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Monday, May 30, 2011
Volkswagen Unveils ?Think Blue? Eco Campaign in Order to Think Green
Volkswagen is going green with the color blue with its new Think Blue environmental-consciousness initiative, which plays off the brand?s successful ?Think Small? Beetle ads from the 1960s and is intended to educate the masses about eco-friendly practices that can be applied in daily life. VW itself is getting in on the blue thinking: The [...]
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Loeb leads after superspecial
Sebastien Loeb made the perfect start to Rally Argentina with fastest time around the event-opening superspecial stage on the outskirts of Villa Carlos Paz. Run in late autumn sunshine, Loeb was 0.9 seconds faster than Petter Solberg around the 1.8-mile gravel stage
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/world-rally-championship-news/wrc/loeb-leads-after-superspecial/
Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie Kevin Paul Lepage William Ashton Lewis Jr
Latvala still ahead in Argentina
Jari-Matti Latvala continues to lead Rally Argentina at the halfway point of day two, despite Sebastien Ogier and Petter Solberg's best efforts. Citroen driver Ogier took 13.8 seconds out of the gap between him and Latvala (Ford) on today's first two stages, and in the process moved up to second place - helped by Solberg (Solberg Citroen) having a minor spin on SS8
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.
A U-Haul driver crashed into a building after an initial collision with an ambulance [...]
A U-Haul driver crashed into a building after an initial collision with an ambulance [...]
Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/05/27/the-weekly-carnage-133/
Mark Anthony Martin Jeremy Allan Mayfield James Christopher McMurray Casey James Mears
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hispania drivers allowed to race
Hispania Racing team's drivers Tonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan will be on the grid of the Monaco Grand Prix after being allowed to race on Saturday. Neither Liuzzi nor Karthikeyan managed to set a time in qualifying, the Italian having crashed in final practice
Matthew Roy Kenseth Alan Dennis Kulwicki Travis Wade Kvapil Robert Allen Labonte
Vettel: Confidence key at Monaco
Sebastian Vettel thinks that gaining confidence on track, rather than simply having the quickest car, will be key to him taking his maiden Monaco Grand Prix victory this weekend. On the back of wins in four of the first five races of the campaign, Vettel is favourite to add to his tally with a triumph on the streets of Monte Carlo.
Gerino Gerini Peter Gethin Piercarlo Ghinzani Bruno Giacomelli
Fumio Ito
Yamaha Racing Friday, 27 May 2011 Fumio Ito did not ascend to the heights of being an FIM world champion but he takes rightful pride of place in the gallery of Yamaha's racing heroes for being the first to demonstrate...
Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2011/05/fumio_ito.php
Kevin Michael Harvick Virgil Ernest Irvan III Kenny Dale Irwin Jr Dale Arnold Jarrett
Friday, May 27, 2011
Vettel quickest in opening practice
Sebastian Vettel edged out Fernando Alonso in a late battle for the honour of being fastest in the opening practice session for the Monaco Grand Prix. Both set their fastest laps moments apart in the closing seconds, with Vettel's 1m16.619s for Red Bull sufficient to nip ahead of his Ferrari rival by 0.113 seconds. Nico Rosberg was third for Mercedes, followed by Alonso's team-mate Felipe Massa and the two McLarens
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
VW Releases Edition 35 GTI for Europe
Volkswagen will celebrate the 35th anniversary of its sporty Golf with the Edition 35 GTI. The exterior of the special-edition GTI gets new wheels, smoked head- and taillights with LED running lights on the former, glossy black plastic trim on the grille and side mirrors, tinted glass, and discreet ?35? badges on the front fenders [...]
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Alonso: Ferrari ?enjoying racing? again
Fernando Alonso said Ferrari could start 'enjoy racing' again after taking his team back to the podium in the Turkish Grand Prix.
Luhr and Krumm win in Portugal
JR Motorsports took its second GT1 World Championship win of the weekend in the main race at Portimao, with Lucas Luhr and Michael Krumm triumphing after their team-mates Richard Westbrook and Peter Dumbreck hit gearbox problems. The latter pair had led a JR Nissan one-two through the first stint, but as the stops neared it became clear that their #22 car had an issue developing
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/3rdparty/luhr-and-krumm-win-in-portugal/
Monday, May 9, 2011
Grand-Master Greger Back to Winning Ways
With a renaissance of the form that sealed him the 2010 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing title, Greger Huttu sailed to a virtually unchallenged pole-to-flag victory at the digital Virginia International Raceway (VIR) to close the gap to current series points leader Klaus Kivek�s.� Starting from pole position, the Team Redline sim racer did have an initial scare as the field headed to Turn One on the opening lap when teammate Luke McLean missed his braking point and breezed underneath Huttu mid-corner en route to the outside tyre-wall.� Unfazed by the near-miss, Huttu settled into to carving-out a lead, but was unable to shake Kivek�s, who shadowed his countryman until the first round of pit-stops. ?I wasn’t sure what to expect from this race; I like the track and [...]
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/grand-master-greger-back-to-winning-ways/
Sterling Burton Marlin Mark Anthony Martin Jeremy Allan Mayfield James Christopher McMurray
Ruby Tuesday Receives 2010 Sponsor Championship Trophy
“Brad Keselowski Presents Trophy Prior to Race at Darlington” Brad Keselowski presents Mark Young, Chief Marketing Officer for Ruby Tuesday, Inc., with the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Sponsor Championship Trophy at Darlington Raceway on Friday evening. (Photo courtesy of Autostock.)Darlington, S.C. (May 7, 2011) ? On Friday evening, prior to the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS)...more»
Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie Kevin Paul Lepage William Ashton Lewis Jr
Sunday, May 8, 2011
NYPD Still Won?t Ticket Their Own
With the release of Transportation Alternatives’ new report on parking placard abuse and the introduction of City Council Member Daniel Garodnick’s bill to add scannable bar codes to official placards, the push is on again to curb the flagrant exploitation of parking privileges. Despite the substantial reduction in official placards by the Bloomberg administration in [...]
Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/05/04/nypd-still-wont-ticket-their-own/
Jeremy Allan Mayfield James Christopher McMurray Casey James Mears Juan Pablo Montoya
Smith races to 1st Sprint Cup victory
Regan Smith wasnt sure hed ever come as close to winning a Sprint Cup race as he did three years ago at Talladega Superspeedway.
Source: http://www.nascarracinglive.com/nascar/smith-races-to-1st-sprint-cup-victory-ap.html
Charles Robert Hamilton IV Charles Robert Hamilton V Kevin Michael Harvick Virgil Ernest Irvan III
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Why (Much of) Obama?s Transpo Plan Can Survive the GOP Knife
Yesterday, anti-rail curmudgeon Ken Orski of Innovation Briefs quoted me in his latest diatribe against the administration?s transportation proposal, in which he explains why the Obama plan is unrealistic. Indeed, I think it?s safe to say the dollar amount of the administration?s bill is a non-starter in today?s political and economic climate, given that it?s [...]
Why Planners Need to Exercise (Not Exorcise) Their Passions
Here’s what’s grabbing our attention around the Streetsblog Network today:
The Case for Subjectivity in Planning: Professional standards dictate that planners are supposed to be passionless bureaucrats who can administer city policy while putting their personal feelings aside. That, however, is a recipe for miserable planners and uninspired plans, says the “Subjective [...]
The Case for Subjectivity in Planning: Professional standards dictate that planners are supposed to be passionless bureaucrats who can administer city policy while putting their personal feelings aside. That, however, is a recipe for miserable planners and uninspired plans, says the “Subjective [...]
Source: http://streetsblog.net/2011/05/06/why-planners-need-to-exercise-their-passions/
iWCSRR Round Six Broadcast Tonight!
Round Six of the 2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing will be broadcast tonight on www.iRacing.com beginning at 6 pm ET (22:00 GMT).� The race will be held over 58 laps of Virginia International Raceway’s 17 turn, 3.27 mile “full” configuration, a track as challenging as it is beautiful. Klaus Kivek�s heads the championship contenders as the series rolls into Virginia but he’s under pressure from Jesse Nieminen, who backed-up his opening round win at Spa with successive victories at Barber Motorsports Park and Infineon Raceway.� While Nieminen looks to complete his� iWCSRR hat trick at VIR, defending series champion Greger Huttu lies third in the points and still in search of his first win in the new year in his Williams-Toyota FW31. Catch all the action tonight beginning [...]
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/iwcsrr-round-six-broadcast-tonight/
William Clyde Elliott Jeffrey Michael Gordon Charles Robert Hamilton IV Charles Robert Hamilton V
Friday, May 6, 2011
A Day at the Races
Club Indiana took things to a different level in April with a day at the races at the FASTIMES Indoor Karting center on the north side of Indianapolis.�� The event attracted a full field of 20 entrants� (including a couple of interlopers from Club Illinois and a pair of SCCA racers), many of whom got together to start the festivities with lunch at the nearby Chammps Americana restaurant. Then it was time to get serious (sort of) at FASTIMES.�� Everyone got at least an hour of track time, first by participating in two of four qualifying sessions, then three of six heat races, with points from the heat races placing competitors in A (Main) and B (Consy) ?feature? races.�� It sounds slightly more complicated than it was, thanks to an [...]
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/a-day-at-the-races/
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