The latest news from around the world courtesy of Press Snoop Lynne Huntting...
Sunday's weather is gorgeous at the U.S. Sports Car Invitational at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in beautiful Monterey CA. On the bill are two Mazdaspeed Miata Cup races, the second Formula
BMW USA race, and the Grand American Rolex Series Road & Track 250 race. There are 52 cars in the Rolex race,
Formula BMW USA has 20 young drivers, ranging from 16 years old to mid twenties. Mazdaspeed Miata Cup drivers have a field of 44.
There were 68 cars for Saturday's Monterey 200 Grand-Am Cup race, won by veteran Canadian drivers, DAVID EMPRINGHAM and SCOTT MAXWELL in #05 Ford Racing/Multimatic Motorsports Mustang.
Movie and TV actor PATRICK DEMPSEY has been bitten by the racing bug. He started racing the Panoz Series last season and this year ran in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. He retired after being involved in a crash with a car already into the tyre wall-he wasn't hurt.
The ten-lap race will be shown Sunday at 9:30am local time on SPEED Channel. The Pro winner was RHYS MILLEN, in his first-ever race with other competitors. He runs off-road endurance races and now is a star in the new Formula D - for Drifting - Series. The Celebrity winner was an unexpected, over the top excited FRANKIE MUNIZ of "Malcolm in the Middle."
