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Pirelli will test a much lower-profile tire during next week's post-British grand prix test at Silverstone.

F1's official tire supplier, whose public profile has been much lower in 2014 as drivers label its new approach as "conservative", said the 18-inch tire will "showcase the way that formula one could look in the near future".

The Lotus team will be running the novel tire design.

"Larger wheel and tire sizes reflect modern market trends," Pirelli said in a statement.

The current F1 tires have a 13-inch profile, unlike rival categories like GT, Le Mans and Formula E.

The NASCAR Canadian Tire series returns to Mirabel's Circuit ICAR this weekend for the Jiffy Lube 100. Here are a few things you should know before the race.

Full name: International Center of Advanced Racing
Location: Mirabel, Quebec
Opening: 2008

Layout:  2.113-mile, 14-turn road course

Race Length:  30 laps (63.37 miles/102 kilometers)
Inaugural winner: Robin Buck (2011)
Inaugural pole-sitter: Alex Tagliani (2011)
Track record: 95.938 by Andrew Ranger (2013)
Other series on track this weekend: Super Production Challenge, Sportsman Québec Lucas Oil, Canadian Supercar, CTCC and F1600.

Circuit ICAR (Photo: NASCAR)

Andrew Ranger has been victorious in each of the two previous seasons at Circuit ICAR, and was two laps away from winning the inaugural 2011 event before being involved in an accident.

L.P. Dumoulin has top-five finishes in each of the three previous ICAR races, and is looking for his third top five in a row to start the 2014 campaign.


Quebec natives Elie Arseneau, Patrice Brisebois and J.F. Dumoulin will attempt to make their 2014 season debuts in this event.

Saturday's qualifying starts at 4:30 pm. The race is scheduled for 2:35 pm on Sunday.

GM expects Cadillac sales in China to rise by at least 40 percent this year, as the company steps up local output.

'Made in Germany,' a hallmark of three of Europe's leading luxury automakers for years, is losing a little more of its exclusivity with BMW's decision to join rivals Audi and Mercedes and establish a manufacturing footprint in Mexico.

Daimler's Mercedes-Benz Cars sold 783,520 vehicles in the first half of 2014, up 12.8% year on year, and a company record tally for the period.

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We first saw the second generation C1 alongside the Peugeot 108 and Toyota Aygo at the Geneva motor show in March. Production is now ramping up, and UK deliveries are about to commence.

The first car equipped with Volvo On Call in China has been delivered. The automaker uses WirelessCar for telematics systems based on architecture proven over 14 years in all major and developing markets.

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Mercedes' global brand sales rose 8 percent in June thanks to strong demand for its growing compact range. The carmaker said six-month deliveries rose 13 percent, its highest ever first-half sales.

Honda expanded a U.S. regional recall of vehicles over potentially explosive airbags to include California after a complaint that said a driver was injured in an accident in the state.

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The UK car market posted growth of 6.2% in June, leaving it on course to post 2.4m units for the year.

General Motors started this week by continuing to honour CEO Mary Barra's oft-repeated promise - which is essentially to make good any car not good - so back to US dealers will go another 400,000-odd locally (and even Australian)-made cars for fixes various.

Like Packard (and every other domestic automaker), Cadillac stopped producing civilian cars and

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey fell 24.85% year on year to 286,861.

Wage talks to end an indefinite strike by more than 220,000 metalworkers in South Africa failed Thursday as the stoppage forced General Motors to halt output at its vehicle-assembly plant.