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Saturday

Do your bets to make NYC trip stylish

Riding any regular car in NYC can be a sign of you not being able to afford luxury service and this will never do for sure. In order to look and feel your best you have to get a taxi to JFK that looks and feels just like you are a superstar. So make sure [...]

Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/407-do-your-bets-to-make-nyc-trip-stylish.html

Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks

Joey Gase?s car gets lifted off the ground after hard hit from Brad Sweet in Nationwide practice

Joey Gase took a big impact from Brad Sweet after he stopped on the track to stay out of the way of Brad Teague's car during Nationwide Series practice on Friday at Bristol.

Gase was on the backstretch pointed diagonally towards the inside wall after trying to avoid Teague's spinning car. Sweet saw Gase's car coming off of turn two, but when he stabbed the brakes, he hit them a little too hard and they locked up. That sent Sweet's car careening into Gase's.

The impact basically obliterated the back end of Gase's car and the front end of Sweet's. (Kevin Harvick sustained some minor damage in the incident.) Sweet, driving for JR Motorsports, has a backup car. Gase, driving for Hamilton Means Racing, a team that shows up to the track most every week but scrapes to get by, didn't. That means he won't get to race on Saturday.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/joey-gase-car-gets-lifted-off-ground-hard-002158537--nascar.html

Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti Pablo Birger

Raikkonen in rude health

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/11/post_abu_dhabi.html

George Connor George Constantine John Cordts David Coulthard

Nationwide driver Jeremy Clements suspended for unknown comments

NASCAR announced Tuesday that it had suspended Nationwide Series driver Jeremy Clements for comments he made in an interview on Saturday.

What interview that was or what Clements said is unknown, however.

?During the course of an interview, Jeremy Clements made an intolerable and insensitive remark,? NASCAR Senior VP of Racing Operations Steve O'Donnell said in a release. ?NASCAR has a Code of Conduct that?s explicitly spelled out in the 2013 NASCAR Rule Book. We fully expect our entire industry to adhere to that Code.?

Tuesday evening, Clements posted the following statement to his team's Facebook page:

?I apologize and regret what I said to the NASCAR writer and to NASCAR, my sponsors, my fans, and my team. NASCAR has a Code of Conduct that everyone must follow and I unintentionally violated that code. I will not get into specifics of what I said but my comment to the writer was in no way meant to be disrespectful or insensitive to anyone or to be detrimental to NASCAR or the NASCAR Nationwide Series. I will do what I need to do in order to atone for my error in judgment. ?

There's no point in speculating about what Clements, 28, said; and it's entirely possible the comments he made will be published in an interview that's yet to be released. Or we may never know. Was it a TV interview that wasn't aired? Though that seems to be refuted by Clements' reference to a writer in the apology. And how would the comments found to be suspension worthy? The interview obviously wasn't conducted in the media center at Daytona. (Though I guess it seems logical that we've moved from secret fines from suspensions for unknown comments?)

Clements finished 14th in last year's Nationwide Series standings driving for his own team, Jeremy Clements Racing in the No. 51. At Daytona, he finished 33rd after only completing 88 laps because of an oil line problem.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/nationwide-driver-jeremy-clements-suspended-unknown-comments-020927768--nascar.html

Chuck Arnold Rene Arnoux Peter Arundell Alberto Ascari

Oven-ready Red Bull?

In a hot and very humid practice session in Sepang on Saturday afternoon, Sebastian Vettel showed that while the Red Bull team might struggle to keep up the pace over a series of laps, the cars certainly have one-lap pace. The World Champion ended the third session a tenth faster than Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes, which [...]

Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/oven-ready-red-bull/

JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd

Friday

Kyle O?Gara Wants You!

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Jimmy Daywalt JeanDenis Deletraz Patrick Depailler Pedro Diniz

Wikipedia and IndyCar Need Our Help!

For better or worse, Wikipedia is the largest public information repository to be found anywhere on the internet; all of it is all user created and maintained. In some eyes, wiki has a poor reputation, but sometimes with good reason. … Continue reading →

Source: http://anotherindycarblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/wikipedia-and-indycar-need-our-help/

Cliff Allison Fernando Alonso Giovanna Amati George Amick

Jenson Button: ?We won?t be fighting at the front??

Jenson Button expects McLaren to have a better weekend in Malaysia than in Australia, thanks to the smoother nature of the circuit. The team?s big weakness was its inability to run the car as low as desired, due to the … Continue reading →

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/03/21/jenson-button-we-wont-be-fighting-at-the-front/

Trevor Blokdyk Mark Blundell Raul Boesel Menato Boffa

Some Advice For Christmas

There was an article in the Charlotte Observer last week�about a woman named Christmas Abbott who is attempting to become a tire changer. She’s being supported in her effort by Turner Motorsports and is being coached by veteran jackman and coach Shaun Peet and the guys at Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR and Turner have a [...]

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Don Branson Tom Bridger Tony Brise Chris Bristow

Saved From Destruction: Historic Racing Photographs, circa ?60s-?80s

Hello and welcome back, again! Long time readers of this blog know that I am quite the racing history junkie and today we will indulge ourselves with some lost photos. I have a friend who recovered these pictures from a … Continue reading →

Source: http://anotherindycarblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/saved-from-destruction-historic-racing-photographs-circa-60s-80s/

Giorgio Bassi Erwin Bauer Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol

Thursday

Power Rankings: Wait, is it still 2012?

A new year means a new set of 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?

1. Brad Keselowski (LW: 3): The champ is off to the finest start he's ever had in his career, but I'm sure you've heard that already. What vaults him to the top spot is not only that, but the fact that the Sprint Cup Series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend, a track that Brad isn't too shabby at. By the way, with the announcement that Prevost motorcoaches are the "official luxury motorcoach" of NASCAR now, does that mean Keselowski has to give up his decidedly un-Prevost motorcoach?

2. Jimmie Johnson (LW: 1): Vader can't get no respect. The guy finishes sixth and is atop the points standings and falls out of the top spot in power rankings. Come on, you're so biased against Jimmie Johnson. 1. I was actually accused of being the opposite during Sunday's race chat and 2. I'm just going with what my proprietary formula says.

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (LW: 2): To be in the top three of Power Rankings, you need to either be having the best start of your career or be Jimmie Johnson. I don't think Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Jimmie Johnson, so congratulations, Junior! Though what if Dale Earnhardt Jr. was Jimmie Johnson? If you thought the NASCAR fanbase was warped already, the potential cluster that would bring would be incredible.

4. Matt Kenseth (LW: 8): To the victor goes the spoils, the birthday cake, the AARP registration card from Jeff Gordon's car, a discount at Dollar General and probably free shipping on M&Ms or something. Kenseth's win did poke holes in the "driver driving the race sponsor's car wins" theory, as he's sponsored by Husky Tools. And yeah, it's a circumstance unique to racing, but it is kind of funny that a week after the race sponsor's car wins, the race sponsor's rival brand wins.

5. Carl Edwards (LW: 5): Fifth goes to the fifth place driver from Las Vegas who also happened to be in fifth last week. Daytona sure seems longer than two weeks ago, doesn't it?

6. Kasey Kahne (LW: NR): Congratulations on your first Power Rankings appearance of the season, Mr. Kahne. I have a feeling you'll be here a while. We know how good Kahne has been throughout his career at intermediate tracks. He led a race-high 114 laps on Sunday. You want to draw conclusions? Well, start putting him at the top of the Chase standings at the end of the year.

7. Denny Hamlin (LW: 4): This is where it really starts to get messy. You can make a case for about 15 different drivers over the next six spots, and Hamlin gets to be fifth simply because he was in the top four last week and led some laps on Sunday. Yeah, yeah, that was because of pit strategy and he got a speeding penalty that killed his chances for a win. But that pit strategy did contribute significantly to the 2,400 green flag passes during Sunday's race.

8. Mark Martin (LW: 7): At one point in the second half of Sunday's race, there was a reference to Martin moving towards the front. What? Martin moving towards the front in the second half of a Cup race in his MWR tenure? *Checks box score* Oh, he finished 14th. Carry on.

9. Aric Almirola (LW: 9): Once again, we say that if the season ended today, Almirola would make the Chase. Seriously though, this is a nice start for the 43. He hasn't finished in the top 10 (yet) but his finish of 16th on Sunday was the lowest of the season. If he keeps those mid-teens finishes going, he's going to be on of the guys on the periphery of the top 12 through the summer.

10. Clint Bowyer: (LW: 6): I don't think they're going to put Clint's freefall through the field as something you can do with the help of 5 Hour Energy in one of those commercials. Though while Bowyer won't agree with us, that freefall was infinitely more tolerable than than debut album guy.

11. Kyle Busch (LW: NR): Busch would be considerably higher if he didn't have the pre-race engine change (and two subsequent wall-slaps) at Phoenix that forced him to the back of the field. But JGR engines will be JGR engines and bygones will be bygones so here we are.

12. Greg Biffle (LW: 10): Was Biffle in Sunday's race? Yes. Was his car gray? I think so. Was it a very nondescript day? Definitely.

Dropped Out: AJ Allmendinger, Casey Mears

Lucky Dog: Tony Stewart, who got the Lucky Dog en route to salvaging an 11th place finish.

The Ryan Newman DNF: Front Row made it through the entire race without a crash! So until further notice, our DNF is named for Ryan Newman who blew a motor a week after blowing two right front tires.

Memorable Moments on Yahoo! Sports:

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/power-rankings-wait-still-2012-132239178--nascar.html

Luca Badoer Giancarlo Baghetti Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi

Aston Martin Vanquish AM 310 New Promo Clip

Aston Martin knows that is staking its future short-term events such as the Geneva Motor Show , an event related to the automotive world which should be able to dazzle your prospects just to acquire one of their vehicles instead to rival the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini or McLaren, brands may have in their catalogs [...]

Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/429-aston-martin-vanquish-am-310-new-promo-clip.html

Rubens Barrichello Michael Bartels Edgar Barth Giorgio Bassi

IMS Hand in Glove - Or ringing the bell for Subsidy?

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Peter Broeker Tony Brooks Alan Brown Walt Brown

Christian Horner: ?We know that we?ve got a quick car??

Christian Horner insists that the Australian GP was a good weekend for Red Bull, despite the team managing only third place after Sebastian Vettel started from pole. Horner says that while tyres were an issue on Sunday over the course … Continue reading →

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/03/18/christian-horner-we-know-that-weve-got-a-quick-car/

Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot Cliff Allison

Wednesday

Derbi DRD 125 SM

Posted on 03.21.2013 00:40 by Sulthoni , Serafim

Like any respectable dirt bike, the Derbi DRD 125 SM features an unstoppable character and is able to deal with any type of terrain without too much fuss.

The motorcycle is powered by a 124 cc, 4 Stroke, 4V Euro 3 engine which is paired with a six speeds gearbox. The engine rewards you with a peak power of 11 kw achieved at 9750 rpm and 11.4 Nm of torque available at 7500 rpm.

In terms of design, the Derbi DRD 125 SM features a pretty modern style and we especially like the aggressive graphics and the sharp lines.

The motorcycle rides on a front inverted fork with a 41 mm � bar and a rear adjustable shock absorber. This sporty suspension configuration allows it to tackle any track with poise.

The stopping power is assured by 260 mm front and 220 mm rear disc brakes with radial mount calipers.

Hit the jump for more information on the 2013 Derbi DRD 125 SM.

Derbi DRD 125 SM originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:40 EST.

Source: http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/derbi/2013-derbi-drd-125-sm-ar148365.html

Rene Arnoux Peter Arundell Alberto Ascari Peter Ashdown

BMW M5 by Vorsteiner

Posted on 03.19.2013 19:00 by Simona

If you ask a Bimmer fan which is the best model launched on the market in the past few months, the M5 will most likely be on the top of the list. In fact, even the guys over Top Gear were impressed by the sports sedan. So, why update it? Well, because you can!!

Vorsteiner, for example, has prepared a tuning kit for the M5 that includes a new aerodynamic kit made in carbon fiber, new wheels and numerous performance products.

For the exterior, the new kit includes a new add-on spoiler, a new splitter and for the rear, a new deck-lid spoiler and a new lightweight trunk lid with integrated wing profile. The tuner also replaced the rear diffuser, so it now integrates the new exhaust system offered in two versions: either stainless steel or titanium.

The Vorsteiner M5 will be offered with new forged wheels offered in various sizes, depending on customer’s wishes: 20, 21 or 22 inches. For the interior, the modifications are limited to embroidered floor mats and trunk mat accessories.

The new BMW M5 kit will be available starting April 2013.