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AT&T Williams 2011 European Grand Prix Free Practice Report Valencia, Friday June 24 2011 Objectives P1 ? Evaluation of new aero parts including a new exhaust and rear wing Objectives P2 ? Comparison work of new aero parts between both...

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Joe Gibbs Racing personnel have been fined and placed on probation for fitting their Sprint Cup cars at Michigan with oil pans that had not been previously submitted for approval by NASCAR. All three JGR Toyota's were found with the parts during inspection at Michigan last Friday and officials requested the team to replace them before they could run during practice

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/nascar-news/nascar/joe-gibbs-racing-fined-for-oil-pans/

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McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has played down suggestions that Lewis Hamilton is looking to leave the British outfit. As revealed by AUTOSPORT, Hamilton met with Red Bull boss Christian Horner during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, triggering speculation about his future.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/whitmarsh-hamilton-happy-at-mclaren/

Masahiro Hasemi Naoki Hattori Paul Hawkins Mike Hawthorn Boy Hayje

Aston Martin is cutting production of its five-door Rapide by as much as 50 percent due to a lack of demand. In a statement, a spokesperson for the company said that this was always the company’s intention: “Rapide had a higher than normal initial production rate to get through the launch phase and ensure delivery [...]

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The second half of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) kicked-off this past week at the Pocono Raceway. The Pennsylvanian triangle provided a unique challenge on the 2011 Season Two schedule and provided two consecutive blockbuster races which set the landscape of the top five for the week. When the hundreds of online races were complete and the virtual dust settled from Pocono, it was Chad Pruitt celebrating as the Week Seven winner in the NiCCS. Pruitt took home the first race of the week at Pocono on Tuesday. The race was rated at 4743 sof points and featured a nineteen car field. Five yellows slowed the event for nineteen of the fifty laps. Pruitt led two laps of the race including the checkered flag lap which is when [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/pruitt-picks-up-pocono-win/

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Chrysler is evaluating a return to international GT competition with the next generation of Viper, according to this week's AUTOSPORT magazine. The US giant, which took a hat-trick of GTS class wins at the Le Mans 24 Hours from 1998-2000 with the original Viper Coupe, has began to look at the possibility of taking on BMW, Ferrari, Chevrolet and Porsche in the GTE category

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/3rdparty/chrysler-evaluating-gt-return/

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Jamie Alguersuari is confident that the problems that prevented him from taking part in the second free practice session for the European Grand Prix will not be a major setback for the race weekend. The Spaniard was unable to complete a lap during the afternoon after his Toro Rosso's Ferrari engine suffered a problem shortly before the start of the session.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/alguersuari-shrugs-off-engine-problem/

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We Attend The Official F10 BMW M5 Coming-Out Party, Hobnob With Its Project Manager



We have seen it hinted and teased and glossily presented all over the internet, so we flew ourselves to the Nürburgring 24-hour affair and got all over her. Of course, we're talking about the long-awaited F10, or fifth-generation, M5 from BMW. The big news is that it will likely be priced at just eight percent above the starting sticker of the last-generation V10-powered E60 M5. Make that a cool $92,000. Then add M bells and whistles.

We know most of the details in the general sense. (The assembled BMW development bosses were all bragging about how much they had driven it already around the Nürburgring and Hockenheimring, and all those other 'Rings we don't get daily access to. Dirty dogs.) A 553-horsepower, 4.4-liter Twin-Power Turbo V8 shared with the X5 M and X6 M behemoths, plus the small matter of 500 pound-feet of torque between 1,500 and 5,750 rpm. Redline is now right around 7,200 rpm instead of the discontinued E60 M5's V10 that smacked us around at 8,250.

Versus the predecessor, which ceased production way back in December 2009, power is up by roughly 10 percent, torque by 30 percent, and fuel efficiency also by a whalloping 30 percent. "Drive it on the autobahn at full unrestricted speed around 180 miles per hour," says the F10 M5's project leader, Albert Biermann, "and certainly those efficiency numbers suffer. But our engineers drove the F10 every day to and from home some weeks, and have realized all of these better numbers."

Read the full details about the F10 M5 after the jump.

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Marco Simoncelli was fastest again in the extended Friday morning practice session at Assen - while all three factory Honda team riders had big crashes in quick succession. In the space of just two minutes during the riders' opening runs, first Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso had violent high-sides at the De Bult left-hander, then their temporary team-mate Hiroshi Aoyama did likewise at the left-hand part of Ruskenhoek. While Stoner was able to quickly get back to the pits and rejoin on his spare bike, Dovizioso and Aoyama both required trips to the medical centre for checks before they were cleared to continue - Dovizioso having been taking away by stretcher initially and a limping Aoyama needing help from the marshals.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/simoncelli-fastest-amid-honda-crashes/

Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie Kevin Paul Lepage William Ashton Lewis Jr Sterling Burton Marlin

The second half of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) kicked-off this past week at the Pocono Raceway. The Pennsylvanian triangle provided a unique challenge on the 2011 Season Two schedule and provided two consecutive blockbuster races which set the landscape of the top five for the week. When the hundreds of online races were complete and the virtual dust settled from Pocono, it was Chad Pruitt celebrating as the Week Seven winner in the NiCCS. Pruitt took home the first race of the week at Pocono on Tuesday. The race was rated at 4743 sof points and featured a nineteen car field. Five yellows slowed the event for nineteen of the fifty laps. Pruitt led two laps of the race including the checkered flag lap which is when [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/pruitt-picks-up-pocono-win/

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Martin Tomczyk believes that his Lausitz DTM victory last weekend was the easiest of his career.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/miscellaneous/dtm/tomczyk-lausitz-win-was-easy/

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Accidents happen. But for grown-ups, spilling food on oneself while driving isn?t an accident, it?s called slobbishness. Still, if social anxiety prevents you from choosing the dine-in option, there?s a way to keep your clothes, if not your dignity, unsoiled. We tested two of a disturbingly large number of available adult bibs. SlobStopper $14.95, plus [...]

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Marco Simoncelli was quickest as the Assen weekend began with a very wet first free practice session. The Gresini Honda rider hit the front with a 1m49.036s two minutes from the end. He had spent the early part of the morning exchanging the top spot with Valentino Rossi, and after being pushed down the order slightly, the former champion jumped back into second - 0.3 seconds down on Simoncelli - with his final lap

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BRYAN SELLERS ATLANTA, June 21, 2011 Team Falken Tire Testing Duties Pull American Driver from Upcoming Race Bryan Sellers has been a lead on tire development for Falken Tire's sports car program since 2009. In that time, the Falken factory...

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The International Society of Safety and First-Aid Accessories Engineers has announced its five All-Time Injury-Relief All-Stars, based on a combination of real-world effectiveness, design ingenuity, cost efficiency, and self-interest. Let?s hope that putting these champs in the C/D spotlight will spur more innovation, and maybe some extra ads! TATA NANO You?d expect India?s ultra-cheap, ultra-frugal [...]

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Valentino Rossi will ride a version of Ducati's 2012 chassis fitted with an 800cc engine from this weekend's Dutch TT in an effort to turn the team's disappointing season around. The new bike, codenamed the GP11.1, also features a brand new seamless transmission system. Honda's version of this system is regarded as key to its currently dominant performance.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/rossi-gets-2012-chassis-for-assen/

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By unanimous voice vote, the full board of Manhattan CB 10 has passed a resolution endorsing a summer trial for a car-free Central Park. Says park advocate Ken Coughlin, “We have the agreement of all the boards surrounding the park and are now waiting for a response from DOT on whether they will move ahead [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/06/23/community-boards-line-up-for-car-free-central-park-whither-bloomberg/

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