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Has any person on Lugnet seen the race yesterday of the Michigan 500? If any person did watch the race, then there was a new company that I never knew who was a sponsor of the number eight Shell racing wehicle, or for a more formal representation, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Jesse Long" <joyous4god2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GGxnMA.Jp5@lugnet.com... (...) Breck. (...) other (...) onto (...) Technically LEGO is known as an associate sponsor. Shell remains the primary sponsor for Kenny Breck's (I thought it was (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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Snipp.. Mike Walsh wrote in message ... (...) Actually it´s Bräck, with two dots over the "a". Same dots as the ones over "o" in "Björn" (Borg). =) /Joakim (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Joakim Olsson" <jocke@arjay.nu> wrote in message news:GGxu4F.LKo@lugnet.com... (...) Wasn't there speculation about Lego sponsorship cursing racers? I remember a thread somewhere about that. (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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What was neat was that Lego had the sense to paste their logo on so it showed on the CAMERA right side up, rather than from the front of the car ;-) TLG got a LOT of air time out of that car! (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3B5D2ABE.BC3F11...faq.com... (...) showed on (...) [ ... snipped ... ] That isn't unique to LEGO (and I'd bet the race team did it as opposed to LEGO themselves), if you watch racing (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's the down side of actually being there. It all happened right in front of me but I only got to see it once. But I vividly recall watching them enter Turn 3, when I started yammering frantically, "Too high, too high!..." <THWAP!> After (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:GH7syu.I56@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Sort of off topic but since LEGO is a racing sponsor, sort of on topic as well. If I were going to sponsor a race (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, even though I work for Roush, I prefer CART..., so I'm going to avoid taking the bait on the "better racing" part ;] You are right, the Cup cars have much more surface area. But it all goes to the title sponsor, so LEGO would have to put (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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