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Dennis Bickmeier is the new president of Richmond International Raceway, replacing Doug Fritz, who has resigned to pursue other career opportunities. Bickmeier formerly worked as vice president of consumer sales and marketing at Michigan International Speedway, and started his career at track owner International Speedway Corporation back in 1999.
Matt Puccia has been made crew chief for the Greg Biffle-driven car in Roush Fenway Racing’s NASCAR Sprint Cup operation, taking over from
an anti-gay tweet. Jeremy Fuller, a tyre changer on the team, said that the post was meant as a joke.
Torrey Galida has taken on the newly created position of chief operating officer at NASCAR outfit, Richard Childress Racing. Galida comes to RCR from TRG Motorsports, where he served as the chief marketing officer and general manager for the NASCAR and Rolex Sports Car Series. He will be responsible for running RCR’s day-to- day business activities and will report directly to RCR president and CEO, Richard Childress.
Matt Puccia
Greg Erwin. Puccia has been with Roush Fenway Racing since the end of 2004, most recently as part of the organisation’s research and development programme. He has also previously worked as a crew chief in NASCAR Trucks and Nationwide.
A crewman for the Red Bull Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup team has been fired for posting
In other key management moves at RCR (see above), long- time executive at the team, Ben Schlosser, has been named chief marketing officer, while Scott Frye has been promoted to chief financial officer. Frye replaces Art McArter, who is to retire later this year.
Respected motorsport journalist, Bill Boddy MBE, has died at the age of 98. Boddy wrote for Motor Sport for some 81 years and was still contributing to the publication at the time of his death.
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Former World Champion, Jochen Rindt, in a Winkelmann Racing Formula 2 car September 2011 •
www.racecar-engineering.com 97 GEORG PLASA OBITUARY
It is cruelly ironic that the publication in July’s Racecar Engineering of the story on the amazing BMW 134 Judd created by European hillclimbing legend, Georg Plasa, should almost coincide with his untimely death on Sunday 10 July, in an accident at the Rieti hillclimb in Italy. Plasa was an immensely
popular competitor with a Europe-wide fan base who possessed a rare combination of special qualities: he was a first-rate engineer, and undoubtedly it was partly because he created extraordinary cars that he had such a following, but he was also an extremely talented driver. Perhaps above all,
though, his popularity came about because he was a very decent, kind and friendly human being. Racecar Engineering extends its condolences to his family, friends and team colleagues who, like the whole of
the European Hillclimb fraternity, will be feeling an immeasurable loss. Simon McBeath
Georg Plasa 1960-2011
OBITUARY ROY WINKELMANN
Well known race team owner, Roy Winkelmann, has died at the age of 81. Winkelmann, who was a successful Sportscar driver in his native United States during the ’60s, ran one of the best Formula 2 teams in Europe that decade and is credited with launching the international career of 1970 World Champion, Jochen Rindt. After closing his team at the end of
the 1960s, Winkelmann returned to the sport, working for Dan Gurney with the All-American Racers Eagle outfit, on the commercial side of the operation, chiefly in Formula 5000 and IndyCars. Winkelmann was also behind a plan
to run the Lotus 96T in IndyCar in the 1980s but sadly, after a change in the regulations, the car never started a race. Roy Winkelmann 1930-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC1v6fr7x8 Y&feature=
youtu.be We could think of no better tribute to Georg Plasa than film of his amazing creation in action. Pay your respects on
www.racecar-engineering.com
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