Tuesday 12 March 2013
Championship Contenders Dillon and Bayne Need Vegas Boost
After Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won last season’s race at Las Vegas in the No. 6 Ford, Trevor Bayne is hoping to duplicate Stenhouse’s success by wheeling the No. 6 to Victory Lane this weekend, where he hopes to improve upon his 11th-place position in the standings. Austin Dillon, last year’s third-place finisher in the final [...]
British F3 hopeful of 15-car grids
The British Formula 3 International Series' promoter is confident of a grid of at least 15 cars for the opening round of the slimmed-down four-event championship.
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Austin Dillon Earns a Sixth-Place Finish in No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
2013 NNS Austin Dillon (AdvoCare) - Photo Credit: Jerry Markland/Getty ImagesAustin Dillon drove Richard Childress Racing’s No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet to a sixth-place finish in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Dillon started the 200-lap affair from the fourth position and looked strong from the start of the...more»
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Bird says ISR has made huge strides
Sam Bird believes his 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 team ISR has made a big step forward for this year, having tested for the Czech squad at Paul Ricard last week.
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Late Models at Mid-Ohio
The 5th round of the Late Model Road Racing World Series will be broadcast live from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on this Sunday, March 10 at 22:30 GMT on latemodelroad.com. The 3.8 Km, 15 turn track has fiercely challenged the mettle of the world’s top drivers for more than four decades and now it’s time for some late models to attack this road racing masterpiece. After a strong pole and victory at Spa-Francorchamps, Vallius gained four positions and is now fifth in the series standings with 46 points. Maillard still sits in the lead with 73 points and Prado, keeping up on a string of 2nd place finishes, is just 13 points behind the frenchman. In third place, with 54 points is de Wit. The fourth spot is occupied [...]
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Monday 11 March 2013
Gordon: drivers must respect NASCAR
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon believes drivers have to know when and how to voice criticisms after Denny Hamlin was fined for comments about the new Gen 6 car. Hamlin is appealing against the $25,000 fine levied when he suggested that the quality of Sprint Cup racing had declined this year during a post-race interview at Phoenix last week. Gordon argued that drivers had a responsibility for the sport's presentation.
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Vettel expects Mercedes to be a threat
Sebastian Vettel believes that Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have 'dangerous' potential ahead of the new Formula 1 season. Mercedes impressed in last week's final Barcelona test, setting fastest times overall with single-lap efforts but also delivering strong long-run pace. Although it is not clear yet just how much of a step forward Mercedes has made, Vettel believes that Hamilton and Rosberg could surprise.
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Rain gives Keselowski Vegas pole
NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was cancelled due to persistent rain on Friday, giving pole to champion Brad Keselowski.
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RAB Racing Reinstates John Wes Townley: NASCAR Fan Reaction (Yahoo! Contributor Network)
On March 23, RAB Racing announced that driver John Wes Townley has been reinstated and will be able to compete at the Camping World Truck Series Kroger 250 on March 31. Townley was officially placed on probation by NASCAR on March 22 because of a previous DUI arrest.
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Access AMA Live Timing & Scoring and official race results for 2013 AMA Supercross at www.amasupercross.com
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- Fans seeking live timing and scoring of the 2013 AMA Supercross season will find it just a click away at www.amasupercross.com. In addition to live, lap-by-lap updates that keep fans plugged into the action, the site includes...
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Toyota Motorsports 2013 NSCS Kobalt Tools 400 Post-Race Recaps
Toyota Racing LogoMatt Kenseth won the 50th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race for the Toyota Camry with his victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch earned the first Toyota Camry NSCS victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway (3-9-08). Toyota began competing in the NSCS with the...more»
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2013 NASCAR Cup Series Las Vegas Starting Lineup – Keselowski On Pole
1 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford 2012 OP – 1st 2 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota 2012 OP – 2nd 3 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s / Kobalt Tools Chevrolet 2012 OP – 3rd 4 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance Chevrolet 2012 OP – 4th 5 16 Greg Biffle American Red Cross / 3M [...]
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Mexico may be Block’s sole WRC event
Ken Block has admitted this week's Rally Mexico could be his only World Rally Championship outing of the season. The American had hoped to compete at least three WRC 2013 rounds, but his schedule of Rally America, Global Rallycross and X Games events mean his Guanajuato outing is likely to be his sole WRC show of the year.
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Sunday 10 March 2013
What City Do Christine Quinn and James Vacca Represent?
In February, no fewer than nine people were killed by drivers while walking in NYC, according to data compiled by Streetsblog. The victims included five seniors and a 6-year-old child. Two victims were on the sidewalk when they were killed. Another was struck by an NYPD officer in a crash that police refuse to explain [...]
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Darlington Raceway Offers New Hospitality Option for Race Fans
Fans in the Champions Club - Photo Credit Harrelson Photography for Darlington RacewayThe Champions Club is an all-inclusive VIP experience DARLINGTON, S.C. (March 8, 2013) – A new turn-key hospitality option is available for race fans wanting a VIP experience when they attend either the NASCAR Nationwide Series 200 on May 10 or the Bojangles’...more»
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Incident in Closing Laps Leaves Kyle Larson with 32nd Place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Kyle LarsonLAS VEGAS, Nev. (March 10, 2013) – Rolling to the track where the No. 32 Turner Scott Motorsports team claimed the organization’s first NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) win two years ago, rookie Kyle Larson had high hopes for a repeat of his team’s previous performance in the Sam’s Town 300 on Saturday. Dialing in...more»
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JR Motorsports Announces Partnership with Keen Parts Inc.
JR Motorsports“Corvette restoration parts supplier a 2013 sponsor on JRM’s No. 7 Chevrolet” MOORESVILLE, N.C. (March 8, 2013) – JR Motorsports announced today a new partnership with Keen Parts Inc., a leading supplier of Corvette restoration parts. As an official partner, Keen Parts will receive branding on the decklid of Regan Smith’s No. 7 Chevrolet...more»
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Kane moves to BES with JRM Nissan
American Le Mans Series race winner Steven Kane has filled the final seat in the JRM Nissan team's all-pro line-up in the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series.
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Saturday 9 March 2013
There’s Still Nothing Special About a Million NYPD Traffic Summonses
To read the Daily News analysis of 2012 summons data, you’d think NYPD has reckless driving completely under control. While the story throws out a lot of purportedly high figures, as usual the tabloid’s perspective is distorted by the windshield.
NYPD may have stopped as few as 19,119 speeding drivers in city neighborhoods in 2012. Overall [...]
NYPD may have stopped as few as 19,119 speeding drivers in city neighborhoods in 2012. Overall [...]
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Ogier’s lead grows amid drama
Sebastien Ogier survived a scare with a closed gate on SS18 of Rally Mexico to take a near three-minute lead into the final day. The dominant Volkswagen lost half a minute on Otates when Ogier encountered a gate that had been closed across the stage prior to him coming through. He had to stop so that co-driver Julien Ingrassia could open the gate and let them continue.
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Block in ‘best ever’ WRC form
Ken Block's team boss believes the American is delivering his best ever World Rally Championship performance on what could be his sole appearance of 2013. Despite not competing at the sport's highest level since August last year, Block moved into the top 10 on Friday's opening stage and stayed there ever since to start leg two in seventh spot.
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Report: Provo concept name has Kia embroiled in terrorism controversy?
Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Etc., Europe, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Kia
In the relatively lengthy press release that Kia composed for the launch of its Provo concept car at the Geneva Motor Show this week, the company never mentioned where the name came from, or what it means for the car. A very basic web search for "Provo" reveals that the inspiration for the hatch could have been a city in Utah, a township in South Dakota or a village in Bosnia. The name could be a reference to either an American (Fred) or Canadian (Dwayne) football player, and Provo might also accurately reference a "Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s" or a ship in the US Navy. More likely than any of those, however, is that the Kia designers of the concept - a car that was wholly a product of the Korean automaker's design studios in Frankfurt, for the record - meant it as a play on the existing Pro_cee'd hatchback.
What the designers and Kia executives that signed off on the Provo almost certainly did not have in mind was a reference to a street name for the Provisional Irish Republican Army. That "Provo" was, according to TheDetroitBureau.com, an outlawed army faction that was blamed for some 2,000 deaths in Northern Ireland during a period stretching from 1970 to 1997.
And yet, it was that association that led Gregory Campbell, a member of parliament from Northern Ireland, to introduce legislation that would ban Kia from selling a car under the name Provo. Kia, quick to realize the sizable gaffe it has stumbled into with the name, has reportedly already promised not to use the name for a production vehicle.
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Coletti sets pace as GP2 test ends
GP2 veteran Stefano Coletti set the pace on the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona on Thursday. The Rapax driver came out on top during a flurry of activity in the morning session, as most drivers ran the soft tyre compound once the track had dried out. Coletti was also one of the leading runners in the slower afternoon session, setting the second fastest time on the hard tyre as Felipe Nasr led the way with a soft compound run
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Infiniti Debuts a Q50 Diesel for Europe [2013 Geneva Auto Show]
Infiniti honcho Johan de Nysschen freely admits that the Nissan luxury division was created primarily for the U.S. market, which accounts for the bulk of Infiniti sales. He also concedes that one of his priorities is to evolve that business footprint, adding black numbers to the balance sheet by expanding Infiniti’s presence in the European [...]
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Muggleton’s Magical Spa Party
Round Five of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series took the teams and drivers to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, this challenging 25 lap race will be one of the longest of the season with lap times around the two minutes and twenty three second area. Justin Ruggier would take pole position with a 2:22.296 while Madison Down would start from second on a 2.22.417. Joshua Muggleton and Vail Riches would start from the second row while Shaun Kelly and John Emerson would start from the third row. Michael Fabian and Matthew Hill would from the fourth row and rounding out the top ten on the fifth row of the grid would be Brad Ryan and Robert Hartley. When the lights went green it was Down taking to the lead and for the [...]
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Friday 8 March 2013
New tyres and livery for DeltaWing
The latest version of the experimental DeltaWing racer will run on Bridgestone tyres, it has been confirmed less than two days before the car is due to test for the first time. The DeltaWing's switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres has been an open secret for the past two weeks, but the move was finally made public today (Monday) at the same time as the car's new livery was revealed. Two days of testing are scheduled at Road Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday before the car is shipped to Sebring, scene of the American Le Mans Series opener on March 16
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Hayden undergoes wrist operation
Ducati MotoGP factory rider Nicky Hayden has undergone a 'minor tune up' operation on his injured right hand and wrist. The American sustained two small fractures to his right hand in a violent Indianapolis qualifying accident which also briefly knocked him out in August last year. He then aggravated the injury at Aragon when he flew over the track perimeter in a second-lap crash.
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Report: Ford Mustang to get four-cylinder in Europe, but not US
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Ford
Fans of the Ford Mustang SVO, which was produced from 1884 through 1986 with a turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine and a manual transmission, may be interested to know that Ford is reportedly going to introduce something similar for 2015. But don't get too excited if you live in the US, as Edmunds reports that the vehicle will be offered in Europe only. Boo!
According to the report, Ford will put a version of its EcoBoost turbocharged four-cylinder into the engine bay of the Mustang. The engine would be enlarged from its current 2.0 liters to 2.3 liters, taking horsepower from 252 to around 300. The well-known 5.0 V8 engine will also be available in Europe.
"The Mustang is uniquely Ford and has a huge fan base here in Europe. Now those fans have something to look forward to and we look forward to providing more details in the near future," says Ford of Europe CEO Stephen Odell. That's great... but why not offer buyers in the States the (likely) fuel-efficient turbo option, too?
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Ricciardo: 2012 form no longer enough
Daniel Ricciardo says he could not be satisfied with another year near the foot of the Formula 1 midfield now he is starting his second full season. The Australian was 18th in the championship in 2012, with four ninth places as his best results. He feels that was acceptable for a rookie season, but that he would be frustrated with himself and the Toro Rosso team if 2013 did not deliver clear progress.
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10 Coolest Geneva Auto Show Debuts We Want But Can’t Have
European auto shows are fantastic in that they expose us to awesome cars that we don’t get here in America. European auto shows are also awful because they expose us to awesome cars we don’t get here in America. But we think it’s better to have seen and lusted over than to never have seen [...]
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Geneva: Sbarro Réact' E.V. isn't electric, could be very fast
Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Racing
The Espera Sbarro Montbéliard School of Design has followed up its 137-horsepower Intencity EV concept and 360-hp V8-powered Eight concept with this, the Réact' E.V. Note the periods between the "e" and the "v" - this isn't an electric vehicle, it's an "Ecological Vehicle" with a hybrid powertrain.
In back, underneath the reptilian-scale-like cover, is a Peugeot-sourced V6 with 210 horsepower that turns the rear wheels. Turning the front wheels are two DC brushless motors that are each worth 100kW and 553 pound-feet of torque. They get juice from a 24-kWh battery pack and combined grunt is said to be 484 hp.
Rumor is that it took the students just 13 weeks to get it all together and that the two-seater coupe actually runs, something we haven't seen the other two concepts do. We'll find out soon enough since they have plans to run the Réact' E.V. in the 14th Monte Carlo Rallye of New Energies later this month. There are a few more details in the press release below to go with the high-res gallery above.
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Thursday 7 March 2013
2013 NASCAR RACE #2 RESULTS, PHOENIX – CARL EDWARDS WINS
1 15 99 Carl Edwards Subway Ford 2 3 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 3 8 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Toyota 4 11 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford 5 21 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet 6 13 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota 7 9 20 Matt Kenseth Husky Toyota 8 [...]
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How to Turn a Public Parking Space Into a Private Storage Locker, Legally
Given the extent to which we subsidize car parking in the United States — giving away space for free on the vast majority of public streets — it’s surprising we don’t see the system abused more often.
Rob Pitingolo has an ingenious plan to turn a parking space into a storage locker. The secret is to [...]
Rob Pitingolo has an ingenious plan to turn a parking space into a storage locker. The secret is to [...]
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Late Models in Maine
The snow covered facility in Oxford, Maine was no obstacle for iRacing’s Late Model Series last week as drivers visited the speedway through the comfort of their own homes. Oxford Plains, notorious in iRacing for its almost perfect circle shape was the host for week 5. Technically the oval is of a .375 mile distance featuring four corners with 9o of banking. Who could manage their tires best and claim victory over the 70 lap features which ran throughout the week. The answer to this was Kollin Keister who competed in only 3 races, but managing 2 wins and poles, as well as leading 138 of 210 laps. Kollin claimed 166 championship points just barely edging out Ty Majeski. Ty only participated in one race, but he claimed a clean [...]
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Kevin Swindell 2013 NNS Sam’s Town 300 Race Preview
Race: Sam’s Town 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series: 3 of 33 Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway Date: March 9, 2013 Kevin Swindell Biagi-DenBeste Racing - Photo Credit: Jerry Markland/Getty ImagesKevin Swindell and the No. 98 Biagi-DenBeste Racing team will take to the track this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This will be the first race...more»
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Blake Koch Looking to Raise the Bar in Las Vegas
Blake Koch, driver of the SR2 Motorsports Toyota Camry“Aims to Keep Momentum from Phoenix Rolling” MOORESVILLE, N.C. (March 6, 2012) – Blake Koch set a new benchmark for SR2 Motorsports at Phoenix International Raceway in last weekend’s Dollar General 200. He eclipsed the team’s best finish of 22nd place at the “Desert Jewel” with a...more»
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Wednesday 6 March 2013
Boullier: Lotus more secure than rivals
Lotus team boss Eric Boullier is confident his squad will out-last many of its current Formula 1 rivals even though owner Genii is still looking for a partner. Boullier told AUTOSPORT Lotus had plenty of financial security even while the search for new investment continued
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2014 Porsche 911 GT3: Low, Glorious, and Sexy [In the Round 360˚ Photos]
Porsche’s newest 911 GT3—like its less-extreme siblings—maintains the classic 911 look and proportions, but it’s all-new. What better way to pore over the nuances than to take it for a 360-degree spin? Photos and Info: 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 Instrumented Test: 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera First Drive: 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 / Carrera 4S [...]
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NIKA Racing to join WTCC grid
NIKA Racing will step up to the World Touring Car Championship on a full-time basis this year. The Swedish squad, which has been a frontrunner in Scandinavian Touring Cars for a number of years as Chevrolet's official entry, will field a single Cruze 1.6T similar to the machines being run by RML and Bamboo-Engineering.
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Video: Jeff Gordon And Crew Do The Harlem Shake
Jeff Gordon and his crew get down to the Harlem Shake!
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Nationwide Series Phoenix Results – Busch Dominates At Phoenix For 52Nd Nationwide Win
March 2, 2013 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz.—Nothing was going to keep Kyle Busch out of Victory Lane on Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway. Not a pit road speeding penalty. Not a spate of cautions that kept bunching the field. Not Brad Keselowski, who in the past has found magic out front [...]
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Subaru Viziv Concept: Previews Future Styling, Potential Diesel-Electric Hybrid System [2013 Geneva Auto Show]
Segment-busting, sports-coupe/crossover concept cars are making quite a splash at this year’s Geneva auto show. The Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour and Kia Provo both mix two-door bodies with decent ground clearance and speedy styling, and now Subaru has joined the fray with its Viziv crossover concept, a diesel-electric hybrid with coupe-like style. Unlike the Parcour and, [...]
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Businessman Who Protested 1st Ave Safety Fixes: It’s the 9-Year-Old’s Fault
NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance are reportedly targeting a crossing guard for her supposed role in the death of 6-year-old Amar Diarrassouba, who was killed by a truck driver in East Harlem Thursday morning. Meanwhile, a local businessman and community board member who waged a campaign against pedestrian refuges and protected bike lanes [...]
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Brian Vickers 2013 NNS Sam’s Town 300 Race Preview
Brian Vickers - Photo Credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty ImagesBrian Vickers / No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Preview Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway No. 20 Dollar General Toyota News and Notes: · PHOENIX RECAP: The No. 20 Dollar General team had a solid run at Phoenix International Raceway this past week until a car...more»
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Tuesday 5 March 2013
Hamilton: Mercedes must feel pressure
Lewis Hamilton thinks it vital that he and his Mercedes bosses keep up the pressure on the team ahead of first race of the 2013 Formula 1 campaign.
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Russian Time replaces iSport in GP2
Russian Time will replace iSport on the 2013 GP2 grid, the series has confirmed. As AUTOSPORT revealed in February, former champion team iSport was on the verge of selling its GP2 entry to avoid potentially going bust later in the season. Russian Time, nominally a Russian entry but based in Germany, has now been confirmed as the 13th entrant for this year's championship in place of iSport.
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Brendan Gaughan 2013 NNS Sam’s Town 300 Race Preview
Brendan Gaughan (NNS) - Photo Credit: Jeff Gross / Getty ImagesBrendan Gaughan No. 21 South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet Camaro Event Preview Fact Sheet This Week’s South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet at Las Vegas Motor Speedway … Brendan Gaughan will pilot Chassis No. 188 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable...more»
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Toyota FT-86 Open Concept: What a Topless FR-S Would Look Like [2013 Geneva Auto Show]
Although Toyota maintains that the FT-86 Open concept you see here is simply an exercise to “test the water” for the possible introduction of a convertible version, we’d say the collective public already is in the pool. From the moment the first images of the Scion FR-S (known in Europe as the Toyota GT 86, [...]
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Updates not a priority for Force India
Paul di Resta says Force India will focus on honing its existing package rather than introducing a raft of updates ahead of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Most Formula 1 teams have waited until the final Barcelona test bolt on and trial their Melbourne configurations.
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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series First Drive: Mercedes’ Crown Jewel Is Now a Black Diamond
Not particularly beautiful but extremely rare and exotic, carbonado is an incredibly hard stone also known as black diamond. It is found exclusively in Brazil and Central Africa, and yet the traces of hydrogen contained within carbonado suggest that it wasn’t even formed on this planet. As a best guess, scientists posit black diamonds were [...]
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New tyres and livery for DeltaWing
The latest version of the experimental DeltaWing racer will run on Bridgestone tyres, it has been confirmed less than two days before the car is due to test for the first time. The DeltaWing's switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres has been an open secret for the past two weeks, but the move was finally made public today (Monday) at the same time as the car's new livery was revealed. Two days of testing are scheduled at Road Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday before the car is shipped to Sebring, scene of the American Le Mans Series opener on March 16
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Monday 4 March 2013
Chilton: team-mate doubt an advantage
Formula 1 rookie Max Chilton says the uncertainty surrounding the identity of his Marussia team-mate has been a big advantage as it has increased the amount of track time available to him during pre-season. The 21-year-old Briton, who is stepping up from GP2 this year, drove the MR02 on the opening day of F1's final test on Thursday, and went ninth fastest . With Timo Glock having been released from his contract in January, and Luiz Razia's future with the team now in doubt, Chilton has now completed seven of the nine days of testing this year; more than any other driver.
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iRacer Profile: Tommaso Carla
It took Tommaso Carla two stabs at supplying his answers for this week’s iRacer Profile. The first go produced a number of, er, brief (not to say monsylabic) answers. So much so that Tommaso re-sent his answers with an apology for the first set being a little too “Raikkonen-esque.” While Tommaso stopped well short of saying “Leave me alone, I know what I’m doing!” his record during his brief membership at iRacing strongly suggests that, like the pithy Finn, he doesn’t need a whole lot of advice when it comes to racing. After joining iRacing in October, Carla quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with, besting Elmar Erlekotte to capture the 2012 S4 SpecRacer Ford Challenge with an impressive 37 wins from 58 starts. He didn’t do [...]
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Aiming for Number One . . . Again
The iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series set to kick-off this Saturday at Spa-Francorchamps in an online race that will be broadcast on iRacing.com/live at 14:00 GMT (9 am). Hugo Luis will be looking to hit the ground running in a bid to regain the title he lost in 2012. We caught up with the My3id team sim-racer to get his thoughts on last year and the season ahead. To many competitors, finishing second to Team Redline’s Greger Huttu in the 2012 iWCGPS is quite an achievement. For Luis, who was defending the title, it was more of a case of what might have been. “It could be better. I didn’t feel that happy about the first half season performance,” he answers earnestly. “I already started the season without [...]
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Nationwide Series Phoenix Results – Busch Dominates At Phoenix For 52Nd Nationwide Win
March 2, 2013 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz.—Nothing was going to keep Kyle Busch out of Victory Lane on Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway. Not a pit road speeding penalty. Not a spate of cautions that kept bunching the field. Not Brad Keselowski, who in the past has found magic out front [...]
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Hamilton tops penultimate day of testing
Lewis Hamilton ended the third day of the final pre-season Barcelona test on top of the timesheets. The weather was the best seen so far and the Mercedes driver's morning effort of 1m20.558s, set on Pirelli's soft tyre, proved quicker than anyone could manage in the afternoon.
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Chilton: team-mate doubt an advantage
Formula 1 rookie Max Chilton says the uncertainty surrounding the identity of his Marussia team-mate has been a big advantage as it has increased the amount of track time available to him during pre-season. The 21-year-old Briton, who is stepping up from GP2 this year, drove the MR02 on the opening day of F1's final test on Thursday, and went ninth fastest . With Timo Glock having been released from his contract in January, and Luiz Razia's future with the team now in doubt, Chilton has now completed seven of the nine days of testing this year; more than any other driver.
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Sunday 3 March 2013
Pedrosa back on top at Sepang
Dani Pedrosa restored his testing superiority on the final day of MotoGP's second winter 2013 test at Sepang on Thursday. Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo had become the first man to beat Pedrosa in a 2013 test when he led the way on day two , but Honda was back in front as the Malaysian test wrapped up. It was a one-two for the team, as Pedrosa's new team-mate Marc Marquez took second place, just 0.081 seconds adrift
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Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972?
The National Transportation Safety Board, whose current chair, Deborah Hersman, is the reported frontrunner to replace Ray LaHood as transportation secretary, is the federal agency charged with ”assisting victims of transportation accidents and their families.” These are the people who investigate every single plane or passenger train crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board has made 13,000 safety recommendations, [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board has made 13,000 safety recommendations, [...]
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Video: This man loves his car and hates hail
The heart can be a cruel master. It's a sad fact, but a true one in our experience. And it's fair to say that our experience in matters of the heart as they regard our automobiles is rather shallow when compared with the subject of this ludicrous video.
The car-lover herein has adopted a strategy to protect his car from a rather impressive hailstorm that is as ineffective as it is hilarious. "Swimming" away the projectiles from the top of the car is such an insane idea, in fact, that only the ferocity of the storm keeps us from believing that this wasn't a cynical grab at YouTube stardom. It still may have been, who knows, but the hail-swatting hero didn't come out of the attempt unbruised. Enjoy the madness below.
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Indy plays down leaked report ideas
IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway's owners say some of the recommendations in a leaked report from Boston Consulting Group could come to fruition, but that it should not be taken as a firm blueprint for the future. The Associated Press reported that it had obtained what Indy parent firm Hulman & Co CEO Mark Miles described as an "early version" of a 115-page report on improving the positioning of the IndyCar Series.
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Button quickest on second morning
Jenson Button put McLaren at the head of the field on the second morning of Formula 1's final pre-season test at Barcelona on Friday. The 2009 world champion's 1m25.936s lap came on medium-compound Pirelli slicks and knocked newly re-signed Force India driver Adrian Sutil off the top spot.
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GLOBAL iPRINT NAMED OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF NHRA
NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. Jan. 4, 2012 Global iPrint, a premier printing and distribution company, has signed a three-year agreement to become the "Official Print Sponsor" of NHRA....
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Saturday 2 March 2013
PEAK® Motor Oil and Antifreeze and Michael Waltrip Racing Team Up to Launch “PEAK Stock Car Dream Challenge”
PEAK Racing LogoNationwide search for the next Michael Waltrip Racing stock car driving star PHOENIX – (March 1, 2013) – PEAK® Motor Oil and Antifreeze, a brand within the portfolio of Old World Industries, and Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) today jointly announced the launch of the “PEAK Stock Car Dream Challenge,” a nationwide quest for...more»
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Preziosi resigns from Ducati
Filippo Preziosi has resigned from Ducati before he was due to start his new position at the team, citing poor health.
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The Daley Double
The World Center of Speed was the host for Week Four of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (fixed setup). Over 3,100 sim racers took to Daytona International Speedway during the week in hopes of taking the checkered flag first. Daytona is very popular among online racers due to the fact that anybody can win here with a little luck and making the right moves. That being said, winning at Daytona is something that all drivers want to accomplish in their careers, whether it is on the virtual track or the real track. This week, someone who knows how to put things in the right place at the right time was able to take the victory in the week’s high Strength of Field event. Byron Daley (New York) drove his [...]
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