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Mercedes update ?will hit target?

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Mercedes GP is bullish that the definitive upgrade package that will be fitted to its car for the final two days of Barcelona testing will be enough to lift it back into contention for race wins this year. The parts - which include a new front wing, revised brake ducts...

Kahne wins Darlington Trucks race

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Kasey Kahne made the right choice in giving up a week off, running up front the final 51 laps to win Camping World Truck series event at Darlington Raceway on Saturday night. Source: http://www.nascarracinglive.com/nascar/kahne-wins-darlington-trucks-race-ap.html Clive Brown Douglas Brown George Brown Jan Bruins Hans Rudi Brüngger

Liuzzi sure HRT can have bright future

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Tonio Liuzzi says he is keen to build a future with Hispania, and believes the team has plenty of potential to improve on its back-of-the-grid 2010 form. The new HRT F111 will not be unveiled until tomorrow lunchtime, giving it just one and a half days of testing before the...

Williams: no decision yet on KERS plan

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Williams technical director Sam Michael thinks it is too early to judge whether or not his team will run KERS at the start of the season, following the problems it has suffered in Barcelona testing this week. The Grove-based outfit has had to remove its KERS from the FW33 for...

Don?t Let a Few Raindrops Keep You Away From Tonight?s CB 6 Hearing

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Opportunities to make your voice heard on the city’s transportation policy don’t get much bigger than tonight’s Brooklyn Community Board 6 hearing about the Prospect Park West re-design. Your presence and testimony can help make this pivotal project permanent and show the press that local support for traffic calming and...

Pre-race Entertainment features mix of Rock & Country

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Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2011/03/pre-race-entertainment-features-mix-of.html Renzo Pasolini Daniel Pedrosa Fabricio Perren Lukáš Pešek Bill Petch

Karthikeyan sure he will quickly settle

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Narain Karthikeyan is optimistic that it will only take him a few races to get back up to full speed after five years away from the Formula 1 grid. The Indian has made a surprise F1 comeback with Hispania this year Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/karthikeyan-sure-he-will-quickly-settle/ Alberto Puig Maurice Quincey Ray Quincey Ricardo...

Perez jumps to the top in testing

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Sergio Perez set a surprise fastest time for Sauber on day three of Barcelona testing, as the Swiss squad interrupted Red Bull's dominant week. There was no doubt that the Mexican's 1m21.761s - even quicker than world champion Sebastian Vettel's Wednesday lap - was done on a low-fuel qualifying simulation,...

Toyota NASCAR Tidbits ? March 7 ? 13, 2011

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Toyota MotorsportsLEAVING LAS VEGAS: In Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Martin Truex Jr. was the highest-finishing Toyota driver with a sixth-place result. Denny Hamlin (seventh) and Brian Vickers (10th) also registered top-10 finishes in the 267-lap race at the 1.5-mile track. The top-10...

Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding

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Every year, the cyclists that gather in Washington for the National Bike Summit meet with hundreds of Congressional offices to ask for expanded bike funding. This year, they?re just asking lawmakers not to cut it. Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) with teens from Neighborhood BikeWorks. Photo courtesy of Sarah Stuart. With...