Ho! Ho! Ho! Holiday House a Success!

We don't have the bottom line just yet but MMAE Mecklenburg Medical Alliance & Endowment) would like to thank our members and volunteers for their hard work and dedication in making Dazzling! the 2010 Holiday House a success. MMAE estimates that Holiday House will net somewhere between $25 and $30,000 for our Endowment, money that will help the Alliance continue its mission of building a healthier community.

Without your efforts, the Alliance would never have been able to host this 3-day holiday-themed design house. Our gratitude starts with the Holiday House Committee; each member put in an incredible number of hours to make the 18th Holiday House become a reality.

Thank you to Judy Verross for lending us her fabulous Granville Road home; because of Judy, we’ve all become fans of the "blue bootie look" and added a new word to our vocabularies, “rectilinear!”

Special thanks to Allison Berkowitz and Laura Weisner, who recruited an extraordinary team of floral, interior, and landscape designers to create the vision that became Holiday House!

Thank you to our Tinsel Town shop keepers; to the ticket sales and money team; to the Preview Party planners; to the publicity and photography, marketing and program designers; and to the talented Suzy Ohl, who played her magic flute, thereby enhancing the Holiday House experience.

MMAE would also like to acknowledge the many, many volunteers who acted as house hostesses. Ann Fehring and her merry band of hostess volunteers did an outstanding job.

Where would we have been without our sponsors? Thank you to everyone who bought an ad, sold an ad, or designed an ad! Kudos to MMAE member Stephanie Insko, who had the "Holiday House Story" included in the Hendricks Motors of Charlotte Mercedes newletter and brought Mercedes in as a raffle sponsor. Vikki Rankin, winner of a Mercedes E-Cabriolet Convertible for a weekend, was thrilled!

William Walker Wins Auto Show Drawing

William Walker was the winner of the drawing held from all registrants from this year's Greater Charlotte International Auto Show. He had the choice of a Mercedes-Benz Nike golf bag or this very nice 4 person picnic basket with china and glass serving pieces within. He chose the picnic basket and seems very happy with his prize. Thanks to all who participated.
If you'd like one of these baskets, golf bag or some other Mercedes-Benz accessories please visit our Parts Department during your next visit.

Again, congratulations William Walker.

AMG Mercedes driver DiResta is 2010 DTM Champion, AMG drivers 2nd and 3rd

The 2010 DTM season has ended at the Shanghai Circuit in China and AMG Driving Academy sponsored driver Paul DiResta is the Driver's Champion. AMG Mercedes drivers rounded out the top three with Gary Paffett nipping season long points leader Bruno Spengler in this final race. The top placing Audi driver was defending Champion Timo Scheider in 4th. AMG Mercedes had already clinched the DTM Manufacturer's crown at the penultimate round of the series in Adria.

The final race was won by Paffett in his Salzgitter HWA AMG C-Class, the 9th AMG Mercedes win of the 11 race season, with DiResta's second place enough to earn him the crown worn by such legendary AMG drivers before him as Bernd Schneider and Klaus Ludwig. The DTM Driver's title has not been won by an AMG Mercedes driver since Schneider in 2006.

The Holiday dinner table back in Scotland will be plenty festive as DiResta's cousin Dario Franchitti won the 2010 Indy 500 and was crowned the Izod Indy Car Series Champion for the second year in a row.

DiResta is now rumored to be headed to Formula One where he has been reserve driver for the Force India Mercedes team. This would open up the best seat in the DTM in the crack HWA Team for 2011.

The 2011 season will again see the specification of the cars frozen at 2009 designs ahead of an all new DTM formula for 2012 when BMW rejoins the series and DTM prepares for their style of racing to be exported around the world including to the US for 2013.

Here are the final standings for the 2010 DTM Driver's Championship and the Shanghai race- round 11.

1. Gary Paffett Salzgitter HWA AMG C-Class
2. Paul DiResta AMG Driving Academy HWA C-Class
3.Timo Schieder Abt Sportline Audi A4
4.Martin Tomczyk Abt Sportline Audi A4
5. Miguel Molina Abt Rookie Team Audi A4

2011 DTM Driver's Standings

1. Paul Di Resta
2. Gary Paffett
3. Bruno Spengler
4. Timo Scheider
5.Mattias Eckstrom

Autoweek drives the E63 AMG "This car is a beast"

Our friends at Autoweek are at it again this time driving the E63 AMG- a beast.
Check out the article:
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20101119/CARREVIEWS/101119842

Hendrick Motors of Charlotte is the area's Exclusive AMG Performance Center. Click HERE for more info.