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In NASCAR playoffs, a positive coronavirus test means you’re out

07/09/2020 Christine B. Holmes

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR has decided it will not grant COVID-19 aid throughout the playoffs, this means a constructive coronavirus examination will stop a driver’s championship bid.

The playoffs start off Sunday at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina with no a protection net for the 16 individuals throughout the pandemic. It’s up to each individual driver to shield on their own from COVID-19, knowing there is no cushion for missing a race.

“I’m likely not likely to go to college or university and strike up a keg stand,” Clint Bowyer reported. “If you have COVID, you just cannot race.

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Ferrari’s outlook takes hit from coronavirus, but orders still strong

04/08/2020 Christine B. Holmes

MILAN — Ferrari trimmed its total-calendar year earnings forecast on Monday following second-quarter cash flow fell 60% thanks to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, but reported orders ended up “pretty potent,” sending the luxurious carmaker’s shares up virtually four%.

Main Executive Louis Camilleri advised analysts that last quarter’s purchase reserve was up double digits (proportion) in absolute conditions, vs . the exact time period of last calendar year.

“Needs stays lively and our purchase reserve is up noticeably,” Camilleri reported.

The business reported its product sales in April-June experienced been hit by output suspensions and noticeably lessen sponsorship and

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Formula One cancels all four races in the Americas over coronavirus

31/07/2020 Christine B. Holmes

System 1 scrapped all four of this season’s races in the Americas due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday (July 24) and extra three European rounds, which include previous favorites Imola and the Nürburgring, to the calendar.

Though beforehand scheduled grands prix in Canada, Texas, Mexico and Brazil were being cancelled, System 1 reported in a statement that Portugal’s Portimao will host a race for the initial time.

The cancellations get the tally of races axed from the initial 2020 calendar to eleven. The other casualties of COVID are Australia, France, Monaco, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan.

The revised

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NASCAR’s Jimmie Johnson angered, frustrated by coronavirus false alarm

17/07/2020 Christine B. Holmes

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson is just as confused as everybody else about his plight with the coronavirus. A optimistic examination triggered the seven-time NASCAR winner to miss out on the 1st race of his vocation, and it was adopted a few times later on by a damaging examination.

He in no way suffered any signs and symptoms and was analyzed only soon after his spouse, bothered by seasonal allergies, been given a optimistic examination.

Was it a untrue optimistic? Were he and spouse, Chani, carrying the virus for some time before their checks?

He has no solutions.

“There’s a

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Congress created coronavirus aid, then some lawmakers benefited

08/07/2020 Christine B. Holmes

WASHINGTON — At least a dozen lawmakers have ties to businesses that received federal coronavirus support, according to recently produced government facts, highlighting how Washington insiders ended up the two writer and beneficiary of a single of the most important government courses in U.S. historical past.

Underneath strain from Congress and outdoors teams, the Trump administration this 7 days disclosed the names of some loan recipients in the $659 billion Paycheck Protection Software, introduced in April to aid smaller sized companies maintain People employed in the course of the pandemic. Connections to lawmakers, and the businesses that function to impact

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Workers accuse Ford of backsliding on coronavirus safety

13/06/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Ford personnel are telling Autoblog the company has unsuccessful to adhere to the company’s very own protection strategies put in place in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The personnel, who are utilized at factories in Kansas Metropolis and Dearborn, Mich., that create the major-offering F-150 pickup truck, are echoing problems the UAW posted on its Fb web site last week.

The Kansas Metropolis worker claimed applications were not remaining cleaned among shifts, and neither were prevalent places these types of as picnic tables. A Dearborn Truck worker says that as numerous as three personnel occupied a solitary nine-foot location,

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UK car production down 37.6% in March due to coronavirus

27/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Uk car output fell 37.six for every cent in March, with 47,428 much less vehicles rolling off output lines as a final result of the coronavirus lockdown.

Thanks to the ongoing disaster, car factories throughout the Uk had been shut down past month and have still to reopen, ensuing in extra than a hundred and forty days’ worth of missing output in total and only seventy eight,767 being produced in the entire of March.

The hottest figures from the Society of Motor Suppliers and Traders (SMMT) exhibit output for the domestic market declined 36.8 for every cent, while export demand

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As coronavirus lockdown eases, Americans hit the road for the holiday

23/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Us citizens are back again on the highway soon after more than two months of coronavirus lockdowns that retained them homebound, with beach front-region website traffic tripling given that the small position in mid-April, studies produced on Friday showed.

As the country heads into the lengthy Memorial Day vacation weekend that customarily kicks off the summer time trip year, website traffic in some regions is even envisioned to surpass pre-pandemic ranges.

Passenger car journey in U.S. beach front counties has more than doubled given that Easter, in accordance to knowledge by transportation analytics company StreetLight Info. At Maryland’s Ocean City

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Speeding up 650% in London during coronavirus lockdown

16/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

The range of dashing drivers in London has increased almost eight-fold for the duration of the coronavirus lockdown, new figures from the Metropolitan Law enforcement Company recommend.

Regardless of site visitors possessing reduced in the UK’s funds town for the duration of the lockdown, Detective Superintendent Andy Cox from Scotland Yard’s highway policing division says that – for the duration of the week commencing twenty April 2020 – the Fulfilled enforced 2,020 dashing offences across London. In the exact same week in 2019, there were just 268 these enforcements, indicating this constitutes an enhance of 653.seven for every cent.

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Oklahoma wants Trump to declare coronavirus an ‘act of God’ to help oil producers

27/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Oklahoma’s governor has called on U.S. President Donald Trump to declare the coronavirus pandemic an “act of God,” a step to assistance oil-developing states contend with a crude glut that caused futures rates to shut under $ very last 7 days for the initially time.

“More than-production of oil continues to threaten the economic climate,” Governor J. Kevin Stitt claimed in a letter to Trump that Stitt posted on Twitter late on Saturday.

Right now I despatched a letter to President @realdonaldtrump to talk to for him to declare the #COVID19 pandemic an “Act of God” to present support to

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70th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance canceled over coronavirus

24/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Audi Club North America, BMW Car Club of America, and Mercedes-Benz Club of America with each other host the Legends of the Autobahn even during Monterey Car Week. 8 days back, the organizers introduced they had been canceling this year’s celebration owing to the continuing uncertainties induced by Covid-19, getting to be the first of the week’s showcases to pull out. Yesterday, the week’s marquee celebration did the same, Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Chairman Sandra Button calling off this year’s show that was scheduled to just take position on Sunday, August 16. The corporation experienced concluded the automobile range course

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Peugeot, Citroen and Vauxhall close all European factories due to coronavirus

22/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Groupe PSA – the father or mother business of Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel and Vauxhall – is to shut all its production amenities right up until March 27.

The shutdown will be gradual, with the 1st closures getting enacted currently (sixteen March) at the firm’s Mulhouse plant in France, and Madrid production facility in Spain. Other crops will shut about the upcoming four times, with the Vauxhall plant in Luton, and the PSA Trnava Plant in Slovakia, getting the previous to shut, on March 19.

The PSA closure follows very similar news from Fiat Chrysler Vehicles, which declared the temporary

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Ford shuts Dagenham plant and suspends European production in response to Coronavirus outbreak

21/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Ford has announced it is suspending output at its European web pages as a end result of the Coronavirus outbreak. The American large has also closed its Dagenham plant in London.

In a statement, the enterprise verified that it closed doors to all but servicing and security employees at its Valencia body and motor manufacturing plant on Monday 16 March, just after 3 employees based at the web page analyzed constructive for the Covid-19 illness.

Ford of Europe will adhere to this up by “temporarily suspending” vehicle and motor output at the relaxation of its European crops from Thursday, with

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Nissan closes Sunderland plant due to coronavirus

21/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Nissan has verified that generation at its facility in Sunderland has been suspended because of to the present-day coronavirus outbreak and resulting drop in purchaser demand.

The facility is the UK’s premier auto manufacturing unit, using close to seven,000 folks. All workers have sent property with no date set in location for when the manufacturing unit could reopen. The announcement follows related moves from Ford, VW and the PSA Group.

In an formal assertion the enterprise mentioned: “Motor vehicle generation has been suspended nowadays in Nissan Sunderland. Further more measures are at this time

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Coronavirus: what does it mean for cars and motorists?

21/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

In an effort to battle Coronavirus, the Governing administration has enacted emergency measures which include the closure of shops promoting non-crucial goods, banning public gatherings of much more than two individuals and advice to remain at residence other than for crucial journeys but how does this influence the motorist?

Coronavirus, also regarded as COVID-19, is impacting practically each individual element of life in nations around the world all over the environment. The virus has claimed countless numbers of life in this state on your own and even though

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Toyota latest car maker to suspend production over coronavirus

20/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Toyota has joined the likes of PSA, FCA, Ford, Renault and the Volkswagen Group in confirming temporary factory closures in Europe, two of which are in the British isles, owing the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

In a assertion, the Japanese agency cited a range of causes for the closures: the acceleration of the virus in Europe, the linked “lockdown” steps now currently being phased in throughout the continent, a sharp fall in product sales and an uncertain outlook for the firm’s supply chain.

The company’s manufacturing website in France has now been closed, but from now output strains at Toyota Motor

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MoT tests: six-month extension granted in wake of coronavirus

20/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Autos that are owing an MoT from 30 March will be granted a six-thirty day period extension from the need to have a legitimate MoT, just after the Department for Transportation recognised the problems and hazards implicit in getting a certification in the wake of coronavirus.

The information follows times of speculation into how the MoT program could be held likely as the United kingdom lockdown to slow the distribute of the illness. The need to have a legitimate MoT certification was rescinded for significant merchandise motor vehicles and buses very last 7 days, as the Driver and Motor vehicle

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IndyCar cancels Detroit Grand Prix due to coronavirus

09/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Roger Penske has canceled the doubleheader race at Detroit and adjusted the IndyCar program Monday as the collection remains on keep for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

Penske told The Related Press he had no selection but to terminate the two races at Belle Isle mainly because Michigan is beneath a continue to be-at-dwelling buy and staff cannot start developing the track. Penske is the promoter of that race.

“We’re beneath lockdown, we can not do something,” Penske claimed. He had beforehand told AP he could go the event to later on in the season if racing remained on

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Red Bull F1 adviser proposed infecting team drivers with coronavirus

31/03/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Pink Bull Racing adviser and previous racing driver Helmut Marko pushed for a “Corona Camp” to infect (and hence inoculate) drivers as the workforce waited out downtime stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Marko prepared to acquire all of Pink Bull Racing’s Components 1 and junior series drivers (about 15 personnel) jointly to guarantee contact. With the ailment out of the way, he suggested, the workforce would then have been ready to tackle the remainder of F1’s truncated year without the need of panic of infection-associated issues.

How particularly the group would have been uncovered to the virus initially was not

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