the BF Goodrich Tires Cup in Miami, Florida. Meanwhile, Pruett's teamowner, Paul Gentilozzi, ushered in a...
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Open Wheel Racing Series LLC Proposes to Acquire CART.
PR Newswire;
August 18, 2003 ;
733 words
......Kalkhoven, Paul Gentilozzi, Carl Russo and Motorock LLC. Open Wheel Racing Series and the...agreements with other parties (including Motorock) to organize and conduct music festivals...Indeck-Illion Cogeneration Corp. Paul Gentilozzi, Motorock LLC and Carl Russo are the members of...
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Champ drivers now, television stars soon.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
September 26, 2003 ;
Coffin, David;
741 words
......performing tonight, all promoted by Motorock, which is a new cutting-edge motorsports and entertainment company. Motorock is the new title sponsor for the Trans-...be cool to see the first Champ Car-Motorock event come together in Miami, Tagliani...
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GENTILOZZI LEADS JAGUAR SWEEP.(Sports)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
August 2, 2004 ;
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...TROIS-RIVIERES, QUEBEC -- Paul Gentilozzi led 64 of 65 laps to win Sunday's Motorock Trans-Am Series race at Le Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres in Quebec. Gentilozzi led a sweep of the podium by Jaguars, with Tomy Drissi and Tommy Kendall finishing second and third.
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Gentilozzi Takes Trans-Am Race in Quebec
AP Online;
August 2, 2004 ;
114 words
...AP Online 08-02-2004 Dateline: TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec Paul Gentilozzi led 64 of 65 laps to win Sunday's Motorock Trans-Am Series race at Le Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres in Quebec. Gentilozzi led a sweep of the podium by Jaguars, with Tomy Drissi...
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Tendra la CART selectos duenos.(Deportes)
Reforma (México D.F., México);
September 16, 2003 ;
438 words
......RuSport, equipo campeón en la Fórmula Atlantic, y por Motorock LLC. OWRS posee 3 millones 377 mil 400 acciones de CART, que...equipo a CART y competir en las 500 Millas de Indianápolis. Motorock Creación de una cultura popular que mezcla a los entusiastas...
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Simpson hasn't been paid fee for wearing T-shirt
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
April 8, 2004 ;
193 words
......single off her platinum-selling album, "In This Skin," Simpson wears a black T- shirt with a red "Motorock" logo stripped across the front. Motorock is an auto-racing company that, according to its Web site, "organizes and administers globally recognized...
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SCOREBOARD
The Gazette;
September 1, 2003 ;
190 words
...AUTO RACING MOTOROCK MILE HIGH 100 Results At street course, Denver 1. (1) Scott Pruett, Jaguar XKR, 59, Running. 2. (2) Boris Said, Ford Mustang, 59...
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Championship Auto Racing Teams Announces Continuing Negotiations with The...
PR Newswire;
August 24, 2003 ;
787 words
......company owned indirectly by a group of investors including Gerald R. Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven, Paul Gentilozzi, Carl Russo and Motorock LLC. Open Wheel Racing Series and the group of investors currently have beneficial ownership of 3,377,400 shares of CART common...
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Championship Auto Racing Teams Announces Receipt of Offer to Purchase All...
PR Newswire;
August 18, 2003 ;
787 words
......company owned indirectly by a group of investors including Gerald R. Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven, Paul Gentilozzi, Carl Russo and Motorock LLC. Open Wheel Racing Series and the group of investors currently have beneficial ownership of 3,377,400 shares of CART common...
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Snippets
Dealernews;
June 1, 1999 ;
Walker, Alastair James;
167 words
......radical custom machines promised, plus a 24-hour bar, exotic dancers and acrobats. The show runs from July 2-4. You can FAX Motorock (the promoters) at (011) 34 943 619 670 for more details. German Accidents The German government has reported that some 42...
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Brave New World, Redux; As CART's buyout proceeds, the makeover will be...
AutoWeek;
August 18, 2003 ;
787 words
......Ecclestone). Gentilozzi has introduced Motorock, an entertainment promotion entity he is backing, to the process. Motorock will likely own at least a small share...series Gentilozzi recent- ly bought). Motorock will provide non-racing entertainment...
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