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Last Seven Championships Put Wraps on 2005 SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Last Seven Championships Put Wraps on 2005 SCCA National Championship Runoffs

For Immediate Release Last Seven Championships Put Wraps on 2005 SCCA National Championship Runoffs LEXINGTON, Ohio (Sept. 25, 2005) - The 2005 SCCA National Championship Runoffs(r), the "Olympics" of Road Racing, crowned four first-time winners Sunday and wrapped up the week-long event that saw 734 drivers turn at lea ... Continue reading

Montoya Wins Brazillian Grand Prix

Montoya Wins Brazillian Grand Prix

Montoya Wins Brazilian Grand Prix Posted by eMercedesBenz on September 25, 2005 at 4:00 PM CST The McLaren-Mercedes team once again dominated the Brazilian Grand Prix by taking the top two spots in Sao Paulo today. Juan Pablo Montoya, winner of last year's Brazilian GP, took top honors once again, followed by his teamm ... Continue reading

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series-Sunday from National Trail Raceway

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series-Sunday from National Trail Raceway

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES - NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION NATIONAL TRAIL RACEWAY, HEBRON, OHIO Sunday, September 25, 2005 Contact: Jerrie Foss, NHRA (626) 278-1956 THACKER, HARKER LEAD WINNERS AT NATIONAL TRAIL RACEWAY HEBRON, Ohio - NHRA's North Central Division closed out its 2005 Lucas Oil Dra ... Continue reading

Daimler Chrysler Moving Closer To Mercedes Job Cuts

Daimler Chrysler Moving Closer To Mercedes Job Cuts

Daimler Chrysler Moves Closer To Job Cuts Posted by eMercedesBenz on September 25, 2005 at 9:31 AM CST Rumor has it Daimler Chrysler is moving closer to eliminating 5,000 jobs at the Mercedes Car Group's German plant. This comes after a deal last year between Daimler Chrysler and the works council that guaranteed no wo ... Continue reading

Vodka and Mercedes Don't Mix

Vodka and Mercedes Don't Mix

Vodka And Mercedes Don't Mix Posted by eMercedesBenz on September 25, 2005 at 10:33 AM CST Growing up, one of my favorite games was tag. The object of the game is simple. One person is designated "it," and that person must then run and try to tag one of the other people playing the game. After reading an interesting ar ... Continue reading

FORD RACING NOTES AND QUOTES- Las Vegas Motor Speedway

FORD RACING NOTES AND QUOTES- Las Vegas Motor Speedway

September 24, 2005 RICK CRAWFORD-14-Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford F-150 (Finished 7th) - YOU WERE ABLE TO GAIN A FEW SPOTS ON THE FINAL FEW RESTARTS. "We got better and some trucks got worse. Actually, long runs didn't hurt us. We were the best finishing Ford and that's something we're shooting for every week. I'm glad ... Continue reading

Toyota to Hold "Waku-Waku World" Interactive Event

Toyota to Hold "Waku-Waku World" Interactive Event

Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced plans to hold "Waku-Waku World", a free, interactive public event at the Toyota Sports Center in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday, October 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event will be jointly sponsored by Toyota City, the Toyota Engineering Society (TES ... Continue reading

Porsche Plans to Acquire 20 Percent Stake in Volkswagen

Porsche Plans to Acquire 20 Percent Stake in Volkswagen

BERLIN September 23, 2995; Geir Moulson writing for the AP reported that Porsche AG said Sunday it plans to acquire a stake of about 20 percent in Volkswagen AG, a move aimed at strengthening ties between the automakers and preventing a future hostile takeover of Volkswagen. Porsche said Volkswagen has become "a signif ... Continue reading

Daimler Close to Mercedes Job Reduction Deal

Daimler Close to Mercedes Job Reduction Deal

FRANKFURT September 24, 2005; Reuters reported that DaimlerChrysler is close to striking a deal with staff at its premium Mercedes Car Group division on voluntary redundancy packages that could eliminate some 5,000 jobs in Germany, a newspaper reported. Mercedes chief Dieter Zetsche, who will also become group chief ex ... Continue reading

Phoenix CRA Results

Phoenix CRA Results

VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 24, 2005 – Phoenix, Arizona – Manzanita Speedway QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-19.103; 2. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-19.166; 3. Nathan High, 6A, Pritchett-19.246; 4. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-19.284; 5. ... Continue reading

San Bernardino Midgets

San Bernardino Midgets

USAC WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 24, 2005 ­ San Bernardino, California ­ Orange Show Speedway QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-12.832; 2. Wally Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-12.859; 3. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-12.887; 4. Bradley Galedrige, 29, Galedrige-12.897; 5. ... Continue reading

Rocketsports Racing Las Vegas Report - Race

Rocketsports Racing Las Vegas Report - Race

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Haupt ▪ cell: (517) 927-8472 ▪ e-mail: heatherh@rocketsportsracing.com ROCKETSPORTS RACING EARNS TWO TOP TEN FINISHES IN LAS VEGAS LAS VEGAS, Nevada (September 25, 2005) – Despite a slow start to the weekend for the Rocketsports Racing team, the team and drivers ... Continue reading

4-Crown Silver Crown Results

4-Crown Silver Crown Results

Please NOTE: Steele's point total should be 443, NOT 433. Thanks. ---------------------- USAC WELD RACING SILVER CROWN SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 23-24, 2005 ­ Rossburg, Ohio ­ Eldora Speedway ­ “4-Crown Nationals” QUALIFICATIONS: (Held Sept. 23) 1. Josh Wise, 10, Stewart-15.334; 2. ... Continue reading

White and Lux Vipers Take Two of Top-Five Spots at Runoffs

White and Lux Vipers Take Two of Top-Five Spots at Runoffs

White and Lux Vipers Take Two of Top-Five Spots at Runoffs LEXINGTON, Ohio, September 24, 2005 - In one of the most exciting Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Touring One (T1) class events in recent memory, NayKid Racing placed its two KUMHO Tires/ Woodhouse Auto Family Dodge Viper SRT10s in the top-five at the SCCA Na ... Continue reading

Terry Borcheller - Watkins Glen race

Terry Borcheller - Watkins Glen race

race day! Terry Borcheller packed a full race weekend into one day, and made every moment count. With his usual No. 54 Bell Motorsports/Feeds the Need Doran JE4 sidelined for the Sept. 24 Rolex Sports Car Series race at Watkins Glen International, Borcheller moved to the No. 15 CB Motorsports Pontiac-powered Riley Mk X ... Continue reading

4-Crown Sprint Results

4-Crown Sprint Results

USAC VALVOLINE NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 23-24, 2005 ­ Rossburg, Ohio ­ Eldora Speedway ­ “4-Crown Nationals” QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Levi Jones, 2B, 2B Racing-14.750; 2. Josh Wise, 20, Stewart-15.065; 3. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.087; 4. Jonathan Vennard, 62, BWB-15.138; 5. ... Continue reading

Am I Crazy 3 / Energy Conversion Devices Inc leader in the fields of alternative energy gener

Am I Crazy 3 / Energy Conversion Devices Inc leader in the fields of alternative energy gener

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kcr release 9-24

kcr release 9-24

Multi-car accident ends day early for Green Dover, De. – A multi-car accident on lap three wrecked the day for eight drivers in the Dover 200 on Saturday, including Mark Green in the #23 Vassarette / BMAR Chevrolet. Green, who started in 35th position, was caught up in the accident that began when Matt Kenseth got tu ... Continue reading

Malvino

Malvino

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Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Saturday class wrap up

Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Saturday class wrap up

For immediate release September 24, 2005 Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Saturday class wrap up Pelletier, Waring, Vincec, Herder and Gibson take final race wins INNISFIL, ONTARIO After an exciting day of racing, the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Whe ... Continue reading

Energy Conversion Devices Inc; Leads Alternative Energy Generation and Storage and Advanced Information Technologies

Energy Conversion Devices Inc; Leads Alternative Energy Generation and Storage and Advanced Information Technologies

Overview Hydrogen energy technology has been a part of our scientific work since our founding in 1960. Hydrogen is the ultimate fuel. It is clean, efficient, and yields more energy per unit of weight than any other existing fuel. Because hydrogen is a major component of water and of hydrocarbons, it is in abundant supp ... Continue reading

Hydrogen Internal Combustion

Hydrogen Internal Combustion

M Snide More from a viewer Hybrid Technology Fuel Cells Freedom Car Hydrogen Internal Combustion Diesel Emissions System Variable Cam Timing Technology Report The Ford Model U Concept is propelled by an internal combustion engine (ICE) that's optimized to run on hydrogen fuel instead of gasoline. The engine is supercha ... Continue reading

DIRECT-INJECTION CREATES MORE EFFICIENT GASOLINE ENGINES

DIRECT-INJECTION CREATES MORE EFFICIENT GASOLINE ENGINES

2001 Cleaner, Safer, Sooner releases DEARBORN, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 21, 2001- Direct injection technology originally developed for diesel engines has shown potential fuel economy improvements of approximately 20 percent when adapted by Ford Motor Company engineers for gasoline engines. This technology - called DISI for dir ... Continue reading

Heinricy Gets Ninth Win, Others Get Wrinkles on Second Day of SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Heinricy Gets Ninth Win, Others Get Wrinkles on Second Day of SCCA National Championship Runoffs

For Immediate Release Heinricy Gets Ninth Win, Others Get Wrinkles on Second Day of SCCA National Championship Runoffs LEXINGTON, Ohio (Sept. 24, 2005) - Saturday's action at the 2005 SCCA National Championship Runoffs(r) Presented by Kohler crowned eight more champions, bringing the weekend's total to 16, with seven c ... Continue reading

USAC Special Release - USAC AUCTION RAISES OVER $8,000 IN AIDING HURRICANE RELIEF

USAC Special Release - USAC AUCTION RAISES OVER $8,000 IN AIDING HURRICANE RELIEF

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 25, 2005 Contact: MICHAEL HARKER/DICK JORDAN USAC AUCTION RAISES OVER $8,000 IN AIDING HURRICANE RELIEF ROSSBURG, Ohio – USAC officials, drivers, car owners, team members and fans assisted in raising over $8,000 for hurricane relief during Saturday’s silent auction at Eldora ... Continue reading

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series-Saturday from National Trail Raceway

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series-Saturday from National Trail Raceway

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES - NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION NATIONAL TRAIL RACEWAY, HEBRON, OHIO Saturday, September 24, 2005 Contact: Jerrie Foss, NHRA (626) 278-1956 REICHERT MAKES RECORD RUN TO EARN TOP QUALIFYING PLACE AT NATIONAL TRAIL RACEWAY'S LUCAS OIL SERIES RACE HEBRON, Ohio - In the fina ... Continue reading

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