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OUR SHOW FOR JANUARY 22nd, 2008
LIVE from McGilvery's in Speedway, Indiana.
The Autosportradio.com Show airs every Tuesday night starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT.
Please come join us! Get there early for the best seats!
If you're here Tuesday evening between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. EDT, then listen to the show live!
Once the show has been moved to our archives, the following links will become blue, allowing you to listen to, or watch the show:
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Our First Guest for Jan. 22nd
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Ana Beatriz
Known as Bia, she has signed to drive one of Sam Schmidt Motorsports Indy Pro Series machines for the 2008 season.
Beatiz, from Sao Paulo, has raced since she was eight years of age and has had years of success in Brazil’s karting championships and formula car ladder. She
has three years of experience in the Brazilian Formula Renault series,
highlighted with earning rookie of the year honors in 2003 and having
three wins and four pole positions in the 2005 season.
The São Paulo Citizen Driver Award was given to her in
2006, and she has been awarded three coveted “Gold Helmet” awards – an
award considered to be one of the highest honors in Brazil.
In April of 2007, she made her debut at the A1GP race in Shanghai, China, driving her home country’s car during one of the practice sessions.
Bias' career began with Karting Cadet Jr. in 1994
in Sao Paulo. She competed in the series until 1999 then moved up
to Karting Category B. Next was full Karting through 2003,
collecting numerous awards along the way. Several were National
awards.
In 2004/2005 Bia moved up to Formula Renault
Brazil again showing outstanding talent. 2006 saw her in the
South American Formula 3 where she again showed remarkable talent.
The 2007 found Bia as a test driver for A1GP Team Brazil.
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Our Second Guest
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Jon Koskey
Director of Timing and Scoring for the IRL. Jon grew up near the
IMS, and has always been a race fan, particularly the Indy 500.
Started
with the IMS in 1997, as Technical Manager of the I.T. department. He started
working directly with Timing and Scoring in 1998, supporting live timing on the
Internet, and assisted with on-going T & S technology.
Created Indy
Racing Information System (IRIS) in 2000 for the purpose of sharing T & S
data and other information with the league. He became Director of T & S
after the 2003 season. He received the 2005 IRL Achievement Award. This
prestigious award is presented to one individual each season for their
dedication, commitment, and advancements given to the league.
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Our Third Guest
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Eric Knight
Married to Michelle Knight, has 1 child, daughter - Diana
Graduated from Purdue with a Bachelor of Science (Computer Technology)
Has been in the Technology industry for over 12 years. Has worked with Indy Racing League for 4 years.
Title: Project Developer for Timing and Scoring
Duties:
* Grunt - Travel to New Events, Road Courses, to act as extra body for moving large equipment.
* Act as Butt of Jokes - my clumsy ways leads to broken equipment and
bodily harm to myself and others (This is the general source of all the fun-making).
Fell off a forklift at St. Pete, after offloading timing and scoring equipment from a double height mobile office.
Almost pulled a 100 lb pole off the roof at Texas my first year.
Ripped the front of a very expensive Cisco Router and a Cisco Firewall in haste to move equipment at St. Pete event.
My real reason for continued employment at the League, as I am the number 1 source of entertainment.
The last time I used the phrase, "hey 'yall, watch this!!!" I ended
up with a buffalo wing painting the front of my brand new white shirt that was as a part of my uniform.
* Database Administrator
* Programmer/Application Development (Jon comes up with the idea, I write the code/application to accomplish it, i.e. Points and Prize Money, Race Control, etc.)
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