среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Franchitti, Villeneuve, Carpentier lead foreign invasion of NASCAR

Is the increasingly diverse face of American stock car racing ready for a French-Canadian who started out racing on speedskates? How about another French-Canadian whose family has a history in Formula One? And what about the Scotsman with an Italian name who's married to actress Ashley Judd?

Jeff Burton, a veteran of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) worries about a possible backlash over the growing number of foreign-born drivers rubbing fenders and trading paint in a racing series that until a little more than a decade ago was fiercely guarded as a icon of the southeastern United States.

"The controversial thing of it is at …

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