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1997 In Indy Lights
The 1997 PPG/ Firestone Indy Lights Championship Powered By Buick consisted of 13 races. Tony Kanaan edged out good friend and teammate Hélio Castro-Neves to the title by only four points. Calendar Race summaries Homestead race Held March 2 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Hélio Castro-Neves won the pole. Top Five Results # David Empringham # Fredrik Larsson # Chris Simmons # Mark Hotchkis # Lee Bentham Long Beach race Held April 13 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Hélio Castro-Neves won the pole. Top Five Results # Hélio Castro-Neves # Cristiano da Matta # Mark Hotchkis # Chris Simmons # Tony Kanaan Nazareth race Held April 27 at Nazareth Speedway. Chris Simmons won the pole. Top Five Results # Cristiano da Matta # Chris Simmons # Fredrik Larsson # Hélio Castro-Neves # Tony Kanaan Savannah race Held May 18 on Hutchinson Island. Hélio Castro-Neves won the pole. Top Five Results # Hélio Castro-Neves # Sérgio Paese # Lee Bentham # Luiz Garcia Jr. # N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PPG Industries
PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 70 countries around the globe. By revenue it is the largest coatings company in the world followed by AkzoNobel. It is headquartered in PPG Place, an office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, and is known for its glass facade designed by Postmodern architect Philip Johnson. History 19th century Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., at Creighton, Pennsylvania. Based in Creighton, Pennsylvania (about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River), PPG soon became the United States' first commercially successful producer of high-quality, thick flat glass using the plate process. PPG was also the world's first plate glass plant to power its furnaces with locally produced natural gas, an innov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutchinson Island (Georgia)
Hutchinson Island is a river island in the Savannah River, north of downtown Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, United States. The island is formed where the Back River breaks off to the north from the Savannah River. Historically, Hutchinson Island's land use has been primarily industrial, much of which supported the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest containerization cargo ports in the world. The island is roughly long and wide at its widest point. History The island was named after Archibald Hutchinson, an acquaintance of General Oglethorpe. It played a major role in the capture of Savannah during the American Civil War. After capturing Atlanta, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman turned his army east and south, toward the Atlantic Ocean, and arrived in Savannah in December 1864. Rather than destroying Savannah, Sherman elected to demand the city's surrender. Confederate Gen. William J. Hardee led his troops, under cover of darkness, across the Savannah River on a makesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
