Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/kostecki-king-of-trucks
Gregory Jack Biffle David Lee Blaney Michael Duane Bliss Kurt Thomas Busch
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Kostecki King of Trucks
The stars of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series crossed the midway point of the 2012 Season One campaign following Rounds Five and Six at the Phoenix International Raceway and Bristol Motor Speedways, respectively. While the venues are very different from one another, one thing stayed the same over the two weeks. When all the dust settled, Brodie Kostecki stood above the rest as the weekly leader at both tracks! Kostecki led over 1,200 other sim racers in taking the weekly win at the Phoenix International Raceway during Round Five of the series. The 100-lap online race that put Kostecki over the top for the week came on March 4th during a 3964 Strength of Field (SoF) event in which Kostecki went to victory lane after leading 72 laps. Finishing [...]
Cup Series Points Standings: Greg Biffle Leads
Biffle Nabs Top Spot With Personal Triple Crown With Chassis No. 777 in Las Vegas, Greg Biffle rolled his third consecutive third-place finish to start the season and take over the points lead for the second time in his career (the first was following Sonoma in 2005). Biffle credits crew chief Matt Puccia for helping [...]
Source: http://thefinallap.com/2012/03/13/cup-series-points-standings-greg-biffle-leads/
Biffle paces field at tough short track
Greg Biffle has won the pole for Sunday's race at Bristol Motor
Speedway, maintaining his strong start to the season.
Speedway, maintaining his strong start to the season.
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Ricciardo happy with early progress
Daniel Ricciardo believes he has made a good start to his home grand prix weekend after the first track action of the season in Australia on Friday. The Toro Rosso driver was seventh in the first session and 21st in the afternoon. He put his afternoon result down to changeable weather conditions, but hinted that he took a lot of confidence from his performance in the first session of the season.
Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake is the one we want
Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Wagon, Mercedes-Benz, Design/Style, Luxury
With every new set of spy shots, we become increasingly more excited for the launch of the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake (or is that Break?). This tapered wagon version of the shapely CLS is certainly a looker, even in pre-production, camo-clad protype form, and after giving its shockingly quick sedan counterpart high marks for its driving dynamics, we can only assume that the complete Shooting Brake package will be really, really sweet.
Oh yeah, there's an AMG version, too.
Seen here for the first time, the CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake takes the same sleek long-roof shape of the CLS550 Shooting Brake prototypes we've seen, but adds all of the bulgy bits fitting of any high-performance Merc. All we can say is, it looks absolutely stunning, and we can't wait to see the finished product.
Power is expected to come from the same twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8 found in the CLS63 sedan, sending 518 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels via Mercedes' seven-cog Speedshift transmission. Like the sedan, we expect that Mercedes-Benz will offer an AMG Performance Pack, which boosts power to 550 hp and 590 lb-ft in the sedan. Holy moly.
Wipe the drool from your keyboards and click through our attached high-res image gallery to see the CLS63 Shooting Brake prototype for yourself.
Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake is the one we want originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Innes Ireland Eddie Irvine Chris Irwin Jean Pierre Jabouille
Friday, March 16, 2012
Charlotte Show
The fifth round on the inRacingNews Challenge schedule unfolded on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s 12 turn, 2.25 mile road course. While sports car racing might be the last thing that you’d expect from a track renowned for its stock car events, the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Fords of the iRNC have never failed to put on a good show here. Now, with the Mazda MX-5 Roadsters added to the mix, the three-class series was bound to put on even more of a show in its lone visit to the Tarheel State in 2012 Season 1. In Mazda, Daniel Schon put on the week’s best showing, scoring 161 points on the strength of a win from the pole in his lone start. Mogar DG Filho put on an even better show in [...]
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/charlotte-show
Kralev stays on in F2 for 2012
Plamen Kralev will return for his third consecutive season in Formula 2.
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/kralev-stays-on-in-f2-for-2012
Engage Facebook Striptease: 2013 Nissan Altima Video Released [Updated x2]
Update: Nissan has released a third teaser video of the 2013 Altima. The new clip (embedded below) shows the car’s left taillight and part of the trunklid. Yes, we will eventually see the entire car. The sheet has been pulled from the 2013 Nissan Altima—well, in a brief teaser video first posted on Facebook, anyway. [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/caranddriver/blog/~3/9VCeyiJ5JiI/
Orange County, New Rochelle, Wesley Hills Join Push for TZB Transit
New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson and Orange County Executive Edward Diana are two of the latest Hudson Valley leaders to call for transit across the Tappan Zee Bridge.
The calls for rapid transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge are coming from more places across the Hudson Valley. This week Orange County Executive Edward Diana joined his [...]
The calls for rapid transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge are coming from more places across the Hudson Valley. This week Orange County Executive Edward Diana joined his [...]
Joseph Francis Nemechek III Ryan Joseph Newman Kyle Eugene Petty Floyd Anthony Raines
MORE THAN 1000 FANS CELEBRATE MATT HAGAN'S 2011 FUNNY CAR CHAMPIONSHIP IN HIS HOMETOWN
MATT HAGAN 2011 FUNNY CAR CHAMPION CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (Dec. 19, 2011) More than 1000 fans and friends celebrated Matt Hagan's 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car championship at the special event hosted by Shelor Motor Mile in...
Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2011/12/more_than_1000_fans_celeb.php
Winterbottom wins qualifying race
Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom took victory in the qualifying race that kicked off V8 Supercars' non-championship event on the Australian Grand Prix support bill in Melbourne. In an unusual rules twist for this race, the three cars running at the tail of the field on each lap from laps three to eight had to retire to leave a 10-car shoot-out over the final three laps of the event, which set the grid for race two later today.
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/winterbottom-wins-qualifying-race
Hendrick Motorsports Loses Appeal, Has One More Shot: A Fan’s Reaction (Yahoo! Contributor Network)
It should not come as a huge surprise to the NASCAR world that Hendrick Motor Sports has lost its initial appeal of penalties that were levied against Jimmie Johnsons team including Chad Knaus and Ron Malec. Crew chief Chad Knuas and car chief Ron Malec were both suspended...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Vergne not putting pressure on himself
Jean-Eric Vergne says he is not putting any pressure on himself ahead of his grand prix debut in Australia this weekend. The Frenchman, the 2010 British F3 champion, is making his race debut in Formula 1 machinery in Melbourne after having secured a deal with the Toro Rosso team. Vergne conceded he was still finding it hard to believe he is an F1 driver and says he will treat his debut as any other race
Virgil Ernest Irvan III Kenny Dale Irwin Jr Dale Arnold Jarrett Jimmie Kenneth Johnson
2014 Subaru Forester Spy Photos: Keeping It All in the Family
What It Is: A 2014 Subaru Forester prototype in heavy camouflage. Caught testing on public roadways in the U.S., the pending fourth-generation model was running with a Honda CR-V and a Ford Edge, which indicates the expectations Subaru has for the newest Forester. Keep Reading: 2014 Subaru Forester Spy Photos – Future Cars
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/caranddriver/blog/~3/C-xuk0ix9fg/2014-subaru-forester-spy-photos-news
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Auctions: Jay-Z and Kanye's wrecked Maybach fetches just $60,000 at auction [w/video]
Filed under: Auctions, Maybach, Earnings/Financials, Celebrities
Sorry, Phillips de Pury & Company, but you guys evidently had no business auctioning this car at a sale of contemporary art. Because no matter what the dynamic rap duo of Kanye West and Jay-Z did to it, this 2004 Maybach 57 is, first and foremost, a used car. Clearly the art community has voted with its wallets - and decided that the vehicle's value is about what you could make if you parted it out. Frankly, that's sad.
For those that don't remember, the Maybach was heavily modified for use in the music video for the song "Otis," the Grammy Award-winning hit from Kanye's 2011 album Watch The Throne. Despite its overt ugliness, the car certainly has provenance. (Did we mention that the song won a Grammy?) We only hope that whomever ponied up the paltry sum of $60,000 for the "Otis" Maybach is either a real music fan or someone who goes on to resell it at Barrett-Jackson or another car auction where they know how to move the celebrity metal.
Be sure to check out our gallery of the "Otis" Maybach, and click past the jump to watch the music video.
Continue reading Jay-Z and Kanye's wrecked Maybach fetches just $60,000 at auction [w/video]
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Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr Carl Michael Edwards III William Clyde Elliott Jeffrey Michael Gordon
Jeff Hammond: Rick Hendrick is firmly in team's corner
Hendrick believes in his team, isn't backing down in penalty
appeal.
appeal.
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Juhring Wins Again
Week Six of2012 Season 1 saw the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series travel out west to “Sin City.” Drivers would attempt to tame the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in an effort to stake their claim to the series championship. During the week, 967 sim racers attempted at least one race, with 332 of them attempting one or more qualifying laps. Brandon Buie (Atlantic) arrived in Vegas looking to keep his points lead while Brad Mahar (New England) and Phil Juhring (New Jersey) were out to knock him off the top. The Strength of Field race for Week Six took place on Thursday night at 9:30pm EST, a timeslot that has become popular with ETV broadcasting the top split each week (http://www.etv-eplay.net/wordpress/?review=testing-2). The many viewers watching this race saw Juhring dominate [...]
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/nascar-news/juhring-wins-again
Joseph Francis Nemechek III Ryan Joseph Newman Kyle Eugene Petty Floyd Anthony Raines
Jimmie Johnson points climbing, despite penalty
….while we wait for the official penalties after the Hendrick appeal. Johnson Continues Climb Daytona seems like forever ago for the five-time champion. A 42nd-place finish in the Daytona 500, coupled with a 25 points penalty for infractions in prerace inspection put Johnson in the red going into Phoenix. Now, after a fourth-place finish at [...]
Source: http://thefinallap.com/2012/03/13/jimmie-johnson-points-climbing-despite-penalty/
2013 Porsche Boxster S First Drive: More Power and More Ability
The Porsche Boxster really didn’t need a wholesale redesign. Since its introduction in 1997, Porsche tweaked, fiddled with, and upgraded the roadster nearly every year, keeping it feeling modern and fully competitive. Even in the outgoing generation’s final two model years, it remained the benchmark for its class, winning our Best-Handling-Cars Under $100K competition and [...]
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