Source: http://anotherindycarblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/practice-rewind-massive-indy-edition/
Thursday
Practice Rewind? Massive Indy Edition
What a week it?s been! After six days of intense on track action and slowly rising speeds, there is still no true picture on how qualifying will shake out. We always assume that the big dogs will bubble to the … Continue reading
Wednesday
Scott "Scooter" Jones Shoots Miller: Saturday Spectacle
Ironic: The only permanent American rider in WSBK and John Hopkins finds himself having to learn the track
All around the world I've been looking ...
Miller Motorsports Park has one of the most dramatic backdrops of any circuit in the world
Here?s a way to fix the All-Star Race: build your own go-kart
Get yourself into the holiday frame of mind with some good old-fashioned go-kart wreckage, courtesy of Red Bull in Belgium. There's some amazing engineering on display here, and also some ridiculous wreckage and other silliness. Enjoy, and if you can understand what that raggedy homeless-Gandalf-looking guy is saying, more power to you.
Have a great holiday weekend, and make sure you stay safe and sober enough to join us Sunday night for the Coca-Cola 600!
Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot
Vote for your 2012 Monaco GP driver of the weekend | 2012 Monaco Grand Prix
Vote for your 2012 Monaco GP driver of the weekend is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
Compare all the drivers' performances and vote for who you think was the best driver of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend.
Vote for your 2012 Monaco GP driver of the weekend is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/05/28/2012-monaco-grand-prix-driver-weekend/
Practice Rewind? Massive Indy Edition
What a week it?s been! After six days of intense on track action and slowly rising speeds, there is still no true picture on how qualifying will shake out. We always assume that the big dogs will bubble to the … Continue reading
Source: http://anotherindycarblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/practice-rewind-massive-indy-edition/
Tuesday
Range Rover Evoque Vehicle Is Chosen As The Women Of The Year
Who knew that women also have an opportunity to choose their favorite vehicles each year and, although the winner is a family car, who would have thought that women are among his favorite models like the Porsche 911, Jaguar XKR or Mercedes Benz SLK, any vehicles that may be associated more to the male gender. [...]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/216-range-rover-evoque-vehicle-is-chosen-as-the-women-of-the-year.html
Ferrari director ?disappointed? with performance level
Ferrari�Technical director Pat Fry has said that he doesn’t expect the team to start the 2012 season well. Who remembers the 1988 Austalian Grand Prix? Many have suggested that Ferrari need to hit the ground running to improve on last year, but Fry is in a rather�pessimistic�mood. Speaking at the end of a tough pre-season, [...]
Who remembers the 1988 Australian Grand Prix?
We are not too far away from the 2012 Australian Grand Prix and everyone is rightly excited. You can check out the drivers that need to deliver in 2012 right here. However, we are going to be building up to Melbourne with a series of videos from races gone by. To begin with, do you [...]
Lamborghini wreck: Oh yeah, you could totally handle a high-powered car
You know your idiot friends who bust on NASCAR by saying that it's "just driving"? Yeah, show 'em this video from the Chicago suburbs of a Lamborghini driver who's a little out of his (her? nah, gotta be a he) league. Enjoy.
[Via The Big Lead]
Monday
The 200 wins of Rick Hendrick, by the numbers
On Saturday night, a Hendrick Motorsports driver, fella by the name of Jimmie Johnson, won the team's 200th victory in 3,015 races. Let's dig a little deeper courtesy of Racing Reference, shall we?
? Hendrick's first victory came in April 1984 at Martinsville. The winner? Geoff Bodine.
His first sponsor was Northwestern Mutual Life, and his team was then known as All-Star Racing. Yeah, nice name.
? The winningest driver for Hendrick is, of course, Jeff Gordon with 85 wins. Hendrick has also fielded cars driven by legends (Darrell Waltrip, Al Unser Jr.), dearly departed (Tim Richmond, Rob Moroso, Benny Parsons) to who-the-hell-is...? (Sarel van der Merwe).
? Hendrick has won 10 championships: five by Jimmie Johnson, four by Gordon and one by Terry Labonte.
? The team now trails only Richard Petty Motorsports, with 268 wins, but at Hendrick's current pace, that record could fall within a decade.
? The drivers bearing Hendrick regalia have 818 top-5s, 1,352 top-10s, and 181 poles. They've earned a tidy $272 million in race purses over the team's 29-plus years of existence.
? Hendrick's best track? The aforementioned Martinsville, where his drivers have won 18 times in 178 races, followed by Charlotte (16) and Darlington (14). He's had the most trouble at Homestead, where his drivers have failed to bring home a checker in 51 races, and Kentucky, which just joined the schedule last year.
Sadly, Martinsville is also the site of Hendrick's greatest tragedy, the plane crash in October 2004 that killed Rick's son Ricky and several other members of the Hendrick organization. Saturday night, in a touching final gesture, the assembled Hendrick team turned their hats backwards and pointed to the sky, a tribute to Ricky Hendrick and the others lost to tragedy over the years:
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/200-wins-rick-hendrick-numbers-201031363.html
Gerhard Berger Eric Bernard Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia
Jaguar C-X75 Supercar Hibrida
Create supercars is not an easy task since they are created in order to seduce people with high purchasing power with high demands on the time of taking a car of this kind at home, plus the super cars that are constantly competing against monsters such as Ferrari and Lamborghini, among others. Therefore, the arrival [...]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/199-jaguar-c-x75-supercar-hibrida.html
Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari
Sunday
Jeff Gordon?s miserable luck continues at Darlington
Jeff Gordon's 2012 keeps getting more and more unbelievable.
Once again, Gordon had a competitive car during Saturday night's race at Darlington despite an early Darlington Stripe. And, fleetingly, anyway, there were glimmers of hope that the black cloud that has hovered over his season would start to lift. But those glimmers vanished as soon as his left-rear tire started to go flat on Lap 194.
As Gordon made his way to pit road, it looked like he would catch a relative break, no pun intended, as the caution flag flew for debris from his tire right as he entered the pits. That meant that instead of potentially two laps down under green, the four-time champion would be able to line up just one lap down.
Alas, when you're in Jeff Gordon's 2012, when things go south, they really go south. Just a few laps after the restart, his tire went down again, and the team was forced to take the car to the garage for repairs. He ended up 35th, 29 laps down.
A week after falling six spots in the standings to 23rd, Gordon's continued issues dropped him another spot to 24th, 170 points behind points leader Greg Biffle. The man that passed Gordon in the standings? Mark Martin, who did so despite running only eight of the season's 11 events. That's how crazy of a season it's been for Gordon. For the Chase, wins are now imperative. But so is getting into the top 20.
Bump Day Live Blog! (Update, The Final)
FINAL UPDATE Amid much teeth gnashing, quietly spoken disagreement and silently shattered dreams Bump Day ended with more of a fizzle than a bang. As soon as the qualifying session went green, we saw all nine unqualified machines take to … Continue reading 
Source: http://anotherindycarblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/bump-day-live-blog-update-1/
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