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Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to team members celebrating birthdays this week:
Bob Barnhart - July 26
Tom Howatt - July 29
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Race Report: Honda Indy Edmonton
EDMONTON, Canada July 25, 2010—When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Vitor Meira and the ABC Supply team did just that in the Honda Indy Edmonton Sunday afternoon to bring the No. 14 home in 16th place and retain their 12th place in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings.
From the outset, the team struggled to find the sweet spot on the No. 14 car. A combination of a very rough, bumpy track and several broken shocks kept the team scrambling as the broken shocks weren’t figured out until after qualifying. In the three preceding practice sessions, the team made wholesale changes to the car with little effect on the performance. Meira started 23rd in the 25-car field.
Frustration ran high but the team regrouped Saturday evening and came up with a plan for race day.
In the morning warm-up, Meira said the car was a different car-much better - but there was no time left to focus on the one area that still needed work – the high-speed corners in turns 9 and 13. Those corners proved to be the car’s Achilles’ heel in the 95-lap race.
Starting on the black primary tires, Meira was running 22nd in the early stages when he was asked how the car was handling. Meira radioed back, “Very loose in the high-speed corners.”
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Toronto
 By A.J. Foyt
I never would have thought I would be satisfied with an 11th place finish at Toronto but I have to say after all that went on this past weekend, I was damn glad to come away with just that.
We started out the weekend pretty good, at least Vitor Meira felt the ABC Supply car was pretty good. He was hanging around the top 12 in practice. Since it was his first time to the track, I thought things were going well.
We tried some new brake pads for qualifying and although they were supposed to be pre-bedded by the manufacturer, they weren’t bedded in good properly. So in qualifying, Vitor didn’t have the feel he needed to hustle the 14 car around. I called him to the pits and on that lap, he slid into a tire barrier. It didn’t hurt the car but he would have brought out a yellow if Paul Tracy hadn’t done so a couple moments before when he spun on the track.
Bringing out a yellow in qualifying means you get penalized—they take away your two best laps from the whole 15-minute session. If Vitor didn’t have the penalty he would have qualified around 16th even with the brake problem (because eventually they do get bedded in when you use them).
So as it was, we started last in the Honda Indy Toronto because Tracy was a little bit faster than Vitor on their third best laps. Starting 26th on a tight street course like Toronto is a challenge, but Vitor made it even tougher on himself!
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Foyt Family Wines Are Now Available at the ‘Roots in Sonoma’ Tasting Room
SONOMA, CA July 12, 2010 -- Foyt Family Wines showcases their offerings in a tasting room where the roots run deep in Sonoma.
Foyt Family Wines joins with Meadowcroft Family of Wines and Larson Family of Wines in the newly opened “Roots in Sonoma” tasting room, located at CornerStone Sonoma in the Carneros region of the county. Race fans and wine enthusiasts alike can see early Foyt Family photos and taste Foyt Family Wines No. 67, a chardonnay named for A.J. Foyt’s 1967 wins at LeMans and Indy, and No. 72, a Meritage blend named for A.J.’s 1972 victory in the Daytona 500.
Foyt Family Wines co-founder, Larry Foyt said, “I am thrilled to be part of the Roots in Sonoma tasting room with Tom Meadowcroft and Tom Larson. Their vision of celebrating the art of winemaking while focusing on the roots of farming and hard work is similar to our Foyt family legacy as my father’s grassroots, hard work ethic also produced exceptional results. I look forward to creating and sharing wonderful memories with both families and most importantly, our fans.”
Only five miles from Infineon Raceway, the tasting room is part of the CornerStone Sonoma complex that features world class gardens, a gourmet café, art galleries and cutting edge design shops all set among acres of vineyards.
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