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Monday
Kimi Raikkonen: ?There?s still a long way to go??
Kimi Raikkonen refused to read any significance into his performance today after he topped the time sheets in Jerez. Raikkonen got up to speed by driving a two-year old Renault in Valencia recently, and also did some slow filming laps … Continue reading 
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Sunday
Big Daytona payout includes bonus for leader at halfway
NASCAR has announced that the Daytona 500 will have a largest-ever payout of $19 million, with the winner getting at least $1.4 million. That's nice and all, even though you and I probably won't see a nickel of it.
However, here's the cool element: there will be a $200,000 bonus for the leader at halfway, Lap 100. The idea is that it'll reward drivers who actually race rather than running in the back of the pack until there are 20 laps remaining. This should add another element of life into the traditional ride-around portion of the race, particularly if NASCAR's efforts to disrupt tandem driving don't work as well as hoped.
Conspiracy-defusing note: If Lap 100 is under caution, the bonus will be deferred until the race goes green, and it'll then go to the driver who's leading the fifth lap after the race goes green.
The "Daytona 500 Mid-Race Leader Award" doesn't yet have a sponsor, but you can bet it will by race day. That would be February 26, for those of you keeping score.
Great Flexibility in Production and Distribution Vehicles
It produces small urban electric vehicle. No intention of entering the competition of the great automotive industry. A very specific niche market that allows great flexibility in the production and distribution of vehicles. The company e-ride Industries produces several models and are manufactured with aluminum chassis, Fiberglass body and motor of 72 volts. Clearly, the [...]
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Reduce Fleet With 51 Cars
The full Connell approved reduced by more than 50 percent of the fleet depends on the Government to move from 112 to 51 vehicles, it was announced Friday at a news conference Connell vice president and spokesman, Joseph Cascara. Connell spokesman explained that this action “falls within the savings and rationalization plan,” which was released [...]
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Why Danica Patrick?s decision to run Charlotte over Indy makes sense
On Monday, Danica Patrick announced that she would run the Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on May 27 instead of the Izod IndyCar Series Indianapolis 500 in 2012.
As Patrick has transitioned over to the stock car world -- 2012 will be her first full season in NASCAR -- the door to Indy has always publicly been left open a smidge. It's a race that she, like her car owner Tony Stewart, grew up dreaming about, and a race that she's participated in the last seven years -- and been pretty damn good too. In those seven races, she's only finished outside the top 10 once, and that was because of a crash on pit road.
And that door still may be open in the future. But Patrick shut it for the present on Monday, a smart decision for her NASCAR career.
Since she dipped her toes into the stock car waters in 2010, her full-time transition to the full-bodied machines has seemed inevitable, an inevitability that was a reality as early as January 2011, as Michael Andretti told Brant James last week that Patrick informed him of her departure -- per her contract -- at the beginning of last year.
That gave Andretti a full year to find Patrick's replacement. And gave the Coca-Cola 600 more short-term relevance to Patrick than Indy did. Sure, Danica could have attempted the 500-600 double like Stewart did in his rookie year in 1999 and in 2001, but with limited seat time in a stock car, it likely would be an exercise in futility this year. (Not to mention logistics with Patrick likely driving a car in the Coca-Cola 600 that will need to qualify on owner's points unless an arrangement is worked out.)
"I hope to do it in the future, the Indy 500 that is," Patrick said. "Maybe it'll be a double."
When she makes her Sprint Cup debut at Daytona next month, the Sprint Cup car will be the third type of stock car that Patrick has driven in NASCAR in only her 26th race. We've seen drivers with eight times the amount of races talk about the stark differences in cars between the new and the old and the Sprint Cup and the Nationwide Series. Imagine finding a sense of predictability with that variety. (Not to mention that the Cup Series will have a new car in 2013, when Patrick moves full-time into the Series.)
Plus, the IndyCar Series is transitioning to a new chassis and engine package for 2013, a car that's significantly different from the Honda powered Dallaras that Patrick has driven the past five seasons. Jumping in a car to practice and qualify for the Indianapolis 500 wouldn't be like putting on an old pair of sneakers, it'd be like breaking in a pair of cowboy boots without the benefit of trying them on.
And we haven't even talked about the logistics of running both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series and the 500.
Practice begins Monday, May 14 for the Indianapolis 500. On May 11 and 12, Patrick will be participating in the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series races at Darlington. (How about that for a transition?) Pole Day is May 19, the same day as the Sprint All-Star race, a race that Patrick could participate in by winning the fan vote -- not a completely farfetched proposition. The Nationwide Series races at Iowa the next day, May 20, which is also Bump Day.
While it might have been fun to see Patrick drop in at Indianapolis to run the 500, 2012 is all about preparation for that full-time Cup move in 2013. A move that wouldn't be helped by running the Indianapolis 500.
2012 Valencia Moto2 And Moto3 Test Day 2 Times: Redding Smashes Moto2 Lap Record, Cortese Fastest Moto3
Testing continued today for the Moto2 and Moto3 classes at Valencia, with the temperatures proving a little more cooperative than Wednesday, helped along by the watery February sun. The morning chill remained, though, leaving the teams stuck inside the garages for much of the morning, the action only really getting underway around 11am.
A little more temperature and an extra day of testing saw Scott Redding step the pace up even further: the Marc VDS rider was already under the official Moto2 race lap record on Wednsday, and on Thursday, he took another nine tenths of a second off his best time, smashing Toni Elias' pole record from back in 2010. Redding had company from Andrea Iannone on the second day of testing, with the Speed Master rider lapping the Valencia track just two tenths slower on his FTR Speed Up, and three tenths quicker than Claudio Corti on the Italtrans Kalex.
Where Kalex had dominated the show on Wednesday, the top of the timesheets was much more of a mixture: while Kalex had 5 bikes in the top 10, FTR had their Speed Up machine in 2nd, with Andrea Iannone aboard, while Corsi and Angel Rodriguez took 5th and 8th respectively for the British chassis build. Bradley Smith put his Tech 3 bike into 6th, nine tenths behind the Kalex of Redding.
Saturday
The NASCAR Week That Was: Nov. 13-19
The fight for the Championship was the biggest story of the week as Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart sat just three points apart going into Homestead. The winner will become the sport’s first new Cup champion since 2005. In other news, NASCAR issued an unannounced penalty to Brad Keselowski this week after the driver criticized [...] 
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Gran Coupe BMW 6 Series
Once again, the German brand is making headway in a new automotive segment featuring the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, a model that represents a milestone in the brand to be its first four-door coupe, which was developed on the same platform BMW 6 Series. This third model of the 6 Series Convertible is added [...]
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Friday
Valentino Rossi Has Surgery To Remove Pin From Right Leg
Valentino Rossi underwent surgery today to remove the pin in his right tibia, the final memento of his monster crash at Mugello in June 2010. The surgery, carried out at the Cervesi hospital in Cattolica, not far from Rossi's home in Tavullia, was performed by Dr Giannicola Lucidi and Dr Marco Trono, while Professor Giuseppe Porcellini, the surgeon who fixed the shoulder Rossi injured earlier that year in a motocross crash. The surgery was a success, and after a period of 5 days rest and recovery, the Italian should be able to get back to training ready for the 2012 MotoGP season. In a press release issued this evening, Ducati announced they expected Rossi to be fit enough to take part in the second Sepang test due to take place at the end of February.
Jerez test day four in pictures | F1 pictures
Pictures from the final day of testing at Jerez.
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Adrian Newey rues loss of diffuser blowing
The Red Bull RB8 ran its first laps in the hands of Mark Webber at Jerez this morning, and after its debut technical director Adrian Newey had some interesting comments to make about the car. He insists that it still … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/02/07/adrian-newey-rues-loss-of-diffuser-blowing/
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The Off Season as it Stands Today
After a tough week, I am back in action and what a week to be injured. We have had the best of best news all the way down to the worst of the worst. After a few weeks of not-necessarily-on-topic … Continue reading 
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Thursday
Get Rid Of Owners Points Swaps? Not So Fast?
Remember that time Bobby Ginn was part of the Childress ownership group? And Chip Ganassi was a partner in that back marker Nationwide Team? Or how about when Jim Harris become a partial owner up at the now-defunct Randy Moss Motorsports? Yeah, not too memorable, right? Every year around this time the screaming begins about [...] 
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Join the Yahoo! Sports/Marbles fantasy league! Do it now!
All right, here's the deal: Fantasy NASCAR is coming up soon, and we at Yahoo! Sports want to fantasize with you. (Wait, that sounded really wrong.) Anyway, you need to get in on this action. Go to the Fantasy NASCAR homepage and sign up for a team. Then make sure you jump in on our special private league:
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Anyway, the whole deal begins in a month or so with the Daytona 500. There'll be acclaim and love for the weekly winners, and you'll get the satisfaction of knowing that you're a better race analyst than [insert announcer name here]. Win-win all the way around. Get on it!
Valentino Rossi Has Surgery To Remove Pin From Right Leg
Valentino Rossi underwent surgery today to remove the pin in his right tibia, the final memento of his monster crash at Mugello in June 2010. The surgery, carried out at the Cervesi hospital in Cattolica, not far from Rossi's home in Tavullia, was performed by Dr Giannicola Lucidi and Dr Marco Trono, while Professor Giuseppe Porcellini, the surgeon who fixed the shoulder Rossi injured earlier that year in a motocross crash. The surgery was a success, and after a period of 5 days rest and recovery, the Italian should be able to get back to training ready for the 2012 MotoGP season. In a press release issued this evening, Ducati announced they expected Rossi to be fit enough to take part in the second Sepang test due to take place at the end of February.
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