Defending Daytona Prototype champions Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas cruised to victory and took a share of the championship lead after Saturday's Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen. The team dominated the event, leading 142 of the 188 laps, including the final 35 laps.
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Norbert Haug on Sunday said he hopes the Mercedes engine deal with championship leaders Brawn GP will be extended beyond 2009. With permission from the FIA and Force India, Brawn was allowed to use the German marque's engines this year, contrary to the rule stipulating only one customer deal per works effort.
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Jenson Button's charge to the 2009 world championship continued in style on Sunday, as pretenders Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello mounted flawed challenges at Istanbul.
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Even without current grandees like Ferrari and McLaren, formula one could potentially have yet another famous name on the 2010 grid. F3 team Litespeed intends to race under the famed Team Lotus branding.
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After falling at the first of qualifying's three hurdles in Turkey, reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton then dropped his guard with the world's media. Until recently the McLaren driver was operating under a press gag, but on Saturday the floodgates truly opened as he contemplated starting the Istanbul race from a lowly 16th.
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With Williams and Force India on the outer after filing unconditional FIA paperwork, the F1 teams' alliance FOTA has moved to ensure its unity is not further eroded. Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Renault and BMW have signed a $50m bond not to jump ship and enter the 2010 championship unconditionally within the next 30 days.
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Vitaly Petrov and Luca Di Grassi each win one round in Istanbul. Petrov takes first position in provisional championship classification.
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Although Ryan Briscoe had dominated most of the night on the oval of the Texas Speedway, his team-mate at Penske, Helio Castroneves, made an impressive last pit stop to take the victory.
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It has been a few races that Kyle Busch (Camry No 18) had not won in the NASCAR Nationwide series, mostly due to a series of bad luck, but Saturday evening, he easily beat the competition at the Nashville Superspeedway, a track where he had never won.
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Every carmaker is caught in a fine balancing act between cost and quality. They want happy, loyal customers that have minimal problems and come back down the line to buy another car. But, at the same time, carmakers are businesses--and that means that they have to make a buck.
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Here's a riddle: what has four wheels, sounds like a blender full of cutlery, and spews out more sooty smoke than a tire fire? It's the diesel engine of years gone by! The average North American still equates diesel power to an unrefined, noisy and underpowered driving experience. It's a deserved reputation--as for years, that's just what diesel was like.
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The Gulf state of Qatar will strike a deal with Porsche by mid-June that will help the sports car maker to pay down its 9 billion euro ($12.8 billion) debt pile, German weekly Focus reported.
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Continental AG has reached an agreement with French union representatives on the planned closure of its tire plant in Clairoix, northern French.
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Nissan said it had agreed with unions to offer 200 workers in Spain temporary redundancies. It is the latest move by recession-hit automakers to avoid high Spanish firing costs and save jobs.
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General Motors' board of directors is set for an overhaul at the hands of the U.S. government, but some observers are questioning whether potentially complex allegiances could hobble the new board and stand in the way of the automaker's recovery.
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General Motors' board of directors is set for an overhaul at the hands of the U.S. government, but some observers are questioning whether potentially complex allegiances could hobble the new board and stand in the way of the automaker's recovery.
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General Motors' board of directors is set for an overhaul at the hands of the U.S. government, but some observers are questioning whether potentially complex allegiances could hobble the new board and stand in the way of the automaker's recovery.
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Sebastian Vettel on Saturday kept his championship dream alive by putting his Red Bull on pole position for the Turkish grand prix.
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DJ Kennington won the second race of the season, the Delaware 200, in a heated NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race Saturday night at Delaware Speedway in front of a near capacity crowd.
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Because test drivers are now becoming so out of practice, Theissen rhetorically asks: "How can you rely on him jumping in the car? It is a safety issue."
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