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Las Cruces, N.M. – November 2, 2007 – Three additional teams have joined the Rocket Racing League, bringing a total of six teams to compete in the league’s inaugural season that will combine the competition of NASCAR racing and the excitement of rocketry.
Rocket Star Racing, Team Extreme Rocket Racing and Beyond Gravity Rocket Racing join teams Bridenstine Rocket Racing, Santa Fe Racing and Thunderhawk Rocket Racing. A racing schedule has not yet been released.
"Our goal has been to bring diverse international teams to the League with highly skilled world-class pilots and flight crews coming from both civilian and military backgrounds," said company co-founder and CEO Granger Whitelaw. "These guys will be competing with each other even on their drive to the quarterly League picnic."
Rocket Star Racing is lead by Todd White, a former Navy test pilot and Internet entrepreneur. White has 3,000-plus flight hours in 30 different types of aircraft including the F-4 "Phantom," F-15 “Eagle”, F-16 "Fighting Falcon," F-18 “Hornet,”, T-38 “Talon” and P-51 “Mustang.”.
"I didn’t see it coming,” said White, a graduate of the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School. “Who would have thought I’d be strapping a rocket on my back in competitive rocket racing, pushing the state-of-the-art and being part of an industry first."
Team Extreme Rocket Racing is the brainchild of Lt. Bryan Schwartz, a pilot for the U.S. Navy who has experience flying a variety of aircraft including the T-34C “Turbo Mentor,” T-44A "Pegasus,", T-2C “Buckeye” and E-2C “Hawkeye.”
"Rocket Racing combines the skills that I have obtained through my military training and takes my abilities to the next level while creating a new industry for the next generation of dreamers," Schwartz said.
Beyond Gravity Rocket Racing is led by Canadian team owner Brian Feeney, founder of the 1996 Da Vinci Project, a contender in the inaugural Ansari X Prize competition.
"The launch of Beyond Gravity affirms that anything is possible with vision, determination and ingenuity,” said Feeney. “We hope to be an inspiration to people and to show that there is no greater power than the will of the individual, that there is freedom in exploration and joy in discovery.”
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Rocket Star Racing was founded by Todd White, a former Navy test pilot and Internet entrepreneur. Rocket Star Racing is one of three new racing teams joining the Rocket Racing League.
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