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"RacinBob" (racinbob) 07/11/2020 at 20:03 • Filed to: None

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Today’s shirt if from either the 2005 or 2006 Darrick Walker Champ Car Racing Season. I am concluding it is from those two years because of the Aussie Vine yards livery and the Ford Champ Car logos. Ford ended it’s series sponsorship in 2006 so it is not a 2007 shirt.

Primary drivers were Alex Tagliani and Marcus Marshall in 2005. Tagliani finished 7 th in points that season and had a best finishes o f third at the Grand Prix of Monterre y and also at Toronto.

In 2006 Tag liani partnered with Indycar newcomer Will Power. Power finished team best 7th in points and had a best finish of third at the Grand Prix of Mexico.

Derrick’s history is as interesting as his drivers. Per Wicki h e started in auto racing as a chief mechanic for the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!   !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! team from 1970 to 1975.

When !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! left F1, Penske hired Walker as a mechanic. He stayed with Penske in some capacity until 1987. From 1977 until 1980 he was the general manager of Penske Cars’ manufacturing facility in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , England. He became Penske’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of racing, and watched the team win four !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (series championships) and four !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! races. Some of the most successful American drivers came through the Penske program during that period, including !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

In 1988 the lone !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Indy Car team suffered a tragic loss with the death of team owner !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Walker took over team management. With driver !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , they won the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the only one in the storied marque’s Indy Car career. When the team went under, Walker purchased their assets, renamed Walker Motorsports.

Following the 2004 season, Walker sold a share of the team to Australian businessmen !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and John Fish, rebranding the team as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!   On 7 April 2007, Walker won his first race as a team owner since 1999. Team Australia’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! won the inaugural Las Vegas GP. Walker racing closed out of the Champ Car series at the end of the 2007 season.

Derrick went on to be IndyCar Director of C ompetition for three years ending in 2015. Considering he started out as a mechanic and ended as both team owner and IndyCar executive, you have to say Derrick has had a heck of a career .

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SmugAardvark > RacinBob 07/11/2020 at 22:11

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I have several pit shirts from F1 and WRC circa 2000-2005. Thought about wearing them to work on Saturdays , but we do have a policy about not having brand logos on attire. And let’s face it, there are a lot of logos.

I do enjoy seeing you post new ones though, especially ones I’d forgotten about over the years.

ttyymmnn > RacinBob 07/11/2020 at 22:39

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I do enjoy seeing your shirt collection. Love the Aussie colors. 

RacinBob > SmugAardvark 07/12/2020 at 10:06

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We have the same no logo policy. But at our workplace I swear on Casual Fridays some people show up wearing what they got out of bed in. Or the jeans they changed their oil in and then got into a fight with a pack of rabid dogs in. Or all their football and baseball sports team logos.

Sooooo I decided to wear my sports team logo’d stuff too. Not that HR care much now that I am working out of my basement.....