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Pedro Matos Chaves Bill Cheesbourg Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa
Monday
Rosberg happy to top Jerez mileage chart
Nico Rosberg has done more mileage than any other driver in a 2014 car thus far, the German having topped the laps completed charts at Jerez last week. He already enjoyed a head start after he shook down the Mercedes … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2014/02/02/rosberg-pleased-to-top-jerez-mileage-chart/
Sunday
Joao Barbosa drives No. 5 Action Express car to Prototype win in Rolex 24
Joao Barbosa pulled away from Max Angelelli in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing car after a late caution to win Sunday's Rolex 24 sports car race at Daytona International Speedway.
The yellow flag flew with approximately 20 minutes to go with Barbosa in the No. 5 Action Express car in the lead. After a 12 minute cleanup, the race went green with eight minutes to go and Angelelli had a shot to close in on Barbosa and make a run at the lead.
It didn't happen. Barbosa pulled away and scored Action Express's second win in the Rolex 24. The team won the Rolex 24 in its first-ever race in 2010.
Barbosa split time in the No. 5 with Christian Fittipaldi, Sebastien Bourdais and Burt Frisselle. The No. 10 was driven by Angelelli, Taylor, and Taylor's sons Ricky and Jordan.
Three Prototype cars finished on the lead lap. The race was the first under the Tudor United SportsCar Championship banner. The series is a unification of the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am Series, which previously ran the Rolex 24.
Markus Winkelhock and the No. 45 Audi were initially declared the winners in the GTD class after a time penalty for avoidable contact was assessed to the No. 555 car and Alessandro Pier Guidi. But Pier Guidi didn't make contact with Winkelhock. The Audi was to the Ferrari's outside and as Pier Guidi moved towards the outside lane to get a better angle for the corner -- and perhaps push Winkelhock off the track -- the Audi went off into the grass.
Sunday evening, IMSA issued a statement saying that the penalty to the No. 555 had been overturned and the team would be declared the class winners.
"A full post-race review of the incident on the last lap of the 52nd Rolex 24 At Daytona was completed by IMSA Supervisory Officials, IMSA vice president for competition and technical regulations Scot Elkins said in a statement. "The decision has been made to reverse the decision by the race director, rescind the penalty against the No. 555 Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari 458 Italia team, and reinstate drivers Scott Tucker, Bill Sweedler, Townsend Bell, Jeff Segal and Alessandro Pier Giuidi as the GT Daytona class winners. We regret the confusion following the race, and appreciate the patience by our fans, drivers, teams and the media so we could properly review and subsequently report this decision."
Colin Braun drove the No. 54 car to the win in the PC Class. Patrick Pilet and the No. 911 Porsche won the GTLM class.
Sunday morning, IMSA, the sanctioning body for the TUSC, said that Memo Gidley suffered a broken back and had surgeries for injuries to his left arm and left leg after a very hard crash on Saturday afternoon. As he was passing another car in his No. 99 Prototype, Gidley slammed into Matteo Malucelli's slowing Ferrari. The race was red-flagged and both drivers were taken immediately to Halifax Health Medical Center. IMSA said that Malucelli was held overnight for observation and was resting comfortably.
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Saturday
Formula One not fast enough at the moment ? Sutil | 2014 F1 season
Adrian Sutil believes the new generation of F1 cars aren't quick enough - but expects designers to make rapid progress.
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/01/31/formula-one-fast-enough-moment-sutil/
Friday
Looking Back At 2013 - Rating The Factories: Honda, Yamaha, And Ducati
In the final part of our look back at 2013, we review the performance of the factories. How did Honda, Yamaha and Ducati stack up last season? What were their strong points, and how did they go about tackling their weaknesses? Above all, what does this mean for 2014? Here's our rating of MotoGP's manufacturers.
| Honda | |
| Manufacturer's Championship Standing: | 1st |
| Score: | 10/10 |
It seemed as if every technical rule change and tire decision swung against Honda in 2012. First, they found themselves outfoxed over the minimum weight by Ducati, after the MSMA first told the Grand Prix Commission that they had unanimously rejected a proposal to raise it from 153kg to 160kg. It turned out that only Honda and Yamaha had rejected it, with Ducati voting in favor, which meant the rule should have been adopted and not rejected. As a concession to the manufacturers, the weight was raised in two stages, to 157kg in 2012, and 160kg in 2013. Then, after being tested at Jerez, the riders voted to adopt the new, softer construction front tires, despite complaints from the Repsol Honda riders.
Honda struggled for much of 2012, first working out where to place an extra 4kg (a problem the other factories did not have, as they had struggled to get anywhere near the previous minimum of 153kg), and then running through chassis and suspension options in search of the braking stability they had lost with the introduction of the softer front tire. After the test at the Mugello round, they had most of the problems solved, and Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa went on to win eight of the last nine rounds.
Come the 2013 season, and Honda were well-prepared. They already had their braking stability issues under control, and the only point left was the extra 3kg they had to carry. Having had all of 2012 to prepare for the extra weight, they arrived at the start of the season with few issues. Dani Pedrosa took a little while to get used to the extra weight, his slight frame a disadvantage when it comes to flinging the extra bulk around, but he soon had the situation under control.
Red Bull ends test early again | 2014 F1 season
Red Bull have been forced to cancel their running for a second day at Jerez after further problems with their RB10.
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/01/30/red-bull-ends-test-early/
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LMP2 Lola Mazda Skyactiv -D ? Detroit 2014
The creation of the new unified championship racing American resistance Tudor has helped many brands are reactivated and submit new weapons to compete in it . Mazda has already announced a couple of years I wanted a new prototype Brand ago, and that the dream of Le Mans (such as rotary engines ) still very […]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/626-lmp2-lola-mazda-skyactiv-d-detroit-2014.html
Sunday
A Car of Tomorrow Renaissance
I read a post the other day over at Autoextremist�(a fantastic automotive blog)�about the optimism surrounding the introduction of the Gen 6 car even in the face of continuing struggles for NASCAR, and it got me thinking about the recent evolution of our race cars. In the post, Mr. De Lorenzo talks about NASCAR’s unwillingness [...] 
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Eric Bernard Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen
Saturday
Guest Blog: Mat Oxley: Inside the mind of Casey Stoner
MotoMatters.com is delighted to feature the work of iconic MotoGP writer Mat Oxley. Oxley is a former racer, TT winner and highly respected author of biographies of world champions Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi, and currently writes for Motor Sport Magazine, where he is MotoGP correspondent. We are featuring sections from Oxley's blogs, which are posted in full on the Motor Sport Magazine website.
Inside the mind of Casey Stoner
I spent some of the festive break reading Casey Stoner’s autobiography, Pushing the Limits. It’s an enjoyable book and should be required reading for any aspiring kid racer (presuming they’ve been off the bike long enough to learn to read) and for any parents of same.
Stoner’s abilities and his success confirm the verity of the 10,000 hour rule which suggests that’s the minimum amount of time you need to spend doing any pursuit if you want to be world-beating good at it. In other words, there are no short cuts on the way to the top – it’s just work, work and more work.
The young Casey Stoner
Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem
Portimao Private WSBK Test Press Release Round Up
Press releases issued by some of the World Superbike and World Supersport teams present at the Portimao test held over the past few days:
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2014 Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem
Friday
The Simply MUST Improve This Season
McLaren cannot afford another so-so season if they want to still be considered as a big team this year. 2013 was sub-standard for the Woking based outfit, which finished the year fifth in the constructors standings, their worst performance since 2004 if you do not count their expulsion from the 2007 championship. They had to [...]
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Christian Danner Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson Jimmy Davies
Thursday
It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 17 Paul Menard
Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season. A Menard minute.
Paul, if every season has signature moments, yours had two. However, they were both explosions. That's not the best way to be remembered.
Much like the driver who finished just below you in the standings, you had a strong open to the season and it all came crashing down on you at Daytona. That was explosion number one.
Just 23 laps into the race, your engine bit the dust in a nice bit of fire and smoke. You entered that race 15th in the points standings. Because no one else had issues yet, you finished last. You left that race 20th in the standings. It was all over from there.
You did move back up to 16th, but by then the Chase was an afterthought. You needed a win or two.
The second explosion was that tire at Homestead. Rubber from a tire issue wrapped around your brake line, which started a fire in the right-rear hub of the car. And then when your crew went to change the tire and extinguish the fire, the tire on the car got so hot that it exploded. That might have been a bigger impact than the engine.
With Kevin Harvick's departure at Richard Childress Racing, you're now the longest-tenured Cup driver at the team. That takes a second to sink in, doesn't it? There were some giggles and jokes when you moved over to RCR before the 2011 season -- being sponsored by family does that to you. The Dillons can relate -- but in those three seasons, you've finished 17th, 16th and 17th. That's acceptable, isn't it?
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Previous Reviews: No. 18 Aric Almirola, No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 20, Jeff Burton, No. 21 Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 22 Marcos Ambrose, No. 23 Denny Hamlin, No. 24 Casey Mears, No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney
Wednesday
Tuesday
It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 24 Casey Mears
Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season. It's Casey's corner now.
Thanks for joining us Casey. Where should we begin?
You potentially had the most consistently nondescript season of anyone in the Cup Series this year. And before you get all riled up and think that's going to merit a bad review, it's not. It's the truth, and in your situation, it's not a bad thing, is it?
Your team is small, has fairly limited resources and just a year or so ago was in a situation where you were having to do the start and park furlough thing. This year, there was none of that and it showed in your performance.
The restrictor plate lottery fell in your favor once this season as it seems to do for all small teams and that July Daytona night was the best finish of the season for you all. Below that, there were a lot of top 20 qualifying efforts -- eight of them -- and nine top 20 finishes.
However, there is a bit of cause of concern. Perhaps it's because you're on such a small team, you had four of those top 20s in the first six races. Your last top 20 was at Watkins Glen in August. Woof.
But here's where that consistency comes in. Save for three races in which you retired from because of crashes, you were running at the finish in every race. No terminal issues is a big victory for a small team.
What's in store for next year? We're thinking more of the same.
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Previous Reviews: No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney
Monday
It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 2 Matt Kenseth
Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season.
We'll refrain from making a remark about how much a change of scenery helped you, Matt, because that's blatantly obvious, isn't it?
For all of the success that you had this season, it feels a bit overshadowed by what happened at Phoenix. It was the worst time -- OK, so maybe Homestead could have been worse -- to have your poorest race of the season. Going toe-to-toe with Jimmie Johnson was suddenly negated with a ill-handling car and an inability to work through traffic.
But it shouldn't. You won seven races. That's two more than you've ever won in a Sprint Cup season, though your tenure with Joe Gibbs Racing certainly didn't get off to an auspicious start with the engine gremlin attack at Daytona. Imagine what would have happened if that would have been your Phoenix downfall.
Yeah, one of those race wins may had been a tad tainted, but it may have been in spite of the overweight rod and not because of it. That explains how the penalty was sharply reduced. You also won the first race of the Chase, and that set the stage for the showdown with the champion.
After two years outside of the top 10 in 2008 and 2009, you've entrenched yourself (again) as a top 10 driver. That's not going to change any time soon.
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Previous Reviews: No. 3 Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Kyle Busch, No. 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 6 Jeff Gordon, No. 7 Clint Bowyer, No. 8, Joey Logano, No. 9 Greg Biffle, No. 10 Kurt Busch, No. 11 Ryan Newman, No. 12 Kasey Kahne, No. 13 Carl Edwards, No. 14, Brad Keselowski, No. 15 Jamie McMurray, No. 16 Martin Truex Jr., No. 17 Paul Menard, No. 18 Aric Almirola, No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 20, Jeff Burton, No. 21 Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 22 Marcos Ambrose, No. 23 Denny Hamlin, No. 24 Casey Mears, No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney
Bob Anderson Conny Andersson Mario Andretti Michael Andretti
Sunday
It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 2 Matt Kenseth
Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season.
We'll refrain from making a remark about how much a change of scenery helped you, Matt, because that's blatantly obvious, isn't it?
For all of the success that you had this season, it feels a bit overshadowed by what happened at Phoenix. It was the worst time -- OK, so maybe Homestead could have been worse -- to have your poorest race of the season. Going toe-to-toe with Jimmie Johnson was suddenly negated with a ill-handling car and an inability to work through traffic.
But it shouldn't. You won seven races. That's two more than you've ever won in a Sprint Cup season, though your tenure with Joe Gibbs Racing certainly didn't get off to an auspicious start with the engine gremlin attack at Daytona. Imagine what would have happened if that would have been your Phoenix downfall.
Yeah, one of those race wins may had been a tad tainted, but it may have been in spite of the overweight rod and not because of it. That explains how the penalty was sharply reduced. You also won the first race of the Chase, and that set the stage for the showdown with the champion.
After two years outside of the top 10 in 2008 and 2009, you've entrenched yourself (again) as a top 10 driver. That's not going to change any time soon.
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Previous Reviews: No. 3 Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Kyle Busch, No. 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 6 Jeff Gordon, No. 7 Clint Bowyer, No. 8, Joey Logano, No. 9 Greg Biffle, No. 10 Kurt Busch, No. 11 Ryan Newman, No. 12 Kasey Kahne, No. 13 Carl Edwards, No. 14, Brad Keselowski, No. 15 Jamie McMurray, No. 16 Martin Truex Jr., No. 17 Paul Menard, No. 18 Aric Almirola, No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 20, Jeff Burton, No. 21 Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 22 Marcos Ambrose, No. 23 Denny Hamlin, No. 24 Casey Mears, No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney
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Saturday
What Did We Learn At Daytona? Nothing.
If you read or hear any media member say this week that Jimmie Johnson is on his way to a sixth title, or that Danica Patrick is a contender, or that the Gen 6 car needs to be tweaked, know one thing: they don’t have a clue. Did Jimmie win the 500? Yes. Did Danica [...] 
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