The Hunt for New Music: We need new music. All the time. And for too long, we have not postyed a new Installment in the Weekend Concert Series. Enough. Here’s one to get things moving in the right direction: it’s the brilliant English musician, Jaime Cullum, featured Live at the Java Jazz Festival, Jakarta. He’s …
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Patrick Dempsey: Off The Marquee. Onto the Starting Line.
This piece was written by Taylor Wiseman, one of the participants in the 2015 Risi Competizione sponsored Young Journalist Program at COTA. Father, actor, racecar driver…Patrick Dempsey is a busy man! Earlier this year Dempsey was killed off of the ever-popular TV show, Grey’s Anatomy. Fans were not particularly happy about the death of McDreamy. …
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The History: Risi Competizione at Petit Le Mans
Risi Competizione has a long history at Petit Le Mans and it stretches back to the very beginning of the race, in 1998. Here, in abbreviated form, is how Risi Competizione has performed at the Petit Le Mans over the years. 1998. Risi Comp’s history at Petit started in 1998, the very first year of …
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How to Set up the Ferrari 458 for Petit Le Mans
Hard to believe: the last race of the season–the Petit Le Mans–is this weekend. For Risi Comp, the race season and the 458 era will end at Petit Le Mans. Petit has always been a good race for us…we won the first Petit Le Mans with a 333SP and have enjoyed success there ever since. …
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Yogi
Transitions : Yogi Berra (1925-201). I grew up playing baseball in small towns in the south. In organized leagues and on sandlots. All through the year. For schools and with friends. Pickup and travel squads. It was important to me and to my friends because, well, baseball is important in small towns in the South, just like …
How To Be Italian
Paying Attention: The Ferrari IPO is coming. Milan Fashion Week is crushing it. You like Italian food and Italian wines. The Pope just visited and everyone feels better. Might as well go all in and learn How to Be Italian, in under five minutes with this nice little film from the New York Times. …
Edison on Ideas
“The power of an idea lies in the using of it…”
2015 PETIT LE MANS ROAD ATLANTA PRE-RACE REPORT
Road Atlanta, the historic road course nestled in the North Georgia mountains, has been home to the iconic Petit Le Mans race since 1998. The Houston, Texas-based Risi Competizione Ferrari team has been part of that history since the inaugural race. That first year of the 1,000-mile/10-hour “mini” Le Mans race was won by …
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Einstein on Human Stupidity
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not so certain about the former…”
Sartre on Words
“Words are loaded pistols.….”