Giebler Atlantic debut in San Jose

[theunions]

From this morning's series press release:


Talented open-wheel racer Phil Giebler (#41 Jos. J Albanese Concrete Construction) of Oxnard, California also will earn his Atlantic stripes this weekend as he joins the Condor Motorsports team for his first series start.

If you're going...photos please and plenty of them!!! Thanks in advance.

[Gnam]

Meet him in person.

La Pastaia
233 W. Santa Clara, San Jose
(408) 286-8686
Thursday 7/28: Meet-and-greet with driver Phil Geibler. Also, former KART driver John Della Penna and Sabercats Kevin Buck and Tremain Mack will be there from 5 – 7pm.

other places to hang out this weekend (http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=gp_2005&name=gp_party)
(props to pedroskova)

[nrc]

Hmm. What's "former KART driver" John Della Penna doing hanging around?

[Gnam]

Hmm. What's "former KART driver" John Della Penna doing hanging around?
Isn't he the SJGP spokesperson.

[theunions]

I was originally told JDP was supposed to be the de facto team owner, so the Condor bit came as somewhat of a surprise. Maybe he's still involved with the #41.

[Fio1]

Cool! About time he got a ride.

[trauma1]

see he got the hell put of IPS and EARL, smart kid

[FCYTravis]

Perhaps they couldn't put a team together in time and so "rented" the services of Condor.

[Easy]

Or they didn't want to dump a bunch of money into equipment that will be obselete in two months then have to buy a new overpriced chassis/engine combo in the fall.

New Atlantic regs still coming out this weekend? Having waited this long to finalize it, I really hope they adopt an existing formula.

[theunions]

Confirmed that it's a joint venture between JDP and Bobeda. Additional races possible. :thumbup:

[Dr. Corkski]

Looks like he's driving an old Dorricott car. No pictures today though since today was a big mess.

[nrc]

Third fastest in morning practice. This Atlantic field is really shaping up.

[theunions]

Looks like he's driving an old Dorricott car. No pictures today though since today was a big mess.

Was this the car that Roby Feazell (not sure which team offhand) drove at Long Beach?

Only photo I've seen thus far is the one action shot Lesley took at toyotaatlantic.com - any clear detailed shots of the funny looking decal on top of the sidepods would be most appreciated.

[theunions]

Third fastest in morning practice. This Atlantic field is really shaping up.

Thats around where they practiced yesterday too, but "one change" knocked them backwards in provisional qualifying - still ahead of former teammate Just Al though.

[theunions]

Bump...still looking for closeup photos of the top of the sidepods.

[cameraman]

The dog in the flag is from the JJ Albanese logo.
http://www.jjalbanese.com/images/index1_01.gif

I have not seen better photos than these from the TA web site.
http://www.toyotaatlantic.com/content/photos/2005/By800/20050731P_0034.jpg
http://www.toyotaatlantic.com/content/photos/2005/By800/20050731P_0035.jpg

[theunions]

Looking for even better/closer than that...thanks

[NismoZ]

:eek:

[theunions]

PS. Phil says it's actually not an ex-Dorricott car, but a current spec Swift just recently acquired directly from Dyson...not sure if this was a spare for Chris or if they're sitting out the remaining three races.

The flag logo is for Albanese's 50th anniversary, which they wanted to celebrate by sponsoring a car for this race. Not sure if the shield next to it is related though.

[FCYTravis]

I understand that Dyson had two cars.

[Easy]

I understand that Dyson had two cars.

Which were purchased from Dorricott

[FCYTravis]

Now everything falls into place :)

[theunions]

Race report (http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=196280)

[theunions]

Bump...there was a major technical problem with one of the photographers I was counting on, so photos are proving to be MUCH more scarce than I anticipated...