Sit back and enjoy as Taylor talks racing, life, and OMP Driving Gear. Enjoy, we sure did interviewing him…

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Giampiero Moretti was a racing driver and the founder of the MOMO company in the 1960s. He was born in Milan.

Moretti won the 24 Hours of Daytona, in 1998, driving a Ferrari 333SP with co-drivers Mauro Baldi, Arie Luyendyk and Didier Theys. Morette died on January 14, 2012 in Milan of cancer. He was 71.

Paul Newman was an avid auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports (“the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in”) while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of Winning, a 1969 film.

Because of his love and passion for racing, Newman agreed in 1971 to star in and to host his first television special, Once Upon a Wheel, on the history of auto racing. It was produced and directed by David Winters, who co-owned a number of racing cars with Newman. Newman’s first professional event as a racer was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut, and he was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships. He later drove in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour’s Porsche 935 and finished in second place. Newman reunited with Barbour in 2000 to compete in the Petit Le Mans.

From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, he drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series. He became closely associated with the brand during the 1980s, even appearing in commercials for them. At the age of 70 years and 8 days, he became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race, winning in his class at the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona. Among his last races were the Baja 1000 in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005.

Newman initially owned his own racing team, which competed in the Can-Am series, but later co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a Champ Car team, in 1983. The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated. He was also a partner in the Atlantic Championship team Newman Wachs Racing. Newman owned a NASCAR Winston Cup car, before selling it to Penske Racing, where it now serves as the #12 car.

Newman was posthumously inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame at the national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 21, 2009.

Source: Wikipedia (Newman)
Source: WIkipedia (Moretti)
Photo Source: Motorsport Retro

Kendall’s best for your Porsche 915 or 901 gearbox. SAE 80w-90 with a API GL-5 rating this is the gear oil for the ultimate shifting in your 915 or 901 transmission. Also works great in All 356, 944,928 transmissions. (Manual transmission only, automatic trans. cars use this in the differential only.) (For cars with Limited slip diffs order FL-K8090LS, with limited slip additive, or FL-KLSA Limited slip additive.) 1-quart bottle.

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Italy was the first country to host two Championship Formula One races in the same year in 1957. The United States would become the second as the first USGP West at Long Beach, California appeared on the 1976 F1 calendar, along with the long-standing autumn race at Watkins Glen, New York. The new race’s organizers, headed by British businessman and Long Beach resident Chris Pook, could not have done a better job in their attempt to create an ‘American Monaco.’ An unending list of former Champions was present for the weekend’s vintage race, including Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham, and Juan Fangio himself. Dan Gurney and American Champion Phil Hill were also in attendance after helping to conceive and promote the event.

Source: Wikipedia

Photo Source: Motorsport Retro

John Gardner is one of those unsung hero’s within the auto-racing community. You see, John is the Media Director for Miller Motorsports Park. So anything that communicates or has any type of media presence for the track before, during, and after a race event… Gardner is the man that makes it happen.

Garnder (and his staff) have made the media room at Miller Motorsports Park a home for many people when they travel to the track. His Southern hospitality is evident to anybody who goes inside. From the great lunches they provide to providing advice on where to eat at the local spots, John makes you feel welcome. He takes pride in his work and it shows.

Garnder also loves bench racing. His love of autoracing really shows once you get him going. The history he has inside him is amazing which makes him a walking Wikipedia.

We at RedLine Technik are proud, honored, and humbled saying that we know him (and he still let’s us inside the media room). So that said, we introduce you to John Garnder to the questions of time…

ONE-SPORT YOU WOULD NEVER TRY?
Have you SEEN me? I’m so skinny I have to run around in the shower to get wet! I spent my childhood warming the bench for every sport they had. Not terribly well suited for most contact sports. Football or boxing would probably result in a full body cast, and I’m committed to avoiding anything that would result in a catheter being employed.

FAVORITE NON-MOTORSPORTS ATHLETE?
Hmm. I think I’m going to go with Joe Montana. I moved to the SF Bay Area about the same time he did, and I enjoyed watching him (and the late, lamented Bill Walsh) take the 49ers to the Super Bowl time after time. Like watching Mikhail Baryshnikov play football. (Also, once he retired from football, Montana bough a piece of Chip Ganassi’s ChampCar team, if I recall correctly.)

YOUR BEST RACING MOMENT?
I’ve been a lifelong race-watcher, and a professional one since 1986. So I think I’m going to have to go with Alex Zanardi’s never-to-be-forgotten pass on Bryan Herta in the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca. I don’t think Herta has recovered from that yet.

WORST JOB YOU EVER HAD?
Thanks for dredging up the painful memories. I was about 17, and working in a shipyard outside Charleston, SC. My first day on the job they had me scraping and picking up welding rods and assorted trash from the bottoms of very tight holds along the hull of a freshly-painted Navy vessel. When I got home that night my pants were grey, my underwear was grey and my ass was grey. It got worse from there.

COOLEST TROPHY OR PRIZE YOU EVER WON?
I was never much of a trophy or prize-winner. I’d have to say that my daughter is at the top of the list. Second would be some very nice comments about my coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans offered by Automobile magazine founder David E. Davis.

FAVORITE MEAL?
Petit filet mignon (medium-rare), baked potato, salad, chocolate cake, Crown Royal (not necessarily in that order)..

GUILTY TV PLEASURE?
I have been known to watch some “reality” shows that I refuse to name. It’s that bad.

WHO’S IN YOUR REGULAR CREW YOU HANG OUT WITH?
I am my own crew. And who would hang out with me? And would I want to hang out with them?

FAVORITE MOVIE?
Grand Prix. Runners-up: Le Mans, Blazing Saddles.

CURRENT CAR YOU DRIVE?
Honda Civic Si. I am a longtime Miataphile, but I seem to go back and forth between Miata’s and the Civic Si. I’ve had two of each.

THE MOST BITCHIN’ CAR YOU EVER DRIVEN OR RACED?
I have three very memorable rides:

1. Riding around Charlotte Motor Speedway in a NASCAR Cup car with Matt Kenseth at about 175mph
2. Riding around VIR in an original 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
3. Riding around the dirt track at Charlotte Motor Speedway in a two-seat Sprint Car. Other than that, just some track days and stuff.

WORDS TO LIVE BY?
My late father was a font of wisdom, and most of the words that I live by came from him. Of course, they were all preceded by, “Let me tell you one thing, you little son of a bitch…”

1. If you want to be happy, make someone else happy.
2. Don’t fuck up…

Pagid: the leader in friction development for high performance vehicles.

Teams that choose Pagid benefit not only from superior brake pads, but from a commitment to partnership that brings the expertise of Pagid’s engineers to the pit lane. This is just one of the reasons why Pagid is an official  series partner to the Porsche Carrera Cup in Germany,  as well as the international Porsche Super Cup.  Ultimately, this dedication, ‘hands-on’ experience and  success with teams competing in some of the world’s most  demanding race series also aids in the further development of new friction products – not only for the track, but for the road too. Pagid truly offers tomorrow’s friction today.

Pagid has an excellent reputation within the global automotive industry, as well as extensive success on the track in almost every area of motorsport. Race teams around the world rely on  the performance of Pagid to provide the advantage at each and every turn.  Up to 80% of the vehicles competing in some of the world’s biggest endurance races, including the Grand Prix of Miami, Daytona 24-hours and Sebring 12-hour race, use Pagid racing brake pads. In the American Le Mans Series (AMLS), Pagid racing brake pads have been the most popular choice of friction in the GT class for more than a decade.

Pagid the leads field in both O.E. and aftermarket friction development, and is working in partnership with the worlds leading brake and vehicle manufacturers to continue that leadership. RedLineTechnik.com’s selection of Pagid products can be found in our Online Store.

Source: Porsche

365 km/h top speed…. and top performances from Porsche. In the ’90s, the 24 Hours of Le Mans are again dominated by Porsche Motorsport. New race cars… New drivers… And now, Porsche at Le Mans.

Source:  Porsche

The icon Porsche 915 gearbox… Learn how to rebuild this gearbox from the master, Peter Zimmermann the author of “The Used 911 Story”. This step by step tutorial is the bible on how to rebuild this gearbox brought to you by Red Line Technik. It’s a must read for the 915 gearbox minded.

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