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Saturday, 2 July 2011
Toyota?s Next (Really) Big Thing in Hybrids for the U.S.: Diesel/Electric Hino Commercial Trucks
Starting this December, Toyota?s commercial truck brand, Hino, will offer a pair of Class 4 and Class 5 cab-over-engine trucks powered by diesel-electric hybrid powertrains in the U.S. These mark the first such commercial applications in the States, and with aero-tuned cabs atop their beefy chassis, the Hino hybrids will provide the foundations for a [...]
Kolles to step aside in HRT reshuffle
HRT is set to undertake a management reshuffle in the next few weeks, with team principal Colin Kolles poised to step aside to allow the owning Carabante family to take more direct control.
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.
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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/
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Friday, 1 July 2011
Pedrosa expects tough first race back
Dani Pedrosa hopes he can just steadily improve his pace during the Italian Grand Prix weekend as he makes his return to MotoGP following a six-week injury lay-off. The Honda rider has not competed since a collision with Marco Simoncelli at Le Mans in mid-May left him with a broken collarbone. Complications during the recovery then led to further surgery.
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