Saturday

Austin?s F1 future is bright

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How I Saw It? 2012 Super Review Part 1: Nuts and Bolts Edition

2012 will be remembered for close racing and an entirely new chassis/engine package that revolutionized the on-track product in the INDYCAR series. Not revolutionized, no, it was more of a renaissance of sorts. A return to a more historically correct … Continue reading

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Williams fail to get the most out of winning car | 2012 F1 season review

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Williams ended an eight-year wait for a Grand Prix win in 2012 but could have finished much higher in the championship with their FW34.

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MINI Paceman Unveiled At The Paris Motor Show 2012

MINI takes the Paris Motor Show 2012 to introduce the new model that expands the range and already there are seven models in the range of the brand. Here again the elegant sportiness that defines this new variant incorporating cabin configuration with two doors, a large tailgate and two seats in the back, but respecting [...]

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Ernesto Brambilla Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli

2012 season in the rear view: David Ragan

The vitals: 28th in points. 0 wins, 1 top 5, 2 top 10s. 5 DNFs.

Moment to remember: Yeah, many people think that restrictor plate racing is a crapshoot, but given the team's performances, it seems pretty safe to say that plate racing has become Front Row Motorsports' strength. Much like his teammate first-name brother, David Ragan's best two efforts of the season came at Talladega, where he finished seventh in the spring and fourth in the fall. That fourth place finish came when somehow, some way, Ragan escaped from that final lap melee, battered race car and all, despite being the fourth car on the high line and in the thick of the accident.

And he also ran that awesome Where's Waldo car at Bristol.

Moment to forget: Much like the restrictor plate racing karma giveths, it also takes away. Maybe it was the deposit for the withdrawal that Ragan was to make at the final restrictor plate race of the season, but he was caught up in the crash on lap two of the Daytona 500 that ended the chances of Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Danica Patrick and others. Ragan finished 43rd.

The wrap: A year after scoring his first career win and eight top tens for Roush Fenway Racing, Ragan found himself out of a ride when sponsor UPS scaled back its NASCAR commitment and Jack Roush then went to three teams. Without many options, Ragan stayed in the Ford camp at Front Row, and ended up with an average finish in 2012 that was eight places lower than 2011 and completed the fewest laps of his Cup career.

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Ernesto Brambilla Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli

Friday

Stefano Domencali: ?We raced in 18 races and not 20??

Perhaps not surprisingly Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali insists that Fernando Alonso would have been a more deserving World Champion than Sebastian Vettel. Domenicali stressed once again that the first lap retirements in Spa and Suzuka had been very costly. … Continue reading

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Karun Chandhok Alain de Changy Colin Chapman Dave Charlton

The 2013 Schedule? On Double Headers, Balance and ABC

The 2013 Indycar schedule came out on Sunday and fans have shown equals parts joy, hate and total indifference. I am positive you readers have had about enough of the scheduling talk, but I?ve got a few things to say … Continue reading

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Jenson Button: ?It was one of the toughest races I?ve had??

Jenson Button ended the 2012 season as he started it, adding his success in Brazil to the ones he scored in the opening race in Australia and in Belgium in August. Famous for getting it right in wet/dry races, the … Continue reading

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Brazilians go Stock Car racing...

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Another Turkey-lurkey salute...

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Thursday

FIA drops plan to reduce downforce in 2014 | 2014 F1 season

FIA drops plan to reduce downforce in 2014 is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.

The FIA has dropped a plan to cut F1 car downforce in 2014 as well as a proposal to make them run on electric power only in the pits.

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Paolo Barilla Rubens Barrichello Michael Bartels Edgar Barth

Andy Ahern is an entrepreneur par excellence

Andy Ahern has been at the helm in the transportations and trucking logistics sector since the day he went public with Ahern and Associates in 1987. Before Andy established his own truck transportation and logistics consultancy, he had garnered sufficient experience about trucking transportation. He had worked in senior positions in many companies. Even the [...]

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Erik Comas Franco Comotti George Connor George Constantine

Qinghua In Talks With Caterham And Marussia

With HRT?s future in F1 in serious doubt, reserve driver Ma Qinghua is in talks regarding a move to Caterham or Marussia. The Chinese racer is rumoured to bring huge financial backing from his homeland, which may tempt the backmarkers. Both teams are yet to confirm their second drivers ahead of 2013. Reports in Spain [...]

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Miles Named Hulman And Company CEO

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John Barber Skip Barber Paolo Barilla Rubens Barrichello

Wednesday

No fairytale ending to tough season for Marussia | 2012 F1 season review

No fairytale ending to tough season for Marussia is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.

Marussia had a tough season in 2012. And just when it looked like coming good it turned sour in the final moments.

No fairytale ending to tough season for Marussia is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.

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Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks

Miss the banquet? Check out Brad Keselowski?s speech here

If you didn't have a chance to catch Friday night's Sprint Cup Series banquet and want to see Brad Keselowski's championship speech, we've got you covered.

Enjoy!

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Elliott Sadler?s Nationwide title hopes take a hit at Phoenix? Again

Last year while battling Ricky Stenhouse Jr. for the Nationwide Series championship, Elliott Sadler essentially saw his hopes disappear when he crashed at Phoenix. He went from being 17 points behind Stenhouse to 41 back.

On Saturday, Sadler entered the next-to-last race of the Nationwide Series season at Phoenix tied with Stenhouse for the points lead. And he crashed, losing precious points to Stenhouse yet again.

Stenhouse was near the front of the field for most of the race and was there again late. Sadler was racing for 12th, knowing that he needed to make up every point possible over the races final laps, and when he went three wide with Cole Whitt and Justin Allgaier, he ended up in the wall.

Sadler's car was still driveable, so he was able to limp around to the finish a lap down in 22nd place. However, Stenhouse finished third, so the margin between the two is 20 points, or roughly half of last year's post-Phoenix deficit.

Can Sadler make it up? It's certainly a lot more achievable than it was last year. We'll find out on Saturday at Homestead.

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We Lost A Big Hat on Sunday

Jimmie Johnson won the race on Sunday and edged a little closer to the points lead, but I think the bigger story was something that happened off the track. After 30 years on pit road, reporter Dr. Dick Berggren retired, making Dover his last race. Berggren, like so many broadcasting greats who came before him [...]

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AUTOart's 1:18 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Makes for a Sweet Holiday Present


If somebody told you that they wanted a Lamborghini Aventador for Christmas, there?s a good chance that you probably wouldn?t be able to afford it. Fret not, as AUTOart has a reasonable alternative in the form of a 1:18 scale model of the mighty Aventador.

The downside to giving this scale model as a Christmas gift is the obvious fact that nobody?s going to be able to drive it. Apart from that, this scale model has all the tools to be a hot seller for the holidays.

The detailing of this Giala Orion Aventador is mighty impressive, particularly the interior, which was done so intricately that a lot of details contained in it can actually be found on the actual supercar. The kind of attention to detail needed to make that possible is incredible and goes to show just how finely built this scale model is.

Here?s the other caveat: this scale model doesn?t come cheap at all. We assume that in large part because of the intricate design of the model ? on top of the royalties paid to Lambo ? but AUTOart has priced it at a whopping ?168, which is about $220 based on current exchange rates.

But if someone?s insistent enough to want an Aventador for the holidays, you can make that person happy without having to burn holes in your wallet.

AUTOart's 1:18 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Makes for a Sweet Holiday Present originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:00 EST.

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Tuesday

Moves to save the German GP

The mess that has surrounded the N�rburgring is now beginning to be cleared up, following a settlement in recent days between the various parties involved. The Rheinland-Pfalz regional government provided large sums of money to N�rburgring GmbH, a company which it owned, five years ago, with the goal being to increase the earning potential of [...]

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Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini

The Clint Bowyer parodies have begun

You knew it wouldn't take long for the wizards of the Internet to get the Clint Bowyer dust-up into meme form, and here they come. Above, as referenced on SB Nation, we see an excellent Five-Hour Energy parody; we've seen this doggone commercial enough over the course of the season, so it's nice to get this new angle.

Below, our very own Nick Bromberg has begun his own series of Bowyer photos, on Twitter with the hashtag #ClintBowyerRunningWithThings. Behold, Bowyer vs. Bolt:

Bowyer also shows up chasing the Popemobile, running from the 1979 Daytona 500 fight, and on the beach in Chariots of Fire. Impressive, yes?

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Senna Hopeful Of F1 Stay

Bruno Senna is hopeful that he will be racing in F1 next season, despite losing his position at Williams. Valtteri Bottas will replace the Brazilian for 2013 leaving him without a guaranteed drive. Caterham and Force India are believed to be on contact with the driver as they look to secure their line-ups. Senna, who [...]

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BMW 3 Series Prepared By AC Schnitzer

We have before us the last work of AC Schnitzer, a renowned German trainer. It has taken its hero the BMW 3 Series and introduced a package composed of both aesthetic and mechanical changes. Come on, a house brand preparation Schnitzer fledged. Aesthetically, this preparation certainly stands by new front and rear spoilers which the [...]

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Into The Crystal Ball? Multiple Combatants Edition

Welcome to championship week! In five short days the checkered flag will fall on the 2012 season and new, first time champion will be crowned. Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California will be the site of the final battle that … Continue reading

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Monday

F1: Young Drivers Test - 2012 Edition

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Chase Watch: Electrical problems destroy Denny Hamlin?s championship hopes

Denny Hamlin looked poised to overcome two pit-road speeding penalties in Sunday's TUMS Fast Relief 500 and keep himself in the thick of Chase contention. Well, until the master switch on his car failed.

With just over 100 laps to go while running third, Hamlin's car started stuttering on the frontstretch, and he radioed to the crew that the gauges were flashing different colors. The car refired, and Hamlin was able to continue at speed while only losing five spots. But that was a brief salvation, and the car starting sputtering again just after Hamlin would hit the accelerator exiting the corners.

Soon, Hamlin was in danger of losing a lap to leader Clint Bowyer. Then he was able to maintain race pace for a few brief moments. And then the car started slowing again. This time, so much that he was told by NASCAR he wasn't meeting minimum speed just before he stopped on the track to bring out a caution flag.

"It ended in disappointment," Hamlin said. "We overcame the pit road penalties, things like that. Just had a great car. When these things happen, you just got to suck it up and move on.� There's nothing I can do about it."

"One of these days it's going to be our time. It's just not right now."

After going to the garage for repairs, Hamlin ended up finishing 33rd and is now in fifth place in the points standings, 49 points behind Johnson.

Hamlin's car was so good, much like the car he had at New Hampshire, that after each penalty, he quickly made his way back through the field each time, including gaining 18 spots in 42 laps after the first penalty. On the penalties, Hamlin said this:

"I was doing what the crew chief (Darian Grubb) said. I don't know if that's the right thing as far as NASCAR is concerned," Hamlin said. "They assured me there was no way the speed on entry with the timing lines, there's a little bit of underestimation on how quick these cars can launch when you do take off."

"I think there was something more to that than what we thought.� Nothing we couldn't overcome. We still drove our tails right back up to the front twice, passed the 48 car about three times, four times. It sucks it's got to end this way. Just got to suck it up and move on."

Who's up: That's Clint Bowyer, who is now third in the points standings, 26 points behind Johnson and 24 behind Keselowski. And it's also Kasey Kahne too, who is 29 points behind Johnson. Honorable mention goes to Jeff Gordon for moving up to 6th in the standings, but he's 54 points back.

Who's down and out: Yeah, it's you Denny. And anyone below you in the points standings. This is now, for all intents and purposes, a duel between Johnson and Keselowski with Bowyer and Kahne on the periphery. Everyone else is just fighting to be introduced later (or even at all) at the Sprint Cup Series banquet.

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Brad Keselowski fined $25K for in-car tweeting

Here's a clear case of NASCAR being shocked, shocked to learn that one of its most popular tweeting drivers carries his phone with him at all times ... even during races.

On Sunday, with the rest of NASCAR focused on the sprawling Jeff Gordon-Clint Bowyer fight and the race red-flagged, Keselowski whiled away the time by taking out his phone and tweeting a few thoughts, responses and jokes with fans. It was reminiscent of the Daytona 500, where Keselowski did the same thing during the Juan Pablo Montoya-incited fireball. The publicity from that netted him hundreds of thousands of new followers.

Alas, NASCAR was not nearly so amused, fining Keselowski $25,000 for his offense. Drivers are not permitted to carry electronic devices in their cars, and that includes smartphones. Keselowski has said that he carries the phone to notify his family in the event of a wreck. (He also tweeted a picture of Victory Lane in Bristol in March, though a defense attorney would note that there's no proof Keselowski wasn't handed that phone as he climbed out of his car.)

Anyway, this might be one of those fines that NASCAR should just kind of forget to collect. As long as Keselowski isn't actually tweeting under a green flag, where's the problem? We mean, it's not like he's smoking or anything:

Keselowski races for the Sprint Cup championship on Sunday, and if he wins, you can bet there'll be some tweeting going on.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/brad-keselowski-fined-25k-car-tweeting-231609159--nascar.html

Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa

Johnson tries very hard to rattle Keselowski in final pre-championship press conference

Jimmie Johnson did his best to rattle Brad Keselowski on Thursday at the Sprint Cup championship contenders' press conference. But Johnson may have ended up unintentionally proving that Keselowski is the worthy rival Johnson's needed all these years.

Since Johnson began winning championships back in 2006, he's vanquished a host of the best names in NASCAR: Gordon, Edwards, Martin, Hamlin, Harvick. Since 2006, he's never gone toe-to-toe with a fellow driver heading into the final race and lost. But then, he's facing a far tougher challenge now than in any of his five championship seasons. He sits 20 points behind Keselowski, requiring both a strong finish from his own team and a weak one from Keselowski.

[Related: Final Chase Power Rankings]

"Brad," Johnson said, mock-helpfully, "if you'd like me to call later and remind you ... of guys that didn't pull off the season finale as they would hope."

With talk to Twitter and families, along with some attempts at baiting that fell flat, this year's conference was far tamer than the past two years. In 2010, Johnson and Harvick tag-teamed Hamlin with such psychological ferocity that Hamlin's legs were shaking. And last year, Tony Stewart hammered Carl Edwards until Edwards could find his footing. You could argue, perhaps, that the winner of the psychological battle on Thursday was able to turn that victory into a major win on Sunday.

If that's the case, Johnson has reason to be worried. He used the exact same "all the pressure's on him" lines on Keselowski that worked so well on Hamlin two years ago:

"The magnitude [of an impending championship] sets in at some point," he said. "I've been the guy leading the points ... You're forced to answer questions that you're not used to answering, that you don't want to answer, and it builds through the course of the week. Again, it hits everybody differently, and there's no guarantees how it'll hit him.� But I know from my own experience that there have been those moments.� Fortunately I responded well to them.� We'll see how the weekend goes."

[Also: Jeff Gordon fined $100K, docked 25 points for wrecking Clint Bowyer]

But this time around, Keselowski wasn't biting. Indeed, Keselowski indicated he'd double down on the aggressive approach that's gotten him this far:

"One of my favorite movies in the whole wide world is this documentary on Ayrton Senna, and there's this really powerful scene in that movie that sticks with me when I think about this weekend," he said. "I think about this scene in the movie when they talked about him at Monaco, which was his ?? just his phenomenal track that he was so strong at and how he had this huge lead over his teammate ... and they were coming down to the closing laps of the race, and they told him to slow down, you have a huge lead, don't worry, just slow down, just�?? and he wrecked. And I think of that as I approach this weekend.� I'm going to go out there and play my game, race my way.� That's got us to this point, and if we do that, we'll be fine."

2010 was a decisive knockout for Johnson. 2011 was a split-decision win on points for Stewart. 2012? To be the man, you gotta beat the man, and Keselowski weathered Johnson's best shots. The Blue Deuce gets the win on Thursday; we'll see how that translates on Sunday.

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Chase Power Rankings: After Martinsville, and then there were ?. two?


The seventh race of the Chase is over, and that means it's time for Power Rankings! But we're doing things a little differently now that we're in the postseason. It's all-Chasers, all the time. Good job, good effort for those of you that didn't make it, but we've got bigger fish to focus on. We'll be judging who's running well, considering not just finishing position but quality of run, expected potential, and general gut feelings. As always, we hate your guy and are biased against him. Now, enjoy.

1. Jimmie Johnson. Relentless. That's the way Johnson has been all season, and this weekend it finally paid off. Johnson was expected to run well at Martinsville, and he did exactly that, winning both the pole and the checkered flag. How many grandfather clocks does one man need? Last week: 1.

2. Brad Keselowski. It's tough to say that a sixth-place finish is a victory, but that must have been what it felt like for Keselowski, starting 32nd and facing Johnson and Denny Hamlin at one of their best tracks. Now we got us a race. Last week: 2.

3. Clint Bowyer. An outstanding run for Bowyer. This has to be frustrating as hell for anybody who's not the 2 or the 48; those guys just will not quit. But Bowyer is fast becoming a top-tier driver right before our very eyes. Last week: 4.

4. Denny Hamlin. How many ways can Denny Hamlin lose? That was just cruel, seeing how his championship chances evaporated Sunday. NASCAR needs to have a shooting range where you can just take out your frustrations when your season goes up in smoke. Last week: 3.

5. Kasey Kahne. Another strong run from HurriKa - er, nope, let's not use that nickname. What will be interesting is seeing whether the new stars of this year's Chase (Kahne, Bowyer, Keselowski) follow in the footsteps of previous ones (Edwards, Harvick). Last week: 6.

6. Martin Truex Jr. Ain't going to lie: kind of running out of stuff to say about the non-Cup contenders this late in the season. So let's take a moment and talk about Halloween. What's your favorite candy? I'm going with Reese's. I used to inhale those things. We'll continue this theme next entry. Last week: 5.

7. Jeff Gordon. JG has dressed in a few lively Halloween costumes in his day, including the One Night Stand. Slick. My best? Fat Axl Rose. Shut up. Last week: 9.

8. Matt Kenseth. Worst Halloween candy has to be Mounds. That stuff bites. In order to conceal from our parents how much candy we were eating, we used to throw the wrappers back into the pillowcase where we kept our loot. The result was that within a week or so, we'd be digging through wrappers like garbage pickers, pulling out a lone Mounds or a bank lollipop or something equally lame. Last week: 7.

9. Greg Biffle. Hey, Biff. Continuing: what is the protocol for someone who gives you non-candy in the 21st century? Like popcorn or apple slices or pennies in a bag? You have the right to torch their car if they do that, right? Last week: 10.

10. Tony Stewart. What's your favorite Halloween rumor? Mine is "look out for the kids spraying Nair!" The idea being, of course, that if somebody sprayed you with that, your hair would instantly fall out. Tony Stewart would be interested in that. Last week: 9.

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. If I was Dale Earnhardt Jr., I'd go out on Halloween wearing a Bud No. 8 firesuit and see how many people yelled at me because "Junior doesn't wear that sponsor anymore." If I was Dale Earnhardt Jr., I'd spend a lot of time messing with people. Last week: 12.

12. Kevin Harvick. Whoever the guy is who's been dressed as Kevin Harvick all Chase, stop it. Go put on a Bane costume or something. And let Harvick out of whatever closet you've been keeping him in. Last week: 11.

Non-Chaser of the Week: Aric Almirola. Wait, Double-A finished fourth? This was a rain-shortened race, right? No? Did everyone else crash? No? Huh. Nice job; he's going to make people remember that No. 43.

All right, you're up. Who goes where? Have your say.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/chase-power-rankings-then-were-two-041213222--nascar.html

Alberto Colombo Erik Comas Franco Comotti George Connor

Sunday

Jenson Button: ?It was one of the toughest races I?ve had??

Jenson Button ended the 2012 season as he started it, adding his success in Brazil to the ones he scored in the opening race in Australia and in Belgium in August. Famous for getting it right in wet/dry races, the … Continue reading

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/11/26/jenson-button-it-was-one-of-the-toughest-races-ive-had/

Mark Blundell Raul Boesel Menato Boffa Bob Bondurant

Chase Watch: OK, now it?s a two-man race. Promise.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The two-man battle that emerged over the final laps of Sunday's AAA Texas 500 left two others in the dust. And little doubt that this pursuit of the 2012 Sprint Cup Series championship is a race between Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski and no one else.

Clint Bowyer entered Sunday's race third in the points standings, 26 points behind Jimmie Johnson. And in NASCAR nomenclature, he had a "good points day," running in the top five for most of the day and finishing sixth. But because Johnson and Keselowski were 1-2, he now trails by 36 points with two races to go in his first season with Michael Waltrip Racing.

"I've said this all along -- it's fun to be racing for the championship, but I'm more proud of where we're at contending for that championship, winning three races our first year together as a group," Bowyer said. �"Got a long time to work. We just keep polishing the edges and keep getting better fixing our program week in and week out. We'll be there."

And unfortunately for Bowyer, it's not going to be this year. The same goes for Kasey Kahne, who, much like Bowyer, ran near the front of the field all day. But after contact with Jeff Gordon on lap 321, Kahne cut down a left-rear tire that exploded in turns one and two on lap 322 and brought out a caution.

Kahne entered the race 29 points behind Johnson. Thanks to repairs for the damage, he finished 25th. He's now 58 points back.

Who's up? Matt Kenseth, who finished fourth and jumped to fifth in the points standings from eighth. If it wasn't for two horrible races to start the Chase, Flatline would be right in the midst of this thing.

Who's down? This is a tie between Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr., who each fell two spots in the standings. It was especially surprising for both, given how well they've performed at Texas in the past. Truex finished 13th. Hamlin finished 20th.

Who's out? Are you named Jimmie Johnson or Brad Keselowski? No. OK, then you are.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/chase-watch-ok-now-two-man-race-promise-014831090--nascar.html

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Schumacher: The Best Man Won

Michael Schumacher has congratulated Sebastian Vettel on his championship win and claimed that he was the best driver across the season. Vettel became the youngest ever triple World Champion, as he beat Fernando Alonso to the title by three points last weekend. ?Schumi? believes that the Red Bull man earned his crow throughout the season: [...]

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Bernard Out As CEO

Source: http://www.16thandgeorgetown.com/2012/10/bernard-out-as-ceo.html

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