It is owned by businessmen Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates.

Green substituted a race for Derrike Cope, and later signed a contract to drive the # 46 First Union / The Money Store Chevrolet, owned by Felix Sabates, for the rest of the year.

On July 9, 2006, Montoya announced his plans to compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series beginning with the 2007 season, racing for Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates ' NASCAR operation, Chip Ganassi Racing, in the No. 42 Texaco / Havoline Car.

Montoya ran in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona for Chip Ganassi in the # 02 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates BMW Riley with NASCAR teammate Jamie McMurray and Indycar champions Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti.

Fastenal sponsored the Chip Ganassi Racing entry, the No. 40 Dodge with Felix Sabates and lead driver Dario Franchitti, in the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series.

Between 2001 – 2008 the team also fielded teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series after Ganassi bought a majority stake in Sabates ' Team SABCO Racing.

The NASCAR operation was formed in 1989 by Felix Sabates, a Cuban immigrant who was a self-made millionaire in products such as Teddy Ruxpin.

For Sabates, it was just the beginning of a long, successful career in the NASCAR circuit that includes building one of the most visible and respected of all Winston Cup teams.

On 12 November 2008, DEI and Felix Sabates ' Chip Ganassi Racing ( Dodge ) merged their NASCAR operations into one organisation.

At the beginning of the 2009 season, his team, Dale Earnhardt, Inc. merged with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates and be renamed Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates.

But at the end of the year, Brooks closed up shop and sold the team back to Sabates.

What is now the # 34 car debuted in 1989 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, as the # 42 Peak Antifreeze Pontiac for Team SABCO, Felix Sabates ' race team.

In 1992, Sabates ' team branched out into the Busch Series.

In 1988, as an original owner of the New Orleans Hornets basketball team, Sabates played an intricate part negotiating with the NBA to grant franchise rights to Charlotte.

A tumultuous 2002 ended with Hornets moving to New Orleans, and the Checkers on the verge of being sold again and potentially moved ( Woolridge and Shinn eventually forced out an ECHL team in New Orleans ), Sabates once again teamed with Carl Scheer to purchase the Charlotte Checkers.

In addition, Sabates is the only person that had ownership in New Orleans Hornets and currently, the new expansion team, The Charlotte Bobcats.

He and his wife, Mimi, purchased the team from his father-in-law and current Nextel Cup co-owner Felix Sabates.

Gordon's first full-time ride came in 1997 with Felix Sabates ' Team SABCO.

For the 2000 season Irwin was tabbed by Felix Sabates to replace Joe Nemechek in Team SABCO's # 42 BellSouth-sponsored Chevrolet.

Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates ( CGRFS ), Formerly Team SABCO is an automotive racing organization with teams competing in the IZOD IndyCar Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series.

To allocate his time more effectively, Sabates ' Team Sabco partnered with Chip Ganassi to become Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates.

At the end of the 2004 season FBR announced that it was partenering with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which gave them access to more technical and engineering support.

With the egressing of both McMurray and Sterling Marlin from Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, Casey Mears became the senior driver and moved from the No. 41 Target Dodge to the Texaco Havoline No. 42 car.

In 2000, Sabates became heavily involved in a life long dream in the yachts industry.

Owner Chip Ganassi was initially adamant that McMurray would be held to his contract, but on November 7, 2005, McMurray was released when Ganassi and partner Felix Sabates learned that McMurray signed a contract with Roush already before the season ended.

However, Sabates plans to give his 20 % interest back to Ganassi during the 2012 season.

After a promise Sabates made to a large customer that he would deliver the Ruxpin bear in time for Christmas, when the popular Ruxpin bear became the gotta-have-it and then sold out before the Christmas holiday, Sabates chartered a Boeing 747 aircraft, removed the seats and filled the entire aircraft with Teddy Ruxpin bears and then delivered his promise to his loyal customer.

Although Sabates had been receiving weekly purchase orders larger than most similar firms total annual sales, Sabates insisted that his company continue selling products to the same small mom and pop retailers called on when the company had first started selling products.

In 1974, by age 32, Sabates conquered the American dream and bought the company.

Sabates bought Trinity Yachts, the factory which builds Mega-Yachts of 100 to over 200 feet in length with price tags that can exceed $ 50 million.

He also raced at Rockingham and Phoenix for Felix Sabates.

For 1998, Sabates chose a more experienced driver in 2-time Daytona 500 winner Sterling Marlin.

After that year, Petty and Sabates split and Coors moved to the # 40 car.

Felix Sabates ( born September 9, 1942 ) is an entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States.

Sabates ' name was then added to Ganassi's open-wheel operations.

Since the takeover in 2011, NEEP Roma Holding S. p. A. owned all shares Sensi previously hold.

Lasker brought in a wealthy partner, Charles Weeghman, the proprietor of a popular chain of lunch counters who had previously owned the Chicago Whales of the short-lived Federal League.

In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.

The public transportation is mostly privately owned in Haiti, previously it was an individual business, with the new generation of entrepreneurs, it is mainly association.

These people ( or their descendants ) could exchange their vouchers for land previously owned by agricultural co-operatives, who were forced to give up some of their land for this purpose.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

They were previously owned by Waterman Steamship Corporation but recently sold to MSC and now operated by Keystone Shipping Co.

In 1993 the network was privatised, and until 2003 the national network was owned by Tranz Rail, previously New Zealand Rail Limited.

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

The notion of selling a brand rather than marketing clothes was further emphasised in the Prada store in New York, which had previously been owned by the Guggenheim: the museum signs were not removed during the outfitting of the new store, as if emphasizing the premises as a cultural institution.

" Estate pipes " are previously owned pipes that are sold to new owners.

Following the battle of Tinchebray in 1106, Henry confiscated the County of Mortain from William, the Count of Mortain, and the Honour of Eye, a large lordship previously owned by Robert Malet.

* House at the sign of the Star (), previously Gothic, briefly owned by Filip Callimachus, then rebuilt in the 16th century and in 1697, with a richly-decorated stucco façade and wooden spiral stairs

Bugs in particular remains a mascot to Warner Bros .' various divisions and Six Flags ( which Time Warner previously owned ).

Due to bad publicity claiming that most of this land reform happened in a corrupt way and land went to politicians from ZANU-PF, military leaders or leaders in the police forces who account to less than 1, 000 individuals, actually more than 100, 000 blacks were resettled on land which was previously owned by few whites.

He was former President and CEO of the Chrysler, LLC ( previously owned by Daimler AG ), he may be best known in the United States as Dr. Z from a Chrysler advertising campaign called " Ask Dr. Z ".

O. Henry Hall, now owned by the University of Texas, previously served as the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement.

They bought a ranch previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California.

Recreating the city was also a challenge ; although Gygax still had his old maps of the original city, all of his previously published work on the city was owned by WotC, so he would have to create most of the city from scratch while maintaining the look and feel of his original.

It was previously owned by Scottish banker John Law and was the site of several historic balloon ascents.

* Bridge Farm is a farm previously on Berrow Estate, but now owned by Pat and Tony Archer.

These confrontations have also lead to Putin establishing control over Russian media outlets previously owned by the oligarchs.