Montag, 14. Februar 2011

Ten Years After: Dale Earnhardt's Mother, Martha, Shares Memories

Filed under: Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Crashes, Sprint Cup, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

To live in Kannapolis, N.C., during the 20th century was to live in a company town, and if folks there didn't exactly sell their soul to the company store, everyone lived by the pulse of the massive Cannon Mills, provider of fluffy cotton towels and washcloths to a increasingly cleanliness-conscious nation.

"They had three shifts there -- first, second and third," recalled Martha Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt's mother. "When it came time for a shift change at Cannon Mills, a mile or so away, "they had a horn that blew," she said in a 2007 interview with this writer for Racing Milestones magazine. "You could hear it."

Ralph Earnhardt, her husband, started his adult life in the mills, but didn't stick around. He was too independent-minded for that. "He definitely didn't like being shut up in there," she said.

"When he and I got married, he was working on the third shift in the mill. He worked in the weave room. That was in '47. I was 17 when we got married and he was 19. He left the mill not too long after we got married and went to work for a gentleman down here on (U.S.) 29 in a garage. That's where he learned about building motors and all that.

"But then some of the local guys that raced around here came down, and Ralph worked on their cars. That's how he got into racing. He didn't like the mill anyway. It was a place to get out of."

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Jean Michel Bayle Jean Pierre Bayle Len Bayliss

Positive second day for Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo at Sepang

Day two of the first official MotoGP test at Sepang saw Yamaha Factory Racing Team riders Jorge L ...

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/7CQ9xuDZop7/Positive+second+day+Ben+Spies+Jorge+Lorenzo

Alberto Pagani Nello Pagani Alessio Palumbo Mattia Pasini Renzo Pasolini

2010 World Superbike Season Begins With Closest WSBK Finish Ever

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/2010-world-superbike-season-begins-with.html

Gábor Talmácsi Makoto Tamada Roberto Tamburini Teisuke Tanaka Naomi Taniguchi

Positive start to 2011 for Edwards and Crutchlow

The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team concluded a successful start to preparations for the 2011 MotoGP World Championship with Colin Edwards and Cal Crutchlow satisfied with significant progress made at the end of a three-day Test at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/Clh1k7A9KcR/Positive+start+2011+Edwards+Crutchlow

Hans Jorg Butz Shane Byrne Paul Brady Luca Cadalora Gaspare Caffiero

If it's good enough for Formula 1, it's good enough for NASCAR. Heck, if it's good enough for every single automobile sold in the United States for the past several decades, it's good enough for NASCAR. What's this newfangled techno-wizardry we're talking about? Fuel injection.

For the first time since the series kicked off in 1947, the so-called stock cars that travel full-throttle around tracks all across America will abandon their carburetors in favor of an Enging Control Unit sourced from McLaren and a computer processor from Freescale. That tandem reportedly beat out eight rival bids.

According to NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton, "This is a positive step that will provide greater fuel efficiency and a greener footprint while maintaining the same great competition that we have seen on the race track."

Fuel efficiency ought to go up, as will horsepower. Interestingly, NASCAR competitors like Ford and Toyota happy about the switch. "We think it's very important that both the cars and the technology in NASCAR are more closely related to production cars. The move to fuel injection is another important step in that process," said Jamie Allison, Director, Ford North America Motorsports.

NASCAR expects to have its fuel injection technology all sorted in time for the 2012 season opener, the Daytona 500.

[Source: National Speed Sport News, Fox Sports | Image: Reinhold Matay/AP]

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Sonntag, 13. Februar 2011

AMA's Jake Zemke to Replace John Hopkins at Monza WSBK

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/amas-jake-zemke-to-replace-john-hopkins.html

Maurice Büla Davide Bulega Theo Bult Juan Soler Bulto Steve Bunckner

The 2009 1000cc/Literbike Shootouts: Who Won?

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/2009-1000ccliterbike-shootouts-who-won.html

Davide Bulega Theo Bult Juan Soler Bulto Steve Bunckner Giovanni Burlando

British presence at a premium in 2011

Eight riders across all three classes of the World Championship this season represents the highest number of full-time British entrants in 22 years.

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/dRa1nx4xwCc/British+presence+premium+2011

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Video: 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT looks like a Ferrari, helps you steal your neighbor's wife

Filed under: Coupe, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Pontiac, Humor

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1987 Pontiac Fiero GT gets girls, confounds 80's bullies - Click above to watch video after the jump

The Pontiac Fiero was produced from 1984 through 1988 and the "fired-up" GT version was introduced in 1985. Just one year before the car's demise, Pontiac slightly updated the Fiero front and rear, greatly improving its appearance to most late-'80s buyers in the process.

A video sales aid was produced to help dealers learn more about the Pontiac Fiero GT and the clip is pure, uncut 1987 packed into 6 minutes and 38 seconds. We won't spoil the entire clip but it features a nerdy Fiero owner, an 80's tough guy neighbor and that tough guy's jean-jacketed significant other.

"Just like a Ferrari? Pretty close."

Put on your acid wash jeans then click past the jump and take a trip back to a time when people confused Pontiacs for Ferraris. Poor guy in the Mazda RX-7 just didn't stand a chance... And now you know why hunting down dealer training materials is one of our favorite guilty pleasures.

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Ten Years After: Ken Schrader Recalls a Moment He'll Never Forget

Filed under: Ken Schrader, Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Crashes, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years ago on Feb. 18, we lost Dale Earnhardt. NASCAR President Mike Helton used those very words that day - "we lost Dale Earnhardt" - in making the announcement that shocked and saddened people like no other death in American motorsports. It was a national tragedy - Earnhardt's photo appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek - and it reflected the fact that during his amazing career, the sport had grown from its regional roots into a major national sport, in good measure because of his exploits.

Starting today and continuing for eight days, FanHouse is proud to present a series entitled Ten Years After - The Untold Stories. Most of these stories about that fateful day or about Earnhardt's career have either never been told or are recalled in greater detail than ever before. In this opening story, with the perspective of a decade gone by, FanHouse's Senior Motorsports Writer Holly Cain talks to Ken Schrader, who was the first person to Dale's car after the fatal accident.

After hitting the turn four wall and spinning down the high banks of Daytona International Speedway, Ken Schrader's car came to rest alongside Dale Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 in the infield grass as the rest of the field steamrolled by toward the checkered flag in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Frustrated that he was wrecked in the last corner of the last lap of the 500 and denied what looked like a sure top-five finish, Schrader unbuckled his safety harness, climbed out of his hobbled Pontiac and calmly made his way around the back of Earnhardt's car (above). He leaned into Earnhardt's window ready to commiserate with the seven-time champ on their misfortune but also to congratulate his good friend on Dale Earnhardt Inc.'s 1-2 finish in the Daytona 500.

Schrader took one look into the cockpit and instead immediately started motioning frantically for emergency workers to rush to Earnhardt's aid.

Schrader's reaction is an enduring moment.

His gestures and body language broke the news that stopped the hearts of NASCAR fans around the world.

"I'm like, that (crash) was a pretty big deal, I'll climb out and go talk to Dale -- we were the only two cars in the middle of the grass and no one was there yet, so I just checked on him,'' Schrader explained to FanHouse recently in a rare and candid interview about that fateful day.

"I never thought (he might be dead). There was no instinct or anything, no gut feeling.''

"It was just tough seeing what I saw because I walked up there and took the window net down and thought he'd be happy to see that Mikey (Waltrip) won the race, but pissed off because he wrecked.

"I got caught off-guard with what I saw.''

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2011 Moto2 Valencia Test Day 1 Times: De Angelis And Iannone On Top

Unofficial times at the end of day 1 of the Valencia Moto2 test, courtesy of MotoGP.com and Motoworld.es:

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Blake's Takes: They Used to Call Bill France, Jr. a Smart-A**ed Kid, Too

Filed under: Roush Fenway Racing, Daytona Int'l Speedway, Sprint Cup, FanHouse Exclusive, SPEED TV, NASCAR

Editor's Note: Ben Blake is a long-time racing reporter and commentator known for his honest, perceptive and irreverent commentary. He started covering NASCAR and motorsports in 1982 with The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and later spent 10 years as chief NASCAR editor for Racer magazine and for SpeedTV. He is author or co-author of five NASCAR-related books, including Dale Earnhardt: Determined, the authorized biography of Dale Earnhardt.

Well, I've been watching Brian France again lately, and heaven still my pen.

I haven't paid much attention to Brian in the four or so years since I came off full-time NASCAR beat coverage, but he still strikes me the same way - an arrogant punk with the smug look of someone born on third base thinking he hit a triple.

Brian (right), current chief officer of NASCAR, just doesn't seem to have focus and grip on the huge product he inherited, third-generation scion of the France clan of motorsport moguls. Sure, he played a large part in developing NASCAR's network-television packages in 2000, and for that we'll give him some credit. On the other hand, he's responsible for that abortion called The Chase to the Sprint Cup championship, and other mental breakdowns.

Funny thing though: Scribes older than I, ones who came to the game when founder Big Bill France was unquestioned Big Chief, thought pretty much the same of little Billy France -- William C. France, or Bill France "Jr." -- who was given the controls in 1972, when his father, Big Bill, decided to back away. Billy (left) was 38 when he ascended to the throne, about the same age as Brian was when Bill Jr. stepped aside in 2003.

Billy was an arrogant punk, the old hands said, a smart-a**ed kid who got the job through the lineage rather than through any demonstrated aptitude.

Moreover, the old man had bequeathed to his son the beginnings of a series sponsorship, from R.J. Reynolds, which over its 33-year lifetime grew to multimillions of dollars annually and pretty much kept the game alive during the cruel years following the Detroit pull-outs of 1970 and 1971 and the OPEC oil embargo in 1973-74.

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Stoner leads the way as Rossi tests his fitness

The Repsol Honda rider was the fastest on the opening day of the official Test in Malaysia, finishing just over four-tenths of a second ahead of Jorge Lorenzo. Valentino Rossi was 12th as he continued to ride with his recovering shoulder.

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/OgzzQdVD1k0/Stoner+leads+way+Rossi+tests+fitness

Lucio Cecchinello Pierre Cecchini Johnny Cecotto Adu Celso Santos Enrico Cereda

WSBK: World Superbike 2010 Philip Island Highlight Videos

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/wsbk-world-superbike-2010-philip-island.html

Michele Pirro Manuel Poggiali Patrick Pons Sito Pons Sebastián Porto

McMurray's scrape means he'll use backup

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/12/985913/mcmurrays-scrape-means-hell-use.html

Gimmi Bosio Juup Bosman Adrian Bosshard Christian Boudinot Roy Boughey

How to Qualify for The Daytona 500

Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2011/02/how-to-qualify-for-daytona-500.html

Jan Bäckstrom Chris Baert Graham Bailey Steve Baker Peter Balaz

2010 World Superbike Season Begins With Closest WSBK Finish Ever

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/2010-world-superbike-season-begins-with.html

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Samstag, 12. Februar 2011

Richard Childress Teams, Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines Honor Dale

Filed under: Daytona Int'l Speedway, Richard Childress Racing, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, NASCAR

The Richard Childress Racing teams and Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines will pay tribute to the late seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt throughout Daytona Speedweeks.

All of the Richard Childress Racing cars, transporters and pit boxes will have No. 3 decals. Team members will wear a special RCR No. 3 hat on February 18, which marks 10 years since Earnhardt -- driver of the No. 3 Goodwrench Chevy -- was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500.

Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines employees will wear a special ECR No. 3 hat for the duration of NASCAR Speedweeks, which begins with Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout 75-lap exhibition race and concludes with the Feb. 20 season-opening Daytona 500.

Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines is a joint venture launched in 2007 by Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc., the race team started by Earnhardt and his wife, Teresa, in 1980.

"All of us at RCR and ECR are honored to pay tribute to Dale on this 10th anniversary," said Richard Childress, president and CEO of Richard Childress Racing and Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines. "His legacy is still felt every day at RCR, ECR and throughout the world. We hope all of Dale's fans appreciate this salute to their hero and ours."

A tribute No. 3 decal has been on the No.. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick ever since Earnhardt's tragic death. The team changed the car number from 3 to 29 out of respect for the legend and it has never been on a car in the Cup series since.

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Abraham adaptation to Desmosedici ?going well?

The Czech rider completed his second official Test on the Ducati bike he will ride in his rookie MotoGP season in 2011 in Malaysia last week.

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/lu5ciZnGTqN/Abraham+adaptation+Desmosedici+going+well

Manuel Poggiali Patrick Pons Sito Pons Sebastián Porto Umberto Praga

Amanda Ebersole's 2011 Championship Picks

Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2011/02/amanda-ebersoles-2011-championship.html

Bo Brolin Rob Bron Alain Bronec Bob Brown Clive Brown

Richard Childress Teams, Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines Honor Dale

Filed under: Daytona Int'l Speedway, Richard Childress Racing, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, NASCAR

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Hans Bartl Harald Bartol Darren Barton František Bartoš Günter Bartusch

AMA's Jake Zemke to Replace John Hopkins at Monza WSBK

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/amas-jake-zemke-to-replace-john-hopkins.html

Artie Bell Carlos Bellon Carlo Bellotti Jean Pierre Beltoise Felice Benasedo

Paula Thompson's 2011 Championship Picks

Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2011/02/paula-thompsons-2011-championship-picks.html

Steve Bunckner Giovanni Burlando Frank Burman Ian Burne Roger Burnett

WSBK: World Superbike 2010 Philip Island Highlight Videos

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/wsbk-world-superbike-2010-philip-island.html

Jan Bäckstrom Chris Baert Graham Bailey Steve Baker Peter Balaz

Pedrosa tops Malaysia day two times at midway stage

The first official MotoGP Test of 2011 reached its halfway point on Wednesday, with Dani Pedrosa leading the lap times by the lunch break ahead of Ben Spies. Valentino Rossi was 14th fastest by the interval.

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/heyyE3HOdGe/Pedrosa+tops+Malaysia+day+two+times+midway

Michele Cannizzaro Loris Capirossi Stefano Caracchi Jordi Carchano Martín Cárdenas

NASCAR to partner with Freescale Semiconductor, McLaren to develop fuel injection program

Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2011/02/nascar-to-partner-with-freescale.html

Gianfranco Buffarello Maurice Büla Davide Bulega Theo Bult Juan Soler Bulto

Speeds Top 203 MPH in Practice on Daytona's Repaved Track

Filed under: Kyle Busch, Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Testing, NASCAR Tracks, Sprint Cup, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The recently repaved surface at Daytona International Speedway is fast. Really fast. Maybe too fast.

In the most significant test on the 2 1/2 -mile superspeedway, cars topped 203 mph Friday during practice for the Budweiser Shootout.

Joey Logano turned the fast lap with an average speed of 203.087 mph in the second of two practice sessions. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch also topped 203 mph. Several others were close behind. In all, 10 cars hit 200 mph. Four more were in the 199 mph range, creating some concern at NASCAR's most famous track.

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Pics Aplenty: 2012 Nissan GT-R Egoist

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Nissan, Luxury

The 2012 Nissan GT-R Egoist has landed - Click above for high-res image gallery

The 2012 Nissan GT-R is already out destroying pavement and causing saliva stains on the t-shirts of slack-jawed enthusiasts. The engine produces 530 horsepower, the launch control system propels the car forward like a runaway bullet train and the styling continues to polarize those who stare at its lines. Now Nissan has prepared a more luxurious GT-R for the people and it's called the Egoist.

All the details surrounding the GT-R Egoist have not yet materialized, but a plethora of pictures has made its way to the web. We know the interior will feature upgraded leather and carbon fiber materials and that a multitude of additional color choices will be available. No word yet on the cost for this super luxury coupe.

If you're a potential buyer of the Nissan GT-R Egoist, stop staring at yourself in your Rinceaux full-length mirror and check out the gallery of your future ride. If you can't find the scratch for the 2012 Nissan GT-R Egoist, you can still click through the gallery and enjoy the opulence.

Gallery: Nissan GT-R Egoist

[Source: Nissan]

Pics Aplenty: 2012 Nissan GT-R Egoist originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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2011 Moto2 Private Barcelona Test: Iannone Close To Lap Record

While the testing season for the MotoGP riders got underway at the beginning of February, the Moto2 riders were forced to wait an extra week or so. First to take to the track were the Pons Kalex team of Aleix Espargaro and Axel Pons, the Caixa Catalunya Repsol squad of Marc Marquez, the Technomag CIP team of Kenan Sofuoglu and Dominique Aegerter, and Andrea Iannone's Speed Master team.

To the surprise of very few, Andrea Iannone ended the two-day test as the fastest man, getting within a few tenths of the circuit lap record set last July, despite the cooler conditions. Iannone, working on setup of his Suter machine, posted a lap of 1'47.8 at the Barcelona circuit. Second fastest man of the test was Marc Marquez, the young Spaniard continuing to impress aboard the Suter, setting a time of 1'48.1 on just his third outing on a Moto2 machine. Marquez finished head of the Pons Kalex machines, Aleix Espargaro just beating his teammate Axel Pons by a couple of tenths, with Dominique Aegerter ending the test a second behind Pons.

Reigning World Supersport champion Kenan Sofuoglu left the test a day early, returning to Istanbul due to a medical emergency in the family. As a consequence, the Turkish rider ended the test slowest, managing only a lap of 1'50.8 before leaving the track.

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Freitag, 11. Februar 2011

Lexus to finally debut LFA with exclusive N�rburgring package in Geneva

Filed under: Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Lexus

2012 Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package - Click above for high-res image gallery

Typically, when an automaker launches a new car, or even a variant on an existing one, we get a chance to see it up close at a major auto show within a matter of months at most. But it will have been the better part of a year by the time we see the Lexus LFA with the Nürburgring package in the flesh.

The track-focused version of the Toyota luxury division's supercar was released all the way back in May 2010, but Lexus has only now announced that it will make its public debut at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March of this year. For a quick refresher, the 'Ring edition LFA upgrades the 4.8-liter V10 by ten horses to 562 and drops the shift times down by 50 miliseconds to 150. It also gets an upgraded aero package, all for a $70,000 premium over the "stock" LFA's $375k sticker price.

With only 50 of the total run of 500 offered with the package, this could be one of our only chances to see the track-prep'd LFA in the flesh, so watch this space in a few weeks' time for live shots from the Geneva Palexpo show floor.

Gallery: Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package

[Source: Lexus]

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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 2.11.11

Review: 2011 Ford Explorer Limited

The Explorer name had value that Ford couldn't let go to waste. And so the 2011 Explorer is the sport utility story retold by Ford from an entirely new angle. Can the Explorer name can still put butts in seats?

Spy Shots: Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 caught sunbathing ahead of NY reveal

Get your Grand Cherokee SRT8 fix courtesy of some spy shots showing our favorite non-trail rated Jeep taking in some desert sun.

Review: Test Drive Unlimited 2

Who wouldn't get behind the idea of amassing a huge collection of amazing cars and racing them around both Oahu and Ibiza?

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BMW S1000RR: More stock Horsepower than a Hayabusa

Source: http://sportbikeblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/bmw-s1000rr-more-stock-horsepower-than.html

Santiago Herrero Tom Herron Wilfred Herron Manfred Herweh Sanadori Hikita

NASCAR to get fuel injection for 2012; McLaren wins supply contract

Filed under: Motorsports, Technology, Racing

NASCAR to get fuel injection for 2012; McLaren wins supply contract originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ten Years After: Sharing Final Moments and a Driver's Seat With Dale Earnhardt

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Crashes, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

"So, you got any advice for me here coming up?'' Dale Earnhardt radioed to Andy Pilgrim while slowly driving caution laps around Daytona International Speedway, preparing for the final race restart with 21 laps to go in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Only two weeks earlier, the NASCAR icon had co-driven to a runner-up GT Class finish in the historic Rolex 24 at Daytona with the sports car champ Pilgrim (second from left above), who was now sitting with his girlfriend and Earnhardt's wife, Teresa, hooked up to the race team's radio in the couple's private motorcoach in the speedway's infield. A pair of motorcycle policemen had just arrived outside and were waiting to escort them all from the track after the race.

"When he said that to me, I just started laughing and thinking to myself, 'Dale Earnhardt, the seven-time NASCAR champion, is asking me, a road racer, what to do in the Daytona 500,' '' Pilgrim recalled. "I told him, 'No, man, I haven't got any advice for you, just keep doing what you're doing.' '''

"Okay, just wondering,'' Earnhardt good-naturedly replied, his words getting cut off by his spotter, who was alerting him the race was going green on the next lap.

"I told him, 'Cheers, talk to you later,' '' Pilgrim said. "And there was no more radio communication other than him cheering on and yelling for Michael (Waltrip) and (Dale Earnhardt) Junior.

"Then, 10 minutes later, he was gone.

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Austin GP: Yes, No, Maybe So?

While the Indianapolis GP has been renewed for another season, talk continues to swell regarding the Brickyard, and whether it will remain on the MotoGP calendar. While a notably historic track in the United States, and a venue capable of easily handling an event like GP racing, track conditions at Indianapolis weighed heavily on riders’ minds while contending with the midwest circuit this past season. With members of the GP safety commission audibly displeased with ...

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