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Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd David Brabham Gary Brabham Jack BrabhamÜ
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Hyundai Veloster RE:MIX debuts at SEMA, available in December
The Hyundai Veloster RE:MIX has made its debut this week at SEMA and it's scheduled to go on sale in December.
Gerhard Berger Eric Bernard Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen
Ford Mustang Cobra Jet Concept presented at SEMA [video]
The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet Concept has made its debut this week in Las Vegas at SEMA, featuring twin EcoBoost turbochargers. 
Felice Bonetto Jo Bonnier Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu Slim Borgudd
Pastor present
Pastor Maldonado set the fastest time of the Q1 session in India on Saturday, beating Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen, Mark Webber, fernando Alonso, Bruno Senna and Romain Grosjean. The middle order featured Felipe Massa, Daniel Ricciardo, Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg, Michael Schumacher and Kamui Kobayashi. Knocked out were Jean-Eric [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/pastor-present/
MCREYNOLDS: Gibbs Needs To Eliminate Mistakes
If the Gibbs teams ever really wants to contend for a championship, they?ve got to get to where it?s totally dependent on performance...
Source: http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/mcreynolds-joe-gibbs-racing-needs-to-eliminate-nascar-mistakes/
Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti Pablo Birger Art Bisch
Video: Jay Leno Gets a Shot at the Tesla Model S
Typically, when Jay Leno gets his hands on a car, it is all about horsepower and loud exhaust, but he does have his eco-friendly moments. This time around, Jay gets the best of both worlds, sans the loud exhaust, as Tesla stopped by to let him take the Model S on a drive. There is not an abundance of Model S driving footage available and certainly none to the degree that Jay Leno does it.
Jay gets us a good look inside the car and we even gets a nice idea of how the Model S? driver information center ? you know, the massive, iPad-looking deal in the center of the dash ? works, and we are certainly impressed. It literally controls everything, taking the old days of buttons aplenty strewn up and down the center stack to a well-placed screen that offers up the same controls.
Then the part that we want to see: the drive. Jay takes it pretty easy on the main roads, as he focuses more on its economy and regenerative systems. He does manage to get into the Model S a little bit, but only in small doses. Well, at the end, we get exactly what we have all wanted to see: a Tesla Model S doing a burn out.
Good call, Jay. We bet that poor PR guy had to beg Mr. Musk to allow that one. Then again, that burn out likely sold a lot of `tweeners on this EV performance sedan.
Video: Jay Leno Gets a Shot at the Tesla Model S originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 31 October 2012 01:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/video-jay-leno-gets-a-shot-at-the-tesla-model-s-ar137129.html
Chuck Daigh Yannick Dalmas Derek Daly Christian Danner Jorge Daponte
Stefano Domenicali: ?We have the luxury of having Fernando?
Stefano Domenicali says that Ferrari will do everything it can to take the fight to Red Bull until the end of the season – and stressed that having Fernando Alonso could make the difference. Alonso is 13 points behind with … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/10/29/stefano-domenicali-we-have-the-luxury-of-having-fernando/
Duane Carter Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris Francois Cevert
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 by Tony Stewart
Chevrolet took a little longer than we’re used to unveil their SEMA-bound Camaro programs, but now that they have, we’re not complaining about what they’re bringing to Las Vegas.
One of the Camaros that will undoubtedly get the attention of the crowd at SEMA is the Tony Stewart-designed Camaro ZL1. Jaw-dropping might be selling it short.
First off, the Camaro was treated to a unique metallic gray paint scheme with matching red tribal Smoke graphics in flat red and silver pinstripes. It kind of feels like this muscle car captured the true essence of Stewart’s nickname "Smoke." In addition to the fancy colors and fancier decals, the Stewart-designed Camaro ZL1 also gets red tinted headlamp lenses, red Camaro halo lights, and a personalized set of wheels that have been touched up in a Piano Black finish and red accents.
Moving to the interior, the highlight of the program includes suede door panel inserts and instrument panel wrapping with laser-etched details, Jet Black leather door arm rests with matching French accent stitching and white piping, Jet Black suede leather-wrapped steering wheel with scarlet accent stitching, piano black trim plates, and a gauge cluster bezel.
There’s no stopping Smoke’s Camaro ZL1 from becoming one of SEMA’s showstoppers. It’s already captured our hearts. When it rolls out in Vegas, we’re confident that it’s going to steal a whole lot more of ’em.
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 by Tony Stewart originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/chevrolet/2013-chevrolet-camaro-zl1-by-tony-stewart-ar137200.html
George Abecassis Kenny Acheson Andrea de Adamich Philippe Adams Walt Ader
Street-legal Ford GT racecars to be produced by RH Motorsports
RH Motorsports has teamed up with The GT Guy LLC for creating street-legal Ford GT racecars. Pricing will be announced in the near future. 
Jim ClarkÜ Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo
Marussia Virgin Racing Launch Their 2011 Car
Marussia Virgin Racing have launched their car to take on the 2011 world championship in a lavish London ceremony. The Marussia name now preceeds Virgin following a major tie up with the Russian sportscar manufacturer and the team at the end of 2010. �It has led to the new car being designated as the MVR-02. [...]
Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/marussia-virgin-racing-launch-their-2011-car/
Ian Ashley Gerry Ashmore Bill Aston Richard Attwood Manny Ayulo
'The point of no confidence is quite near'
 The wreckage of Jochen Rindt's car at Barcelona |
?Colin. I have been racing F1 for 5 years and I have made one mistake (I rammed Chris Amon in Clermont Ferrand) and I had one accident in Zandvoort due to gear selection failure otherwise I managed to stay out of trouble. This situation changed rapidly since I joined your team. ?Honestly your cars are so quick that we would still be competitive with a few extra pounds used to make the weakest parts stronger, on top of that I think you ought to spend some time checking what your different employes are doing, I sure the wishbones on the F2 car would have looked different. Please give my suggestions some thought, I can only drive a car in which I have some confidence, and I feel the point of no confidence is quite near.?A little more than a year later Rindt's Lotus suffered mechanical breakdown just before braking into one of the corners. He swerved violently to the left and crashed into a poorly-installed barrier, killing him instantly.
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/09/the_point_of_no_confidence_is.php
Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot
Kimi Raikkonen: ?I feel very comfortable with Lotus?
Kimi Raikkonen says that staying with Lotus in 2013 was “the obvious choice” after such a strong season this year. The team confirmed earlier today that the Finn will continue for a second year. ?I think my return to Formula … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/10/29/kimi-raikkonen-i-feel-very-comfortable-with-lotus/
Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen Mike Beuttler Birabongse Bhanubandh
Five ways to improve F1
 Emerson Fittipaldi in his heyday |
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/five_ways_to_improve_f1.php
Raul Boesel Menato Boffa Bob Bondurant Felice Bonetto Jo Bonnier
Monday, October 29, 2012
Four and half hours after the race?
Four and a half hours after the race, direct from the F1 Paddock in New Delhi, we bring you a 75-page PDF e-magazine, with all the inside stories about the Indian Grand Prix, including full qualifying and race coverage, all the action in the F1 Paddock. If you dream of being part of F1, this [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/four-and-half-hours-after-the-race/
Fabrizio Barbazza John Barber Skip Barber Paolo Barilla Rubens Barrichello
Vettel takes over at the top
As Sebastian Vettel put down his winner’s trophy after holding it up in celebration on the Korean Grand Prix podium, Fernando Alonso tapped him on the back and reached out to shake his hand. It was a symbolic reflection of the championship lead being handed from one to the other.
After three consecutive victories for Vettel and Red Bull, the last two of which have been utterly dominant, it does not look as though Alonso is going to be getting it back.
Alonso will push to the end, of course, and he made all the right noises after the race, talking about Ferrari “moving in the right direction” and only needing “a little step to compete with Red Bull”.
“Four beautiful races to come with good possibilities for us to fight for the championship,” he said, adding: “Now we need to score seven points more than Sebastian. That will be extremely tough but we believe we can do it.”
Sebastian Vettel won the Korean GP by finishing ahead of team-mate Mark Webber and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso (left). Photo: Reuters
Indeed, a couple of hours after the race, Alonso was quoting samurai warrior-philosophy again on his Twitter account, just as he had in Japan a week before.
"I've never been able to win from start to finish,” he wrote. “I only learned not to be left behind in any situation."
Fighting against the seemingly inevitable is his only option. The facts are that the Ferrari has been slower than the Red Bull in terms of outright pace all year, and there is no reason to suspect anything different in the final four races of the season.
Vettel’s victory in Korea was utterly crushing in the manner of so many of his 11 wins in his dominant 2011 season. The Red Bull has moved on to another level since Singapore and Vettel, as he always does in that position, has gone with it.
Up and down the pit lane, people are questioning how Red Bull have done it, and a lot of attention has fallen on the team’s new ‘double DRS’ system.
This takes an idea introduced in different form by Mercedes at the start the season and, typically of Red Bull’s design genius Adrian Newey, applies it in a more elegant and effective way.
It means that when the DRS overtaking aid is activated – and its use is free in practice and qualifying – the car benefits from a greater drag reduction, and therefore more straight-line speed than its rivals.
Vettel has been at pains to emphasise that this does not help Red Bull in the race, when they can only use the DRS in a specified zone when overtaking other cars. But that’s not the whole story.
The greater drag reduction in qualifying means that the team can run the car with more downforce than they would otherwise be able to – because the ‘double DRS’ means they do not suffer the normal straight-line speed deficit of doing so.
That means the car’s overall lap time is quicker, whether in race or qualifying. So although the Red Bull drivers can’t use the ‘double DRS’ as a lap-time aid in the actual grands prix, they are still benefiting from having it on the car.
And they are not at risk on straights in the race because the extra overall pace, from the greater downforce, means they are far enough ahead of their rivals for them not to be able to challenge them, let alone overtake them. As long as they qualify at the front, anyway.
It’s not all down to the ‘double DRS’, though. McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe said in Korea: “They appear to have made a good step on their car. I doubt that is all down to that system. I doubt if a lot of it is down to that system, actually. You’ll probably find it’s just general development.”
BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson will go into more details on this in his column on Monday. Whatever the reasons for it, though, Red Bull’s rediscovered dominant form means Alonso is in trouble.
While Red Bull have been adding great chunks of performance to their car, Ferrari have been fiddling around with rear-wing design, a relatively small factor in overall car performance.
They have admitted they are struggling with inconsistency between the results they are getting in testing new parts in their wind tunnel and their performance on the track, so it is hard to see how they will close the gap on a Red Bull team still working flat out on their own updates.
The Ferrari has proved adaptable and consistent, delivering strong performances at every race since a major upgrade after the first four grands prix of the year.
But the only time Alonso has had definitively the quickest car is when it has been raining. It is in the wet that he took one of his three wins, and both his poles.
But he cannot realistically expect it to rain in the next three races in Delhi, Abu Dhabi and Austin, Texas. And after that only Brazil remains. So Alonso is effectively hoping for Vettel to hit problems, as he more or less admitted himself on Sunday.
How he must be ruing the bad breaks of those first-corner retirements in Belgium and Japan – even if they did effectively only cancel out Vettel’s two alternator failures in Valencia and Monza.
If anyone had reason on Sunday to regret what might have been, though, it was Lewis Hamilton, who has driven fantastically well all season only to be let down by his McLaren team in one way or another.
Hamilton, his title hopes over, wasted no time in pointing out after the race in Korea that the broken anti-roll bar that dropped him from fourth to 10th was the second suspension failure in as many races, and a broken gearbox robbed him of victory at the previous race in Singapore.
Operational problems in the early races of the season also cost him a big chunk of points.
Hamilton wears his heart on his sleeve, and in one off-the-cuff remark to Finnish television after the race, he revealed a great deal about why he has decided to move to Mercedes next year.
“It’s a day to forget,” Hamilton said. “A year to forget as well. I’m looking forward to a fresh start next year.”
In other words, I’ve had enough of four years of not being good enough, for various reasons, and I might as well try my luck elsewhere.
There was another post-race comment from Hamilton, too, that said an awful lot. “I hope Fernando keeps pushing,” he said.
Hamilton did not reply when asked directly whether that meant he wanted Alonso to win the title. But you can be sure that remark is a reflection of Hamilton’s belief that he is better than Vettel, that only Alonso is his equal.
Whether that is a correct interpretation of the standing of the three best drivers in the world, it will take more than this season to tell.
In the meantime, if Alonso and Ferrari are not to be mistaken in their belief that they still have a chance, “keeping pushing” is exactly what they must do. Like never before.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/10/as_sebastian_vettel_put_down.html
David Clapham Jim ClarkÜ Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb
Ferrari: Alonso Can Beat Vettel
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali believes that Red Bull are not invincible and that Fernando Alonso can still beat Sebastian Vettel to the Drivers? Championship. But, this comes in the wake of the German?s fourth 2012 win on the bounce in India, where he led from pole to flag. Alonso began to reel in the Red [...]
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Walt Ader Kurt Adolff Fred Agabashian Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers
Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels Edition
Growing up as car junkies, we all played with Hot Wheels at some point in our lives ? some of us actually still do. Yeah, Hot Wheels pretty much recreated every car under the sun in miniature form, but we only really wanted the cool ones. You know, the Corvettes, Camaros, Mustangs, etc.
Now that we are all big boys and girls, playing with Hot Wheels cars really isn?t in the cards ? at least it?s not necessarily accepted. That is until Chevy and Hot Wheels got together and created a special edition Camaro, dubbed the 2013 Camaro Hot Wheels Edition. For the most part, the Hot Wheels Edition is purely an aesthetic thing, but with the Camaro?s impressive performance across the board, a few extra goodies on the inside and outside is good enough for most of us.
The new Hot Wheels Edition is the first full-size, production Hot Wheels car offered for sale by any manufacturer. It will be available in both coupe and convertible versions and will be offered for 2LT and 2SS trims. Production will begin in early 2013 and the price for the package is $6,995.
To read all about the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels Edition, click past the jump.
Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels Edition originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 29 October 2012 12:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/chevrolet/2013-chevrolet-camaro-hot-wheels-edition-ar137104.html
Yannick Dalmas Derek Daly Christian Danner Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson