did this one a few years ago.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe
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Back in 2008, Mercedes was looking to expand its market to include the younger population and they decided that the best way to do that was to offer a C-Class Coupe alternative. That project led to the birth of the CLC whose success in the market was more lackluster than bedazzled. Now, Mercedes is at it again with a much more simple approach to meeting the needs of the younger generation. This simple - in the best sense of the word - vehicle is the C-Class Coupe, and Mercedes is even taking a stab at an AMG version. This is certainly a good thing because, well, the BMW M3 Coupe needs a real competitor, right?
The new C63 AMG Coupe will join the current AMG Coupe and will be put on sale this July in Europe, while on the US market sales will begin in September 2011. The first units will be sold as the "Edition 1" and will be offered with exclusive equipments.
UPDATE 04/30/2012: Mercedes is celebrating two million video views with a very cool video presenting the C 63 AMG Coupe drifting around the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Enjoy!
Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 30 April 2012 19:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/mercedes/2013-mercedes-c63-amg-coupe-ar99718.html
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Ferrari director ?disappointed? with performance level
Ferrari�Technical director Pat Fry has said that he doesn’t expect the team to start the 2012 season well. Who remembers the 1988 Austalian Grand Prix? Many have suggested that Ferrari need to hit the ground running to improve on last year, but Fry is in a rather�pessimistic�mood. Speaking at the end of a tough pre-season, [...]
Karl Gunther Bechem Jean Behra Derek Bell Stefan Bellof Paul Belmondo
Sauber finally confirms Chelsea deal
Sauber has now formally confirmed its new marketing partnership with Chelsea FC, which had been rumoured for some time after the car carried ?blue? teaser messages at the last two Grands Prix. The relationship is the first in F1 to … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/04/30/sauber-finally-confirms-chelsea-deal/
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F1 even closer in 2012 than it was in 2010 | F1 statistics
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The performance data for the first four races of 2012 reveals F1 teams are even closer than they were in 2010.
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Martin Whitmarsh: ?There?s a lot of pressure nowadays?
After Sunday’s Bahrain GP Martin Whitmarsh defended the McLaren mechanic who was most closely involved in the two botched pit stops on Lewis Hamilton?s car, and another with Jenson Button in the previous race in China. Whitmarsh stressed that it … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/04/23/martin-whitmarsh-theres-a-lot-of-pressure-nowadays/
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Spyker preparing to increase production substantially over coming years
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We?re all familiar with the Spyker name, so much so that we?re under the impression that the tiny company actually produced at least 50 units annually. However, the company?s CEO Victor Muller recently confirmed that Spyker only produced 12 new cars in 2011, a figure very similar to the amount of cars which Pagani produced in the same time period.
However, Muller isn?t going to let those relatively unimpressive numbers dissuade him, as he wants the company to continue to grow in the coming years and with Saab now completely split from Spyker, it?s the perfect time for Muller to look into strategies to expand the company.
Unfortunately, Spyker?s failed attempt to acquire Saab did affect their car production to such an extent that production has pretty much skidded to a stop. Consequently, Muller is currently looking for an investment of $32 million to restart production, and if all goes well Muller hopes that Spyker can produce upwards of 1,000 cars annually in the coming years.
If Spyker does manage to find this much required investment, then its model line could also be increased to accommodate the 2006 D12 Peking-To-Paris SUV Concept and with luxury SUVs seemingly being the talk of the town recently, the company could be onto a winner if it does put the D12 into production.
The biggest thing standing in the way of Muller achieving these aims may be his inability to receive the necessary funds. Unsurprisingly, after his failed attempt to run Saab and failed attempt to run his own Formula 1 team, firms are understandably apprehensive about whether or not he can deliver on his claims.
Spyker preparing to increase production substantially over coming years originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:00 EST.
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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 [...]
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How Webber turned tables on Vettel
The madcap conclusion to the Chinese Grand Prix, with 12 cars battling nose to tail for second place behind winner Nico Rosberg, was packed with some of the best racing Formula 1 could ever produce.
But among the wheel-to-wheel battles and overtaking moves, one incident stood out more than most.
With 20 laps to go, Mark Webber's Red Bull ran a little wide on the 170mph exit of Turn 13, caught the edge of the kerb, and its nose reared up into the air.
The car looked briefly as if it might take off - as Webber did in the 2010 European Grand Prix, when his car landed upside down before skidding into the barriers, without injury to its driver. He also suffered two similar accidents at Le Mans in 1999.
But then the nose crashed down on to the track. "It's always a worrying moment when it gets a lot of air under it like that," said team boss Christian Horner. "He's used to that. I should think he was on the brakes."
He wasn't, as it turns out. Webber told me a "little lift" of the accelerator was enough to bring the car back down again.
For those watching, it was a heart-stopping moment. But Webber obviously did not dwell on it long - in the very next sector of the lap, he set his fastest time of the race so far.
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Shanghai was another impressive weekend from Webber, notwithstanding a couple of errors that probably cost him a podium finish.
He spent last year in the shadow of team-mate Sebastian Vettel as the German cantered to a second world title. While Vettel took 11 victories, Webber won once in Brazil - and then only when Vettel's car hit gearbox trouble.
This year is a different story. Not only have Red Bull slipped back into the pack, but Webber has so far had the edge on Vettel.
The qualifying score is three-nil in Webber's favour and the final overtaking move in those frantic concluding laps in China was Webber separating his team-mate from fourth place between the penultimate and final corners of the last lap.
It was the climactic moment of a fascinating weekend at Red Bull, whose drivers were in cars of two different specifications.
Vettel has never been happy with the handling of the RB8 in the upgraded trim that was introduced at the final pre-season test. And for China he reverted to the specification in which the car was launched, while Webber stuck with the newer one.
According to chief technical officer Adrian Newey, incidentally, the car was in exactly its initial configuration - not, as we reported over the weekend, with slightly longer exhaust pipes.
The two designs have a different aerodynamic philosophy.
The older one uses the exhausts to improve the airflow through the "coke-bottle" area at the rear of the car. The newer one aims to direct the gases at the area where the floor meets the rear tyre, to "seal" the diffuser.
Both improve downforce, but to different degrees, in different ways and with different effects.
"There were some characteristics about the upgraded car that weren't particularly suited to (Vettel's) style of driving, which is to carry a lot of speed into the corner," said Horner.
Vettel qualified only 11th, but said afterwards that he "felt happier with the car than (in) previous races". But the decision to put him back into the older-spec car in China was not, Newey said in an exclusive interview after the race, at the driver's request.
The newer car had shown "a few characteristics that haven't worked as intended," Newey explained, "so we simply brought the old bodywork for Seb this weekend to get some more data, as a direct comparison."
It was a test session, basically, and Vettel was chosen to run the older-spec car because he preferred its handling.
"We could have then put both cars to the latest spec, the spec that Mark raced, on Friday evening," Newey said. "But we felt that would be more disruptive than simply continuing. And we'd have probably burnt a (mandatory FIA working hours) curfew in the process. But both cars will be back to the new spec in Bahrain."
Newey clearly believes the newer car is faster, but he says it's "difficult to say" by how much.
I pressed him, asking if he thought the difference in performance between the two cars was in the region of the 0.331 seconds by which Webber was faster than Vettel in second qualifying, which Vettel did not progress beyond.
Newey said: "Mark seems to have taken to this car more easily than Seb at the moment, but that's simply the reverse of what happened last year."
Indeed it is. But why?
Engineers in rivals teams say Red Bull have been hurt more than any other team by the banning of exhaust-blown diffusers this year because they were exploiting the technology, which pumped exhaust gases along the floor of the car even when the driver was off the throttle, far more effectively than anyone else.
Red Bull pioneered it. If you got it right, and combined it effectively with the overall design of the car, it could gain you something in the region of a second a lap. But it was difficult to master the aerodynamic effects and most teams never did.
This year, the teams are still trying to exploit exhausts gases in a similar way, to hold on to some of the downforce-boosting effect. But the regulations now define an area within which the exhaust exits must be, engine mapping is restricted, and the gains are reduced to about 10% of what was available in 2011.
Webber never really got on with the way the Red Bull behaved last year.
But this year the cars are handling in a more conventional fashion, and he is back to where he was in 2010, when he and Vettel were evenly matched and Webber led the championship for much of the year.
The Red Bull drivers' Chinese GP results match their championship positions. Webber is fourth on 36 points, eight ahead of Vettel and nine behind leader Lewis Hamilton.
Whether Red Bull can improve their car enough to fight consistently for victories - and therefore the title - remains to be seen. But they are too good a team, led by too brilliant a designer, to stay down for long.
And the battle between their drivers adds a delicious extra dimension to their fightback.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/04/how_webber_turned_tables_on_ve.html
Gerry Ashmore Bill Aston Richard Attwood Manny Ayulo Luca Badoer
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Lamborghini Huracan trademark filed
Lamborghini are continuing to file trademarks that keep many of us guessing the product strategy they will be employing in the coming years.Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks Ferrari Enzo
Revell 48 custom chopped Ford
Heres my newest build Great kit had no trouble with it but had to re paint couple times Paint is MCW surf green interior is surf green with pearl white lowered front and rear of model and added spark plug wires most of it out of box will be building another on of these soon! Enjoy
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Button doubts benefit of Mugello test | F1 Fanatic round-up
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In the round-up: Jenson Button says McLaren won't have "massive updates" for the Mugello test.
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Williams begin ?beginning of a rebuilding process?
If Ferrari fans thought that their team had perhaps not lived up its name last season then they should talk to fans of Williams. The team that dominated in the early 90?s winning multiple World Championships managed to score only five points last season. Five. It?s a sad fall from grace and one, that at [...]
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Ferrari director ?disappointed? with performance level
Ferrari�Technical director Pat Fry has said that he doesn’t expect the team to start the 2012 season well. Who remembers the 1988 Austalian Grand Prix? Many have suggested that Ferrari need to hit the ground running to improve on last year, but Fry is in a rather�pessimistic�mood. Speaking at the end of a tough pre-season, [...]
Fred Agabashian Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Lotus
Lotus told Grosjean not to hold Raikkonen up | F1 Fanatic round-up
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In the round-up: New video from the Bahrain Grand Prix shows Romain Grosjean was instructed to let Kimi Raikkonen past for second place.
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Mark Webber: ?We?ve always been there or thereabouts?
He might not have generated many headlines this year, but Mark Webber has quietly kept himself in the title hunt with an unusually consistent run of results. The Red Bull driver has finished fourth in each of the four races … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/04/24/mark-webber-weve-always-been-there-or-thereabouts/
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Lamborghini trademarks "Huracán" name
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A few weeks ago Lamborghini trademarked the Deimos name and some people thought that this was the chosen name for their upcoming SUV, but now rumors have begun abut a new Lambo trademark - the "Hurac�n" - which is "hurricane" in Spanish and the god of fire, wind, and storms in Mayan mythology. Now the question is which name was chosen for the future SUV and why did Lamborghini trademark two names?
The only two new models Lamborghini has officially confirmed in development are the new Gallardo set to arrive next year and a production version of the recently announced Urus Concept set to arrive in 2017. The new Gallardo was rumored to be called the Cabrera, so we are not really sure what is going on at this point.
Maybe we are looking at the name of a future concept, or even the name of the production Estoque, since Lamborghini CEO Stefan Winkelmann is still pushing that issue. Whatever is behind the choice in trademarks, we’ll find out as soon as possible and g=bring back some information!
Lamborghini trademarks "Huracán" name originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 27 April 2012 17:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/lamborghini-trademarks-hurac-n-name-ar128670.html
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