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Penske Racing
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Penske has been involved with IndyCar racing since 1968, when they first fielded a stock block-powered Eagle with Mark Donohue. The team first competed at Indianapolis in 1969, and within three years had become the team to beat, winning the race with Donohue in 1972. In 1978, Roger Penske along with Pat Patrick, Dan Gurney, and several other team owners who had been participating in USAC events involving cars known as Champ Cars and IndyCars formed CART, Champion Auto Racing Teams. As of 2006, Penske Racing has won the Indianapolis 500 14 times, won the Indianapolis 500 pole position 13 times, as well as 124 open wheel wins in CART and IRL and 11 open wheel championships.

In 2001, Team Penske marked its return to Indy 500 after a five year absence due to the open wheel split after the 1995 CART season. Later in 2001 Roger Penske announced he would leave CART for the Indy Racing League.

Team Penske currently fields two cars, driven by Hélio Castroneves and Sam Hornish, Jr.. Castroneves has won the Indianapolis 500 twice (2001 and 2002), as well as other CART and IRL races with Marlboro Team Penske. Sam Hornish, Jr. is the 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner and the (2001, 2002, and 2006) Indy Racing League Champion, with 15 IRL Wins. His 2001 and 2002 championships were with Panther Racing, prior to joining Penske.

The open-wheel racing portion of Penske Racing had been based in Reading, Pennsylvania since 1973. On October 31, 2005, Penske Racing announced after the 2006 IRL season, they will consolidate IRL and NASCAR operations at the team's Mooresville North Carolina facility [2]; with the flooding in Pennsylvania in 2006, the team's operations have been moved to Mooresville earlier than expected.

Also in late 2005, Penske Racing announced primary sponsor Marlboro, which had been a sponsor with Penske Racing since 1990, and primary sponsor of all Penske open-wheel racing cars since 1991, was leaving because of tobacco legislation. For 2007, the IRL cars will carry joint sponsorship from Mobil 1 and Kodak.

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Massimiliano "Max" Papis (born October 3, 1969 in Como, Italy) is a racing driver who has competed in several top-level motorsports events such as Le Mans 24 Hours, Formula One and Champ Car. He has three Champ Car victories. He is the son-in-law of Emerson Fittipaldi. His son's godfather is fellow Italian Alex Zanardi. He currently drives the No. 33 Menards Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing on a part-time basis in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

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The software used was Photoshop CS5 and I used only the tool pen.

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Scott Pruett's 1995 Patrick Racing #20 Firestone Indy Car (Ford powered Lola) on the track at the Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Sommet des Légendes race meet, July 2005.

I decided to try rendering with mental ray instead of Brazil for this one. I'm starting to like mental ray as well. I've been told to try texture baking, but am still having issues with that.

This is probably my favorite paint scheme of all time from the year 2000 with Oriol Servia in CART and Minardi in F1.

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Alex Zanardi

La svolta professionale di Alex avvenne nel 1996 con l'esordio nel campionato statunitense Champ Car a bordo della vettura del team Chip Ganassi Racing. Zanardi si ambientò velocemente alla serie ottenendo la pole position alla seconda gara e 3 vittorie finali che gli assicurarono il secondo posto nel campionato. Inoltre Alex vinse il titolo di"Rookie of the year" anche grazie alla leggendaria vittoria a Laguna Seca dove il pilota sorpassò alla curva Cavatappi (o Corkscrew) l'espertissimo Bryan Herta durante l'ultimo giro. Nel 1997 e nel 1998 conquistò due volte il titolo dominando la stagione e divenendo un idolo delle folle d'Oltreoceano.

Il recupero e il rientro alle corse

Nonostante il grave handicap fisico, dopo una lunghissima riabilitazione Zanardi tornò a camminare grazie all'uso di apposite protesi, e quindi decise di ritornare anche alla guida di vetture da corsa. Scherzando sulla sua menomazione ha affermato che se si dovesse rompere di nuovo le gambe, questa volta basterà una chiave a brugola per rimetterlo in piedi...

Nel 2002 la Champ Car diede al pilota la possibilità di far partire una gara della stagione a Toronto, Canada e nel 2003 Zanardi tornò nel circuito tedesco dove fu vittima del terribile incidente per ripercorrere simbolicamente i restanti 13 giri della gara del 2001 a bordo di una vettura appositamente modificata. I tempi registrati sul giro furono velocissimi e gli avrebbero permesso di partire dalla quinta posizione se il pilota fosse stato iscritto al campionato. Grazie anche a questo fatto Zanardi tornò a correre e nel 2005 tornò alla vittoria aggiudicandosi a bordo di una BMW del team Italy-Spain la seconda gara del Gran Premio di Germania il 28 agosto a Oschersleben, gara valida per il Mondiale Turismo, meglio conosciuto come WTCC (acronimo di World Touring Car Championship). Il bolognese, sempre nello stesso anno, riuscì a conquistare il Campionato Italiano Superturismo, favorito però da griglie piuttosto striminzite di 6-7 unità. Nell'ottobre 2005 vinse la Prima Manche del Campionato Europeo Superturismo a Vallelunga, ma nella seconda corsa gli svedesi Bjork e Goransson dilagarono impedendogli di vincere il titolo. Nel 2006 partecipa ancora con la BMW al Campionato Italiano Superturismo e al WTCC, nel quale conquista la seconda vittoria in campo internazionale dall'incidente del Lausitzring nella gara 1 della tappa turca del WTCC a Istanbul.

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This is a digital painting of Jenson Button... this one has taken a long time (alot of hours at least) to get the detail in the cars especially the 2012 McLaren with its reflective surface.

The cars are all cars that provided wins for Button. His first win back in the 2006 Honda, His first championship in the Brawn in 2009 and his most current win in the beautiful 2012 McLaren.

Pobb

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Monaco Grand Prix 2006
Juan Pablo Montoya
Team McLaren Mercedes

The Toyota GT-One. when Toyota went to Le Mans, and they found out that the rules said they had to have a trunk on the car. However, the rules didn't say anything about putting fuel in the trunk.
There were just enough road-going versions to fulfill the homologation rules, making the GT-One the first Toyota Supercar.
That's right, this wasn't a prototype car, this was running in the GT1 class. (probably hence the name.)
in '98 this car ran extremely well for the first 16 hours, but two of the three cars started having mechanical problems therefater, and the remaining car finished 9th overall. Not bad for a GT car.

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Michael Schumacher - F1 1995

Michael Schumacher born 3 January 1969 is a German Formula One racing driver, having last driven for the Mercedes team. Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time on his performance records alone.

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The software used was Photoshop CS5 and I used only the tool pen.

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