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The provisional 2014 European Le Mans Series calendar has been unveiled, with four of the five venues remaining the same from this season and the addition of Estoril in October for the season finale.

After running with the World Series by Renault three times in 2013, the ELMS will have five standalone rounds as there will be extra track time for the competitors and grids are set to expand as more interest is shown by teams and drivers for the relaunched European endurance series.

2014 calendar
1/2 April: Official testings at Paul Ricard (Fra)
19 April: Silverstone (GB)
11 May: Imola (Ita)
20 July: Red Bull Ring (Aut)
14 September: Paul Ricard (Fra)
12 October: Estoril (Por)

On September 28th, 2008, SpaceX (founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk) managed to put a satellite into orbit using the Falcon 1 launch vehicle.

It was the fourth try for SpaceX after three failed attempts -- March 2006, March 2007, and August 2008.

Man, that Musk guy can do just about anything!

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. showed that his Chase hopes aren't going down without a fight as he put his Chevrolet on the pole at the Dover International Raceway.

It was his first pole at the one-mile oval, second this year, moreover he set a new record at the track known as the Monster Mile at 161.849mph (or 22.243) eclipsing the nine-year old record set by Jeremy Mayfield at 161.522mph. It was the 17th time this season that a qualifying record was beaten.

Even though NASCAR's most popular driver had a good day; Matt Kenseth the series points leader, and winner of the previous two Chase races, put his Toyota alongside Earnhardt's Chevy SS a mere .006 seconds slower at 161.805mph.

Rival Chase drivers Ryan Newman (161.740 mph) and Carl Edwards (161.609 mph) qualified third and fourth, respectively, while Aric Almirola (who drives for Richard Petty Motorsports) equaled Edwards at 161.609 mph, to earn the fifth starting spot.

With NASCAR single car qualifying, Earnhardt nervously awaited the remaining 17 drivers to take his provisional pole, but, that didn't happen.

"I was expecting to put a good lap down," Earnhardt said.

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"I thought we'd be competitive enough to get inside the top 10 pretty easily... I made a couple of small errors out in the car, but you never drive every lap perfectly. You always kind of wish you could have done things a little differently. I think the car had maybe another half a tenth (of a second) or a tenth in it.

"I watched the lap tracker on a couple of guys. The 99 (Edwards), they were a tenth-and-a-half better than us by the time they got into Turn 3 or the middle of 3 and 4. So, yeah, I thought there was a good amount of time left out there for a lot of guys, myself included."

When Kenseth heard he had fallen .006 off the pole-winning lap, he radioed, "My bad," to his team, but changing conditions had more to do with Kenseth's second-place effort.

"I feel bad we missed the pole by just that little bit," Kenseth said. "(Crew chief) Jason (Ratcliff) and I both had a feeling it was going to go like that when we saw the sun pop out before we left (on the qualifying run). It just got too free and lost too much time...

"I felt like from the seat I got everything it had in it... Gosh, we just missed it by a little bit -- just too loose, just couldn't stay in the gas."

Earnhardt who is 11th in the standings 62 points behind Kenseth added "he's having a great year, but hopefully we can beat him. We want to get up there and regain our ground and get back into this thing if we can."

Kyle Busch, second in the standings to his teammate, Kenseth will start 14th while five-time champ, Jimmie Johnson, who is third in the standings qualified 8th.

The newly remodeled Cobo Center will host the 11th annua lAmerican Cancer Society Cattle Baron's Ball this Saturday with Chrysler as the presenting sponsor.

Nissan's next-generation 2014 Rogue crossover will face some sales competition next year from -- the old-generation 2013 Rogue crossover.

Chrysler Group said today its Ram brand will debut a national advertising campaign this weekend for its 2014 heavy-duty trucks. The campaign, titled 'Groundbreakers,' will show working men in action on the job with the new lineup.

General Motors, which has been seeking to fix its ailing European operations, believes a crucial partnership in France would survive even if the French partner ties up with China's Dongfeng Motor Group, GM Vice Chairman Steve Girsky said today.

If you're going to head to Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats and check out stuff like

This weekend, in an oat field in Pierce, Neb., nearly 500 cars and pickups from yesteryear that have been locked inside a defunct dealership with mere miles on their odometers will be auctioned off.

2014 Alfa Romeo 4C First Drive

Alfa returns to the United States with a pint-sized supercar that delivers outsized performance.

Cavaglia, Italy -- Alfa Romeo's on-again, off-again plan to return to the U.S. market might be the longest running drama in the automobile business, but next spring the story will finally will reach its climactic payoff with the arrival of the company's mid-engine, two-seat sports car, the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C.

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Ray Windecker, a former Studebaker manager who carved out a career as research analyst at Ford, died earlier this month at age 86. The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Pat.

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Government aims to stop councils using cameras to catch drivers in illegally parked cars

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Images have surfaced online that reveal all on the new Porsche Macan 4x4

The Chrysler Airflow has come to be recognized as an art deco masterpiece, but it was a notorious sales flop when it debuted in 1934.

So PSA Peugeot Citroen launched its latest round of union negotiations this week with - what on the face of it - seems an extraordinarily generous offer to its labour bodies.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with executives of the Detroit 3 and toured auto facilities in the Detroit area today.

Car manufacturers need to design cars that allow a new generation of 'digital natives' to continue their digital lifestyles while driving, according to a senior Hyundai manager addressing a Vehicle Connectivity conference in London.

Car manufacturers need to design cars that allow a new generation of 'digital natives' to continue their digital lifestyles while driving, according to a senior Hyundai manager addressing a Vehicle Connectivity conference in London.

-- A Porsche insider might have just leaked all of the German automaker's big reveals for the next few years if