Emotional Victory For De Ferran
Simon Pagenaud and Gil de Ferran led wire-to-wire Saturday at Mid-Ohio. Click here for Hi-Res Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud went flag-to-flag Saturday to win the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, their fourth consecutive overall victory in the American Le Mans Series. Team owner de Ferran qua ... Continue reading
Robby Gordon Responds to Joey Lagono Incidient in Saturday's Nationwide Race
Watkins Glen, August 9, 2009: "After reviewing the comments by Lagano and the replay of the day's events, I felt that it was necessary to explain what happened during yesterday's race from my prospective. This whole turn of events started with Joey running into the back of my No. 55 in Turn 10. He then knocked me sidew ... Continue reading
Firestone Indy Lights - Qualifying - August 9, 2009
LEXINGTON, Ohio - Qualifying Saturday for the Mid-Ohio 100 Firestone Indy Lights event on the 2.258-mile Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with starting position, car number in parentheses, driver, time and speed in parentheses: 1. (21) James Davison, 1:14.8673 (108.576) 2. (7) James Hinchcliffe, 1:15.1451 (108.175) 3. (26) ... Continue reading
IndyCar Series Qualifying - Mid-Ohio - August 9, 2009
LEXINGTON, Ohio - Qualifying Saturday for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio IndyCar Series event on the 2.258-mile Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with starting position, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses: 1. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 1:06.6814 (121.905) 2. (18) Justin Wil ... Continue reading
LEXINGTON, Aug. 9, 2009: Ryan Briscoe set an event record lap of 1 minute, 06.6814 seconds to claim the PEAK Performance Pole Award for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by Westfield Insurance on Aug. 9. Briscoe, who won the race last year in the No. 6 Team Penske car, will be joined on the front row by Justin W ... Continue reading
Summerton Picks Up Second Atlantic Win of 2009 at Mid-Ohio; De Silvestro Extends Points Lead
LEXINGTON, August 9, 2009: Jonathan Summerton won the Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda battle at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday night, while points leader Simona De Silvestro took a significant step towards winning the season-long war with a second-place run. One day after bliste ... Continue reading
Popular Mechanics Gets It Wrong on Buick Hybrid
Special to The Auto Channel By: Jack Lifton August 09, 2009 Although you would think that Popular Mechanic's writers would be familiar with the various types of hybrid power trains now in actual use or in the planning stage, it is obvious from the PM article on the proposed Buick "hybrid' that the magazine's writers, f ... Continue reading
Detroit Area Company Creates 100 MPG Plug-In Hybrid Ahead Of Big Auto Companies
Enginer plug-in hybrid system improves hybrid mileage 40-100% Troy, MI â While the big auto companies are still trying to bring to market the high mileage vehicles that the public is clamoring for, a small Troy company, joint ventured with Australian-Chinese owned manufacturers has already achieved the holy grail ... Continue reading
Good Bye My Old Clunker And Old Friend - RIP
By Bob Gordon President and Co-publisher The Auto Channel SEE ALSO: Cash for Clunkers Consumer Guide Boy do I feel like a disloyal jerk...my 1992 Volvo with 210,000 miles will be turned in as a clunker against the purchase of a new hybrid SUV (improvement of 11 MPG thank-you). Yeah I know she isnât what she used t ... Continue reading
CAR Management Briefing Seminars-#3
CAR MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS - #3 How Do We Get Out of This Mess? By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Dave Cole, to whom I introduced you yesterday, and John McElroy, host of AutoLine Detroit and senior automotive media guy, spent three hours moderating a discussion among some very smart guys. James To ... Continue reading
CAR Management Briefing Seminars- #5
CAR MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS #5 The Beauty and the Business Guy By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau This day started with an appearance of a couple of celebrities, sort of. For those who donât know, our governor here in Michigan is probably the best looking politician in the business. Sheâs t ... Continue reading
CAR Management Briefing Seminars-#2, Dumping Dealers, HUH?
One of my goals this week is to understand one of the issues surrounding the struggles of the Detroit Three automakers that have eluded me throughout this mess. That is: How do the manufacturers gain financially with the closing of all those hapless dealerships around the country? First, I asked the boss, our host, one ... Continue reading
CAR Management Briefing Seminars-#4
CAR MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS #4 Does GM Now Mean Government Motors? By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Youâd have to live on a different planet, or perhaps in the wilderness somewhere, not to know about the unprecedented government involvement, ownership that is, of US automakers: GM (60.8%) and ... Continue reading
CAR Management Briefing Seminar Report 1
CAR MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS Another Year of Analyzing Radical Change By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Here we are in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan again for the annual Management Briefing Seminars hosted by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). Over the years this has become one of the most ... Continue reading
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