Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says the Italian squad must keep its feet on the ground despite its first win of the season at Silverstone.
07/15/2011
McLaren duo back team to recover
McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have backed their team to recover from its mid-season slump in form, after a troubling British Grand Prix weekend. With the outfit having slipped back from being Red Bull Racing's main challengers at the start of the campaign, Hamilton and Button have endured difficult times in recent races that has seen them fall away from runaway points leader Sebastian Vettel. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh admitted at Silverstone that the team's title hopes were now looking slim, and that its target was simply to get itself back into a position to win races later this campaign.
Zaxby s Chevrolet Brad Keselowski Ruby Tuesday Dodge Carl Edwards
Hagerty Insurance Joins the Save the Manuals! Cause [VIDEO]
Last Friday, we attended the inaugural Hagerty Driving Experience, put on by the classic-car insurer. Prior to the event, we somewhat erroneously stated that ?the syllabus includes lessons on driving a manual transmission??learning to drive a manual encompassed pretty much the entire day. And, rather than our long-term Mazda 2, which we dig but admit [...]
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07/14/2011
Ricciardo pleased to make it to the end
Daniel Ricciardo declared himself pleased to have made it to the end of his first Formula 1 race at Silverstone on Sunday. The Hispania driver, making his grand prix debut this weekend, finished down in 19th and last place, but felt the experienced of completing a full race will help him be stronger in the next one. "I feel quite good to finish and see the checkered flag," said the Australian.
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With the Saab 9-4X Headed to Dealers, Swedish Production Remains Halted Until August 9
Dealers for cash-strapped Saab will begin receiving shipments of new product this week, even though European production has been on hiatus since the second week of June. Arriving on the trucks: the 9-4X crossover, which is built by General Motors in Mexico. GM also designed the 9-4X, and it’s a mechanical twin to the Cadillac [...]
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Kentucky Speedway Offers Apology, Ticket Exchange
BRIAN FRANCE STATEMENT “While NASCAR was thrilled by the incredible response to our inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Kentucky, we also are extremely disappointed by the traffic problems and inconveniences endured by fans who wanted to be part of our races at Kentucky Speedway. NASCAR will be in close communications with Kentucky Speedway [...]
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2011 Race #18 Results: Kentucky Speedway
1 1 18 Kyle Busch M&M’s Toyota 267 48 5 145.6 $213,316 Running 2 17 00 David Reutimann TUMS Toyota 267 43 1 105.8 $147,883 Running 3 5 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 267 41 119.8 $152,711 Running 4 18 39 Ryan Newman Tornados Chevrolet 267 40 85.5 $135,860 Running 5 7 99 Carl Edwards [...]
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Grigg Owns Oxford
For the first time this season the sim racers of the iRacing.com Street Stock Series headed to the Oxford Plains Speedway located in Oxford, Maine for Week Nine in the online racing series. A total of 747 sim racers took part in the online racing during the week, but Andrew Grigg (Connecticut) was the top dog after it was all said and done. Weekly High Strength of Field Grigg was the man during the week?s highest Strength of Field (SoF) as he claimed the victory by 1.797s over second place driver Bradley Skusa (Michigan). Steven Peterson (New York) finished in the third position followed by Joey Gayski (Texas) and Richard Chapman (Carolina) who rounded-out the top five for Week Nine?s high SoF. Following Grigg?s successful week of online racing, I [...]
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07/13/2011
New Stratos Production Effort Being Blocked by Ferrari
When we drove the New Lancia Stratos earlier this year, the money man behind it, Michael Stoschek, told us ?the tools are good enough for 25 more units. For about ?600,000 apiece, Pininfarina probably could built it. I won?t become a car manufacturer. I am just keeping the copyright.? Since then, over 40 prospective buyers [...]
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