Source: http://www.16thandgeorgetown.com/2013/02/viso-to-andrettihvm-jakes-to-rll.html
Monday
Do You Remember The 2002 Season (Video)
The 2002 season was utterly dominated by Ferrari, with Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello winning all but two races. David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher won the other two races, in a campaign that enjoyed many highlights and great moments, as this video shows. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit [...]
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Sunday
Video: Jaguar F-Type "Your Turn" Advertising Campaign
Jaguar F-Type arrives in U.S. showrooms this month and, in order to promote the sports car the company launched a global advertising and marketing campaign called "Your Turn." It will include span across TV, cinema, print, digital, mobile and tablet, as well as experiential and social media. The first commercial aired a few days ago during the season finale of ABC’s ’Once Upon A Time’.
Jaguar is also offering you the possibility to test drive the new F-Type sports roadster, so if you want to be among the winners, go on Jaguar USA’s Facebook page and let them know why you should be one of the first to win a test drive in the all-new Jaguar F-Type!
Four winners will be selected based on their submission and the test drives will be held in different regions of the country: New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. The drives will be filmed and shared across Jaguar USA’s social channels.
Click past the jump for one more video.
Video: Jaguar F-Type "Your Turn" Advertising Campaign originally appeared on topspeed.com on Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:00 EST.
Top TEN Funny Radio Messages (Video)
In the heat of the moment F1 drivers have been known to get a little irate over the radio. From moaning about rivals, to whinging about downforce (Jenson), or even cracking the occasional joke, there have been some truly memorable transmissions, and here are ten of the best. [There is a video that cannot be [...]
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2013 Le Mans Moto3 Warm Up Result: Miller Tops Wet Session
The weather has finally turned at Le Mans, the track is wet, and though it is not currently raining, it could start at any moment. A wet track means new names at the top of the timesheets, with Jack Miller setting the fastest time in the wet, ahead of Miguel Oliveira and Miller's Racing Team Germany teammate John McPhee.
Results:
Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen Mike Beuttler
Saturday
Power Rankings: It?s Matt Kenseth?s turn at the top
It's time for Power Rankings! After every race, we'll opine about who we think is at the top of the Sprint Cup heap and how and why they got there. Remember, this isn't scientific, as our formula is the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. So let's get on with it, shall we?
1. Matt Kenseth (LW: 3): As the esteemed Geoffrey Miller noted in Hot/Not on Monday, Kenseth has been in the same stratosphere as Jimmie Johnson this season, it's just that he's been crashed at Bristol and blown up at Daytona. And he's now the first driver in the Cup Series to have three wins. That deserves the top spot, if at least for a week, right?
2. Jimmie Johnson (LW: 1): Does it seem downright evil that we're demoting the points leader from the top spot of Power Rankings after finishing fourth and extending that lead? Oh well, we are. Jimmie, you'll get over it, won't you? Or will you show us up by going out and dominating the show at this year's All-Star race much like you did in 2012?
3. Carl Edwards (LW: 2): Last year, a seventh place finish for Edwards is a cause for celebration. This year, it's hardly noteworthy. Carl already has five top 10 finishes -- two more than he had all of last season -- and is on pace to have more top 10s in 2013 in just 22 races. Is there a Chase spot with your name on it already, Cuz?
4. Kyle Busch (LW: 11): Not many drivers finish the race in sixth like Busch did after having a cut right rear tire over the race's final 10 laps. Sure, it's a race that Busch will rue for his horrible luck costing him the win, but think if he would have ended up on pit road under green or with the car stuffed in the fence? Simply 20 points less on Saturday night and he's in 14th in the standings.
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (LW: 8): Are we overrating Junior's standing in Power Rankings? His ninth place finish Saturday night was his first single digit finish since he reeled off five of them to start the season. Those five races are the reason he's still so high in the points standings, and Junior's doing enough every week to look like a bonafide Chase contender, but he's not close to victory lane.
6. Kevin Harvick (LW: NR): Hell of a bounceback by Cupcake to charge through the field over the last stages of the race to take fifth. Sure, a late pit stop for four tires helped, but moves like that not only enhance Harvick's reputation as a closer but also put you in the top 10 in the points standings and tie the great PFM for the Richard Childress Racing points lead. Monumental.
7. Jeff Gordon (LW: NR): Third place is certainly a nice way to celebrate your 700th start, and for the Gordon fans who want to blame Alan Gustafson for everything (we're looking at you, Yahoo! race chatters), there was nothing to blame Alan for Saturday night. OK, yeah right. Gordon could have finished two spots higher.
8. Kasey Kahne (LW: 9): Damn, Kasey, that has to suck. You storm by Kyle Busch on a restart to take the lead -- while being the first car to really challenge Busch all night -- and then see that lead and your race disappear when Busch goes really low to challenge you into turn one. No, it wasn't an intentional move by Busch to disturb/make contact with Kahne enough to crash him, but after three incidents in 11 races, it's hard to not see why Kahne is frustrated.
9. Denny Hamlin (LW: NR): Welcome back to the Sprint Cup Series, Denny. That wasn't a bad way to mark your first full race back even though you chose one of the toughest tracks to make your official comeback at. Hamlin's going to get stronger with every race and won't have to save anything on Saturday night at the All-Star race. What does that mean? Well, don't be surprised if he's there at the front in the final segment.
10. Clint Bowyer (LW: 10): That was a pretty nondescript 11th place finish by Bowyer. And you know what? I think we all can be happy with that. Can you imagine how inundated we would have been with the "Fresh off the Wire" reports and terrible KFC jokes if Bowyer had been at or near the front at Darlington?
11. Juan Pablo Montoya (LW: NR): What? JPM has only two top 10 finishes? How are you putting him here? Well, those two top 10s have come in the last three races and you have to think they're not a fluke. It's been crazy issues and mechanical failures that have derailed him so far this season, and if he gets more opportunities without catastrophic failures, the top 10s may start to pile up.
12. Aric Almirola (LW: 6): Does anyone want 12th? You could make an argument for four or five drivers, so we just went with the guy highest in points. That'd be Almirola, even though his streak of top 10 finishes ended at four. Congratulations! Does this mean we get free bacon?
Lucky Dog: Kurt Busch, you did a nice job of finishing 14th after the damage sustained in Casey Mears' crash. However, what would have been your finishing position had you not gotten so morose when you fell out of the top five?
Dropped Out: David Ragan, David Gilliland, Brad Keselowski, Paul Menard
The DNF: We'll give that one to Keselowski, who finished 32nd after being caught up in that aforementioned crash. After seven top 10s in the first eight races, Kes's last three have gone 33rd, 15th and 32nd.
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A dream win: Matt Kenseth wins at Darlington for third win of 2013
The significance of winning at Darlington is no more evident than when a two-time Daytona 500 champion emerges from his car and says it's the biggest of his career.
That two-time 500 champion is Matt Kenseth, and he passed teammate Kyle Busch with 14 laps to go to take the lead of Saturday night's Bojangles Southern 500 to get his first win at Darlington and third win of the season. And it's a win that comes just three days after Kenseth's team saw the penalties that NASCAR levied against it after his win at Kansas severely lessened.
"Honestly, I've only dreamed about winning the Southern 500," Kenseth said. "This to me feels to me probably bigger than any win of my career. So I really feel bad that (crew chief Jason Ratcliff)'s not here, this is obviously his team and his effort but (interim crew chief Wally Brown) did a great job filling in and all these guys behind me. We had a fifth or sixth place car, fighting loose and those last two adjustments were just awesome."
[Related: Denny Hamlin returns from broken back to finish second at Darlington]
On Tuesday, it wasn't too farfetched to think that Kenseth could miss the Chase this year. Now, there's no doubt that he'll be in the 12 driver field after Richmond in September.
After Kansas, when NASCAR found that Kenseth's car had a connecting rod in the engine that was less than three grams too light, Kenseth was penalized 50 points, saw the win removed from counting towards the Chase and his crew chief, Jason Ratcliff, was suspended for six races and fined $250,000 (among other penalties). On Wednesday, an appeals panel gave Kenseth 38 of those points back, the three points in the Chase for the win back, and reduced Ratcliff's suspension to just for Saturday night's race.
(And before you ask, yes, Kenseth's car and engine will be taken back for further inspection again, as is customary for every race winner.)
Now Kenseth is third in the points standings and all three of his wins will count towards his bid for the Chase. Just like series points leader Jimmie Johnson, who has two wins, Kenseth and team now don't have to worry about their points standings and attempt to accumulate as many bonus points as possible for the Chase.
Throughout the majority of Saturday night's race, Busch had a stranglehold on the field. At one point, thanks to just one caution during the race's first 302 laps and Busch's dominance, there were just 11 cars on the lead lap.
As the caution flags started to accumulate over the race's last 60 laps, Brown was able to make those adjustments Kenseth mentioned. Though as Busch sprinted out to a one-second lead on the race's final restart, it still looked like his race to lose.
However, Kenseth started making up considerable ground in turns three and four especially, and drove away from Busch, whose car started to slow considerably, evidently from a cut right rear tire. Busch led a race high 265 laps but fell from 2nd to 6th over the race's final nine laps. After the race, the team said the right rear had just 12 pounds of air left in it when the car was brought back to the garage.
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Matt Kenseth sets track record in Kansas qualifying
KANSAS CITY, Kan. ? Matt Kenseth snatched the pole from former teammate Carl Edwards and will start first in Sunday's STP 400 at Kansas Speedway.
Kenseth, the next-to-last car to qualify, went out two cars after Edwards and his lap of 191.864 MPH is a track record on the newly repaved and reconfigured surface. The previous record was set before last year's fall race in the first race on Kansas' steeper progressively banked track. This year, the combination of cool temperatures and a new car helped Kenseth break that record.
Ricky Stenhouse, the man who replaced Kenseth in the No. 17 when Kenseth moved to Joe Gibbs Racing before 2013, qualified third and Sam Hornish will start fourth in his first Cup start of the season.
Jeff Gordon crashed on his qualifying lap and will take the green shotgun on the field in a backup car. The back end of Gordon's car came around on him in turn two as he was in the throttle and the impact pancaked the rear of his car.
Friday
Danica Patrick scores on first try in intermission contest at Chicago Blackhawks game
Is this an omen for Talladega?
Danica Patrick was in attendance as the Chicago Blackhawks faced the Minnesota Wild in Game 1 of their opening-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series and was a contestant in the Blackhawks' famed "Shoot the Puck" contest in the second intermission.
And guess what? She put it in the back of the net in her first shot at her first-ever Blackhawks game. Patrick's hometown is Roscoe, Illinois, which is northwest of Chicago.
Wearing a Blackhawks jersey with her name and number emblazoned on the back, Patrick advanced to the final round but in that round put her shot to the left. Another omen?
Patrick is making her first Sprint Cup Series start at Talladega on Sunday and figures to be a contender for the pole and potentially another top 10 finish. At Daytona, the series' other restrictor plate track, she became the first woman to start on the pole for the Daytona 500 in February and led a lap and finished 8th, the highest finish for a woman in the 500.
2013 Le Mans Moto3 FP2 Practice Result: Rins Tops Rain-Shortened Session
Alex Rins ended an incident-packed FP2 session for the Moto3 class on top of the timesheets, in a session cut short by the weather. The Estrella Galicia rider just edged ahead of Mapfre Aspar's Jonas Folger, while Luis Salom took third spot half a second behind Rins, and just ahead of Maverick Viñales. British rider Danny Webb ended in fifth, ahead of Niklas Ajo and Webb's Ambrogio teammate, Brad Binder.
A change in the weather thwarted Viñales' forward progress. The Red Bull KTM rider had fallen on his out lap, taking his time to get going again once he had returned to the pits. Spots of rain started falling shortly after the halfway mark, becoming more serious with some five minutes or so left, sending everyone back into the pits. A number of riders crashed during the session, though most of them during the dry first part, rather than due to the rain, with Efren Vazquez coming off worst, being taken to the Medical Center with a suspected fractured collar bone.
Results:
Aston Martin CC100
The Geneva Motor Show is obviously a place where automakers converge to present their latest offerings to the auto world. But the event also serves as a venue for these same automakers to announce future plans for their respective brands.
One automaker that dropped quite the news at Geneva was Aston Martin. As part of the company’s 100th anniversary, Aston Martin chief, Ulrich Bez, told Autocar that the brand will be debuting a pair of V12 Vantage-based two-seat, open-top sports cars at the 24 Hours of N�rburgring in May.
One of these models has been dubbed the CC100. According to Bez, the CC100 will be part of Aston Martin’s 100th anniversary and will feature a Vantage-based styling that would also be heavily influenced by its own DBR1 race car.
Apparently, the CC100 will come with a dramatic look, too, particularly the absence of doors and a roof, thus exhibiting an entirely exposed cabin. Only two models of the limited edition supercar will be built, one of which will be used to celebrate Aston’s centenary with the other commemorating Stirling Moss’ iconic triumph during the 1959 N�rburgring 1000-kilometer race.
Technical details of the CC100 have yet to be revealed but Bez did say that the CC100 will be priced somewhere between the V12 Zagato and the brand’s crown jewel, the One-77., which gives it a wide range of �330,000 to �1.4 million (roughly $498,000 to $2.1 million at the current exchange rates) to play with.
Update 5/17/2013: Aston Martin has released a teaser video (above) for the CC100 - the CC100 is the yellow silhouette at the end of the video, Aston Martin even has an official web page that previews the official debut of the CC100 Concept, so be sure you check it on May 19th, 2013. Just click here: www.astonmartin.com/n24/reveal.
Stay tuned for more details.
click past the jump to read more about the car that inspired the CC100, the DBR1.
Aston Martin CC100 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 17 May 2013 12:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/aston-martin/2014-aston-martin-cc100-ar148998.html
Electric Vehicles Finally Receiving Aid
And we continue with the subsidies. It appears that tomorrow, April 26 will ultimately aid aprobabas electric vehicles, a decision that will allow those interested to save ? 5,500 on the purchase (at least if the amount does not change eventually). The best of these grants is to be retrospective so that all users who [...]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/450-electric-vehicles-finally-receiving-aid.html
Harry Blanchard Michael Bleekemolen Alex Blignaut Trevor Blokdyk
They cite security is not up to Mercedes Benz
With just three stars, Mercedes goes home thinking about how to solve the problems of the quote after passing crash tests Euro NCAP. And it is even a commercial vehicle derived from Renault Kangoo leads the star on the front and, it must be said, I’ll come. The poor performance of the quote is no [...]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/456-they-cite-security-is-not-up-to-mercedes-benz.html
Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd David Brabham
Thursday
2013 Monza World Supersport FP2 Results: Lowes Beats The Kawasakis
Toward the end of the morning's free practice session, it looked likely the front row would end up an all-Kawasaki affair, but Sam Lowes was able to snatch his familiar position at the top in the flag. With both Kenan Sofuoglu and Fabien Foret recording higher speed trap figures, the slip stream effect in the race should prove important, as usual.
Results:
Carlo Abate George Abecassis Kenny Acheson Andrea de Adamich
Matt Kenseth wins from the pole at Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan. ? Matt Kenseth benefited from the timing of the final caution flag to take the lead in Sunday's STP 400 and held off Kasey Kahne over the final laps to get his second win of the season.
It's the third straight Sprint Cup Series race in which the winner has won from the pole and the fourth win for Joe Gibbs Racing in eight races in 2013. Though outside of Kenseth, it wasn't a rosy day for the rest of the team.
Kenseth was up front the entire day, but was running fifth as the pit window for the race's final pit stop ended. As the pit stop cycle started and the four cars ahead of him pitted, Kenseth stayed out and inherited the lead.
In the midst of all of that, Brad Keselowski's rear bumper cover was flapping in the breeze thanks to damage he had sustained earlier. Three laps after Kenseth took the lead and before he had a chance to pit, it flew off and landed on the track. The cars that were in front of Kenseth were suddenly going to restart behind him when the green flag waved again on lap 225.
That also put Kahne near the front too, and he charged to second place. Over the last 20 laps, the race strongly resembled the third race of the season at Las Vegas, where Kenseth had kept Kahne at bay to get his first win of the season and first with Joe Gibbs Racing.
As the laps wound down, Kahne would close in to within mere carlengths of Kenseth's bumper. But then, on the next lap, he'd lose some of the ground he'd make up, much like what happened at Vegas. On the white flag lap, Kahne got to Kenseth's bumper in turns one and two, but wasn't able to maintain his momentum and Kenseth pulled away down the backstretch.
It's also back-to-back wins at Kansas for Kenseth, who won last year's fall race while with Roush Fenway Racing. On Sunday, he led 163 of the race's 267 laps and was not passed for the lead on the racetrack all afternoon.
The other three JGR cars all crashed separately Sunday, including last week's winner Kyle Busch, who spun twice. The first time he didn't hit anything, but the second incident ended his day when he slid down the track and was collected heavily by Joey Logano.
Elliott Sadler, making his first Cup start of the season, crashed in turns three and four on lap 88 and Brian Vickers, subbing for the injured Denny Hamlin, hit the wall and spun on the backstretch on lap 175.
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