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Congratulations to Dale Coyne Racing

Written by Scott Keller · July 9, 2009

The committment to racing shown by Dale Coyne and his team can be summed up with a few incredible statistics:

25 years
558 starts
1 win

That elusive win #1 came on Sunday at Watkins Glenn, and in dominating fashion.  Justin Wilson was in a league of his own on Sunday, and ran away with his second career victory in the IRL.   The win was remarkeable for the 2009 season in which only Penske and Ganassi had won races until Sunday.   But Wilson is fantastic on the road courses, and DCR has focused their efforts on the street and road races in particular, and it paid off in a big way.

Dale Coyne has been a loveable loser for years, especially in the Champ Car camp.    Dale was always running his team on a shoestring, and usually showed up Champ Car’s opening race in Long Beach without any drivers announced, or sometimes even signed.   But he always answered the bell, and in recent years has been very competetive with Bruno Junqueira and Justin Wilson giving him a major performance boost.

Congratulations to Dale Coyne and his hard working crew.   Their love and committment toward the sport of auto racing is something to appreciate.

Be sure to check out Dan Barnes nice piece at Canada.com chronicalling the big win.

Canada.com:  Perfect weekend leads to Coyne’s first victory

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