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On This Day in Automotive History: April 13

On This Day in Automotive History
April 13

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Birthdays: Christian Lautenschlager (1877), Alton Soules (1893), Tom Lupo (1921), Al Funderburk (1922), John Coundley (1924), Frank Matthews (1924), Andre Testut (1926), Dan Gurney (1931), Leroy Van Conett (1935), Jose Rosinski (1936), Larry Thomas (1936), Larry Cannon (1937), Cliff Garner (1937), Bob Studdard (1938), Mike Beuttler (1940), David Frazer (1940), Xavier Lapeyre (1942), Eldon Dotson (1945), Ricardo Zunino (1949), Keith White (1950), Jeff Halverson (1952), Chris Aman (1960), Bill Meacham (1960), Russ Hersey (1968), Pat Schwartzkopf (1968), Kevin Mundy (1969), Darryl Carl (1970), Ricky Schroder (1970), Adam Burrows (1971), Frank Kapfhammer (1971), Darren Turner (1974), Larry Barford, Jr. (1975), Chris Blawat (1979), Tony Bruncati (1980), Bela Szilagyi (1982), Will Bratt (1988), Travis Miller (1988), Simon Escallier (1989), Jeremy Davis (1990), Simone Monforte (1992), Brett Robinson (1993), Konstantins Calko (1994), Ryan Huff (2001)

1971: Under instructions issued by FHWA today, each urbanized area must be certified annually by the FHWA regional office as having an areawide policy board, an acceptable organizational arrangement to carry on the work, and an acceptable planning process. The FHWA Division Engineer can approve proposed projects only in certified areas and only if the project is part of a program that implements a plan held currently valid by the policy board.

2001: Honda introduced the Integra DC5.

2008: Jeffrey F. Paniati takes the oath of office as Executive Director, FHWA's highest career post. After joining FHWA in 1983 as a Highway Engineer Trainee, he served in a variety of posts, most recently as Associate Administrator for Operations. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters recommended him for the post and he was approved by President George W. Bush.

2009: President Barack Obama visits DOT to announce funding for the 2,000th transportation project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, only 6 weeks after the first project was approved under the recession relief legislation. The President, who is joined by Vice President Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in the West Atrium, says, "I am proud to utter the two rarest phrases in the English language - projects are being approved ahead of schedule, and they are coming in under budget."

2015: Production began on the Jaguar XE.

Date	Series	Race	Track	Winner	Winner's Car
13 April 2019	ABB Formula E Series	Geox Rome ePrix	Circuto Cittadino dell'EUR	Mitch Evans	Jaguar I-Type III
13 April 2019	Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series	Toyota Owners 400	Richmond Raceway	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota
13 April 2019	NASCAR Whelen Euro Elite 1	Valencia Round 1	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	Ander Vilarino	Ford
13 April 2019	NASCAR Whelen Euro Elite 2	Valencia Round 1	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	Giorgio Maggi	Ford
13 April 2019	Virgin Australia Supercars	WD-40 Phillip Island SuperSprint #1	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Scott McLaughlin	Ford
13 April 2019	Weathertech SportsCar Championship	Bubba Burger Grand Prix at Long Beach	Long Beach Street Circuit	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	Cadillac DPi

On This Day in Automotive History: April 13