Which races were closely contested?
An independent arm of the committee decides which races merit investment.
Fiat is the controlling shareholder in Ferrari, which races in the tournament.
He declined to say which races the group planned to focus on.
That is huge in a sport in which races are decided by tenths of a second.
In other cases, representatives of the governor approached local Democratic Party officials and asked them which races were crucial.
Party chairs have to make tough internal calls about which races get prioritized and have to arbitrate internal squabbling.
Theirs is the invisible part of elections, where someone has to have sorted out, precinct by precinct, which races are on which ballots in which places.
Executives at Facebook declined to offer more details about the PAC or to say which races it would make contributions to.
And Ligety knows that things can change quickly in a sport in which races are decided by the slimmest of margins.
"It is a very good start," said Barry Irwin, managing partner of Team Valor International, which races top horses and breeds them all over the world.
