"RacinBob" (racinbob)
08/09/2020 at 19:35 • Filed to: None
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"RacinBob" (racinbob)
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Today’s shirt dates to the 2000 Mo Nunn IndyCar team. Mo (Morris) Nunn was an English !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! team owner and engineer. He founded and ran the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! team in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later worked for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ’s highly successful !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! team, before founding Mo Nunn Racing for the 2000 season.
Mo started in CART from 2000 to 2002. Then in 2002 he started a move to IIRL by having teams in both CART and IRL during the same year . Throughout this time his team was sponsored by Hollywood (tobacco). Mo hired !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for the 2000 through 2002 CART Seasons . In 2002 they hired !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for IRL and b oth Tony and Felipe competed at Indy.
In 2002, Felipe finished 3rd in the 2002 Indianapolis 500 and Kanaan was leading but crashed in the last laps. A third car driven by Jeff Simmons finished ninth.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> RacinBob
08/09/2020 at 21:31 |
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Racin Bob, you’re killing me! Friday was two days ago! Love the shirts, though.
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RacinBob
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/10/2020 at 00:09 |
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Remarkably they still pay me to work. Been pretty busy lately and have to put it off to the weekend. Git a couple of shirts left and then have to find another theme.....
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> RacinBob
08/10/2020 at 00:17 |
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I’m glad you’re busy and no longer on furlough.
I, for one, look forward to the new theme.
dieseldub
> RacinBob
08/10/2020 at 00:36 |
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Oh man. I saw the Hollywood logo and Mercedes and thought to myself “Mo Gugelmin’s PacWest getup!”
Forgot that the other Mo (Nunn, instead of Gugelmin) used Hollywood with his fledgling team. I DO, however, remember TK driving for him in 2000. I remember being at MIS in 2000 for a spectacular show, but TK retired with some sort of mechanical issue, I remember seeing it in the pits mid race with mechanics looking over things and eventually got pushed behind the wall.
Blast from the past. There really was nothing like the late 90s and early 2000s CART cars. Those were monsters driven by brave, talented souls. Still to this day I think the Reynards, Lola’s and the last Penske chassis (PC27b) from that Era are some of the best looking modern open wheelers ever constructed, not to mention among the fastest.