WOLFGANG WOEGER SPONSORED BY SPIELECITY

Just in time before the European Hercules Cup Series circuit visits Bristol Motor Speedway for The Checkered 250, SpieleCity, one of the biggest German online magazines, is delighted to announce the signing of a sponsoring contract with Wolfgang Woeger. The Checkered 250 will be the first race, where the Austrian will drive the No. 26 SpieleCity Dodge, which carries the colors and the internet address of SpieleCity: http://www.spiele-city.net. "We are really looking forward to the cooperation with Wolfgang Woeger and hope, that our support will help Wolfgang to climb up the rankings and stay in the top-10", states Thomas Gruenewaelder, CEO of SpieleCity. "Last but not least the sponsorship gives us the opportunity to make NASCAR and especially ESCORS better known in the German speaking community." The contract between Woeger and SpieleCity will award earnings to the Austrian drivers based on his performances in the events.Part of the deal is, that Woeger will write race-reports on every Sunday along with photos from the races. SpieleCity will publish these reports on their website. It is probably the first time in sim-racing history, that a driver will earn money for driving a sponsored car. Both SpieleCity and Woeger believe that this is the future of the online-racing scene.

This has already being going on in GP3. There's a professional GP3 league in operation since early this year. There's a place for 11 teams (22 drivers) and each team had to pay 1000 euro's to compete, many teams found sponsors to fund their entry. Check it out: http://www.gp3gl.com/world_champ/index2.htm Schubi wrote: > It is probably the first time in sim-racing history, that a driver will earn > money for driving a sponsored car. Both SpieleCity and Woeger believe that > this is the future of the online-racing scene. -- Rob Swindells ///////////// Caps Lock

Congrats to WW, but maybe SpieleCity should spend some of that money on some server hardware and/or bandwidth. That's gotta be one of the slowest web sites I've every visited! "Schubi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Just in time before the European Hercules Cup Series circuit visitsBristol > Motor Speedway for The Checkered 250, SpieleCity, one of the biggestGerman > online magazines, is delighted to announce the signing of a sponsoring > contract with Wolfgang Woeger. > > The Checkered 250 will be the first race, where the Austrian will drivethe > No. 26 SpieleCity Dodge, which carries the colors and the internet address > of SpieleCity: http://www.spiele-city.net. > > "We are really looking forward to the cooperation with Wolfgang Woeger and > hope, that our support will help Wolfgang to climb up the rankings andstay > in the top-10", states Thomas Gruenewaelder, CEO of SpieleCity. > > "Last but not least the sponsorship gives us the opportunity to makeNASCAR

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> and especially ESCORS better known in the German speaking community." > > The contract between Woeger and SpieleCity will award earnings to the > Austrian drivers based on his performances in the events.Part of the deal > is, that Woeger will write race-reports on every Sunday along with photos > from the races. SpieleCity will publish these reports on their website. > > It is probably the first time in sim-racing history, that a driver will

earn > money for driving a sponsored car. Both SpieleCity and Woeger believe that > this is the future of the online-racing scene. > > >

There have been sponsored teams, drivers, and leagues in NASCAR for quite a few years. I'm among them. "Rob Swindells" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > This has already being going on in GP3. There's a professional GP3 leaguein > operation since early this year. There's a place for 11 teams (22 drivers)and > each team had to pay 1000 euro's to compete, many teams found sponsors tofund

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> their entry. > > Check it out: http://www.gp3gl.com/world_champ/index2.htm > > Schubi wrote: > > > It is probably the first time in sim-racing history, that a driver will

earn > > money for driving a sponsored car. Both SpieleCity and Woeger believethat

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> > this is the future of the online-racing scene. > > -- > Rob Swindells > ///////////// > Caps > Lock > >

Michael Barlow wrote: > > There have been sponsored teams, drivers, and leagues in NASCAR for > quite a few years. I'm among them. IIRC Byron Forbes was also sponsored back in the ICR2 heyday. Whatever happened to him anyways? -- Fester

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> > Michael Barlow wrote: > > > > There have been sponsored teams, drivers, and leagues in NASCAR for > > quite a few years. I'm among them. > > > IIRC Byron Forbes was also sponsored back in the ICR2 heyday. Whatever > happened to him anyways? > > -- > > Fester

I was Byron's Team mate in the first GPL World Series, Wolfgang raced with us as well as many other noted drivers. The last race of that season was the last I saw or heard from Byron. That was a couple of years ago now. He had just done back to back Indycar season including the 24 hour races then a GPL season added up to 18 months of non stop league racing. I think may have wiped him out. Todd.

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> > Michael Barlow wrote: > > > > There have been sponsored teams, drivers, and leagues in NASCAR for > > quite a few years. I'm among them. > > IIRC Byron Forbes was also sponsored back in the ICR2 heyday. Whatever > happened to him anyways?

I miss the old geezer....he knew how to liven up a discussion here on RAS, someone else in here once said after someone made a particularly stupid post; "Ordinary flaming won't do here, we need an industrial sized one, where's Byron Forbes? " Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy http://www.theuspits.com http://www.teammirage.com "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke" --Groucho Marx--

I'd like to know. We race together in the with ICR2 on Team Black Squirrel and Team Lightning Bolt (with Rudy de Wit). That was about 4 years ago and I haven't heard from them lately. So, if either of you are out there, drop me a line. P.S. Congrats Wolfgang. P.S.S. The current record holder of the GPL track, Riverside (1:15.56), Christian Szymczak (of Oakland, California) is on page 2 of the Barber Dodge Pro Series pullout in the July, 2001 issue of RACER. Pretty cool. To reply to me remove NoSpam from my email address