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Former Spice Girl Gerri Halliwell is now officially engaged to Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner.

British newspaper The Times published the notice.

Halliwell's notice reads: "The engagement is announced between Christian, son of Mr and Mrs GM Horner and Geraldine, daughter of the late Mr LF Halliwell and Mrs A Parkinson."

No wedding date is included in the announcement for Gerri Halliwell and the former race car driver turned into a team director.

Halliwell has been seen alongside her partner at F1 races around the world since the couple got together last March.

Christian Horner and Gerri Halliwell in Montreal, June 2014. (Photo: WRI2)

From press release

Just as the 2014 karting racing season completed its final event at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, heavy equipment rolled onto the site to begin upgrading the popular venue to enhance the presentation of the facility to its customers for 2015 and beyond.

In addition to the new facility entranceway, the transformation includes track design changes, re-grading, new paving, trackside kerbing and other enhancements featuring new administration and operating buildings.

"Most of auto racing's stars and high-level performers learned their craft in kart racing while at the elementary school age," said Ron Fellows, co-owner of Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Photo: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

In addition to the physical upgrades, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park brings in new energy to the management of the Kart Centre. Daniel and Marco Di Leo will assume responsibility for the karting operations.

The Di Leo's are well-known for having transformed North America's oldest kart track, Goodwood Kartways, into a popular and successful facility.

"Ten years ago we began our venture into the business of karting," explained Daniel DiLeo.

"Through this period we gained valuable experience to better understand the growing demands of running a successful kart track. These lessons will be put to the test early at the new Canadian Tire Motorsport Park Karting Centre and we are very excited about the opportunities that come with a facility that is second to none in Canada."

It is understood Tuesday that Marussia Formula 1 Team administrators are in “serious talks” with one group about a possible takeover.

But Friday of last week, it was confirmed that the team was to be closed with a staff of around 200 being made redundant.

If the team can rise between 4 and 6$ millions before the end of this week, it would be able to compete in the season's finale in Abu Dhabi.

Sky Sports News HQ understands that talks are ongoing with an unnamed group about a proposed takeover.

“I don't feel like there's no way back. We're very competitive people and we'll keep fighting until there's absolutely no chance at all,” Graeme Lowdon, who was President and Sporting Director of Marussia, told Sky Sport last weekend.

“At the moment there's still very much a chance that we can compete in 2015 and beyond and indeed in Abu Dhabi.”

The small team has been entered as Manor F1 Team to the 2015 FIA Formula 1 World Championship.

Alain Uyttenhoven, the head of Brussels-based Lexus Europe, has told just-auto that it is "impossible to catch the German three, worldwide" but that the brand is determined to be "number four".

Randall Ford in Fort Smith, Ark., has been ordered to pay a former used-car manager $128,750 after failing to accommodate his post-spinal surgery disability and then firing him, the

When it comes to public relations crises in the automobile industry, the Ford-Firestone tire controversy in the early 2000s was the biggest. Jason Vines should know. He was in charge of PR at Ford at the time.

General Motors has sold more than 13,000 new vehicles via its online shopping tool Shop-Click-Drive since it debuted for use on dealership websites a year ago, the automaker said today.

Julie Brown, the embattled former CEO of Plastech Engineered Products, is back in court six years after her company was liquidated under bankruptcy.

BorgWarner expects new business to grow by 10 percent to 12 percent through 2017 thanks to strong growth in Asia.

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito said he would prioritize quality improvements over the company's target of selling 6 million cars in the year starting April 2016, as the automaker recalls millions of cars to fix potentially defective airbags.

Nissan North America is recalling 5,412 model year 2014 Infiniti Q50 hybrid vehicles manufactured from 10 December, 2012 to 25 June, 2014, and Infiniti Q70 hybrids made between 7 November, 2013 and 7 May, 2014 due to a software error that may result in the electric motor stopping while the vehicle is being driven using the electric motor only.

A program to compensate the victims of a faulty ignition switch in GM vehicles found last week that the part was linked to two additional deaths and four injuries, bringing the total number of eligible claims to 67, according to a report on Monday.

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Leaked brochure images of a mid-life revision to Mazda's CX-5 SUV have appeared online, ahead of its appearance at the LA Motor Show

General Motors ordered over 500,000 replacement ignition switches in December, launching an 'urgent' request six weeks before it began a recall for older Chevrolet Cobalt cars now linked to 30 deaths and 31 injuries, US reports on Monday said.

Russia, Lexus' number one market in its European region, might be down, but UK sales are up strongly. On balance then, 2014 has been a good year, according to the brand's Head of Europe. Next, he promises more hybrids but no diesels. Why?

After years in the European wilderness, Lexus now seems set on a steady path of sales expansion. The new NX, a RAV4-sized crossover, is the next step in its plan to become a sports-premium brand.

Volkswagen's method of constantly refining its main models pays dividends in terms of buyer loyalty. The facelifted Polo is a great example. It is now the UK's seventh best seller and has even overtaken the Audi A3 range.

GKN said it had produced the industry's first two-speed eAxle which is being used on BMW's i8 plug-in hybrid sports car.

Attracting over 750,000 visitors in 11 days, the São Paulo motor show saw several locally made and imported new model launches of varying degrees of importance that, together, made this year's event one of the best in the show's 54-year history.

Ford of Europe boss Stephen Odell's focus on respecting the customer will be a good start when he becomes the automaker's global sales and marketing chief.