Slipping into Darkness

For the tenth week in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge the sim racers from all around the globe took on the 17-turn, 3.7-mile Sebring International Raceway located in Sebring, Florida for some night racing for the first time in series history.  During the week a total of 301 drivers attempted to tame the beast known as Sebring, but it was Giorgos Tzanetos (International) who slipped away into the darkness by scoring the most points for Week Ten. Weekly High Strength of Field Tzanetos was the man to beat during Week Ten as he claimed the victory in the week?s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event.  The 3448 saw Tzanetos leading all 14 of the events laps, but it wasn?t an easy victory as he beat second place Dave Gelink (Benelux) by [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/slipping-into-darkness/

Jackie Holmes Bill Homeier Kazuyoshi Hoshino Jerry Hoyt Nico HĂĽlkenberg

FYI WIRZ: NASCAR?s Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and more talk No. 19 at Loudon

FYI WIRZ: NASCAR?s Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and more talk No. 19 at Loudon The Lenox Industrial Tools 301 will rev up on the1.058-mile oval with seven degree banking at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. TNT will televise the event at 1 p.m. this Sunday. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing [...]

Source: http://finallapradio.com/2011/07/15/fyi-wirz-nascar%e2%80%99s-kyle-busch-carl-edwards-and-more-talk-no-19-at-loudon/

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Grosser Gravy: 10 Things You Didn?t Know About the Mercedes-Benz 600

In our August issue, we took a short look at the life of Karl Middelhauve, the Wisconsin man who makes his living restoring Mercedes-Benz?s 600 Grosser limousine. In addition to being a world-renowned authority on one of the most fascinating cars ever built, he?s a fantastic storyteller. When we put the print issue to bed, [...]

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Toyota Goes Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion Prius Hits Japanese Market

If anybody claims to fully understand Neon Genesis Evangelion, that person is either totally bonkers or flat-out wrong. With an eye toward making his seminal?and wildly successful?apocalyptic sci-fi anime serial more accessible to the casual viewer, director Hideaki Anno is in the midst of revamping the series as a quartet of films, collectively known as [...]

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Travis Wade Kvapil Robert Allen Labonte Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie Kevin Paul Lepage

Infineon Raceway Brings Drag Racing History to the Sebastiani Theatre

Infineon Raceway SONOMA, Calif. (July 13, 2011) Special Showing Benefits Speedway Children's Charities and the Sebastiani Theatre Foundation Infineon Raceway will bring drag racing to the heart of downtown Sonoma on Saturday, July 30, with a special screening of the...

Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2011/07/infineon_raceway_brings_d.php

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Hanninen pulls away in Azores

Juho Hanninen is edging away from the field in increasingly difficult conditions on Rally Azores. While the middle test of this morning's opening three-stage loop was cancelled due to livestock in the road, SS4 brought rain and SS6 thick fog and mud.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/3rdparty/hanninen-pulls-away-in-azores/

Roberto Guerrero MaurĂ­cio Gugelmin Dan Gurney Hubert Hahne Mike Hailwood

iRacer Profile: Vinnie Sansone

There are more parallels between the online racing of iRacing.com and the “real” racing of NASCAR than just precisely-modeled cars and tracks and well-organized sanctioning bodies.   Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart and a host of other NASCAR stars cut their racing teeth in the USAC ranks driving quarter midgets, midgets, sprint cars and Silver Crown cars rather than stock cars.  Likewise, NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship competitor Vinnie Sansone has a sim racing portfolio that is replete with race wins and championships in the iRacing.com Sprint Car and Silver Crown Series. But in addition to the virtual pavement of iRacing’s short tracks and speedways, the Illinois-based Sansone also knows his way around the dirt tracks of the Midwest, some of which were the springboard(s) to the [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/iracer-profile-vinnie-sansone/

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