Tarquini leads Honda 1-2-3 on grid

Gabriele Tarquini captured his and Honda's second straight World Touring Car pole at the Slovakia Ring. The Japanese marque dominated the session, locking out the top three courtesy of Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz in the Zengo-run Civic. Three-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller was the only man who looked capable of denying the Hondas, but fell just short in Q2

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In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding

Believe it or not, in many U.S. states one of the biggest obstacles to active transportation is in the constitution.
Embedded in the constitutions of 22 U.S. states are bans on spending gas tax revenues and/or vehicle registration fees on anything but highways and bridges. That means no matter how much practical value a sidewalk, busway, or [...]

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Volkswagen Announces 10-Speed Dual-Clutch Automatic, High-Performance Diesel

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn today announced at the Vienna motor symposium that his brand will produce a 10-speed dual-clutch automatic and a new high-performance diesel engine. In a speech in front of hundreds of engineers in Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, Winterkorn spoke of “the extremely wide gear-ratio spread, the reduced rpm range, and other improvements with [...]

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Force India aiming for top six

Force India is under no illusions about the task it faces to keep rival McLaren behind in the championship standings this year. The Silverstone-based squad finished seventh last season and started the 2013 campaign with the goal of regaining the sixth spot it secured a year earlier.

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Report: Anthony Foxx nominated by Obama to be next Transportation Secretary [w/video]

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Anthony Foxx, labeled by President Obama as "one of the most effective mayors Charlotte [North Carolina] has ever seen," has been nominated by the President to be the next Secretary of Transportation. Foxx would take over for Ray LaHood, who announced that he would be stepping down a few months ago.

President Obama had only positive things to say about Mr. LaHood, who had previously served in Congress as a Republican, calling him "a model for the kind of bipartisan approach to governance I think we need so badly in this town." Foxx had been a Democrat, but said during the nomination speech, "There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system."

Scroll down below to see a video from CBS News highlighting Obama's announcement and Foxx's acceptance.

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FAS Lane Racing and Timmy Hill Survive Richmond Short Track Battle

Timmy Hill, driver of the #32 OXY Water Ford - Photo Credit: Jerry Markland/Getty ImagesRICHMOND, VA.  (April 29, 2013) - FAS Lane Racing and rookie driver Timmy Hill continued their learning process at their first short track effort together on Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.  The duo battled the handling of their No. 32 OXYwater...more»

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Kyle Busch and Monster Energy Team Third at Richmond International Raceway; Richmond Finish Sixth Top-Three in Six Starts for Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch drives the #54 Monster Energy Toyota during practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. - Photo Credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty ImagesKyleDate: April 26, 2013 Event: ToyotaCare 250 (Race 7 of 33) Series: NASCAR Nationwide Series Location: Richmond (Va.) International Raceway (.75-mile oval) Start / Finish: 2nd...more»

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TV Schedule: April 26-28

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Dale Earnhardt Day... April 29, 2013: Being Dale Earnhardt

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Report: Tarantino's stolen Chevy Malibu from Pulp Fiction recovered after 19 years [w/video]

Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Government/Legal, Videos, Chevrolet, Celebrities

Quentin Tarantino fans will likely remember Vincent Vega's cherry 1964 Chevrolet Malibu Convertible in Pulp Fiction. In a movie drenched in automotive references, the Malibu is very nearly a character in and of itself, and it serves as the subject of Vega's soliloquy about the kind of man who vandalizes another's automobile. It also happened to be Tarantino's personal car when the film was shot, and was apparently stolen shortly after production wrapped. Now police have located the car some 19 years later.

As it turns out, the thieves cloned the vehicle identification number from another '64 Malibu and had the car registered under the new digits. It was then sold to an unsuspecting buyer. Police happened upon the duplicate VINs while investigating another potential theft. Right now, it's unclear whether Tarantino has taken possession of the Chevrolet, if it has remained in the possession of the fraud victim, or whether it's caught somewhere in the gears of justice. Either way, you can catch Vega's memorable thoughts on the car keying in the Pulp Fiction clip below. But consider yourself warned: the video contains explicit language as Not Safe For Work as it comes.

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"Caption this" winner: DaveHitt29

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Tarquini leads Honda 1-2-3 on grid

Gabriele Tarquini captured his and Honda's second straight World Touring Car pole at the Slovakia Ring. The Japanese marque dominated the session, locking out the top three courtesy of Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz in the Zengo-run Civic. Three-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller was the only man who looked capable of denying the Hondas, but fell just short in Q2

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Ferrari identifies Alonso DRS fault

Ferrari says it has identified an unprecedented mechanical failure that caused Fernando Alonso's DRS problem in the Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso was running second when his DRS flap jammed open early in the race. He pitted for the issue to be rectified, but although Ferrari felt it had been fixed, it reoccurred as soon as he tried to deploy DRS again.

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World of Outlaws Driver Profile: Levi Jones

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Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings

Without its Ecopass bus program CU-Boulder would have to build an estimated 2,700 parking spaces. Photo: Colorado Daily
This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, part two profiled Stanford, and part three looked at MIT.
Sustainability is part of the ethos in [...]

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Peugeot reveals full Pikes Peak spec

Peugeot has confirmed technical details of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak - a car tested for the first time by Sebastien Loeb last week.

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Da Costa sent to the back of grid

Antonio Felix da Costa has been put to the back of the grid for the first Formula Renault 3.5 race at Aragon after his car ran out of fuel in qualifying. The Red Bull junior stopped on track following the chequered flag, and was unable to get his car back to the pits after setting the third fastest time in the session. Just like in Formula 1, FR3.5 rules require teams to be able to produce a fuel sample from a car after qualifying.

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NASCAR revamps non-oval qualifying

The NASCAR Sprint Cup will adopt the group-based road course qualifying procedure that is used in the Nationwide and Touring Series for its upcoming races at Sonoma and Watkins Glen. Under the new system, the oval-style single-car qualifying runs will be replaced by having the cars go out to qualify in groups. "The change will add an exciting element to road-course qualifying," said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR vice president of competition

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The Weekly Carnage

The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage.
One man was killed and two others severely injured when a driver crashed into an auto body shop. Photo: Times Ledger
Fatal Crashes (3 Killed [...]

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Video: Proof the world revolves around the Porsche Cayman

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Porsche, Luxury

Or at least the world revolves underneath the Porsche Cayman, in the latest video showing off Stuttgart's mid-engine coupe. Porsche put an Easter egg in the world that spins triple-time, a "famous relative" of the Cayman hidden somewhere on the marble planet, and gave a Porsche Martini bag to one of the first 50 people who could point it out.

With more than 300 views there's no chance you'll win the bag, but you can still go on the treasure hunt in the video below.

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DRR aims to race on despite issues

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing will attempt to make occasional appearances in IndyCar over the remainder of the season if it is unable to secure the funding to continue full-time after the Indy 500. It was revealed early on Friday that the team will stand down after the Indy 500 unless it can attract additional investment, with the hope of regrouping and re-entering the series full-time in 2014.

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Tarquini keeps Honda on top in practice

Gabriele Tarquini kept Honda on top with a last-gasp effort in the second Slovakia Ring World Touring Car practice. The Italian had been down in ninth position heading into the final two minutes, his session compromised by an early off at Turn 13 which dragged gravel into the front of his car.

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Auto GP to race at Mugello

The Auto GP Series will race at Mugello on July 14th this year, replacing a provisional meeting scheduled to take place at Zandvoort. The change of venue for the fifth round of the championship is a result of the Dutch venue's preference to hold the event on July 7th, creating a potential clash with the German Grand Prix meeting. Series promoter Enzo Coloni said, "We are happy to be back at Mugello.

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Honda duo lead Slovakia Ring practice

Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro both dipped under official lap record pace to put Honda firmly on top in the first World Touring Car practice at the Slovakia Ring. The pair spent almost the entire session at the top of the timesheets, with only a brief salvo from the RML Chevrolet of Yvan Muller denying them a clean sweep. It was Monteiro who began fastest, getting to within two thousandths of a second of Norbert Michelisz's 2012 pole time in the opening nine minutes.

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2013 NASCAR Cup Series Richmond Starting Lineup – Matt Kenseth On Pole

1 20 Matt Kenseth Dollar General Toyota 20.716 130.334 2 11 Brian Vickers(i) FedEx Delivery Manager Toyota 20.721 130.303 3 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet 20.729 130.252 4 5 Kasey Kahne Quaker State / Menards Chevrolet 20.740 130.183 5 15 Clint Bowyer Toyota Care Toyota 20.744 130.158 6 42 Juan Pablo Montoya [...]

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Topless Hedonism: BMW M6, Porsche 911, Mercedes SL63, and Jag XKR-S Convertibles Compared

About halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, somewhere near the Piedras Blancas lighthouse where the sea otters bob and the elephant seals tussle in the slimy kelp just off the shoreline, the Santa Lucia Mountains take a step back from the water’s edge, leaving a rolling, doughy apron of greens and browns. On January [...]

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Tomczyk/Farfus to double up

BMW drivers Martin Tomczyk and Augusto Farfus will take part in the Brands Hatch DTM round and the Nurburgring 24 Hours over the same weekend this year. The pair have been named as part of the factory-supported Schubert Motorsport line-up for the May 19-20 event and will drive Z4 GT3s run by the German squad

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2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i Tested: Doubling Down on Comfort and Tech

The Subaru Forester accounted for about 25 percent of Subaru’s total U.S. sales in 2012. But while impressive as a component of Subaru’s total picture, those Forester sales are less than a third of the numbers racked up by the Honda CR-V and Ford Escape, and that disparity, plus the arrival of a redesigned Toyota [...]

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Tony Stewart Racing Tandem Trying To Beat Outlaws, Mother Nature

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Kanaan fit for Brazil despite injury

Tony Kanaan is expected to be fit for next weekend's Sao Paulo IndyCar race, despite injuring his hand in a Long Beach crash. The Brazilian hurt his right hand when he hit the barriers while fighting Oriol Servia for fifth in the closing laps of the race

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TV Schedule: April 26-28

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Kubica takes early Azores lead

Robert Kubica leads Rally Azores, his first attempt at a European Rally Championship gravel round, by nine seconds at the end of day one. Thursday's leg was truncated due to the appalling weather that struck the area the previous day, with SS1 cancelled altogether and SS2 shortened due to the amount of water

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Ferrari: stronger qualifying a priority

Ferrari has singled out improved qualifying pace as a 'priority' as it bids to make up lost ground in the championship battle. Although the new F138 has proved to have strong race pace, which helped Fernando Alonso triumph in China , the team has not been able to deliver a pole position so far this season. Ferrari's deputy chief designer Simone Resta thinks that it needs to do much better on Saturdays, especially because it is becoming increasingly clear that starting near the front gives drivers a better opportunity to run in clear air and look after their tyres

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Ostberg insists Ogier can be beaten

Mads Ostberg is adamant Sebastien Ogier is not unbeatable despite his current domination of the 2013 World Rally Championship. Part-time competitor Sebastien Loeb is the only man who has beaten Volkswagen star Ogier so far this season.

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Denny Hamlin Not Cleared To Race Yet, Vickers in the 11 At Richmond

JOE GIBBS RACING DRIVER DENNY HAMLIN REMAINS SIDELINED FOR THIS WEEKEND’S RACE IN RICHMOND HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (April 24, 2013) – Following a medical evaluation on his injured back it has been determined that Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) driver Denny Hamlin will not race in this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Richmond. Hamlin suffered [...]

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Trevor Bayne 2013 NNS Richmond 250 Race Preview

Trevor Bayne (Photo Credit: LaDon George / NASCAR Illustrated)TREVOR BAYNE Richmond 250 Nationwide Race Advance Team: No. 6 Ford Ecoboost Mustang Crew Chief: Mike Kelley Chassis: RK-748 ADVANCE NOTES · Bayne in Richmond, VA o Previous Nationwide races: § Sept. 2011 – Started 4th, finished 28th § Sept. 2010 – Started 8th, finished 3rd §...more»

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Majeski Comes Out in Front at the Langley Derby

Langley Speedway is and always has been a race track. However, at an early point in its existence the Speedway was known as Dude Ranch and was a horse racing track. It was eventually paved-over and became the starting points for great NASCAR drivers such as Denny Hamlin. The four turned, slightly asymmetrical oval which includes only 6 degrees of banking would be a perfect test of endurance for the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series. The sim-racer who could best manage their front tires would come out in front of this derby of a whole ‘nother beast. In this week’s 3120 Strength of Field race nine cars battled for this week’s top spot. However the man, the myth, the legend, Ty Majeski once again came out on top. Majeski took [...]

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Pirelli meeting won’t bring big changes

Pirelli has told Formula 1 teams that it is unlikely to make any major changes to the tyres for the remainder of this season, ahead of a meeting in Milan on Tuesday to discuss the situation .

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2014 Kia Sorento SX V-6 AWD Tested: 80 Percent New, Even If It Looks the Same

Nobody wanted the last Lotus Elan except for Kia. In 1995, Lotus managed to sell the Koreans the rights to its overpriced, front-drive roadster, and when it resumed production the following year as the Kia Elan, it looked like it had gone on a Pep Boys’ bender. A year later, Kia went bankrupt and collapsed [...]

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Parker Kligerman: Hoping to Replicate KBM’s 2012 Richmond Win

Parker Kligerman - Photo Credit: John Harrelson / Getty ImagesMOORESVILLE, N.C. (April 23, 2013) – In last April’s 250-lap event at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, Kurt Busch and the No. 54 Monster Energy team captured the first NASCAR Nationwide Series win for his younger brother’s startup program. This time around there is a new driver...more»

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Bahrain race quotes: Ferrari

Fernando Alonso - 8th: "We definitely didn't have much luck today and that's a real shame, at the end of what had been such a positive weekend for me and Felipe up until this afternoon. We had been competitive in free practice and qualifying and we were both expecting to have a good race

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Ferrari identifies Alonso DRS fault

Ferrari says it has identified an unprecedented mechanical failure that caused Fernando Alonso's DRS problem in the Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso was running second when his DRS flap jammed open early in the race. He pitted for the issue to be rectified, but although Ferrari felt it had been fixed, it reoccurred as soon as he tried to deploy DRS again.

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Elliott Sadler 2013 NNS ToyotaCare 250 Race Preview

Sport Clips Racing (SCR)Elliott Sadler / No. 11 Sport Clips Toyota Preview ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway No. 11 Sport Clips Toyota News and Notes: · LOOKING FOR WIN NO. 1: This weekend when Elliott Sadler climbs behind the wheel of the No. 11 Sport Clips Toyota, he will make his 20th-career NASCAR...more»

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SEB, WEB AND SEB RED BULL RACING'S 2012 DRIVER LINE-UP

Red Bull Racing Thursday 5 January 2012 Red Bull Racing is pleased to confirm that Sébastien Buemi will continue his relationship with Red Bull as Red Bull Racing's test and reserve driver for 2012. The 23-year-old joins Sebastian Vettel and...

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