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Who are PJ Jones, Butch Leitzinger, Brian Simo, Klaus Graf, Brandon Ash, Ron Fellows, & Marc Goossens? |
Who are PJ Jones, Butch Leitzinger, Brian Simo, Klaus Graf, Brandon Ash, Ron Fellows, & Marc Goossens? I noticed these names are scheduled to try to qualify and get into the race this weekend at Sonoma. I've never heard of any of these names. If you know who one or more of these people are, would you mind telling me about them? Thanks. There are "road course ringers" drivers from other series who race road course all the time and that nascar teams bring in for road courses to replace nascar drivers who apparently lack confidence or skills in road courses. I loosely follow road racing (ie rolex sports cars, speed world challenge, speed GT, 24 hr of Le Mans, Transam) I have never heard of Simo, Graf, Ash, or Goossens. However, PJ Jones is a moderately successful driver in CART champ cars, has raced in the Indy 500. As a comparison, I think Tony Stewart achieved more in Indy Car in 2 years than PJ Jones has done in his career. Butch Leitzinger and Ron Fellows are easily in the top 5 or 10 most successful active drivers in road racing. Fellows just came in 2nd in the corvette team at the 24 hrs of Le Mans (pretty much the Daytona 500 or Indy 500 of endurance road racing) The Compuware corvette team and the other corvette teams have dominated for years in Le Mans and The American Le Mans series. Butch Leitzinger drives in the Rolex sport cars series and American Le Mans series and speed world challenge. He has won championships, 24 hr races, 12 hr races before. To say he is some kind guy who had success at his local track is like saying Jeff Gordon has raced in dirt track, late models, arca remax but never really achieved much success beyond that. If I remember correctly Ron Fellows may have been on the Corvette teams that Dale Jr raced on and Dale Sr had briefly raced with. I don't remember hearing that the road course ringers in nascar were really a factor or competitive in the races in the past 10 years or so. Jim Clark (british born F1 champ, indy 500 champ) and dan gurney ( american born f1 champ and f1 car builder) were the only ringers I know of who really raced in the top 5 or 10 in the road course races and they were active in the 1970's or 1960's. most are legendary road course racers, NASCAR refers to them as the "road course ringers" they are all porn stars!jk Jones And Fellows are road course racers that have been running the two nascar road courses for years now. Ash has been running the Nascar west series also good at road cousrses. As for the other three I'm with you never heard of them. These are the road course ringers.These drivers race various series that run the road courses. Some of them will run an oval every now and then,P.J.Jones,Klaus Graf,Brandon Ash,Ron Fellows.The others have also run an oval in the companion series. They are what you call "road course ringers" They are racecar drivers that are skilled at road course racing, that teams hire to drive for them. Thats why you see them on the list. I'm sorry, I have heard their names before but I can't tell you much about their careers. these guys have all raced on their local circuit for awhile some have won championships in their divisions. but mostly, they all have road course experience . if they do not already have an obligation (contract!) to be somewhere else that weekend, owners will try to contract them to drive their cup cars or they will come out and try to qualify with their own teams |
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