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Vettel: Alonso Monza defence borderline

Sebastian Vettel says Fernando Alonso's defence at the Italian Grand Prix was "borderline", but the German made it clear the Spaniard had given him just enough room to pass.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/vettel-alonso-monza-defence-borderline/

Gerino Gerini Peter Gethin Piercarlo Ghinzani

Liuzzi downplays Willis?s exit from HRT

Vitantonio Liuzzi remains confident in HRT's long-term prospects despite the team parting company with technical director Geoff Willis.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/liuzzi-downplays-williss-exit-from-hrt/

Alan Dennis Kulwicki Travis Wade Kvapil Robert Allen Labonte

BMW M5, E28 through F10: A History of Supremacy

In 1985, BMW created the M5, nothing less than a supercar in disguise. That first model was powered by the outrageously muscular, 24-valve, 3.5-liter inline-six taken (albeit slightly modified) from the M1. The result was extreme performance in the perfect camouflage. Only later did BMW add cladding and spoilers or even alter the body of [...]

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Audi Planning to Bring Allroad Back to the U.S., This Time as A4

Allroads will lead to Rome (New York) once again, as Audi tells us that the Allroad, its jacked-up all-wheel-drive station wagon, will return to the U.S. The only Audi Allroad model offered in the U.S. was an A6, last seen here in 2005. Since then, Audi has canceled the A6 Avant here altogether, making a lower-volume [...]

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Charles Robert Hamilton IV Charles Robert Hamilton V Kevin Michael Harvick

2012 BMW M5: Downsizing for More Power

The über-sedan fights back with 560 horsepower and a brace of turbochargers. It?s probably fair to say that the previous BMW M5 (E60) crawled a bit too far up its own posterior. That fourth generation of the archetypal sports sedan was a complicated and abstruse car, with a clumsy automated manual gearbox, a V-10 that [...]

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Richard Allen Craven Kerry Dale Earnhardt Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr

Lotus hopes for boost from new floor

Team Lotus will introduce a new floor at this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix as it bids to keep hold of its 10th position in the constructors' championship. The Hingham-based outfit's three 13th-place finishes so far this year have put it ahead of HRT and Virgin Racing, and if it holds on to 10th spot until the end of the year it will net the team a big financial payout from commercial rights income. Chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne has high hopes that the upgrades planned for this weekend will deliver a good step, and help it fight off the challenge of its nearest rivals.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/lotus-hopes-for-boost-from-new-floor/

Peter Hirt David Hobbs Gary Hocking

NASCAR moves to limit tandem racing

NASCAR has announced technical changes ahead of next month's Chase race at Talladega in an attempt to limit the tandem racing that has prevailed this year at restrictor-plate tracks. Drivers will have available up to 10 horsepower more relative to the last time they raced at the 2.66-mile oval in the spring, after NASCAR decided to increase the size of the restrictor-plate opening by 1/64th of an inch up to 57/64ths. Additionally, the relief valve on the car's cooling system will be re-calibrated to reduce pressure by around eight pounds per square inch, which should prevent engines from running on the edge of the temperature gages for as long as before.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/nascar-news/nascar/nascar-moves-to-limit-tandem-racing/

Brian Henton Johnny Herbert Al Herman

Video: Hell plays host to world's largest gathering of hearses

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If you're heading to Hell, you're probably going to take a ride in a hearse at some point in your journey. Seems only fitting, then, that a group of hearse owners chose the tiny hamlet of Hell, Michigan as the place to set a world record. An official from the Guinness Book Of World Records was on hand to verify that the 51-hearse gathering is a new record in a category that we didn't even know existed.

Hearse owners descended on Hell to roll into the record books together, and the vehicles arrived in a variety of shapes and sizes. Click past the jump to watch the entire crew ride into the pages of history in a couple of videos. In the second video, skip to the 4:25 mark to catch a glimpse of our favorite hearse of the bunch.

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Fact: Places With High Numbers of Cyclists Are Safer for Pedestrians

The United States has fallen far behind countries with high cycling rates, like the Netherlands, when it comes to overall street safety and preventing pedestrian deaths. Graphic: Streetsblog; Data: PPS I’ve got a question for the purported defenders of pedestrian safety who sit on the editorial boards at the Daily News and the Post. I know [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/21/fact-places-with-high-numbers-of-cyclists-are-safer-for-pedestrians/

Gene Hartley Masahiro Hasemi Naoki Hattori

Costa loses Paul Ricard podium

Epic Racing's Albert Costa has been disqualified from his second place in Saturday afternoon's opening Formula Renault 3.5 race at Paul Ricard after the Spaniard's car was found to be 2kg underweight. "The car is still in parc ferme at the moment so we don't know exactly why it shouldn't meet the weight or be different to my car," said Costa's team-mate Sten Pentus

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/costa-loses-paul-ricard-podium/

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