The Catch-Up: June 30-July 6, 2013
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Sunday June 30, 2013 -- Dateline: LeMans, France -- Darrell Wallace Jr. or ("Criminal Terrorist Darrell Wallace Jr." as Dixievision would say), given special asylum by the Lone Star Republic of Texas and Louisiana and completed Superlicense certification by the FIA the previous week, drove a successful series of stints to a third place finish in the Group 1 class (1) with teammates Chilean Hector Salazar and Rocky Daryl Harr, driving a Shelby Twister TX-8 (2)
Lake Speed, the Confederate grand prix driver and recent defector, was given a special visa by the government of France to attend the race and see Darrell drive. He will begin naturalization preceeding in the Southwestern Confederation, were his son hold a passport, and the homeland of longtime friend Eddie Cheever. The 1985 Formula 1 World Champion reportedly is a caretaker of certain financial assets of Mr. Speed that were put in banks in Europe and Free North America.
Class winners/2013 24 Hours du Mans
Group 6/Overall: Tom Kristensen (SWE)/Rinaldo Capello (ITA)/Oriol Servia (CAT) (Audi R11) Kristensen's 8th LeMans win in the last 16 years, as the Audis battled back in the last 6 hours to defeat a game challenge by the new Ferrari effort led by Giuseppe Andretti (3) and the Shelby team that won the 24 Hours of Sonoma in February.
Group 5: Natacha Gachnang (SWI)/Raisa Tereshkova (USSR) (4)/Courtney Force (RGC) (5) (GH Sterling SM20-Ford/Cosworth) The surprising all-women's British underdog team was the toast of LeMans all the way to suprising upset against the defending champion Pescarolo team, and the strong California-based HertaSport unit.
Group 4: Aldo Andretti (ITA)/Mario Andretti (ITA)/Vaia Ongais (HPC) (Vector W10-GT4) Vector battles the Corvettes and finally breaks through led by three-twenty something grandsons of racing royalty.
Group 3: Jörg Bergmeister (FRG) , Patrick Pilet (FRA), Timo Berhard (FRG) (Opel RS220B) Bergmeister wins his 4th LeMans in what was a nice weekend for Opel with two class victories for the East German marque.
Group 2: Rikki Peterson (SKU)/Trystan von Opel (EGR)/Uli Hoppe (EGR) -- (Opel Cheetah RS) -- The successful Peterson/Hoppe duo brought on Formula 1 pilot and friend von Opel, and put together a class win.
Group 1: Silvio Rebaque (MEX)/Chase Austin (GPUR)/Brendan Gaughan (NFS) (Shelby Twister TX-8) Another great weekend for the Shelby effort. An overall 3rd place. Podium finishes in Group 4 and Group 3, and a 1-3 effort in Group 1.
DATELINE: Various Areas of the CSA -- Protest broke out throughout Confederate Mississippi with the news that Lake Speed had been captured by the CSS and then freed.
Monday July 1, 2013 -- DATELINE: The Confederate Vote 2013 The newest campaign polls showed a tightening race for the Confederate Presidency after all three campaign began running harsher attack ads against each other.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution/CS-9 poll show President Gingrich and former North Carolina Congresswoman Elizabeth Hanford in a dead heat. Each with 30 percent of the vote. Reformer's Party candidate Ray Perkins is holding at 25%, with 15 percent undecided.
The RAYCOM-Charlotte Observer Poll shows Hanford leading Gingrich 30% to 29%, but also shows Perkins at 27%, and in the state-to-state polls shows that Perkins has taken enough of a lead within the margin of error in both South Carolina and Kentucky.
A poll from Confederate Woman Magazine shows that Hanford's lead among women has grown on both candidates since a new series of ads targeting hit the airwaves across the country. The ads, made by the Designing Women Media Group, attack the Confederate Democrat record on women's issues, and those ads are starting make a dent in the House and Senate races. Whig candidates are beginning to make ground and have Confederate Democrat campaign officials concerned about losing control of at least the Confederate National Representative Assembly.
DATELINE: Nigeria -- Anti-government groups in Nigeria are accusing a Confederate Marine battalion of war crimes in an operation in the South Nigerian town of Ido. According to sources quoted by The Lennon Letter (5), the CSA Marines while pursuing rebel forces lined up the people of a village and commenced to torturing, raping and killing those who would not provide information. According to those anti-government sources, 300 people wounded, 47 dead and much of village torched or damaged. A source from Amnesty International said, "These are actions reminiscent of the Sequoyah Massacre (6) and must be answered for."
Confederate military officials deny the accusations. A CSA Defense spokesperson said the acts described were, "perpetrated by Nigerian forces we do not have control over. Confederate military adhere strictly to international law, unlike the forces of the so-called free world, who flaunt international decency whenever it suits their ungodly unchristian pagan purposes."
Tuesday July 2, 2013 -- DATELINE: Nashville -- Fans of the SEC Pro Football Champion Nashville Strummers (7) were pleased to hear that star running back James Storm will play one more season. The 35-year old power runner was contemplating retirement after this season, but will play the 2013 campaign in the final year of his contract. Storm, who rushed for 1,312 yards and 12 touchdowns last season, eclipsed Major Oglevie as the SEC Pro's all-time leader in rushing touchdowns.
Storm will also be a mentor to young running back Sonny Bell. The first round draft pick of the Strummers from the University of Florida.
Wednesday July 3, 2013 -- DATELINE: Confederate Remembrance Day -- July 3rd is a holiday in the CSA. Confederate Remembrance Day, which commemorates the loss of the armies of the First Confederate Republic at Gettysburg and honors the Godly service of the armed forces of the Freest nation on the face of God's earth.
President Gingrich spoke to CSA Forces stations right along the Line Of Control (8) with the Industrial Damnyankees at Manassas, Virginia, where he pledged, "The Confederacy will always stand fast for our beliefs and morals as a bulwark of God's glory, grace and kingly rule over a sinful, paganist world."
Congresswoman Elizabeth Hanford was the grand marshal of the Charlotte Remembrance Day Parade.
Ray Perkins took part in similar events at a ceremony at Confederate Naval Station Gulfport, Mississippi, along with his running mate, Georgia Congressman John Michael Thomas.
Millions of citizen participating in marches and events across the nation. A few parades turned into clashing protests between Godly Confederate citizens and anti-social race traitors. The Parades in Jackson, Mississippi, Louisville, Kentucky and Little Rock, Arkansas turned into clashes between supporters, CSA troops, and antigovernment protesters rioters. Among the three protestors, our guardians of the CSS, along with local law enforcement, arrested over 1,000 anti socials.
Thursday July 4, 2013 -- DATELINE: Washington, D.C. IRNA -- Militarist, warmongering Damnyankees celebrated their imperialism today during Independence Day ceremonies in Washington. President Joseph Biden continued his aggression towards our country with the renewed calls to change the name of the IRNA back to the name "United States of America". The old name of the country dating back to our common founding in 1776, and later a name we attempted to shed in the name of greater Southern freedom in 1861.
President Biden in remarks during the annual exercise in aggression and anger said, "Our nation must return to our roots as a supporter of peace, stability and freedom for North America and the world. Let this call for nation renewal not be seen as change in direction back to distrust, but a move forward to a better relationship between free peoples. A relationship neglected for far too long."
The Industrial Damnyankee President is preparing for a summit meeting with the just-as aggressive warmongering President of the Great Plains United Republic next week in the GPUR.
The GPUR President again has accused the CSA in the death of 3 GPUR servicemen in Northern Ireland. The facts are that the once again the Injun terrorists, with their lackey sycophants in the so called United Nations instigated with the CSA and our Godly allies fighting for freedom and rights for good Christian folks living amid Papist anti-Christian aggression.
Friday July 5, 2013 -- DATELINE: Bristol, Tennessee -- During a campaign appearance with Confederate Democrat vice-presidential candidate Sen. Darrell Waltrip, Rev. Albert Mohler, a member of the Confederate Church Council Executive Board, and called the leader of the Calvinist "Gang Of Four" (9) affirmed his support for the Confederate Democrat party and the Presidential ticket, but also urged President Gingrich to quote, "Make the new covenant you have set forth, the 'Contract for the Confederacy' more than just an election slogan. Mister President, follow through with the Godly reform program of national renewal and rebirth you wish to set forth. This nation needs sound changes in the years ahead without sacrificing the Godly underpinnings that make us who we are. This program can do that, but we must be prayerful, purposeful and committed to its implementation at all levels."
1. The FIA World Endurance Championship -- The WEC has we know it today has been around since 1971 with the current group names and classifications. Beginning in 2001 a series of reorganizations have renewed a lot of interest in the championship, including the implementation of a "24 Hours Triple Crown" of the three major all-classification 24 Hours events (Sonoma, RGC/LeMans, FRA/Fuji, JPN). During those weekends by an agreement across all the major series of the world, all other racing events are kept off those dates to allow some of the top racers across series to contest them. The major manufacturer worldwide often put together all-star "Strike Forces" of their best drivers, especially during LeMans.
The Classifications:
Group 1: series-production touring cars
All body types must be virtual clones of the production version of the car except mandated safety equipment under FIA regulation. All engines must be based on a production block with at least 1,000 examples built and available to the buying public."(ITOL Showroom stock/World Challenge/Grand Am regs)
Group 2: production grand touring cars with non-production aero allowance
engines can be based on a race-born engine block, but race born blocks are limited to 3.5 liters turbo and 5.0 liters non turbo... Turbo production blocks are allowed up to 4.5 liters and naturally aspirated blocks are allowed up to 6 liters displacement. (1,000) (ITOL GrandAm GT Regulations/DTM Regulations)
Group 3: small-class sub 3.5-liter displacement regardless of induction special grand touring cars (IOTL "Group B"/World Challenge vehicles)
Engines can be based on a race-born production block
Group 4: special grand touring cars with engine displacements beyond 3.5 liters but no more than 4 liters for forced induction vehicles and no more than 6 liters for naturally aspirated vehicles.
engines can be based ona race-born engine block.(ITOL High GT Regulations/Japan Super GT)
Group 5 Protoypes sports cars
Only petrol powered vehicles allowed and engines must be based on an existing production block of models that have a production run of at least 200 examples. Displacement limits stand at no greater than 3.5 liters for forced induction engines and 5 liters for naturally aspirated engines (ITOL LMP 2)
Group 6 Prototypes: prototype-sports cars with allowance for alternative fueled vehicles and allowance for specialized racing block engines (IOTL LMP 1)
2. Shelby Motors Corporation -- Started by Texan racer and automotive engineer Carroll Shelby, fellow Lone Star racer-engineer Jim Hall, and CSA ex-pat auto engineer Smokey Yunick, in 1960. The company began as a constructor of performance and racing cars, but in the period after the trade war Shelby, thanks in part to the government "Von Braun" Innovation Grant Program, began taking a number of progressive automotive theories and building a line of passenger cars and trucks for families and businesses.
From there Shelby took off as a leading automaker, in addition to its success as a racing constructor in many forms of motorsport from Stock Cars (The Texas series bares Shelby's name. The Championship trophy is the Yunick Trophy), to Formula 1 (Shelby engines have powered three F1 Champs. A.J. Foyt in 1976. Jacques Villeneuve in 1997, and both of Jeff Gordon's championship seasons in 1996 and 2002. In 2004, Shelby Motors bought the NAR-Dan Gurney team and renamed it Shelby Formula 1 Ltd.), North American Indy Car (9 series championships. 6 Indy 500 wins), but Shelby's best known for endurance racing. From the 1960s with the Shelby Cobras and Chapparals to to today winning Shelby cars. The "Fast Cars of the Lone Star" have gone nose-to-nose with the best of the world, beginning with their iconic overall victory at LeMans in 1967 with A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney, which put the Shelby name on the map in racing. To the grand battles at LeMans and Riverside in the 1970s against Porsche and Ferrari and the great fights between the Shelby WC80 series and the Porsche 956/962s through the 1980s to their more recent successes across all form of racing, the Cobra logo of Shelby is as much an icon of Texas technology and know-how as Gemini-Ranger, Apollo or "Tex Foil", which was partly developed as as offshoot of Jim Hall research that built the Chapparal endurance cars and formula racing cars.
Shelby Twister TX-8 is a V8 powered sports sedan that is slippery, powerful, yet also quite elegant to drive. Among performance sports sedans it is a serious competitor cars in its class such as the BMW M5, Holden Commodore 05-SS, Ford Fusion SVT, and the new Mercedes 190DTM. The TX-8 is a Shelby mainstay in endurance racing and in North American Stock Car competition.
3. Giuseppe Andretti -- The younger son of Italian racing legend Mario Andretti. One of the top endurance racers in the world, no driver in the history of the World Endurance Championship has more total wins or podiums than Giuseppe Andretti, who left Audi two years ago to be the point man for Ferrari's return to endruance racing.
He's also the father of two boys, named after their famous grandfathers, who are young, aggressive and making their names behind the wheel.
The Catherverse Andrettis: A Family of Champions
4. Raisa Igorovna Tereshkova -- 25 year-old great granddaughter of the first human to go into space, Valentina Tereshkova.
Imagine Anna Kournikova's looks combined with Antoly Sharansky's brain. She holds degrees in physics and aerodynamic engineering at Moscow State University. She turned down a commission into the Soviet Russian Space Agency as an astronaut-scientist because she got bit by the racing bug as a club champion in the USSR's Formula Soyuz Series. Her success in Formula Soyuz caught the attention of Maxine McLaren, the executive talent scout for DivinaSport, a London-based sports marketing firm that specializes in representing female race drivers. Tereshkova had the look and the talent to get noticed by the GH Sterling endurance team 2 years ago. Since then she, and her all-womens, Lumley and Hunt (10) sponsored team in have 5 wins in the last two seasons and currently lead the overall standings in Group 5 Prototypes. In between endurance races, Tereshkova has been testing for the GH Sterling Formula 1 team, raced in some GP2 events and has done testing work for a rumored Soviet Russian-based Mikoyan-Gurevich/Moskvitch Formula 1 effort for 2014.
5. Courtney Force -- The youngest of three daughters of California's North American Drag Racing Champion and clown prince John Force, who encouraged his daughters NOT to go into drag racing and forbade them to do it...So, they all went racing...in other things. Courtney, also pursuing a career as a model, went to Europe (were she's will also complete a degree in communications and foreign policy studies at the University of Geneva) and became close friends with Natacha Gachnang, who got Force, who was winning Formula Ford driver in California (she used a fake name so her dad wouldn't know), to get back in a car again. Force raced and won the French and British touring car events and caught the eye of a certain Ms. McLaren...the rest was history. Oh the other force girls? Ashley won the Supercheap Australian V8 SuperCar event last weekend at Christchurch in a Castrol-sponsored Ford Falcon driving for Marcos Ambrose's newly forced Team SuperTazmania. She was also a bridegroom at the wedding of BFF/Australian Olympic swim champ Pippa Rees to Golden State Stock Car star Adam Petty. Brittney Force is a student in the engineering department at CalTech, and is currently working CalTech's entry in November's Woolmera Rally of the Sun, a point-to-point race for solar-powered cars in across Australia...and yes, she'll drive the car...
6. Sequoyah Massacre -- A very black mark on 20th century human history at war very similar to the My Lai Massacre IOTL. In 1958 CSA troops go on a rampage on the town of Sequoyah, Oklahoma, along the border between the Confederate Arkansas and Plainsian Oklahoma. The CSA army forces killed, tortured over 2,000 people. Most of the female citizens were victims of rape. The actions of the CSA were war crimes and the secret would have buried after the war, except for a defecting Confederate soldier with a conscious. CSA Army Corporal Dean Jones told the story of the massacre and defected because of it. In 1962, he agreed to testify against the officers who ordered the actions during the post-war Bartlesville War Crimes Tribunals in 1962. Jones' brave testimony led to the sentences of 5 CSA officers.
Jones' story and the inside story of the tribunals are documented in the 1970 best seller
Satan At Sequoyah. Jones lives in the RGC today. Since the 1960 he has been a prominent anti-apartheid activist, writer and professor of history at UCLA, and he married pretty well. He's married to former Carson Television CEO Sandra Duncan.
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The 47th Don Hutson Bowl SEC Professional Football Championship Game
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The status of Washington D.C. and Confederate Virginia
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An overview of the Calvinist "Gang Of Four"
10. Lumley and Hunt -- British-based clothing boutique chain founded by the hubby and wife team of actress Joanna Lumley (currently wowing science-fiction fans as the star Time Lord of "The Doctors W") and 1977 F1 World Champ/sex symbol James Hunt. Lumley made an honest man of Hunt and urged him to stop skirt chasing and return to racing after a 3-year hiatus in 1982. Hunt raced in F1 for four more season and won 13 races, and picked up two LeMans 24 hour victories driving for Shelby in 1986 and 1988 Hunt and co-driver Johnny Rutherford won the Group 6 World Endurance Championship that year. Also Hunt took time out from Endurance racing to get Shelby their first World Rally Championship victory driving the insanely quick Group B Shelby GLH (GLH=Goes Like Hell).
The clothing sold at Lumley and Hunt. Think of a store like Express, for men and women older than 35. The clothes are a good mix of trendy and grown up.