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Sunday, June 24, 2007

GRAND AM (MID-OHIO) - Wilden, Martin Post First KONI Challenge GS Victory

GRAND AM (MID-OHIO) - Wilden, Martin Post First KONI Challenge GS Victory

Ken Wilden took the No. 52 Rehagen Racing Piloti Ford Mustang GT to victory lane Saturday for the team’s first Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport (GS) division victory of the season at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, as he held off Andy Lally over the final 35 laps to hoist the winner’s trophy with co-dri ... Continue reading

INDYCAR (NETWON) - QUALIFYING RESULTS

INDYCAR (NETWON) - QUALIFYING RESULTS

1. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 182.360 2. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 182.272 3. (27) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 182.043 4. (8) Scott Sharp, Dallara-Honda, 181.713 5. ... Continue reading

INDYPRO (NEWTON) - Results Saturday of the Iowa 100

INDYPRO (NEWTON) - Results Saturday of the Iowa 100

1. (2) Alex Lloyd, 115, Running $32,500 2. (1) Wade Cunningham, 115, Running $26,000 3. (8) Hideki Mutoh, 115, Running $20,000 4. (12) Ryan Justice, 115, Running $16,400 5. ... Continue reading

GRAND AM (NEWTON) - Gurney, Fogarty Dominate Grand-Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype

GRAND AM (NEWTON) - Gurney, Fogarty Dominate Grand-Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype

As they did two weeks ago in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International, No. 99 Bob Stallings Racing GAINSCO Pontiac Riley drivers Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney put the pounding on fellow Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve competitors in Saturday’s EM ... Continue reading

INDYCAR (NEWTON) - DIXON CLAIMS POLE AT IOWA SPEEDWAY; LLOYD WINS SIXTH RACE

INDYCAR (NEWTON) - DIXON CLAIMS POLE AT IOWA SPEEDWAY; LLOYD WINS SIXTH RACE

Scott Dixon claimed his first AAMCO Transmissions Pole Award of the season, winning the pole for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway. Dixon, the 2003 IndyCar Series champion, turned a lap of 17.6484 seconds, 182.360 mph, in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda-powered Dallara. Dixon’s lap was .0085 of a ... Continue reading

GRAND AM (LEXINGTON) - KINETIC MOTORSPORTS ACHIEVES FOURTH PLACE FINISH AT MID-OHIO

GRAND AM (LEXINGTON) - KINETIC MOTORSPORTS ACHIEVES FOURTH PLACE FINISH AT MID-OHIO

After countless hours of working into the night at Mid-Ohio in preparation for the 7th installment of the KONI Challenge, Kinetic Motorsports earned its first top-five finish this season. The No. 79 BMW M3 piloted by Nic Jonsson and Bryan Ortiz started in the 3rd position with the No. 78 driven by Shawn Price and Brian ... Continue reading

Millions of British Motorists Confused About Their Own Car - How Many Americans Have Same Problem?

Millions of British Motorists Confused About Their Own Car - How Many Americans Have Same Problem?

LONDON - June 24, 2007: Drivers have little knowledge about their own car with many motorists having no idea where the spare wheel is located, how to open the bonnet or how to check tyre pressures. Brits, like Americans, may claim to be a nation of car lovers but millions of motorists just wouldn’t know where to s ... Continue reading

Report: Toyota Planning to Launch New Hybrid Car Brand in 2009

Report: Toyota Planning to Launch New Hybrid Car Brand in 2009

TOKYO June 24, 2007; The AP reported that Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin selling a second dedicated brand of hybrid automobiles in 2009, following up on its market-dominating Prius hybrid, a news report said Sunday. Japan's No. 1 auto maker plans to sell around 100,000 of the as-yet-unnamed hybrid annually a ... Continue reading

Saab To GM; No Mas

Saab To GM; No Mas

FRANKFURT, June 23, 2007; Reuters reported that Swedish carmaker Saab reduced its annual sales targets as the General Motors unit tries to reach break-even, the head of GM Europe said in an advance abstract of a report in Automotive News Europe on Saturday. "There is a natural limit where you can earn," Carl-Peter Fors ... Continue reading

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