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Saturday
Dale Earnhardt Jr. to start first at Kentucky
Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first pole of the season Friday and will lead the field to green in Sunday's Quaker State 400 which was postponed from its Saturday night time slot due to rain.
Junior's lap of 183.636 MPH was enough to beat Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson, the only two other drivers to break the 183 MPH barrier. And, has become customary this season with NASCAR's new car, Junior's pole speed was a track record. (Nine drivers broke the previous track record.)
It's the 12th career pole for the series' most popular driver and his first since the fall race at Richmond last season. Last year at Kentucky, he started seventh and finished fourth.
Kyle Busch will start fourth and Marcos Ambrose starts fifth. There were just 43 cars at Kentucky, so no one will miss the race.
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Kyle Busch leads Toyota 1-2-3 in Daytona qualifying
Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth will start on the front row for Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona.
Busch ran a lap of 193.723 MPH to beat Kenseth's 193.299, and Clint Bowyer, another Toyota driver, will start third. The top eight drivers in the field broke the 193 MPH mark.
At Daytona in February, Busch and Kenseth were at the front of the field when they suffered engine issues within laps of each other. Kenseth was leading when his engine went sour on lap 148 and that malady handed the lead over to Busch, who promptly had engine woes just two laps later.
And the driver that qualified fourth? That's none other than Kasey Kahne, who can't seem to get much distance between himself and Busch at restrictor plate tracks. Kahne went spinning off of Busch's bumper in the Daytona 500 and then crashed again at Talladega after contact from Busch. (Busch was collected in that accident.) The two drivers also finished 1-2 in the second Budweiser Duel qualifying race for the Daytona 500.
The Toyotas of Martin Truex Jr. and Michael Waltrip start fifth and seventh. Danica Patrick, the polesitter for the 500, will start 11th.
It's Busch's 13th career Sprint Cup Series pole and his first at a restrictor plate track. 43 cars are entered for the race so no driver failed to qualify.
Friday
Importance of Trucking and Transportation
Transportation is vital to every business, as your business would have many needs that would be fulfilled with the help of transportation. Transporting products from one place to another requires a good fleet of trucking and transportation facility and making sure that you have a good business that will help your business transfer products in [...]
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FIA introduces 2014 pit safety rules for this season
The FIA has reacted swiftly to the Nurburgring pit incident by introducing with immediate effect two rules already approved for 2014. The speed limit will come down from 100km/h to 80, and pit crews will have to wear helmets. In … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/07/09/fia-fats-tracks-2014-pit-safety-rules-for-this-season/
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Thursday
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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Top FIVE Drivers ? German Grand Prix
While the issue of tyres delaminating was seemingly addressed this weekend, there was no warning for the loose wheel that flew down the pit-lane off of Mark Webber?s car and hit an unsuspecting cameraman. Having been taken to hospital, there was more drama as the Marussia of Jules Bianchi rolled down the track on its [...]
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Jimmie Johnson dominates for win at Pocono
Sometimes you get a race that's so thoroughly controlled by one car that no matter what happens, it seems inevitable that car will take the checkered flag.
Sunday at Pocono was one of those days. Jimmie Johnson, the five-time champion and Sprint Cup Series points leader, led 128 of the race's 160 laps en route to his third win of the season.
And, unlike the previous week at Dover, when a late-race restart cost Johnson a victory with a dominating car, this week, this race's cluster of late lap restarts was not going to deny Johnson the win.
Just how good was Johnson's car? Well, these words were the first words he said after emerging from his car in victory lane. Mind you, this is a guy who just won his 63rd Sprint Cup race; and did we mention he was a five-time Sprint Cup Series champion?
"That's the best car I've had in a long, long, long, long, long, long time," Johnson said. "Not only a good race car but a good engine. Had fuel mileage and plenty of power. It was awesome on the straightaways today to be able to do what I wanted around other cars.
The fuel mileage aspect came in handy because until that spate of caution flags, the race seemed destined to become a fuel mileage race. That's a strategy that's bitten Johnson and team before, and looked to be the only possibility of derailing the No. 48 on it's train tracks directly towards the checkered flag.
The power aspect came in after those caution flags fell. Four of the race's six cautions came in the final 30 laps, and for each of those restarts, Johnson was in the lead. Every single time he was clear of the field through turn one.
Greg Biffle finished second and Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished third. Dover winner Tony Stewart was fourth and his teammate, Ryan Newman, was fifth. Newman, thanks to an off-sequence pit-stop strategy, was the only driver outside of Johnson to lead the race outside of green flag pit stop cycles since Johnson took the lead on lap 9 from Carl Edwards. Johnson started first by rule because Friday's qualifying session was washed out.
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Volkswagen Passat 2014
The Volkswagen Passat 2014, which hit the market in August this year, has been wearing a much more attractive design. It is clear that Volkswagen design line has changed: the rounded forms have given way to straight lines and angular. It is not just that the designers keep the sign of the times, but every [...]
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Aspar's Dilemma: Gino Borsoi On Aprilia, Honda Or Yamaha For 2014
The Power Electronics Aspar team have seized the opportunity offered by the CRT rules with both hands. By teaming up with Aprilia and employing two talented and fast riders, Aspar has helped turn the RSV4-based ART machine into a genuinely competitive machine, in every respect except for horsepower. At Assen, Aleix Espargaro finished eighth, ahead of two factory Ducatis and three other satellite MotoGP machines. The bike is clearly good.
For 2014, however, Aspar must face a dilemma. With the introduction of the spec electronics system, teams choosing to race the ART bikes will lose the current advantage those machines have, a highly-developed and very effective electronics package. Teams running ART machines must choose, either to accept the Magneti Marelli developed software, and keep 24 liters of fuel and 12 engines, or persuade Aprilia to port their software to the spec Marelli ECU, and try to race with 20 liters of fuel and either 5 or 9 engines, depending on whether the Grand Prix Commission decided Aprilia had already been competing in MotoGP as an MSMA member or not.
The subject is highly sensitive in the Aspar team. When I asked team manager Gino Borsoi about the team's plans for 2014, his first response was to deflect the question with a joke: "I will be on holiday, so I don't know what the team is doing!" More seriously, Borsoi said the team faced some serious decisions ahead of them.
Wednesday
Robin Pemberton reiterates NASCAR policy on debris cautions
How did Denny Hamlin get his lap back early in Sunday's race at Kentucky Speedway? According to NASCAR's Robin Pemberton, it's because the debris was unintentional.
Let's replay the scene for just a second. Hamlin had suffered a flat tire in turn four and limped his car all the way back to pit road. While he was on the access road to the pits in turns three and four, the tread from that flat right front tire shot across the track in front of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson, who both hit it.
NASCAR threw the caution flag. Because he had just been lapped, Hamlin was the first car a lap down and received the Free Pass from NASCAR, despite the fact that his tire was the reason for the caution flag.
The official reason listed in the box score of the race was debris.
?The debris causes the caution, not (the car),? Pemberton, NASCAR's Vice President for Competition said Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. ?That?s the way we?ve looked at it for years since I can remember.
?Debris is debris.?
NASCAR's rule states that a car can't receive the Free Pass when in the judgment of NASCAR officials, the car was involved in or the reason for the preceding caution. That seems like it would apply to Hamlin, but because the reason listed on the box score was debris, it didn't.
Had Hamlin stopped on the track because of the flat tire or hit the wall to draw the caution flag, he would have been listed as the official reason for the caution and unable to receive the free pass. Ultimately, Hamlin getting back onto the lead lap didn't matter in the final outcome of the race as he suffered another tire problem and finished 35th.
But does the rule need to be tweaked? Many times caution-causing debris is untraceable, or if the debris is traceable, the chances of it coming from the car in the Free Pass position are minimal. (There are penalties for drivers intentionally attempting to cause a debris caution, a la Robby Gordon throwing padding out of his car at Atlanta many years ago.)
It's already left open to the discretion of NASCAR officials, so it seems that while debris may be debris, Hamlin's situation fell right into the crosshairs of the rule and the rule as it's written could have been used to also justify denying Hamlin of the Free Pass.
Should Hamlin have gotten the Free Pass? Does the rule need to be changed? Let us know in the comments below.
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Williams is passed to the Mercedes for 2014
The Williams F1 Team will use Mercedes engines from the 2014 season. Thus, Renault will supply engines to the British team after a brief period of two years of collaboration between two of the most established names in the F1 World (Toro Rosso confirmed a few days left to use Ferrari engines to start to [...]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/491-williams-is-passed-to-the-mercedes-for-2014.html
Tuesday
The Top TEN Driver Outbursts
Formula One drivers have been known in the past for having a short temper, so when their thoughts and feelings spill over, we get treated to an inside look at what its like to be an elite sportsman. Over the years we have seen fights in the pits, outlandish remarks and one or two sarcastic [...]
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