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Thursday
Wednesday
Perez revels in success
Fernando Alonso raced home to clinch first place in the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, but you might argue that for all his joy at winning, there might have been someone just slightly happier at Sepang that day. Step forward Sergio Perez. The Mexican might not be a household name just yet but, aged 22, [...]
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Create-a-caption, White House/NASCAR edition
The 2011 Chase drivers visited the White House this week, and oh, were there plenty of fine photos for captioning. Like, for instance, this one, where Tony Stewart is apparently having a go at the leader of the free world. Bravo, Smoke.
Caption this or one of the other ones posted below. Snarky comments not just requested, but required.
Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen Mike Beuttler Birabongse Bhanubandh
Into the Crystal Ball? Drama in the LBC, Edition
Pandora’s box has surely been opened this week. Nearly half the field will see grid penalties this weekend in Long Beach, the setting for the longest running street race in the western hemisphere. Open wheel racing has descended on the … Continue reading 
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2012 Jerez MotoGP Sunday Post-Race Press Release Round Up
Press releases from the MotoGP teams after Sunday's race at Jerez:
Year:
2012
Harry Blanchard Michael Bleekemolen Alex Blignaut Trevor Blokdyk
Mini-racing: Get the entire Richmond experience in 12 minutes
You say you want drama? You say you want controversy? Here you go, friends. Plenty of both in the closing laps of the Richmond race on Saturday night. Kyle Busch took home the victory, but not before controversial decisions that probably cost Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards a real shot at the win. Up next? Talladega, of course. No threat of craziness there whatsoever. Enjoy!
Tuesday
2012 Jerez MotoGP Sunday Notes - Of Rising Stars
The weather may have tried to claim the leading role at Jerez on Sunday, but after three fascinating races, there are still a few stars which easily outshone it. First and foremost is surely Romano Fenati: the Italian teenager won a Moto3 race at just the second attempt, going one better than his first race. Winning was impressive enough - you had to go back to 1991 and Nobby Ueda to find a rookie with a better debut, and Fenati's victory made him the 3rd youngest winner behind Scott Redding and Marc Marquez - but it was the manner of his victory which impressed most. Not only did the 16-year-old keep his head in the treacherous conditions while all around him fell, ran off track or made other serious mistakes, he also managed to run at a pace simply inconceivable to the rest of the field. Fenati was over 1.5 seconds a lap quicker than the rest, and he went on to win by over 36 seconds. This was just his second ever race in the rain (he won the first one, naturally) and he still felt he lacked experience in the wet. His victory received the loudest round of applause in the media center all day.
Jimmy Daywalt JeanDenis Deletraz Patrick Depailler Pedro Diniz
The Physics of Carl?s Restart Penalty
A late race penalty on a restart for what some think was a questionable caution at Richmond set into motion circumstances that likely shifted the outcome of the race Saturday night. Once again, NASCAR’s restart rules claimed a victim – this time, Carl Edwards. Angry after the race, Edwards said NASCAR had repeatedly told his [...] 
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Greg Biffle calls himself ?the underdog? at Roush Fenway Racing
KANSAS CITY, Kan. ? Greg Biffle's the points leader. He has five top-10 finishes in seven races. His lowest finish of the year is 13th. Yet he says he still views himself as the underdog, not only in the entire Sprint Cup Series, but on his three-car team, Roush Fenway Racing.
"No, I still think the 99 is the number one team at Roush," Biffle said Friday at Kansas Speedway. "I'm the underdog."
The 99 is Carl Edwards, who finished second in the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup to Tony Stewart. Edwards also re-signed with the team during the 2011 season with his new contract containing many incentives. The other driver at Roush is Matt Kenseth, the 2003 champion and the only driver on the team to have a Sprint Cup Series championship.
Last year, Biffle finished 16th in the points standings, his worst points finish since 2004. It was also the first time since 2007 that one of the three drivers missed the Chase ?�a testament to the recent success of the existing three Roush teams and drivers.
And that success may make ranking the Roush drivers an exercise in semantics only. Edwards has 19 Cup wins in 272 starts. Kenseth has 22 (in 443 starts) and Biffle has 17 (in 337 starts) ?�a nearly identical win rate. Could Biffle's statement simply be a motivational ploy after missing the Chase last year? He says he feels better than he has in the past five seasons, and the mistakes that plagued his 2011 have vanished so far in 2012.
"I feel an urgency because I'm ready to win it, but that's really, to me, about it," Biffle said. "I feel great. I feel better than I ever have in these past five seasons with the way our team is and how competitive we are and how I'm driving the car and how I feel personally. Yeah, I think anybody feels the urgency to want to win it and, obviously, some day I'm not going to be doing this anymore."
Mini-racing: Get the entire Richmond experience in 12 minutes
You say you want drama? You say you want controversy? Here you go, friends. Plenty of both in the closing laps of the Richmond race on Saturday night. Kyle Busch took home the victory, but not before controversial decisions that probably cost Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards a real shot at the win. Up next? Talladega, of course. No threat of craziness there whatsoever. Enjoy!
Monday
Suzuki Swift Lengthens To Transform It Into The Ertiga
In India, the Maruti-Suzuki brand is the most successful, with nearly 700,000 annual sales and nearly 40% market shed over the past year. But you can always improve, to enter new segments or offering more variations of a model. That’s why enter the MPV segment in India, covering about 10% market share. For this use [...]
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Marco Andretti goes airborne in crash at Long Beach
The scariest moment of Sunday's Izod IndyCar Long Beach Grand Prix involved Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti and invoked some unnerving flashbacks to the last race of 2011.
As Andretti moved to overtake Rahal, he catapulted over Rahal's right rear tire and went airborne, thankfully landing right side up before spinning and slamming into the tire barriers. Andretti was unhurt, though he emerged from the car grabbing his left wrist.
It was the first time that an IndyCar has been airborne in a race since the fiery crash that took the life of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October, and the first time that the new DW12 chassis -- named in honor of Wheldon -- had experienced that type of a real-world crash.
The DW12 chassis features rear wheel protectors behind the back wheels to hopefully prevent these type of incidents. Unfortunately, they seemed no deterrent, as Andretti's car appeared to easily vault over Rahal's. Both drivers placed the blame on the other, with Andretti offering this after the race:
"That was our stint to make hay and we were trying to do so," Andretti said. "It's one thing blocking but it's another thing chopping, and that was a chop. I'm lucky I didn't get upside down, I could have been killed."
Understandably, Andretti and others have been shaken by the loss of Wheldon. While we know all too well that the possibility of death still exists in auto racing, it's still jarring every time a driver references the notion after a crash, no matter the severity.
Thankfully, both drivers were OK. And hopefully we're not seeing any other cars airborne anytime soon.
Sunday
How I Saw It Happen? A Gorgeous Facility PLUS RACE, Edition
I could not in my wildest dreams imagine a race at Barber half as action filled as this weekends race. No more will the track be only known for its visual grandeur that has tainted opinions for three years. Entering … Continue reading 
Should Lotus have used team orders in Bahrain? | Debates and polls
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Should Lotus have used team orders to help Kimi Raikkonen pass Romain Grosjean in Bahrain?
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How I Saw It Happen? The Season has Started, Edition
Holy all that is good, the drivers made it through turn 1 repeatedly without absolutely disrespecting each other by running over the cars in front. Last year I was completely embarrassed to call myself an indycar die-hard for the first … Continue reading 
Plenea Build A Volkswagen Assembly Plant in Northwestern China
Shanghai Volkswagen, a joint venture of the German auto giant Volkswagen AG in China, this year plans to build an assembly plant in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to explore the markets of North-West and Central Asia, a source said Thursday authorities local trade. The plant, located in Urumqi, the regional capital, will become operational in [...]
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