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2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Mohammed Ben Sulayem – Dubai

Mohammed ben Sulayem is a UAE champion rally driver who lives in Dubai. He has won more FIA regional championships, and more international rallies, than any other racer in history. His premier event was the FIA Middle-East Rally Championship. Since first winning in 1986, he has gone on to win the event 14 times, never [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Shiro Nakamura – Japan

SVP. Chief Creative Officer of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Since he came on board with Nissan in 1999, he immediately exerted leadership in driving the design team to create distinctive and innovative designs based on Japanese traditional aesthetics and contemporary culture. Nissan Cube, Fairlady Z, GT-R, Murano, Juke and LEAF as well as Infiniti M, [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Raja Gargour – Jordan

Mr. Raja Gargour, Director-Royal Automobile Museum, formally owned Classic Car Consultants, an advisory company specializing in antique vehicles. Having received his MBA in 1981, Raja joined his family’s automotive business in Jordan for a few years before he moved to Los Angeles. During that period he restored his first classic car, a 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280 [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Manvendra Singh – India

His Highness Rana Manvendra Singh belongs to the erstwhile royal family of Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, son of the Late Maharaja of Barwani. He did his schooling and college from Daly College and Christian College and went on to get an automotive marketing degree from Northwood University, U.S.A. An auto sport enthusiast, he became the [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Christian Philippsen – Belgium

Christian Philippsen is a senior specialist in cars of exceptional interest, contemporary and classic, and loves their mechanics and design. Before starting his own consultancy in 1988, he had been employed by Jacques Swaters at Garage / Ecurie Francorchamps (1965-1969, Ferrari importer in Belgium, and racing team with regular participations in long distance racing including [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Rony Karam – Lebanon

I have been collecting Classic Cars for more than 40 years. Since ATCL (Automobile & Touring Club of Lebanon) became the representative of FIVA in Lebanon I have been in charge at the Head of the FIVA Commission in our club and have organized many Classic Cars Events in Lebanon for the past 10 Years. [...]

2012 Kuwait Concours Judge Spotlight: Nicolas Marceau – France

Was born in Paris and studied architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts, as well as fine art in Paris. While at the fine art school I wrote a thesis entitled “The classic car as an art object”. The subject wasn’t considered academic at the time and would not have been accepted had it not been [...]

Racing Legends Spotlight: George Follmer

George Follmer (born January 27, 1934) is a retired American race car driver, and one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s. Follmer raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1967-1971 and 1974 seasons, with 25 career starts, including the 1969-1971 Indianapolis 500 races. He finished in the top ten 11 [...]

Racing Legends Spotlight: Parnelli Jones

Rufus Parnell “Parnelli” Jones (born August 12, 1933 in Texarkana, Arkansas), is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car. He is also remembered for bringing the stock block engine to USAC Sprint car [...]

Dodge Motorsports: Driver Bio – Sam Hornish Jr. – No. 12 Dodge Challenger

Sam Hornish Jr. returns for his sixth season of NASCAR competition with Penske Racing in 2012. The 2011 season was an unusual one for Hornish as it marked the first time that he didn’t contest a full-season of racing in a professional career that spans over 10 years. Though some may have viewed 2011 as [...]

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