Chris Castagna Wins Jetta TDI Cup at Lime Rock Park
LIME ROCK, Conn. âAugust 16, 2008 - Chris Castagna, 22, of South Boston, Mass., won his first race of the Jetta TDI Cup Saturday at Lime Rock Park, after maintaining a lead he acquired early on in the 30-minute sprint. The race was a fierce competition from the beginning, with the 30 amateur drivers testing their ... Continue reading
New technology being tested for NHRA viewers
READING, Pa. Aug. 16, 2008 -- Fans watching NHRA POWERade Championship Drag Racing on ESPN2 will have an even better view of the intense action inside the cockpit of a racecar with a new High Definition in-car camera developed by Broadcast Sports, who pioneered in-car camera technology. The HD in-car system is currentl ... Continue reading
Series champion Coughlin revved up for Reading race day
READING, Pa. Aug. 16, 2008 -- Reigning POWERade Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. used Saturday's final two rounds of professional qualifying to lower his best elapsed time to 6.652 at 207.72 mph, placing him 11th in the elimination field of the 24th annual Toyo Tires NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. Just as it ... Continue reading
Burrows, Hopwood Win Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Street Tuner Race
TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec, Canada Aug. 16, 2008 - Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood traded roles in their driving efforts Saturday in Le Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres, and those endeavors paid off in their second Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Street Tuner (ST) victory of the season. Burrows, normally the starting driver bet ... Continue reading
Foss Scores Second MX-5 Cup Victory at Trois-Rivières
TROIS-RIVIERES, Canada Aug. 16, 2008 â Eric Foss, of Fort Worth, Texas, scored his second SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup win of the season in Round Five at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières. Todd Buras, of Melbourne, Fla., and Ara Malkhassian, of Sonoma, Calif., completed the podium. Starting from the po ... Continue reading
TIMO GLOCK WINS TOYOTA RACE OF LEGENDS AT 35TH ROLEX MONTEREY HISTORIC AUTOMOBILE RACES
Day two of the 35th Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races presented by Toyota continued with exciting on-track action as official racing got under way. The event, scheduled to continue through Sunday, is being held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. Highlighting Saturdayâs festivities was the Toyo ... Continue reading
Kenney Battles to Ninth at Lime Rock Park
Sterling, Virginia August 17, 2008 â The 2008 VW Jetta TDI Cup Series reached the seasonâs mid-way point on Saturday, 16th August, with Connecticutâs scenic Lime Rock Park hosting Round 4 and an under-the-weather Liam Kenney. The 16-year-old Virginia racer arrived at the 1.53-mile track sitting third ove ... Continue reading
Camirand, Lally Win Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport Race at Le Circuit de Trois-Rivieres
TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec, Canada Aug. 17, 2008 - Andy Lally won his second straight Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport (GS) race Sunday and in the process gave co-driver Marc-Antoine Camirand a record-tying eighth circuit victory in the 39th annual Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres. The duo averaged a race record 71.9 ... Continue reading
Sales of World-Famous Williamson Bugatti Collection, Oprah Winfrey Charity Car Collection and Carl J. Schmitt Collection are First Night Highlights PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance(R), elevated car collecting to an art for ... Continue reading
GM, Ford: Big Mistakes Keep Piling Up
How Ford and General Motors were ever able to raise money as they did through bond offerings over the years remains somewhat of a mystery, even in a world of too much liquidity of the world. Mistake after mistake keeps piling up at these companies. Let's take a look at some recent examples before we get to the latest n ... Continue reading
Hyperion: A New Custom-Built Car From Pininfarina
Pininfarina presents the Hyperion, a one-off custom-built car derived from the Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe which made its world debut at the Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach, America's most important competition for historical classic and one-off cars and a prestigious annual event. ... Continue reading
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