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AARWBA Names All-America Team
December 3rd, 2010
Dario Franchitti (10) and Will Power were each named to the 2010 All-America Auto Racing Team by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Ass’n. (Dan Helrigel/IndyCar Photo)
BURBANK, Calif. — The 2010 All-America Auto Racing Team has been chosen by members of the nation’s motorsports press. The team includes the largest group ever named to the First Team, 21 drivers, as a result of the addition of a new category this year by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Ass’n.
In addition, AARWBA created a new Rising Star Award to recognize a fresh new name making his mark on the sport.
Drivers from the Open Wheel, Stock Car, Road Racing and Drag Racing categories are in contention for the Jerry Titus Award — the group’s Driver of the Year, each of them dominating the vote in their category. Just nine votes cover the group, which includes two former multiple Titus winners. The Titus winner is not revealed until the All-America ceremonies Jan. 9 in Indianapolis.
Four former Titus winners are on the team this year — Indy Car champions Dario Franchitti (2007, 2009) and Tony Kanaan (2004) and NHRA champions John Force (1996, 1999, 2000, 2002) and Tony Schumacher (2006, 2008). Schumacher is a Second Team selection this year and Kanaan earned Honorable Mention.
Chosen as the Rising Star of 2010 was IRL Firestone Indy Lights champion J.K. Vernay, 23, from France, who picked up votes from nearly a third of the voters on the 15-name ballot. Vernay ended up four votes ahead of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie of the year Austin Dillon, 20.
Force won his unprecedented 15th NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car championship this year, a triumphant return from a near-fatal accident in 2007. With his six-win season he won his 16th selection as an All-America in the Drag Racing category, all but one of them First Team. Force’s 15 First Team selections stands behind only World of Outlaws legend Steve Kinser, chosen 18 times. His 16 times as an All-America (chosen once as Second Team in 1991), trails Kinser’s 23 and Mario Andretti’s 18.
Joining Force is Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon, whose 12-win season ended Tony Schumacher’s run of five championships. It is Dixon’s fifth All-America selection, his third on the First Team.
Franchitti won his second Indianapolis 500 and his third Indy Car championship in 2010, continuing as the most dominant driver in American open-wheel racing three of the past four years and leading the Open Wheel category.
Will Power, the young Aussie who led the Indy Car championship most of the season, joins Franchitti on the First Team after a five-win season. It is Power’s first All-America nod.
Jimmie Johnson is no surprise as a Titus contender after his landmark fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. His six-win season plus a come-from-behind points chase in the year’s final race got him his sixth selection on the First Team.
Kyle Busch joined Johnson in the Stock Car category. The winner of 24 races in NASCAR’s top three series (three Sprint Cup, 13 Nationwide, eight Camping World Trucks and that series’ owner’s championship), Busch outpointed Denny Hamlin by just one vote for his fourth All-America selection, his first on the First Team.
The pairing of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas led the Road Racing category for the second time in three years. The Pruett/Rojas duo is the Daytona Prototype champions in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series with a series-record nine victories in 12 races. It is Pruett’s 11th time on the First Team, third on that list behind Force, and his 13th time overall. His Mexican teammate is an All-America for the second time.
The second First Team pair in Road Racing are the American Le Mans Series Prototype champions David Brabham and Simon Pagenaud. The Australian/French pairing won four races including the Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta.
Todd Bodine, winning his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship, easily outdistanced everyone in the Touring Series vote.
Behind Bodine, however, it was a huge dogfight with all five of the other ballot contenders in a virtual dead heat. NASCAR Whelen Modified Series champion Bobby Santos III got the most votes, marking the first time a driver from the modified ranks has achieved First Team status.
There was also an unexpected result in the Short Track category, where two U.S. Auto Club combatants won in a category long dominated by World of Outlaws champions. Bryan Clauson outpointed Levi Jones by just one vote to form the First Team pairing. Clauson won USAC’s National Driver Championship and Mopar National Midget Championship over Jones. Jones, for his part, won both the Silver Crown and the AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championships. It is the first time on First Team for both drivers.
The new Off Road & Rally category produced the only tie in the voting, resulting in a four-member First Team. Vote leader Rob MacCachren is the one familiar face, earning his fifth All-America nod, his third on the First Team.
Tied in the vote were Ricky Johnson, champion of the Traxxas TORC Series Pro 2wd class, and Antoine L’Estage/Nathalie Richard champions of the RallyCar Rally America series.
The At Large category went to an endurance racing tandem and a drag racer, All-America veterans all. Topping the vote were the American Le Mans Series’ GT class champions Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long.
Frank Manzo, the NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car champ, is nearly the Funny Car clone of John Force but with alky fuels. With a 12-win season it is Manzo’s 14 national championship and 20th divisional championship, and his eighth All-America, second time on First Team.
The team:
First Team: Dario Franchitti, Will Power, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas, David Brabham/Simon Pagenaud, John Force, Larry Dixon, Bryan Clauson, Levi Jones, Todd Bodine, Bobby Santos III, Rob MacCachren, Ricky Johnson and Antoine L’Estage/Nathalie Richard, Jorg Borgmeister/Patrick Long, Frank Manzo.
Second Team: Helio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Tony Ave, Jon Fogarty/Alex Gurney, Tony Schumacher, Matt Hagan, Jason Meyers, Tim Shaffer, Ryan Truex, Patrick Sheltra, B.J. Baldwin, J.K. Vernay, Peter Cunningham.
Honorable Mention: Tony Kanaan, Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, Max Angelelli/Ricky Taylor, Clay Rogers, Eric Holmes, Jesse Jones, Tom Lawless, Randy Pobst, Von Smith
Rising Star: J.K. Vernay, Austin Dillon, Kody Swanson, James Hinchcliffe, Ricky Taylor, L.E. Tonglet, Scott Tucker, Jonathan Bomarito, Robert Stout, Tanner Swanson, Lucas Wolfe.