RENNSPORT-BERATEN - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Investment Advisor With BMO Nesbitt Burns

Brett Harrington was raised around auto racing, with his father being National Race Director for the Canadian Automobile Sportscar Club in the 1970's. Brett has been involved in racing in various capacities including Timing and Scoring, and event preparation. In his professional career, Brett is an Investment Advisor with BMO Nesbitt Burns, one of Canada's largest Full Service Investment Houses. You can visit Brett's personal investment website at brettharrington.com. Brett has been married for eight years, and is the father of three children.

Frank Muller might be the senior member of this group at age 54. He became a fan of sportscar racing at 15 after seeing the original USRRC run for the Vanderbilt Cup at Bridgehampton. Over his life, Frank has followed most types of racing. He was raised on stock cars and midgets at Long Island's Freeport Stadium, a quarter-mile asphalt oval. Over the years he has gravitated more and more towards sportscars. Frank has a Bachelor of Science in magazine journalism and has contributed to dailysportcar.com. Additionally, he has been employed in graphic design for the past 20 years. He has experience in graphics for television as well as new media, including web design, DVDs and interactive CD-ROMs.

Paul has been attending races since 1971 at Mosport. He has witnessed first hand the zenith and nadir of Can Am racing, as well as the rebirth and ultimate death of Can Am II. His interest in endurance sportscars was piqued when the Group C and GTP classes were born; seeing the early cars such as the March 83G, Jaguar XJR-5 and Lola T-600 made him a lifelong fan of sportscars. However, the decline of Mosport precluded any significant racing events from occurring throughout the early 1990s, and Paul's interest was relegated to following the sport via the press. It was only upon the birth of the ALMS (and the running of the Panoz GTR-1s the year before in PSCR) that Paul returned to Mosport, and has since witnessed a rennaissance at the track, as Don Panoz has rebuilt the track to FIA standards to encourage the competitors to come, and to improve the fans' experience at the track. Paul's direct involvement in sportscars began with a subscription to dailysportscar. He enjoyed the exposure to the racing worldwide, but found that the 2002 coverage of the Mosport race lacked a certain depth. He submitted some thoughts to the editor of dailysportscar, and to his surprise the editor chose to publish them! At that point, Paul discovered that the sportscar environment was open to direct contact and critique in a way that other sports were not. His later experiences at Mosport, working in an official capacity with dailysportscar, have reinforced and expanded his initial impressions, as Paul found the people involved (from promoters to competitors to series officials) to be accessible, knowledgeable, and attentive to fans' concerns. Paul has also been involved in internet discussion groups since the early 1990s. He joined discussions on sportscars at dailysportscar, quickly branching out to ten-tenths.com and the IMSA Talk forum. At ten-tenths he became a moderator for the Sportscar and GT forum, and later took on the same duties at the revamped dailysportscar and ALMS forums. Paul S. Collins M.Eng. P.Eng. is a civil engineer, specializing in Water Resources, in the Greater Toronto area. He is married with two children.

Job Titles:

• Vice President of American Eyecare Center

Thomas has been interested in motor sports since 1971, first attending events in 1973. Brock Racing Enterprise had a huge influence on the type of racing he was interested in - so much so that Thomas still owns a Datsun 2000 Roadster that he raced at SCCA Solo II events. Traveling to many ALMS races throughout the country for the last four years with his family has been a very positive experience. Thomas has been married for 25 years to his wife Wendy, and has three children Rob, Laura and Elise. Thomas enjoys his collection of art, Bonsai, and vintage modern furniture. Much like the timeless Bauhaus designs, he appreciates the innovative beauty of many racing automobiles. Thomas is Vice President of American Eyecare Center in Flossmoor Illinois, where he and his family have resided for the last 20 years.

A native of Indianapolis, Tim Northcutt attended his first auto race at age eight, when A.J. Foyt captured his third "Indianapolis 500" victory, and three weeks later he watched the ABC Wide World of Sports telecast of Foyt and Dan Gurney's "24 Hours of Le Mans" victory and has been an avid open-wheel and sportscar endurance racing fan ever since. Over the years he has attended dozens of Indy Car and sportscar events in person and has followed Can-AM, IMSA, and now American Le Mans Series racing for nearly four decades. Living is a city with many race teams and a strong racing service industry also has afforded Tim the opportunity to become acquainted socially and professionally with people who work in the industry, and thus he has acquired a wealth of technical knowledge about the sport. He also is from a large family that includes there engineers, including a nephew (and fellow motorsports enthusiast) who has a thriving career as an aerospace engineer, and thus has learned specifics about aerodynamics, composites and other aspects related to racing from them. Professionally, Tim has a 22 year career as a media relations professional who has worked with national and international media, first in politics as a communications director for candidates for senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial campaigns in many state across America, and the past 15 years in the entertainment industry. In addition to media relations, he also has extensive experience in logistical planning and feasibility analysis for multi-city campaign events and Washington Press Corps news events in politics, and the planning, logistics and implementation of regional and international tours by one of America's major orchestras in the entertainment field. Over the past 18 months, he has applied this logistical planning expertise to his passion for motorsports by evaluating the demographic, economic, and logistical feasibility of both existing purpose-built racing circuits as well as recently closed military and municipal airfields as potential venues for major open-wheel and sportscar racing events as a hobby. He has been married for 20 years and has one son who also attends races with him every spring and summer.