With depth and experience at each position, Syracuse is the early team to beat.

He was familiar with Birmingham from his playing days with the earlier team.

Many of the turns and points along the track are named for the early teams and drivers.

'Nothing to find there except what the earlier teams dropped,' he said bitterly.

All are fully trained and briefed about Iraq's past weapons programs, based on information gathered by earlier teams.

"Those early teams taught the game to other schools and then beat them," he said.

He named the team after an early professional team in the city.

He was part of the early team that put together a facility in Delhi and worked there for four years.

They have no connection with this, the earlier team of the same name.

They didn't tell us about the earlier teams.