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Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab is an Italian auto racing team founded by Andrea Piccini, Deborah Mayer, Claudio Schiavoni and Sergio Pianezzola. [1] The team is based in Cesena , Emilia-Romagna. They operate Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 sports cars in the IMSA SportsCar Championship , GT World Challenge Europe , and FIA World Endurance Championship .
Claudio Schiavoni (born 14 November 1960) is an Italian racing driver, and co-founder and part-owner of racing team Iron Lynx, currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series. [1]
- History’s Mysteries: The First Life of Lynx Golf
- The Riley Car Company
- The Second Life of Lynx
- Zurn: The Third Life
- The ‘90s: The Fourth Life
- Lynx: The Fifth Life
- Bankruptcy and Life No. Six
- The Payne Stewart Connection
- Bankruptcy and The Seventh Life
- Lynx, England and The Eighth Life
History, it’s said, is written by the victors. Today it’s pretty much accepted in golf canon that Karsten Solheim is the man who made investment-cast irons a thing. But would it surprise you to know that the first truly successful investment-cast club was designed and sold by Lynx? I bet it would. But before we go there, let’s start at the beginnin...
From 1926 to 1938, the Coventry, England-based Riley Car Company made and sold a slick little British roadster called the Riley Lynx. Riley made everything from little sports cars to Rolls Royce wannabees. By the late ‘40s, Riley merged with British sports car maker MG and that group eventually became part of the British Leyland Motor Corporation. ...
All was not well with the Riley-Ross partnership, however. While details are sketchy, Riley either left or was forced out of the partnership within a year. He went on to found Pinseeker Golf and later the John Riley Company and would create a metal-faced wooden driver and later patented the very first fully metal driver. Meanwhile, Lynx continued m...
If you’ve ever used a urinal, you’re probably familiar with the name Zurn. Today, Zurn is a worldwide plumbing, fire protection and water control giant but in 1973 it was slightly more diversified. Along with floor drains, flush valves and backflow preventers, Zurn also had a leisure products division that made products for boats and recreational v...
Parallax and Black Cat are synonymous with Lynx and both were the work of designer David Boone. The Parallax came first, in 1991. It was a cast cavity-back, inspired by the two most successful irons of the day, the Tommy Armour 845s and the PING Eye 2. “Dave knew I couldn’t hit a 2-iron but he handed me a 2-iron anyway,” then Lynx president John Ca...
From 1990 to 1996, Zurn spent an estimated $35 million on advertising for Lynx. The company still lost more than $25 million in that time. The Nevada foundry was part of the problem but so was increasing offshore manufacturing and new, aggressive competition from Callaway, COBRA and TaylorMade. In 1995, Lynx sales reached $45 million, good enough f...
By the late ‘90s, Callaway, COBRA, PING and TaylorMade controlled 75 percent of the market. Lynx was a second-tier financial mess. And despite Tiger’s big win at Augusta, 1998 was not a good year for the golf industry. El Nino and an Asian flu saw to that. While the Big Four weathered the storm, Lynx did not. The company laid off two-thirds of its ...
To hit the ground running, Wishon had to build a Lynx lineup from scratch. “We decided since we were putting big money into Lynx, we should put some money into some players, too.” Wishon, living in Austin, bumped into Tom Kite one day. Kite had heard through the grapevine Golfsmith was looking for players. “He said, ‘Why don’t you go talk to Payne?...
Golfsmith also signed Ben Crenshaw to a Lynx deal but the plan to make Lynx a premier brandsoon fell apart. “We put all this money into Lynx and we had all these plans with big cutouts of Ben and Payne in stores,” says Wishon. “We moved the clubs up front so they were the first things people saw. And, all of a sudden, the owners put the kibosh on a...
It’s somehow fitting that John Riley’s company has found its way back to the U.K. Today, the brand is owned and operatedby the husband-and-wife team of Steve Elford and Stephanie Zinser in Surrey, about an hour southwest of London. Elford and Zinser acquired the European rights to Lynx in 2013. A year later, they approached Golfsmith to see about b...
May 21, 2021 · We’ve become very used to seeing the name Iron Lynx on entry lists for GT3 and GTE racing in the past few years, the team’s immaculately presented Ferraris have appeared in Michelin Le Mans Cup, ELMS, GT World Challenge Europe, Ferrari Challenge and at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Nov 7, 2022 · The partnership was officially announced in Portimão by Lamborghini Chairman and CEO, Stephan Winkelmann and Lamborghini Head of Motorsport, Giorgio Sanna. Lamborghini and Iron Lynx will collaborate on the new LMDh prototype which will feature hybrid technology powered by a twin-turbo V8 engine.
Jul 1, 2021 · Prema Powerteam will join forces with fellow junior single-seater outfit Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab under a new owner, Swiss company DC Racing Solutions.
Iron Lynx is born: Based on an idea of Deborah Mayer, Claudio Schiavoni, Sergio Pianezzola and Andrea Piccini, Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab’s story begins.
