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Today?s Headlines

Stringer Comes Out Against 34th Street Transitway (Or NY Post Makes It Seem That Way) Jay Walder Hasn’t Spoken With State About Where to Find $10 Billion for Capital Plan (WSJ) Walder: There’s No Substitute for Payroll Tax (Transpo Nation) Cuomo’s $100M MTA Raid Could Mean Layoffs, Says Walder (News) Supreme Court Kills NYC Plan To Penalize Non-Hybrid Taxis (NYT) Port Authority [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/03/01/todays-headlines-1087/

Kevin Harvick Armour Vienna Sausage Kroger Chevrolet Clint Bowyer Zaxby s Chevrolet

Mar 2, 2011 11:44:30 AM

Saab to Be Spyker?s Sole Focus: Sports-Car Business Sold to Russian Billionaire

Spyker, the tiny, Netherlands-based sports-car manufacturer that saved Saab from the GM guillotine, is preparing to sell its eponymous sports car operation to focus on its Swedish adoptee. The tooling, intellectual property rights, and plans for the handmade sports cars will be sold to a holding company company owned by Russian billionaire Vladimir Antonov. Prior to Spyker’s [...] Related posts:

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Hermann Lang Claudio Langes Nicola Larini Oscar Larrauri

Mar 2, 2011 8:44:22 AM

Vernay fears for IndyCar chances

Indy Lights champion Jean-Karl Vernay says he is struggling to raise the funding to break into IndyCar this season. The 23-year-old Frenchman called time on his Formula 3 Euro Series stint to switch to American racing in 2010 and won the Lights title at the first attempt

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/indycar-news/indycar/vernay-fears-for-indycar-chances/

3M Ford Jeff Burton Caterpillar Chevrolet David Ragan

Mar 2, 2011 5:44:18 AM

Laughton Lays It On ?Em at Dover

The stars of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) trucked into Delaware last week for seven days of online racing at the track nicknamed the ?Monster Mile.? Dover International Raceway played host to Round Four on the schedule and proved popular with the drivers as 1112 of them came out to race in the series? inaugural visit to the track. Many big sim racing names gave the underdogs a run for their money and in the end it was a NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship pilot showing them how to dance with the Monster at the close of the week. Josh Laughton was one of the drivers lined-up to take the initial race journey around the one-mile concrete oval as he entered the first race of the week. That [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/nascar-news/laughlin-lays-it-to-em-at-dover/

Loan Max Toyota Aric Almirola JR Motorsports Chevrolet Kevin Lepage

Mar 1, 2011 8:44:18 PM

BMW Announces ?i? Sub-Brand, i3 and i8 Production Cars ? Car News

For when EfficientDynamics isn’t quite enough: The BMW i brand is official. BMW’s “Project i” group, a self-described think tank, has been working on electric mobility since 2007. One tangible result was the two-seat Mini E, a car that?s to be followed by the electrified BMW 1-series ActiveE, a small fleet of which will [...] Related posts:

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Tony Raines Long John Silver s Chevrolet Tayler Malsam Iron Horse Jeans Toyota

Mar 1, 2011 2:44:25 PM

Michael DenDekker Explains His Inexplicable Bike License Bill

Remember last month when Council Member Eric Ulrich came out with the idea of creating a complicated new bureaucracy to register and identify New Yorkers who ride bikes, a proposal that would build an expensive and redundant personal identification system on top of our existing ID systems, opening the door to increased harassment of cyclists [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/03/01/michael-dendekker-explains-his-inexplicable-bike-license-bill/

James Hunt Jim Hurtubise Gus Hutchison Jacky Ickx

Mar 1, 2011 8:44:52 AM

Indy wants guest drivers for Vegas

IndyCar has confirmed that Las Vegas Motor Speedway will host its season finale - and announced a $5 million bonus for any driver from outside the IndyCar Series who can come in and win the race. In another innovation, fans buying a ticket for any other IndyCar Series race this year can get a free ticket for the Las Vegas finale. It had been expected all winter that Las Vegas would be the venue for IndyCar's final 2011 round on Sunday 16 October, marking the championship's return to the track, which it last visited in 2000.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/indycar-news/indycar/indy-wants-guest-drivers-for-vegas/

Aric Almirola JR Motorsports Chevrolet Kevin Lepage Hyatt Place Richmond Airport Toyota

Mar 1, 2011 2:44:15 AM

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Chassis Goes Nude Before Geneva Debut

It?s not very often that Lamborghini releases an entirely new car, so the Aventador LP700-4 is kind of a big deal. That explains the litany of teasers and tech tidbits released ahead of the car’s official debut at the Geneva auto show. We?ve already learned about its new V-12 engine, viewed “spy” photos, and even [...] Related posts:

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Ukyo Katayama Ken Kavanagh Rupert Keegan Eddie Keizan

Feb 28, 2011 8:44:22 PM

Aumann: Gordon drinks it all in at PIR after victory drought (NASCAR.com)

Aumann: Gordon drinks it all in at PIR after victory drought

Source: http://www.nascarracinglive.com/nascar/aumann-gordon-drinks-it-all-in-at-pir-after-victory-drought-nascar-com.html

Brian Scott BigSpot com Toyota Carl Long Millennium Fuel Energy Drink Chevrolet

Feb 28, 2011 5:44:25 PM

Sami Selio And Mad Croc Capture Driver And Team Title's In '10!

F1 H2O / F1 Powerboat News ABU DHABI, U.A.E. ? December 31, 2010 Finland's Sami Selio scored 50 of his 94 total points in his final three races of the 2010 season in a brilliant come from behind performance to...

Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2011/01/sami_selio_and_mad_croc_c.php

Citifinancial Ford Reed Sorenson Dollar General Toyota Denny Hamlin

Feb 28, 2011 2:44:26 PM

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