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Saturday
Mercedes stick with team orders despite Lauda stance | F1 Fanatic round-up
In the round-up: Mercedes will keep using team orders ? Investors backing Chilton ? McLaren sacrifices downforce for driveability
Getting a van on contract hire
Leasing a van gives you flexibility in your logistics, and doesn’t carry the costs of committing to a large purchase. The day to day haulage needs of a company can vary drastically, and if you lease, you can tailor your van to the needs of your business. Leasing provides a more affordable option to new [...]
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Power Rankings: A (Junior) Nation rises
It's time for Power Rankings! After every race, we'll opine about who we think is at the top of the Sprint Cup heap and how and why they got there. Remember, this isn't scientific, as our formula is the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. So let's get on with it, shall we?
Dropped out: AJ Allmendinger, Clint Bowyer
Lucky Dog: Let's give a shoutout to Casey Mears, who finished 15th. He's a spot ahead of Stewart in the standings. You could have gotten really good odds on that in Vegas.
The Tony Stewart DNF: Goes to Tony Stewart again! (Yeah, it wasn't much of a DNF, but that was one heck of a slide backwards) That frustration you saw from Smoke was one fueled by frustration at that freefall through the field over the last 11 laps. Had Smoke finished in the top 10, he might have had some choice words for Logano in his postrace quotes, but that would have been that.
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Friday
Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano: Does track type determine the acceptability of contact?
Denny Hamlin has every right to be frustrated.
The first Sprint Cup race he?s missed since becoming the full-time driver of the No. 11 for Joe Gibbs Racing is rapidly approaching. Martinsville is one of his best tracks statistically, and he?ll be atop his team?s pit box next to crew chief Darian Grubb while Mark Martin drives the car.
As you?ve read, oh, fifty, sixty, seventy times since that race on March 24, the injury Hamlin suffered came when after he and Joey Logano made contact in turns three and four on the final lap at Auto Club Speedway. After the two banged sidepanels and drifted towards the outside wall, Hamlin?s car made a hard left turn and went careening towards the inside wall. An inside wall that didn?t have a SAFER barrier. Hamlin suffered a compression fracture to his L1 vertebra, an injury that will likely keep him out of the car for five races.
Of course, it?s not as simple as a final lap ?racin? deal.? The week prior at Bristol, Hamlin had spun Logano as the two were racing for second place. Logano, after talking to Hamlin briefly after the race, said that Hamlin had one coming.
?Obviously I know who I?m racing against and what happened a week before but going into turn three on the last lap, I remember ?I?m going to win the race,?? Logano said on ESPN Tuesday. ?My number one goal is to go win a race. So did I intentionally wreck him? No, I did not intentionally do that. If I was going to do that I would have hit him in the left-rear tire. I hit him in the door. It?s hard racing at that point.?
Hamlin said Thursday that he didn?t blame Logano for the injury, but did for the crash at California.
?(I do not blame him) for the particular injury; I do for the wreck,? Hamlin told a group of reporters on Wednesday. ?I think the injury was circumstantial. For what happened, I think it?s just a product of wrecking on a 2-mile speedway, you risk getting hurt.?
The type of track is the crux of Hamlin?s argument. Logano?s comments about the crash sounded awfully similar to Hamlin?s after Bristol. At Bristol, Hamlin said that he had meant to make contact with Logano, but that he didn?t want to spin him.
?I didn?t see it as a huge deal,? Hamlin said before the race at California. ?People at Bristol make contact. Where my frustration level was, people didn?t see the three times I got cut off before you saw it on TV, one time giving us left front damage. So that ticked me off, and obviously my way of retaliating was to nudge him. Well, I shouldn?t have nudged him in the spot where I did, and he spun out.?
While Hamlin?s frustration about the injury and seeing his chances for the win at California disappear like they did is understandable, should he have been expecting Logano to treat him the same way he treated Logano at Bristol, even if he personally felt that Auto Club wouldn?t be the right place to back up his words with actions?
Generally, short track races have served as the sport?s grudge levelers, as the higher speeds and spread out nature of NASCAR?s intermediate tracks don?t usually lend themselves to many opportunities for revenge. But how often do you find yourself racing for the win on the final lap alongside the driver who crashed you the week prior? Would Hamlin?s actions on that final corner had been any different had the roles been reversed? (Logano has also been on the wrong side of intentional contact at larger tracks before, having been bumped out of the way for the lead approaching the white flag at Pocono in 2010.)
''How is (the contact) not intentional? It's not like he got loose because I took air off him,'' Hamlin said Thursday. ''I saw him getting closer, and I moved up the track. He was just going to keep going until he ran into us. Whatever happened after that, I'm sure he didn't mean to wreck or get me hurt, but he meant to run into us, there's no doubt. He didn't get loose with the back. He drove into us with the front. That's a guy seeing I was going to get the better of him that week. He wasn't going to let that happen. He hit the gas until he hit something.''
There?s a difference between aggressive driving to cause contact and aggressive driving to cause a crash, and both drivers claim their actions were intended to be the former, though they resulted in unintentional consequences. The debate if Logano?s actions were appropriate at a track with speeds that reach as high as they do at California will continue; Hamlin certainly doesn?t think so. Is there a right answer? Or are the lines simply blurred or nonexistent?
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2013 Aragon World Superbike FP1 Results: BMWs of Melandri and Davies quickest
Tom Sykes was the quickest man at the Aragon tests, despite still suffering from a wrist injury, and he continued to dominate the morning's free practice session, but it was the BMWs of Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies that finally took the top two spots ahead of the Kawasaki man. Eugene Laverty was able to exploit his Aprilia's long legs down the back straight while Leon Camier was able to continue his run of good form at the tests to put his Suzuki in fifth, ahead of the Hondas of Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam.
Results:
Thursday
Warped Wednesday: If Twitter existed in 1979
Welcome to Warped Wednesday, our new feature at From the Marbles. On it, we'll put out the rush to judgment map, go a little too far and have a little fun. Will it be funny? Sometimes. Will it be crazy and largely unbelievable? Probably. Will not everyone get it? Definitely. So let's get started with a little back to the future fun, shall we?
@CaleY @DAllison You blocked me
@DAllison @CaleY I didn't block you. I see your tweet right now. You got a problem with me?
@CaleY @DAllison I got a problem with both you and that brother of yours @BobbyAllison
@BobbyAllison @CaleY @DAllison what did I do Cale? Other than question your ancestry? And beat you up
@CaleY @BobbyAllison I beat you up. And @DAllison cost me a shot at the Daytona 500.
@DAllison @CaleY You could have made a pass in the grass. But that book ain't written yet @BobbyAllison Next time, come after me.
@DAllison @CaleY You have my address and my DM. And your chance in the grass.
@CaleY @DAllison @BobbyAllison Y'all still got one comin' to you boys. Just watch your timelines.
@RPetty43 ............................................................................................................................................
@CaleY @RPetty43 @DAllison @BobbyAllison what the hell you doing, Petty?
@RPetty43 ..............................................
@DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison @RPetty43 Petty! You butt-twitterin'?
@RPetty43 @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison Oh, hey y'all. Great race today. Heard you got in a fight. I didn't see it.
@RPetty43 @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison I was just counting my victories on Twitter. More victories than Twitter gives me characters.
@AJFoyt14 What the hell is this thing? What the hell are these boys yammering about?
@DAllison @AJFoyt14 @CaleY @BobbyAllison @RPetty43 you gotta use the @ to mention us in your tweets, Foyt.
@AJFoyt14 how the hell do I use that damn symbol? Screw this.
@Pearsonfan4life @RPetty43 I am your greatest fan ever please RT!!!!!!
@RPetty43 @AJFoyt14 your car looked good in my rearview today. @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison
@Earnhardtismydriver can I have your victory lane hat @RPetty43? Please RT!!!!!
@AllWaltrip Boy I'll tell you what ain't Twitter great, I finished second. Boogity Boogity Boogity!
@BobbyAllison @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@CaleY @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@RPetty43 @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@DAllison @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@AllWaltrip @DAllison @RPetty43 @CaleY @BobbyAllison who won at Riverside boys?
@CaleY I don't give a rat's ass who won at Riverside @AllWaltrip. I'm still mad @DAllison cost me the Daytona 500.
@Labonte4Life @RPetty43 @CaleY @DAllison @BobbyAllison It's my birthday can I get a RT????
@DAllison I didn't cost you crap @CaleY. Hush little child. (That goes for you too, Waltrip) I told you that you had my address and DM.
@BobbyAllison @CaleY, I wasn't even involved and still kicked your butt. And ancestry. LOL.
@CaleY @BobbyAllison @DAllison You've got one comin'. And I tell you what,I can take both you fair and square on Twitter.
@AJFoyt14 Ha. RT @RPetty43 Shut up, Waltrip.
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Danica Patrick got hit in the head by a rock
When you see the headline "Danica Patrick got hit in the head with a rock," your first thought is, "Who threw it?" (Our money would be on one of the Busch brothers. Maybe Tony Stewart.)
But no, turns out Patrick was clonked purely by accident at a Vegas dirt-track race. She's fine, thanks for asking: ?I feel like I have a concussion from [Thursday] night," she said. "I got hit by a rock at the dirt track and I took it to the ground. I feel like this is really sore. It hit me straight in the head. Good thing I had a hat on or I?m feeling like there would have been blood."
On a slightly more serious note, Patrick did have to undergo some testing after her vicious hit in Phoenix, where the entire side of her car was torn open after a blown right tire sent her into the wall.
"I was able to say my name and where I was born [to safety crews]," she said. "They take your blood pressure, they do like vitals and they ask how you?re feeling and I really felt fine. It?s understandable that my neck would be sore. The medical staff always does a checkup the next day, they either call or send you a text to ask how you?re doing ... I said I had a headache on Sunday night and on Monday my neck was sore. They said, 'It sounded like it could have been worse, so we?re glad you?re okay.'"
[Also: African-American female driver overstating claims]
So with her bell rung already, Vegas is off to a great start for Patrick. The whereabouts of the rock are unknown. Surely there are plenty of people ready to chastise it for threatening NASCAR's darling, and quite a few others ready to shake whatever passes for a rock's hand. Either way, somebody could've made a few bucks by selling it on ebay.
Patrick's luck didn't quite extend to the weather; because of a rainout of qualifying, she'll start deep in the pack on Sunday. Here's how it worked: because qualifying was rained out, the top 36 teams from last year took the first 36 spots. That means Brad Keselowski, last year's Sprint Cup champion, will start on the pole. (This pole, however, does not get him into the 2014 Sprint Unlimited preseason race at Daytona.)
Three remaining spots were filled out by teams in the top 36 in 2013 owner's points. So Patrick, David Stremme and Michael McDowell will be in the race. The final four spots were determined by qualifying attempts in 2013; owners' points broke any ties.
The remaining spots for positions 40-43 were determined by qualifying attempts this year, with ties broken by owner points. So Scott Speed, Landon Cassill, Joe Nemechek and Josh Wise were in; Mike Bliss is the only driver left out.
"I don?t know how in the hell it works," Patrick said of qualifying, echoing the thoughts of many. "I am so confused. I don?t know about you guys. I?m sure this is not the best talking point for anybody who is trying to inform me, or who has. But look, you have to go like hell and you just have to qualify as well as you can. That?s all you can do."
"I was just thinking when I walked in, with this being Vegas and all, what the odds would be of a rainout in Vegas," Keselowski said. "I bet that was pretty high. Obviously whenever you can start up front, it's a big deal and you get the first pit stall and all those things that make a big difference on pit road."
The Kobalt Tools 400 starts Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.
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A question of horsepower
As there seems to be a certain amount of excitement this year with Britain’s celebrated Grand National horse race, which will take place at Aintree on Saturday. Health and safety is beginning to encroach on even this great challenge with the race being shortened and the fences being made more forgiving following a number of [...]
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Scuderia Ferrari Launches New Pit Wall King Social Game With a Huge Grand Prize
Scuderia Ferrari has announced today the launch of a new social game named Pit Wall King, which can bring you tons of prizes every week and in the end, a very special Ferrari Factory Tour in Maranello.
The purpose of the game is to test your knowledge of the Scuderia Ferrari. The game comes with two different sections: Practice and Championship. The Practice mode is divided in different levels and contains the questions you will also meet in Championship. You will have to answer as many question as possible in the given time and when you have at least 20 correct answers, you can reach the next level. Depending on the level, the time to answer goes from 2 minutes in the level 1 down to just 1 minute in level 5.
The Championship begins each Thursday at 12 a.m. before the GP and ends one minute before the race starts on Sunday. Contenders will have to answer 3 multiple-choice questions and forecast Fernando Alonso’s and Felipe Massa’s places in the current GP. For every correct answer you will get 5 points. Each week the points earned by the players will be classified and the first 10 players will receive special prizes from Ferraristore.com.
At the end of the season, Ferrari will also create an overall classification and will crown 3 Pit Wall Kings. The prize for these three lucky guys will be a Ferrari Factory Tour in Maranello!
You can check out the game here.
Scuderia Ferrari Launches New Pit Wall King Social Game With a Huge Grand Prize originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 18:00 EST.
Wednesday
Porsche's New Four-Cylinder Engine Won't Arrive Before 2016
The first rumors on a possible four-cylinder engine surfaced early in 2011. We initially thought it would be used on a new model placed under the current Boxster, but also on the future generations Cayman and Boxster. Though the third-generation Boxster has already been unveiled and it features no four-cylinder engine, the rumors continue to circulate.
According to a Porsche official, the four-cylinder engine is indeed being worked on, but it is still in "an early development phase." According to the same source, the development process will take about another three years, so don?t expect to see the new engine before 2016.
The new engine will share the same architecture with the six-cylinder engine used in the current models and should see use in the revised versions of the Cayman and Boxster set to go on sale in 2016.
With this news, we do need to add in a little clarity, as the Macan will be offered with a four-cylinder engine, but not the one that the source is referring to. Instead, it will use a 2.0-liter gasoline and a 2.0-liter common-rail diesel engine that Porsche fished from the VW parts bin.
Click past the jump to read more on the current Porsche Boxster
Porsche's New Four-Cylinder Engine Won't Arrive Before 2016 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:00 EST.
Tuesday
Chilton: Break Has Helped
Marussia newbie Max Chilton believes that F1?s mini break has been beneficial to the team. The Brit stepped up to a full race seat this term, replacing Charles Pic. He has endured a tough start to the campaign, with team-mate, and fellow rookie, Jules Bianchi impressing. But, the former GP2 star believes that the break [...]
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Thought for the day
There is a lot of idle chit-chat at the moment about McLaren and how things are not going well but I tend to follow Stefano Domenicali’s line on this matter. The Ferrari F1 boss has been around the block in F1 for the last 25 years and he is smart enough to know that: “Don’t [...]
Source: https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/thought-for-the-day-8/
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Raikkonen goes Motocross riding during F1 break | F1 Fanatic round-up
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Monday
Happy Hour: Coming to Denny?s defense
We're three for three so far with overriding themes and you can guess what the topic of discussion was this week. Given the reaction, you have to wonder how many new fans Denny Hamlin has picked up over the last seven days?
This is America. We Do have free speech. This is a new low for NASCAR. Long-time fans like me want to hear and see more of the driver's personality not just the prepared media version. Denny Hamlin has a right to be outraged and is afraid to say what he feels because the sanctioning body seems to be more powerful than the constitution of the United States! I guess this weekend I'll watch golf.
- Fred
After being a Nascar race fan for 40+ years,this Year is the most disappointing yet.After kicking out the nationwide driver Clements for saying something maybe out of line and to my understand of what was said !!WOW!! don?t turn on SHOWTIME - ?Inside Nascar? for the in car recordings of the drivers and crew chiefs...... Now NASCAR fining Denny Hamlin for expressing the truth about there so called new car.The racing this year has been boring to say the very least...... the cars play follow the leader. Gas mileage races are a big joke, drivers turning the engine on and off is just plain silly. Owners spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to go fast, so the fast car should win.Not the one that gets 20 mpg.....the moral to the story is maybe Nascar should do there job and keep the cars and parts out of the grandstands. Along with many other things they cannot do that either.Ask the 30 people that were injured at Daytona. I'm going to Bristol and Richmond only because we got the tickets LAST YEAR and I must enjoy been gouged by the motels as I have brought it to the attention of Bristol Motor Speedway and I see there has been no changes to the motel bookings for this year.
Sorry to SAY this is the end of this Nascar fan. ITS OVER
-Kibler's Garage
Just read the article re: Hamster's fine for his comments. Question; was (Kyle Busch) ever fined for his comments after he won Bristol with the COT/Gen-5 car? If not, then NASCAR is way out of bounds on this because if they're going to fine Denny, they should've fined Kyle then.
- Andy Z.
[Related: Denny Hamlin won't appeal $25K fine]
What is NASCAR thinking?? Denny?s comments were very forthright and factual. They didn?t seem to hate on the new car, just pointed out that it would take time for teams to figure it out which would be frustrating to any driver. But NASCAR fining him $25 Grand for on observation is chicken crap!! If you recall, when KB won the first race with the C.O.T. his comment after winning the race was that he hated the car and they pretty much sucked. The next year KB won 8 races in that car!!
- Kevin
First off, I'm not sure that we can say with any certainty that Busch wasn't fined for what he said about the COT. After all, we've just entered a new era of fine transparency in NASCAR. For all we know, Joe Nemechek could have a racked up a fine bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. (No, probably not. We love you, Joe.)
While NASCAR may realize that they've overreached in this instance, they're now in a position that they're likely not going to overreach again. Why? Because who the heck is going to speak truthfully about any negatives when it comes to the new car or the quality of racing in the future? This was essentially a pre-emptive strike to scare off anyone thinking of a threat. Will it work? I hope not. But I fear so.
_____________________
So I'm that rarest of creatures: The liberal NASCAR fan. Worse, it's not like I was raised in NASCAR country and later realized I was liberal. Nope, I live in LA, work in entertainment, and like NASCAR.
It's a lonely existence. After the 2011 championship race, I had no one at work to gush to. Worse, I've taken all kinds of abuse from co-workers, some of it outright venemous (and unprofessional), although most of it is just talking trash. But it's truly been a lesson in the culture wars in this country. Co-workers don't mock the Brit next to me who follows Formula 1, because that's "exotic." They do take cheap shots at me, though, because NASCAR because it's filled with rednecks. Nothing to do with racing itself, just pure dislike for the fly-over states.
So here I've been, explaining how NASCAR *isn't* just a bunch of redneck idiots, and then the NRA 500 comes along. What the hell am I supposed to do with that? I mean, I can't think of convincing argument to the charge "It's a bunch of gun-loving rednecks," at least not until there's a Planned Parenthood 500.
Then again, maybe NASCAR doesn't care. Maybe they are more concerned about the other thing lurking around the bend: The fact that I (and a bunch of other people) just cancelled cable. And, honestly, this NRA thing makes me feel a lot less guilty about it.
-Andy W.
Andy, I think there are a lot more of you than you realize. And I hate to break it to you, the race is on Fox.
_____________________
That was some of the "finest" racing I've seen all year.
-Darrell
I don't think I would put out the Warped Wednesday rush to judgment map out for real just yet when it comes to the racing. We've had three races at three distinctly different types of tracks. There was bound to be a feeling out process with this car, and for better or worse, we're right now in that phase. How long will it be? That's the question. For NASCAR's sake given all of the hype, the racing quality needs to be distinctly different pretty damn soon unless they want to deal with a lot of negative feedback... without the slightest hint of any potential driver instigation.
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Grosjean: More To Come
Lotus? Romain Grosjean believes that he has not fulfilled his potential in F1 just yet. The Frenchman seems to have put his difficulties of the 2012 season behind him this year, appearing to be much calmer behind the wheel. Grosjean, who is in his second stint in Formula One having raced for Renault, feels that [...]
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How High Is The Bar?
The last time Roger Penske hired a partial season driver, expectations were not extremely lofty. Will Power was asked to fill in for Helio Castroneves during his infamous tax evasion court case. At the time, Penske was simply making assurances … Continue reading 
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Sunday
Man?s NASCAR headstone banned by church; widow sues
Fair warning, you may have to scrap those NASCAR-themed tombstone plans depending on your body's future place of rest's regulations.
Jason Carr died in a 2009 car crash and his wife Shannon spent nearly $10,000 on a custom headstone in the shape of a couch featuring the NASCAR logo, the logo of the Indianapolis Colts and a deer and a dog. However, the couple's church said it didn't meet the specifications of its cemetery and therefore wouldn't be allowed as his grave marker.
[Also: NASCAR Power Rankings: More of the same from Brad Keselowski]
Shannon Carr is now suing. From the AP:
The Rev. Jonathan Meyer, priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church, notified the monument maker that the headstone didn't meet the cemetery's standards and couldn't be placed in the church's century-old graveyard, The Republic
reported. But Carr says in her lawsuit that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis Properties Inc., which owns the cemetery, never produced any regulations for the plot until more than a year after she tried to have the headstone installed in 2010.
Meyer says that the church knew about the plans for the headstone six weeks before Carr purchased it and that she was informed of the decision not to allow it in the cemetery and was encouraged to not purchase it. However, he did say that the regulations weren't formally official until after Carr purchased the headstone. The archdiocese of Indianapolis says that issue is out of the court's jurisdiction as it doesn't fall within the bounds of the first amendment.
And Meyer also took a dig at Carr's decision to purchase the tombstone. "Our culture breaks all the rules to make people feel good," he said. "Faithful Christians know rules and regulations are set up so there can be good for everyone."
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Allmendinger?s NASCAR Career Is Effectively Over
Since we broke the news on Twitter before Saturday night’s race that A.J. Allmendinger was being replaced by Sam Hornish, the Dinger’s world has come apart. NASCAR announced he had failed a drug test, and Allmendinger has since requested the B sample be tested and admitted he tested positive for a stimulant. Penske has tabbed [...] 
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What Did We Learn At Daytona? Nothing.
If you read or hear any media member say this week that Jimmie Johnson is on his way to a sixth title, or that Danica Patrick is a contender, or that the Gen 6 car needs to be tweaked, know one thing: they don’t have a clue. Did Jimmie win the 500? Yes. Did Danica [...] 
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