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Our show for Tuesday, July 22, 2008
LIVE from McGilvery's in Speedway, Indiana!
The Autosportradio.com Show airs live Tuesday evenings starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT.
We are now streaming live video of our show!
If you're here Tuesday evening between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m., then you can watch the show live!
Once the show has been moved to our archives, the following link will become blue, allowing you to watch the show:
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First Guest for July 22nd
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Jane Bready
Born in Coolangatta, Australia Jane spent most of her youth around her grandfather's car museum in Queensland. It was because of family involvement in F1 racing PR and vintage cars that Jane first developed her love of the automobile and racing as well as such veteran cars as the 1899 De dion Bouton, world famous Genevieve and others like the Detroit Electric and Stanley Steamer. Bready's grandfather also had Australia's first mail plane in his collection.
Jane had a love and talent for art so she endeavoured to use oil paintings to encompass both aviation art and auto-racing art. Her paintings have been dispayed worldwide in such venues as the Pentagon, 1998 Air Force 50th anniversary commemorative calendar, the Motorsports Hall of Fame, numerous program covers, licensed works and private commisiions. Bready has been priveleged enough to work with some of motorsports finest including Villeneuve, Schumacher, Biaggi, Tony Stewart, and Jeff Gordon.
In December Bready was asked to become involved with a website directed towards the NASCAR Nationwide Series (thehotlap.com) which also led her to embark on the creation of a site covering the IndyCar Series (indyinformer.com). While the artwork continues, so does the day to day maintenance of the two sites.
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Our Third Scheduled Guest
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Scott Smith
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Our Second Scheduled Guest
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Carlo Gancia
Carlo Gancia was born and brought up in Brazil. His father - - Piero Vallarino Gancia - raced Alfa touring cars in Brazil in the 1950s, competing against other wealthy Brazilians, including Umelio Diniz, father of F1 driver Pedro. After he retired from racing Gancia Sr. helped to found the Confederacao Brasileira de Automobilismo, the national motorsport authority of Brazil, of which he was president and - until 1990 - represented Brazil on the World Motor Sport Council.
Carlo was educated in Brazil but was then enrolled in the University of Southern California at San Diego from where he graduated with a masters degree in economics. He spent a year working in Saudi Arabia before returning to Brazil to run a car dealership. In 1979 he joined the Banco Denasa but in 1984 moved to Europe and worked for a Luxembourg-based finance company. In 1990 he opened his own asset management business in Monaco.
Gancia had been involved in motor sport from a very early age, growing up in the company of such drivers as Emerson Fittipaldi, Carlos Pace and Nelson Piquet - all of whom he helped with sponsor-hunting - while also enjoying his own racing career, which won him a series of Brazilian Touring Car titles. He also ran a go-kart factory which helped launch Ayrton Senna's racing career.
In 1992, while helping Pedro Diniz to find a Formula 3000 drive, Gancia met Guido Forti. A deal was struck and while Forti Corse ran Diniz for the 1993 and 1994 seasons in F3000, Gancia bought out Forti's partner Paulo Guerci and took over the fund-raising for the team. With Diniz as the driver there was no problem but after he departed to join Ligier the team struggled. The 1996 season was a struggle and by mid-season Gancia was looking at starting a team in the Indy Racing League. This coincided with the arrival of a mysterious group called Shannon Racing. Gancia sold out while Shannon and Forti fought over control of the team. By the time the issues had been settled in court, the team had collapsed.
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