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Brian Vickers
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Brian Vickers is a driver without true teammates. Since Vickers announced his plans to leave, he has been left out of team meetings. Because the Hendricks organization doesn't want him taking corporate secrets to Red Bull Racing and Toyota when he leaves. Brian Vickers is probably the most distrusted driver at Hendricks Motorsports.
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Richert named #83 Red Bull Crew Chief: At the ripe age of 20, Brian Vickers became the youngest-ever NASCAR title holder in winning the 2003 Busch Series driver’s championship. Likewise at 20, Doug Richert became the youngest crew chief to win NASCAR’s elite Cup Series championship back in 1980, the first of Dale Earnhardt’s seven titles. As of today, Brian and Doug now have something else in common. Together they’ll make up the driver-crew chief tandem for Team Red Bull’s #83 Camry entry in the 2007 Nextel Cup Series. QUOTES: DOUG RICHERT – #83 Crew Chief “The Cup series has gotten so much more competitive these days. Starting from scratch is no easy task, but once the team gets some chemistry and momentum going, we’ll hopefully be able to do some exciting things.” BRIAN VICKERS – #83 Driver “Doug has worked with practically a Who’s Who list of drivers in this sport and he knows what it takes to be consistently successful at this level.
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Brian Vickers came into Talladega winless. He was looking for his first win. He has been with Hendricks Motorsports since 2004. He was the driver who Ricky Hendricks picked to take over his Busch ride when Ricky retired from racing. Brian and Ricky were great friends. And when Ricky was killed in the 2004 plane crash that took the lives of nine others. Brian pledged that he wanted to win a race in honor of his friend.
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Brian Vickers was educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a Double First in English and won both the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship and the Harness Shakespeare Essay Prize. He taught at Cambridge for ten years, before moving in 1972 to a Professorship at the University of Zürich. From 1975 to 2003 he held the Chair of English Literature at the ETH Zürich and directed the Centre for Renaissance Studies. In 1998 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (which was commuted to a Ordinary Fellowship on his return to England in 2003). In 2007 he was elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the New Year’s Honours List for 2008 he was appointed to a knighthood.
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Piloting what looked like the car to beat, Brian Vickers was ready to start the race with the best view in the house. Starting from the pole, Vickers had his sights set on reaching Victory Lane in the Dollar General stores Camry.
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Brian Vickers serves as Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He ... serves as an elder at Clifton Baptist Church. Through Southern Seminary, he is involved in leading missions trips and in teaching on the mission field. Vickers lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and daughter.
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