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Article: 5 questions for car owner George Gillett.(Sports)(Interview)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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Byline: Jim Benton, Rocky Mountain News
George Gillett recently purchased a majority share of what is now Gillett Evernham Motorsports. The Vail resident and businessman, who also owns the NHL's Mont-real Canadiens and is a co-owner of the English Premiership soccer team Liverpool FC, recently talked with Rocky NASCAR reporter Jim Benton.
1 Which of the three sports do you like the best?
"We've been fans of all of them for a long time. I used to race, and we sponsored cars on the short tracks in the Midwest in the ASA series. I got to know Bill France Sr. in the mid-'70s, so we've stayed close to NASCAR. Hockey, I played as a little boy in ...