Friday, 1 July 2011

2014 Mercedes-Benz GLC / Small Crossover Rendered: Organic Style, Four-Cylinder Engines

Organic style and four-cylinder engines will mark this small SUV. Remember when the Mercedes-Benz product portfolio was limited to just two sedans?the S-class and one below it?and the occasional special model, like the SL roadster? Okay, maybe you don?t. That was, after all, some time ago. Keep Reading: 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLC / Small Crossover Rendered [...]

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Brian Lee Vickers Jim Hall Duncan Hamilton Lewis Hamilton

Speed gets lien against Red Bull

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/07/01/1314542/former-driver-obtains-lien-in.html

Carel Godin de Beaufort Christian Goethals Paul Goldsmith José Froilán González

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Calculators

Throughout the Brand Hatch paddock, pilots try to figure out where they really stand. The sudden need for research and calculators is because this week, the ninth in 2011 Season2 of the iRacing.com Prototype GT Challenge, is the first where dropped scores count. From now to the end of the season, drivers compete with other drivers who have had bad weeks or all good weeks, so their points scores could suddenly climb noticeably or hardly change depending on both the current weeks results and the prior results. This is where championships can be lost, or won . . . glory can be gained or disappear in a shower of sparks and flying carbon fibre. For some sim racers the calculations are simple.� In the overall Corvette championship, for example, technical [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/ladies-and-gentlemen-start-your-calculators/

JR Motorsports Chevrolet Kevin Lepage Hyatt Place Richmond Airport Toyota Ricky Stenhouse Jr

Red Bull: Drivers are evenly-matched

Red Bull Racing's head of car engineering Paul Monaghan believes that the level of competitiveness at the front of the grid is exaggerating the difference between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Webber has come under pressure for failing to match Vettel this season, leaving him 77 points adrift of his championship-leading team-mate. But Monaghan believes that there has not been much between the two drivers this year.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/red-bull-drivers-are-evenly-matched/

Trevor Bayne Out! Pet Care Toyota Jason Leffler Great Clips Toyota

Mooresville Motorplex Announces Project Moving Forward

“World-Class Kart Track to Officially Open in 2012″ Mooresville MotorplexMOORESVILLE, N.C. (June 29, 2011) ? After a few months of delays, developer DryLake Entertainment, LLC and the officials of Mooresville Motorplex announced today that their track project is moving forward with a newly targeted opening date of summer 2012. ?We have been working closely with...more»

Source: http://www.catchfence.com/2011/arca/06/29/mooresville-motorplex-announces-project-moving-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mooresville-motorplex-announces-project-moving-forward

Cuth Harrison Brian Hart Gene Hartley Masahiro Hasemi

Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking

Things are tough all over, and that goes for America’s institutions of higher learning as well. Colleges and universities, once thought to be recession-proof, are being forced to raise tuition and cut back.
East Los Angeles College spent $25 million building this parking structure in 2009. That's $25 million that won't be spent educating students. But [...]

Source: http://streetsblog.net/2011/06/28/coming-to-a-college-campus-near-you-more-learning-less-parking/

Roger Laurent Giovanni Lavaggi Chris Lawrence Michel Leclere

2013 Porsche Cayman Spied Up Close

We now have much closer shots of the next Cayman, and they reveal a more 911-like silhouette and front end. The roof appears flatter than the current car?s, and we can see just how much the stretched wheelbase affects things like the size of the rear window. Less exciting: This prototype appears to have some [...]

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Hermie Sadler III Virginia Commonwealth University Ford Brian Scott BigSpot com Toyota