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Following our interview with Geoff Moore of Circuit of The Americas at Innotech, we recieved a few minutes of time with Manoj Saxena, General Manager, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group. In addition to leading the team for innovative Watson applications, which include industries like healthcare and insurance, Manoj is also an avid driver and helps to bring funding to programs like Communities in Schools through The Race to Win.
Earlier this month, Kevin and I had the opportunity to attend the Austin-San Antonio Growth Summit, hosted by the Austin Business Journal and the San Antonion Business Journal. The purpose of the summit, which was attended by business-minded people from varying sectors, was to introduce two of the largest projects for Central Texas: Formula One and State Highway 130.
This will be a multi-part article addressing different components of growth in Central Texas. Here is an introductory interview with Bruce Knox, Executive Vice President of Circuit of the Americas:
With the arrival of the SENNA film at the SXSW Film Festival in March this year, motorsports fans and film buffs have shared a collective passion for the first time in many years. Striking the chord of emotion, competition and passion, the SENNA film has reached an wider audience in the U.S. than the film's team ever imagined.
Before Saturday's qualifying session, the BBC's F1 crew was catching viewers up on the progress at the Circuit Of The Americas and did a plug for an event DC is doing in America.
Here's the transcript:
Jake Humphrey - "But you're off to Texas soon to drive an F1 car, right?"
David Coulthard - "Indeed, I'm heading out there during the summer break whilst everyone's taking two and a half weeks away from Formula 1. I'll be doing a little demonstration with a Formula 1 car in L.A. and then heading down to Texas to do downtown Austin, to try and get a flavor of Formula 1 and show the people..."
JH - "Nice, so make a bit of noise?"
DC - "and make some noise"
JH - "...and make some smoke, brilliant, we'll show you that on the BBC as well..."
Well David, we are ecstatic and can't wait for you to COME AND RACE IT™!
We're expecting the official news for this event to be released very shortly and hope that you all can join us on the streets of downtown Austin at this exciting event. Given Red Bull's experience in the Austin community at holding large events (i.e. Red Bull Flutag) and several others, we also anticipate this will be a RB event, which should make it an instant success.
Here's a little taste of the Red Bull Showcar with DC driving:
We've got some very interesting news from the Austin American Statesman about Susan Comb's recent visit to Silverstone, the British Grand Prix:
It turns out that Susan and her husband Joe spent their own money to travel to the grand prix and meet with Bernie Ecclestone and Tavo Hellmund. Susan even joked a bit about spending 300,000 frequent flyer miles to get there, but it looks like the trip was worth it. This news wasn't a big surprise to us, but we are feeling very relieved that this fact was made public and even more excited about her enthusiasm and interest in the sport.
Furthermore, Susan's husband Joe is a computer scientist who used to race a while ago. The article points out that he was also just as excited to be there, another good sign.
One of the most interesting aspects of the article is this point Susan made about the track, "It's huge. It's spacious, and it's green...This is not a concrete jungle. It is very respectful of the terrain." Hopefully we'll see the same kind of track here in Austin, one that is respectful of the environment, well designed into the landscape and a pleasure to visit.
Read more about Susan's visit to Silverstone at the Austin American Statesman.
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