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- Team Mates battling it out at McLaren
- Jun 29, 2007
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As the world sits and waits for inter-team rivalry to tear the wheels off the McLaren machine, Lewis Hamilton admitted ahead of Sunday’s French Grand Prix that he and team-mate and title rival Fernando Alonso sat down and agreed media tactics following his narrow triumph in the recent US GP at Indianapolis.
Auto Racing Daily: Hamilton - Alonso feud Brewing at McLaren?
- Diversity a rapid reality
- Jun 29, 2007
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Most auto racing series talk about diversity in the ranks but show little of it on the track. That is not the case for drag racing. The number of women and minorities in the National Hot Rod Association may not reflect our society, but blows the doors off the competition.
There are just as many women in the Top 10 in the various NHRA ranks as NASCAR, IRL and Champ Car have in their series of point leaders from top to bot tom. Ditto for Top 10 black drivers.
“It’s been open like this for 30 or 40 years, “ said J. R. Todd, a fast- rising Top Fuel dragster.
Todd calls Indiana home and grew up just two blocks from a dirt track. “But I don’t race in circles, I race in a straight line, “ Todd said Thursday as he and several other drivers were in Cleveland to promote the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals this weekend in Norwalk.
- French Grand Prix Preview
- Jun 29, 2007
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Can McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton keep his world championship aspirations rolling with a third consecutive victory, in what may be the last French Grand Prix for at least a couple of years?
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Or will his team mate Fernando Alonso make good on his promise to start winning as the title campaign moves to the first of four tracks he claims as his favourite hunting grounds? Or will Ferrari get back on a par with McLaren as the series moves back to Europe?
There is no shortage of key questions as the championship approaches its mid-point and a spate of three races in four weeks.
- NASCAR will not let Little E have the No. 8
- Jun 29, 2007
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Jun 28, 2007
Mike Maniscalco from Richmond.com reports: With Dale Earnhardt, Jr., moving to Hendrick Motorsports there is a lot of money up for grabs. The largest cash flow involves a single digit: No. 8 on the side of his Chevy. As his number, it is one of the most recognizable trademarks in all of racing.
But it might not belong to Earnhardt, Jr., anymore. NASCAR controls how the numbers are handed out and DEI, Junior’s soon-to-be-former employer, has the number in its lineup.NASCAR doesn’t like it when companies make side deals that cut the office out of the loop. All due respect to fans of the 8, but NASCAR should not let Little E have the number because the sport will lose out on a number in the millions.
June 26, 2007
Jim Utter of the Charlotte Observer: Hendrick Motorsports will not be able to purchase the No. 8 from Dale Earnhardt Inc., nor will any other team for that matter. NASCAR on Monday reiterated its long-standing policy that the sanctioning body owns and assigns car numbers, and spokesman Ramsey Poston said a team cannot sell its car number. “NASCAR owns the numbers and licenses them to teams on an annual basis,” Poston said. “A team may allow another team to use the number for that year pending NASCAR’s approval.” And the numbers are not for sale, he said.
June 24, 2007
David Newton from ESPN: Car owner Rick Hendrick has let it be known to officials at Dale Earnhardt Inc. that he’d like to purchase the No. 8 for Dale Earnhardt Jr. when he begins driving for his organization in 2008. “I’m not sure what their position is or what they want for it,” Hendrick said Saturday between practices at Infineon Raceway. Earnhardt said last week he would like to stay in the No. 8 if a deal can be reached with DEI owner Teresa Earnhardt, who has the rights to the number and his long-time sponsor, Budweiser. Max Siegel, the president of global operations at DEI, said he will not act until there is a formal proposal. Hendrick doesn’t expect any sort of announcement for at least a few weeks.
Auto Racing Daily : NASCAR will not let Little E have the No. 8.
- NASCAR will not let Little E have the No. 8
- Jun 28, 2007
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Mike Maniscalco from Richmond.com reports: With Dale Earnhardt, Jr., moving to Hendrick Motorsports there is a lot of money up for grabs. The largest cash flow involves a single digit: No. 8 on the side of his Chevy. As his number, it is one of the most recognizable trademarks in all of racing.
But it might not belong to Earnhardt, Jr., anymore. NASCAR controls how the numbers are handed out and DEI, Junior’s soon-to-be-former employer, has the number in its lineup.
NASCAR doesn’t like it when companies make side deals that cut the office out of the loop. All due respect to fans of the 8, but NASCAR should not let Little E have the number because the sport will lose out on a number in the millions.
- Is NASCAR’s focus on rules undermining innovation?
- Jun 27, 2007
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The long-term premise of the Car Of Tomorrow is simple: Create the same type of vehicle for each team to use, and everyone will start with the same opportunity to succeed on the racetrack. NASCAR’s goal is to put the race back in the hands of the driver, not the team that has the most money or the manufacturer that can build the best car.
In theory, it’s a great idea. There’s just one problem—it’s not just the drivers that make up the sport of stock car racing. As we’ve seen over the past month, the crews make just as much of an impact on the final results sheet, and no matter how many rules NASCAR puts in place, they’re never going to stop pushing that competitive edge.
- Race-ace crashes £42,000 go-kart
- Jun 27, 2007
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FORMULA One sensation Lewis Hamilton sold his old go-kart on eBay for £42,100 - and then promptly crashed it.
As reported in last week’s WHT, the Tewin race ace was auctioning off the machine and a chance to meet him.
Afterwards, the 22-year-old took it for a spin on a specially-designed track in London, as part of the launch of Vodafone Mobile Internet.
- California cruisin’
- Jun 27, 2007
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Many people will say that Montoya has changed because of his marriage, or because of fatherhood. They’ll be wrong. This guy is changed—slightly --because he enjoys a challenge. Like the legend where the guy pushes a rock up the hill only to have it roll back time after time, Montoya laughs and pushes back harder, but patiently.
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It wasn’t when Montoya made a failed attempt to pass McMurray for the lead, and it wasn’t when he passed McMurray. The key was Montoya’s newly learned skill at saving fuel and lasting to the end of the race. Rivals Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton were so sure that he’d run out of fuel they waited too long to press an attack. - TCS Software To Power Ferrari Cars
- Jun 27, 2007
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Ferrari, one of the world’s iconic formula one sports car maker has hired Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to build software to power their Formula one cars.
TCS, India’s biggest listed software services companies based in Mumbai signed the deal with the Italian company. “We will provide the whole range of software requirement of the F1 car of Ferrari. This is a prestigious feat for us since the precision is very high,” TCS Chief Executive Officer S. Ramadorai said.
From car electronics to safety, aerodynamics to trouble-shooting, TCS would work with the F1 team to provide IT-based solutions before, during and between races, he added.
- Volvo Car CEO Declines Ford Thoughts Over Swedish Co Future
- Jun 26, 2007
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Fredrik Arp, chief executive of Volvo Cars, Tuesday declined to comment on the premium car maker’s future as its parent Ford Motor Co. (F) weighs options on divesting some of its units.
“I’m here to run Volvo and not to talk about that,” Arp said during an automotive conference, declining to elaborate further.
Volvo Cars is part of the Ford Motor’s Premium Automotive Group unit which also includes the U.K.-based sports car and sport utility vehicle makers Jaguar and Land Rover.
- A Grand Prix for Sydney?
- Jun 26, 2007
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According to reports in Australia, Sydney could be lining up a bid for the Australian Grand Prix. The New South Wales state Premier Morris Iemma is said to have already had talks with Bernie Ecclestone on the subject and has plans to attract other sporting events in an effort to increase the number of tourists visiting the city.
To this end he has created a major event company which is headed by John O’Neill, a key figure in the Australian rugby world.
The current F1 contract with Melbourne lasts until 2010 but the event is making increasing losses and has thus come in for criticism from various parties as it is public money that is being spent. Melbourne still pulls in big crowds but there seems to be a lot of negative publicity about the race.
- The Power Of ‘E’
- Jun 26, 2007
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After an intense search for a cleaner-burning fuel, the IndyCar Series believes they’ve struck gold.
IRL Senior Technical Director Les Mactaggart says, “We’ve been running, since the beginning of 2007, 100-percent fuel-grade ethanol in these cars...And we’re delighted, as a series, to be able to have the opportunity to showcase ethanol as a truly practical alternative in a high-speed racing environment like the IndyCar Series.”
Getting to this point, however, was an exhaustive process. It was only after years of testing that tomorrow’s, corn-based fuel, received the green light.
- Renault Changes
- Jun 24, 2007
- Blog
Grandprix Reports:
Renault F1 is restructuring its aerodynamic department as it expands and prepares for a new computational fluid dynamics facility to be built at Enstone.
The team’s chief aerodynamicist Dino Toso is to move up to a new role, overseeing the CFD organisation and leading the aerodynamic design team, while the management of the team’s wind tunnel programmes is being passed on to Deputy Technical Director James Allison.
- F1 Good For India
- Jun 24, 2007
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Times Of India Reporting:
Formula 1 is on its way to India. The Indian Olympic Association has received a letter from Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of F1, offering India a place in the 2009 Formula 1 world championship. According to the current proposal, the Indian Grand Prix would be held in Delhi on a track built specifically for auto racing. Sports fans have naturally welcomed the idea.
- Doubt on India F1 in 2009
- Jun 21, 2007
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NDTV is reporting:
The Indian Olympic Association’s anouncement that it would bring Formula One to India by 2009 came out of the blue not just for racing fans, but also the two motorsports bodies of India, who are raising questions about the body’s ability to successfully pull off an event of such magnitude and significance.
- Report: NASCAR to rename series “Sprint Cup”
- Jun 21, 2007
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Beginning with the 2008 season, Sprint will replace Nextel as title sponsor of NASCAR’s premiere racing series, multiple high-ranking industry sources told ESPN.com on condition of anonymity.
- Hamilton’s success putting pressure on NASCAR diversity program
- Jun 17, 2007
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Charlotte promoter Humpy Wheeler said that ups the pressure.
“Lewis Hamilton is the exact example of what’s got to happen here in NASCAR - he started out at an early age (at 9). And his path is exactly the path we’ve got to get our kids on - we’ve got to get black kids at an early age… start them out when they’re 10 or 12 years old, in something like our Bandoleros. “Unfortunately, we don’t have as many black drivers as we should have. But we’ve got more black drivers in this type of racing than any other type of racing. “But the problem is unfortunately not a lot of black kids that age can afford to go racing. And culturally it’s not something that driving them. They want to be the center fielder for the Yankees, or a running back in the NFL. They don’t think about being a race driver. And that’s what we’ve got to change.”
- Detroit Forecast: Colder Winter Ahead
- Jun 14, 2007
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It may be too early to begin a death watch, but there’s more bad news ahead for Detroit’s once-invincible auto show. Porsche will not have a display at the North American International Auto Show next January. Don’t worry, Detroit, you’ll always have winter.As we’ve pointed out over the past year, the Los Angeles Auto Show moved its traditional date from early January to the week after Thanksgiving. Organizers did this to get away from a schedule conflict created when the Detroit show tried to expropriate L.A.’s date by moving its show date virtually on top of it. (It seems Detroit needed to drum up some convention business in January, when no one but polar bears is comfortable being there.)The date change for Los Angeles proved providential and timely: Providential, because post-Christmas is a lousy time for an auto show, because people have blown all their disposable income (and then some); timely, because it coincided with a decided decline in the fortunes of Detroit’s automakers. Besides, southern California is not a tough sell that time of year. Convertible, anyone?
- Danica Wheldon
- Jun 05, 2007
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Wheldon disagreed with Patrick’s view of the incident. “She obviously thought she was past me,” he said. “She wasn’t. “She’s probably feeling the pressure of not winning races when her teammates are,” Wheldon said. “She’s just feisty. ... She’s messing with the wrong person if she wants to get feisty.”
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- Fingers That Keep the Most Treasured Violins Fit
- Jun 02, 2007
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A violin, it turns out, needs to be played, just as a car needs to be driven and a human body shooed off the couch. In this city that produced the best violins ever made, that job belongs to Andrea Mosconi. He is 75, and for the past 30 years, six days a week, he has finger-fed 300-year-old violins, worth millions, a diet of Bach, Tchaikovsky and Bartok. It is peaceful where he works, in a chapel-turned-museum here, so it jars when he compares his gentle job to the roar of Formula One racing. He is nothing but serious about what he does. “It is not a matter of habit,” Mr. Mosconi said. “When Schumacher gets to 350 kilometers an hour, do you think he ever loses his concentration?” he added, speaking of the retired racing champion Michael Schumacher.
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