BMW press release
The finale of the DTM season at the Hockenheimring on 21st October will have a prominent guest: former BMW driver Alessandro Zanardi will be at the track on the race Sunday to support the three BMW teams.
The 45-year-old lost both his legs in a crash before making his comeback with BMW and going on to win four races in the World Touring Car Championship for the Munich-based manufacturer.
In September, Zanardi won two gold medals and one silver on his handbike at the Paralympic Games in London. “I am really looking forward to visiting the DTM finale in Hockenheim,” said the Italian. “BMW has had a fantastic season so far - and I will try to give the guys as much support as possible at the finale. Maybe I'll be a
lucky charm for Bruno Spengler."
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| Photo: DTM Presse |
From press release
The Sauber F1 Team will be testing Esteban Gutiérrez and Robin Frijns at the Young Driver Days in Abu Dhabi to be held from November 6 to 8, 2012.
Frijns will be driving on the Tuesday, the first day of testing. The 21-year-old Dutchman won the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup in 2011 and this coming weekend will be contesting the title in the 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 World Series on the Circuit de Catalunya. In the run-up to the final he is five points adrift of the championship leader.
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| Robin Frinjs. (Photo: Renault) |
For Gutiérrez, the Young Driver Days will mark his fourth test outing with the team since he first got inside a Formula 1 cockpit in late 2009.
Also aged 21, the Mexican joined the Sauber F1 Team as an affiliated driver and since 2011 has been the official reserve driver for the F1 team. He will be test-driving in Abu Dhabi on the Wednesday and Thursday.
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| Esteban Gutierrez. (Photo: Sauber F1 Team) |
From GMM
Luca di Montezemolo has admitted he would welcome Porsche to formula one.
The VW-brand has played down the latest rumours about a V6-powered grand prix foray on the back of its forthcoming return to Le Mans, but Ferrari president Montezemolo said: "I feel great respect for Porsche, who I consider the main rival of many of our cars.
"Competition is always welcome, especially when you're sure you will win," the Italian is quoted by Spain's
AS newspaper.
But
even with Porsche rejecting the latest speculation, the German newspaper
Kolner Express said all the signs are pointing towards a 2016 foray for the famous sports car maker.
From GMM
Organisers of the first US grand prix since 2007 say the brand new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, is now almost ready to host a formula one race.
The Hermann Tilke-designed track is scheduled to host the 2012 US GP in exactly a month from now.
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| Photo: Circuit of the Americas, released on October 16, 2012. |
When the sport's impending journey to Texas was first announced, there was much scepticism about whether the event would ever take place, especially when founder Tavo Hellmund became embroiled in a legal row with the current organisers.
But the
FIA's Charlie Whiting has given the track the green light, even though the Austin
American Statesman newspaper reports that the facility is not quite ready.
Referring also to the crucial pit and medical facilities, project manager Braedon Box said on Wednesday: "Everything track-related is done. We could have a race right now. Everything else isn't done. I'm certain everybody would like to be a little further along and putting their feet up right now."
He insisted, however, that 'everything else' - the seating, the media centre and most other things - will be ready on time.
BMW AG has shifted "tens of thousands" of cars that were originally targeted for Europe to the United States and Asia this year as sales weaken in the crisis-hit region.
Toyota said 90 2013 Scion iQ EVs are arriving in the United States today. The four-seaters will be used for car sharing and fleets, Toyota Motor Sales said in a statement. There are also a small number of the vehicles arriving in Japan
Timken has named John Law to the new position of vice president of light-vehicle systems. Law will report to Brian Ruel, who became vice president of light-vehicle, off-highway and rail operations in September.
Also in this episode: Opel debuts the Cascada convertible, which may head stateside as a Buick.
The Chinese auto supplier that previously offered to bail out A123 Systems, the electric-car battery maker that filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, said it's still interested in taking over the company.
Opel, General Motors' financially embattled European unit, has revealed its new midsize Cascada convertible in a series of photos. The car goes on sale in early 2013.
Just like my parents used to say, and#8220;You can't get anything by us, we have eyes everywhere.and#8221; Ominous threats aside, GM's European unit Opel tried to sneak an Insignia Sports Tourer station wagon onto the roads of Michigan.
The diminutive 2013 Scion iQ EV battery-electric vehicle will join car-sharing programs in the United States.
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Volkswagen has announced a new Passat Highline model, which gets extra kit and costs from £20,970
A computer-driven car may not be commercially viable for at least another decade, but federal regulators are taking it seriously.
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17 Oct, 2012
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The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo single-make race series wrapped up for the year in Los Arcos, Spain, on Oct. 14.
Hyundai has promoted its global public relations chief to vice president -- a rare-advancement for a non-Korean executive at the carmaker's global headquarters.
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