It has been another busy week, in Montreal meeting with our sponsors and working with co-owners Andre (Azzi) and Jim (Freudenberg) on the FAZZT Race Team business side of things. We have been working really hard to get things ready for the 2010 IndyCar season and it is hard to believe that in just about six weeks we will have the car on track! I know the guys at the shop have been working very hard as well and I am starting to get very excited to strap into the #77 for our first shakedown test in December 2009.

http://blog.autonet.ca/tagliani/2009/11/13/racing_to_phoenix

Man, best of luck to them, but when I see Jim Freudenberg's name I just cringe because "the check is always in the mail"

Great news! On Friday the 13th too!

I was a sponsor at Kelley Racing and Jim did everything he promised and more and that team was well funded for many years. I also joined his team at Rubicon as a sponsor and although his driver crashed, we got over a million dollars in new business from his other team sponsors . The hospitality we experienced was first class as was Kelley and his hard work to open new doors for us was unparalleled as we had been with 2 other teams before who made many false promises.

Our company also plans to sponsor this new team as well, so our check is in the mail to them and your comments on Jim are obviously unfounded and ignorant.

Tommy_Crash - 13 November 2009 04:36 PM

Man, best of luck to them, but when I see Jim Freudenberg's name I just cringe because "the check is always in the mail"

that's what I thought too, Tommy, with his millions in sponsorship he supposedly had last year for a full-time team that evaporated as the season approached!

I guess you haven't been paying much attention to the world's economic situation for a few years. Anyone how had millions have had most of that disappear including the previous owner of the ICS & IMS. Guess that should make you cringe.
I'm sticking with him as he does what he promises and I have the business to prove it from my dealings.

Go FAZZT & JF !

billyclub - 13 November 2009 08:43 PM

I was a sponsor at Kelley Racing and Jim did everything he promised and more and that team was well funded for many years. I also joined his team at Rubicon as a sponsor and although his driver crashed, we got over a million dollars in new business from his other team sponsors . The hospitality we experienced was first class as was Kelley and his hard work to open new doors for us was unparalleled as we had been with 2 other teams before who made many false promises.

Our company also plans to sponsor this new team as well, so our check is in the mail to them and your comments on Jim are obviously unfounded and ignorant.

To quote the great Loren Wallace, I didn't say I wouldn't go fishing with the guy...

Marty Roth and Eric Bachelart would both disagree with your assessment, along with more than one driver that I'd prefer not to mention by name here.

I'll believe it when I see the sidepod of the car, at every race this season.

Best of luck to Fazzt and your company.

Tommy_Crash - 14 November 2009 11:10 AM

billyclub - 13 November 2009 08:43 PM

I was a sponsor at Kelley Racing and Jim did everything he promised and more and that team was well funded for many years. I also joined his team at Rubicon as a sponsor and although his driver crashed, we got over a million dollars in new business from his other team sponsors . The hospitality we experienced was first class as was Kelley and his hard work to open new doors for us was unparalleled as we had been with 2 other teams before who made many false promises.

Our company also plans to sponsor this new team as well, so our check is in the mail to them and your comments on Jim are obviously unfounded and ignorant.

Marty Roth and Eric Bachelart would both disagree with your assessment, along with more than one driver that I'd prefer not to mention by name here.

I'll believe it when I see the sidepod of the car, at every race this season.

Best of luck to Fazzt and your company.

Yeah,Roth the sloth is a real credible source!GMAFB!!The only good thing he's done for the series is not come back to it!

Jim was shopping the LifeLock deal a couple of years ago. You basically had to sign up your whole company and then get a royalty from LifeLock to fund the car for Indy. Seems the first car didn't make the field and they ended up buying the side of someone elses car for the race. Can't remember who. He has always seemed a bit of a shyster to me. Don't know him personnaly.

For the record, I'll go fishing with just about anyone.

Not sure how you can call someone you don't know personally a shyster? Our company has been involved with him for several years now and I can assure you he is not. He works very hard for his sponsors and when he had good resources at Kelley to take care of us, it was a great experience. Hoping this new team will be the same. Certainly Conquest is not a team any of us wanted to be involved with and glad he didn't expose us to that deal this year.
I see several big names, DeFerran, Fernandez, Vision(TG), all making promises to be on the grid and then laying people off, so it's obviously not an easy thing to be tackling right now.

I've spoken to him on the phone a couple of times and traded a number of emails...... I don't really KNOW him....... The feeling I got from our conversations was that I didn't really want to be involved with him. My gut is usually fairly accurate and my gut said pass. My gut also told me Bobby D's old manager was full of S and he was. Bobby D ended up firing him.

Maybe Jim's a hell of a guy, I could be wrong.