Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/09/30/1530160/hagan-leads-funny-car-field.html
Friday, September 30, 2011
Mallya giving up low-cost airline
Vijay Mallya, the boss of Force India, has been in the news a lot in recent days thanks to his troubled Kingfisher Airlines company, which has debts of $1.5 billion. Mallya has just announced that the airline will exit the low-cost sector and try to make money as a premium airline. Kingfisher, which was launched [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/mallya-giving-up-low-cost-airline/
Martin Whitmarsh: ?None of us is perfect??
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has defended Lewis Hamilton in the aftermath of his collision with Felipe Massa in Singapore. Pressed on Hamilton’s run of incidents this year Whitmarsh insisted that Lewis had done a great job to put the … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/09/26/martin-whitmarsh-none-of-us-is-perfect/
TECHART stage 2 power kit for Porsche Cayenne Turbo and Porsche Panamera Turbo
Stage 2 kits dial up torque on both models to 880 Nm (649 lb-ft).Sebastian Vettel named Driver of the Weekend for Monza | 2011 F1 season
Sebastian Vettel won Driver of the Weekend for the first time.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Cadillac ATS wagon & convertible axed - report
According to a recent report, Cadillac has decided not to build an estate and convertible version of the upcoming ATS.Kawasaki Ultra 260X Jet Ski
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260 horsepower may not be all that big of a deal on the road anymore, but out in the waters where there are no speed limits, it’s a license to have some good ’ol fashion, jet-skiing fun.
That’s what the new Kawasaki Ultra 260X Jet Ski will give you and quite frankly, we’d give up a whole lot more to have one of these babies tucked in a trailer, ready for some open-sea action on the weekends.
But more than just the jet skis race-refined 1,498cc fuel-injected four-cylinder Kawasaki powerplant with a Roots-type supercharger that produces a mouth-watering 260 horsepower, the Ultra 260X is also a fine piece of jet ski awesomeness because it comes with top-of-the-line technology courtesy of the fine folks from Kawasaki.
To begin with, the fiberglass reinforced plastic hull is loaded with DNA from Kawasaki?s IJSBA championship-winning machines, including carefully designed sponsons and chines for enhanced straight-line stability and more precise cornering. Likewise, the 22.5-degree deep-V hull leans into corners, providing a smoother ride in rough waters, greatly reducing the lateral G-loads generated during turns and helps keep the rider in control.
The Ultra 260X also features a five-step adjustable handlebar position that riders to either stand up or sit down to enjoy the full breadth of power and versatility the jet ski provides. Add that to an enormous 60-gallon storage space and you have a jet ski that comes with all the requirements needed for some high-speed, open-sea action.
Kawasaki Ultra 260X Jet Ski originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/boats/kawasaki/2011-kawasaki-ultra-260x-jet-ski-ar114166.html
Martin Whitmarsh: ?None of us is perfect??
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has defended Lewis Hamilton in the aftermath of his collision with Felipe Massa in Singapore. Pressed on Hamilton’s run of incidents this year Whitmarsh insisted that Lewis had done a great job to put the … Continue reading
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/09/26/martin-whitmarsh-none-of-us-is-perfect/
UPDATE 9-26-11 32 Ford Three Window
Here are some Images of My 32 Ford Three Window Build: The Carbs were firs painted with steel and then given a light browm ink was to create the brassy colour,The fuel lines are red monofilament, The spark plugs, and coil are wired, the spark advance has a vaccuum line going to the intake manafold. The block is drilled for the oil line fitting but they aren,t installed yet. Still to do on the engine are the carb linkage, wiring the generater to the distributor and wirnig the coil to the ignition, also running the ignition wire to the stater and the battery wire to the starter. It will have the Distributer, fuel block(which will have a line running to a frame mounter late forties style electric fuel pump that I will scratch build and from the fuel pump a line will run to the gas tant) I also still have to run my brake lines.
The interior seats and door panels were firs dusted at a distance and the spray with light flat gray and then given an Ivory wash to duplcated aged original fabric. I then used very thin brown ink to bring out the high lights. The interior floorboard was painted with flat black and then lightly polished to give a rubber effect. The body was painted with Yestors Gray Primer and then given a full polishing to give it a semi gloss finih. The tyres were lightly sanded before assembly to age them, and the white walls are painted with an off white colour and then washed with ivory.
I posted images of the frame at an earlier stage several months ago, I can repost them if anyone wishes me to do it!
Forgive the Image Quality, my eyes are not fully healed yet from surgery!
CHEERS!
Tom
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/973886.aspx
Fernando Alonso eyes home win at the Spanish Grand Prix 2010
Spanish Grand Prix will kick start on Sunday bring enough joy to the home crowd. The 2010 Spanish Grand Prix will feature three local drivers – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Jaime Alguersuari (Toro Rosso) and Pedro de la Rosa (Sauber). There is obviously much to cheers about these three lads especially Fernando Alonso if he can [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
63 Impala
Newly finished build.Basically box stock.
Body Paint is Tamiya TS-14 blue
Lowered
Pegasus wheels 1109's
Interior paint XF-19 sky grey and XF-53 neutral grey.Custom made chain steering wheel, plumbed hydraulic pumps
Exhaust shortened and tips are aluminium tube.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/979830.aspx
Why Michael Schumacher Could Win The 2011 World Championship
Michael Schumacher?s 2010 comeback was somewhat abortive.� The results, the driving standard and the overtakes were well below par for the former champion.� He even let his team mate beat him for the first time in his career.� So why can Schumacher, the fallen Ferrari hero, win the world championship for an 8th time? It?s [...]
Fred Agabashian Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto
Spy Shots: BMW M3 Flexes Some 4-Door Muscle
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The up and coming BMW M3 has been caught yet again, this time in sedan form. Internally called the F80 and previously thought to be nonexistent, the sedan will actually be the first of the M3 versions to appear on the market in Summer 2013.
The prototype caught testing reveals wider fenders and big air intakes in the front bumper, as well as big brakes and quad exhaust pipes in typical M fashion. Rumors suggest that the future M3 will carry either a twin-turbo 3.0 liter straight-six engine with a management system and an induction system or a 3.3-liter six-cylinder engine equipped with three turbos ? one powered by electricity. Whichever BMW has decided to use, it will be the first straight-six engine for the M3.
As far as other variants go, the M3 coupe version will arrive a year after the sedan and will most likely be called the M4 since the new 3-series based coupes and convertibles are rumored to get the 4-series name. Nothing will be set in stone until the M3/4 Coupe makes its debut in 2013.
Spy Shots: BMW M3 Flexes Some 4-Door Muscle originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/spy-shots-bmw-m3-flexes-some-4-door-muscle-ar117011.html
Carlo Abate George Abecassis Kenny Acheson Andrea de Adamich
Bentley to expand lineup
Luxury British marque considering coupe and cabriolet variants of its flagship model the Mulsanne.Source: http://feeds.worldcarfans.com/~r/worldcarfans/Jxfz/~3/nhPbLW0VQBA/bentley-to-expand-lineup
Philippe Alliot Cliff Allison Fernando Alonso Giovanna Amati
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
It?s insane: one hour 45 minutes after the race ? an 80-page magazine!!
This week’s issue brings you all the news from Singapore, just a few hours after the chequered flag, including full race and qualifying reports, columns and some interesting features: F1′s unluckiest driver revealed How McLaren is going to make billions Is F1 getting it wrong with the fans And action from the Bonneville Salt Flats [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/coming-soon-9/
Vettel shines as troubled Hamilton toils
In Singapore
In more ways than one, the Singapore Grand Prix was a microcosm of the 2011 Formula 1 season as a whole.
Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull produced another immaculate weekend, exploiting their blistering pace to take pole position and then quickly extend an advantage in the opening laps that they could then defend for the rest of the race, pacing themselves to their closest 'rivals'.
The victory, the German's ninth of the season, has effectively won him a second consecutive world title. Vettel has been either first or second in all the races bar one, in which he was fourth, and he needs to score only one more point in the remaining five races to clinch the title.
As he admitted himself with a wry grin after the race: "Obviously, it should not be a problem."
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It has been a quite stunning season from Vettel and his team - almost completely flawless while operating at a level no one else has generally been able to match.
He has won all the races he should have won, as well as the odd one that he perhaps should not. As every single one of his rivals was all too happy to admit this weekend, he fully deserves this title.
Vettel and Red Bull's superiority has had an interesting effect on his rivals.
McLaren's Jenson Button and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso have knuckled down, accepted that they generally have not had the car to challenge Vettel, and concentrated on doing the best they can with what they have.
The result is they lie second and third in the championship - ahead of Vettel's team-mate Mark Webber.
By contrast, Button's team-mate Lewis Hamilton seems to be battling inner demons, the exact nature of which perhaps even those closest to him do not understand.
Not for the first time this year, Hamilton wrecked his race with an avoidable collision with a rival. In Singapore, it was Ferrari's Felipe Massa.
Hamilton was trying to make up ground after losing places at the start when he was forced to back out of an attempt to pass Webber, who was slow off the line for the third race in a row.
The move on Massa was never on. Hamilton was on the outside and behind the Ferrari, and he simply made an error of judgment as they turned into the left-hander at Turn Seven.
He clipped the Ferrari's rear wheel with his front wing, and both their races were ruined there and then. Massa's right-rear tyre was punctured, and Hamilton's front wing damaged - and the stewards added insult to injury by giving him a drive-through penalty.
As he battled to climb back through the field from 16th place, Hamilton's frustration at the situation became clear in his communications with his team - again, not for the first time this season.
"Would you please give me some info on how I'm doing," he said, "what I'm racing for?"
Most people interpreted that as effectively saying, "Is it really worth me continuing with this?" Which is a surprising thing, to say the least, to hear from F1's most aggressive, attacking racing driver.
His team responded by reassuring him that he was fighting for a points finish, adding that there would definitely be a safety car that would further aid his cause - correctly as it turned out, although they were not to know it at the time.
Having been told that, Hamilton got his head down and produced what his team principal Martin Whitmarsh was "a great drive".
Whitmarsh added: "He did some of the best overtaking, some fantastic driving, to get back up into the points, so I think he should be given credit for that."
In that, Whitmarsh was absolutely right, but so, too, was he when he said: "He's a driver who wants to overtake in a hurry. Afterwards he'll regret that and maybe he could have waited another few corners."
Whitmarsh initially bristled after the race when he started to be questioned by the media about Hamilton's race, and his season.
When it was pointed out that this was not the first avoidable accident Hamilton had been involved in, and asked how McLaren and Hamilton could prevent such incidents from recurring, he replied: "If you stay in the garage, any accident is avoidable. Any serious questions?"
But as he was pressed on the same issue again and again, he finally admitted that the race "went badly", adding: "Undeniably this has not been a good year for Lewis Hamilton."
Indeed not. On the one hand, he has delivered two of the greatest wins of the season - his victories in China and Germany rank with any of Vettel's.
But the same driver was over-aggressive and incautious in Monaco - a fact Hamilton has admitted himself; collided with his team-mate in Canada; crashed out of the Belgian race after misjudging an overtaking move; and got into two altercations in two days with Massa in Singapore.
The one in the race followed him barging his way past the Ferrari at the start of final qualifying on Saturday, a move that prompted Massa to say: "I think he didn't use his mind. Again."
After their altercation in the TV interview area post-race in Singapore, Massa implied that if Hamilton kept driving this way, he would find it difficult to win any more world championships.
To which Whitmarsh countered: "I think he's wrong. Lewis is still a young guy, he's learning all the time. He'll win races and I'm sure he'll win more world championships."
Hamilton may indeed be young - but he is two and a half years older than Vettel, who is driving with a maturity way beyond his years. And many people in the F1 paddock feel that if Hamilton is to compete with Vettel in the future, he needs a change of approach.
No one wants to see him abandon the aggressive, charging driving style that makes him the most exciting driver in F1.
But there is no doubt he needs to find a better balance than he has done this year - or indeed in any of his seasons in F1 bar perhaps the first one. A better way, too, of coping with the frustration of not having the best car - which is what seems to be at the root of some of his behaviour this year.
Nor is it just Hamilton who has committed costly errors this season. McLaren have racked up a fair few as well.
"None of us are perfect," Whitmarsh said in mitigation. "The team has made some mistakes; we'll make more mistakes. We don't want to, but that's life. We're pretty open and honest about that. We have to try to get better, Lewis has to try to get better as a race driver."
The honesty and openness is admirable. The fact is, though, that Vettel and Red Bull have raised the bar this season to a level beyond their rivals' capabilities.
Such has been their superiority that even a flawless year from Hamilton and McLaren would almost certainly not have prevented Vettel winning the title - although it would have been a lot closer than it has been.
But however quick McLaren's car is in 2012, they are going to find it hard to beat Vettel and Red Bull if they and Hamilton keep performing like this.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/09/vettel_shines_as_troubled_hami.html
Fiat USA faces brand-awareness issues
Fiat has fired its two main advertising agencies in the United States. Dealers have complained that the brand needs more marketing muscle.Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem
The race after the race?
Fans of GP+ will have seen that (amazingly) we managed to slash our record for the production of the magazine, bringing in the 80-pager in one hour and 45 minutes after the chequered flag (give or take a minute or two). We were at the airport about 25 minutes after that and having wangled an [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-race-after-the-race/
Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi
Monday, September 26, 2011
Ferrari: Alonso wants to focus on 2012 in last races | 2011 Singapore GP team review
Alonso urges Ferrari to try "experimental things" in final races after taking a distant fourth.
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Keith Andrews Elio de Angelis Marco Apicella Mário de Araújo Cabral
Jenson Button ? ?Who was that?? (Video)
As ever at Formula1Fancast, we dip into the Formula 1 video archive to bring you some entertaining clips. Click here to go to our video section. This particular one is from a few months ago. We see Jenson Button showing David Coulthard around the Australian GP circuit before a certain World Champion comes to say [...]
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Ferrari prancing horse - know the history [video]
Prancing horse emblem stems from a WWI Italian flying ace who sported the image on the fusilage of his fighter plane.
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