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First Tuscan Grand Prix celebrates Ferrari’s 1,000th F1 race

10/09/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Lewis Hamilton can chalk up a different System One 1st, and rain on Ferrari’s parade, in Italy this weekend at scenic Mugello — a circuit greater recognized for MotoGP thrills and throngs of Valentino Rossi supporters.

The 1st at any time Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday celebrates Ferrari’s 1,000th environment championship race at the circuit around Florence owned by System One’s oldest, most glamorous and prosperous crew.

Ferrari have had small to rejoice this 12 months, nevertheless, and travel south from Monza following their worst general performance there because 1995.

Sebastian Vettel, just declared as a Racing Issue driver for

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E-commerce surge spurs race for electric delivery vehicles

09/09/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Shipping and delivery fleet operators facial area regulatory tension in California and other states to purchase electrical cars, but a surge in package deal deliveries many thanks to coronavirus lockdowns has major firms itching to switch to electrical right now.

And they want significantly additional than just battery-run versions of diesel- or gasoline-run vehicles and vans.

Fleet operators these as United Parcel Company Inc. hunger for computers on wheels that can harvest info and enhance protection or autonomous options right away to preserve income and raise gain.

“For us, it is really not just about building the wheels turn with

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2020 Indy 500 lacks women in the race for the first time in 21 years

24/08/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Outside of the vacant stands and coronavirus-induced hold off, this year’s Indianapolis 500 will see a further profound transform at the famed Brickyard on Sunday — for the initially time in 21 yrs, there are no feminine motorists on the setting up grid.

“If we just quietly pretend the difficulty is not happening, the difficulty is not heading to go absent,” said Pippa Mann, who competed at the Indy 500 8 periods and was the only lady in the industry very last yr, but was not able to get funding to contend this yr.

“Anybody who has at any time

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Takuma Sato wins his 2nd Indy 500 as race ends under yellow

24/08/2020 Christine B. Holmes

INDIANAPOLIS – Takuma Sato has received his next Indianapolis 500 after Spencer Pigot crashed intensely exiting Transform four, bringing out the warning with 5 laps remaining and forcing what had been a thrilling race to stop beneath warning.

Following dominating most of the race, Scott Dixon had been chasing Sato for about fifteen laps and was setting up to chunk into a hole that had emerged in lapped targeted visitors. But the race ended when Pigot spun into the outside wall, then crossed again throughout the track and slammed into the safety tires that guard the entrance to pit lane.

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Michael Fassbender to race for Porsche in 2020 European Le Mans Series

17/07/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Hollywood A-lister Michael Fassbender will contest the 2020 European Le Mans Series (ELMS) Porsche 911 RSR fielded by the Proton Competition race workforce, Porsche introduced Friday. He joins the likes of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Patrick Dempsey — a further Porsche racer — in the ranks of Hollywood-actors-turned-very hot-shoes.

“Even in advance of I begun performing, I had a significant desire to go racing. It was obvious to me at a youthful age. My father was an avid driver and he taught me a whole lot,” Fassbender mentioned in Porsche’s announcement.

Fassbender has been operating for many yrs toward

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Racer Alex Zanardi suffers serious crash in Italian handbike race

20/06/2020 Christine B. Holmes

ROME — Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi was very seriously hurt once again in a handbike crash on Friday — virtually 20 many years immediately after losing both of his legs in a horrific car racing incident.

Zanardi was transported by helicopter to Santa Maria alle Scotte healthcare facility in Siena adhering to an incident near the Tuscan town of Pienza throughout a national race for Paralympic athletes, law enforcement explained to The Associated Push.

He reportedly endured significant head trauma.

“You’ve by no means provided up and with your extraordinary strength in just you have overcome a thousand troubles.

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14 Team Penske drivers to race for Verizon ‘Pay It Forward Live’

30/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

It is match on for Team Penske.

Fourteen stars of one particular of the best racing collectives in vehicle-sports activities heritage will get started their engines from the comfort of their respective houses as they contend in an iRacing simulation on Tuesday, May 12 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT for the most current installment of Verizon’s Shell out It Forward Dwell streaming sequence to assist modest firms affected by COVID-19. The function will be archived and out there on demand in this article for one particular 7 days.

NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace and Fox Sports’ racing reporter Jamie Minor

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Formula E driver disqualified for getting a ringer to race for him

30/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

LONDON — Audi Components E driver Daniel Abt was disqualified and ordered to pay 10,000 euros ($10,900.00) to charity on Sunday for finding a specialist gamer to contend below his identify in an formal esports race.

The German, who apologized for “obtaining referred to as in outside the house assist,” was also stripped of all points won to day in the all-electric powered series’ Race at House Problem which features motorists applying simulators remotely.

“I did not acquire it as severely as I ought to have,” explained the 27-calendar year-aged, accepting the punishment for sporting misconduct.

“I am specially

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24 Hours of Le Mans will hold a virtual race in June

18/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Organizers have already postponed the actual-daily life 88th edition of the 24 Hrs of Le Mans race until eventually September 19-20 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, they declared options to maintain a virtual race on June thirteen-fourteen, the day of the at first scheduled race.

The simulated race will be operated on the Pc-dependent rFactor 2 system, proven on the ideal side of the comparison online video beneath. Organizers say it presents the most complete simulation of actual-daily life Le Mans race, with climate, driver adjustments, daytime and nighttime racing, pit stops and strategy. The race will use 4-particular

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Jimco Reaper Pre-runner is a leather-wrapped 800-horsepower race truck

06/05/2020 Christine B. Holmes

If you happen to be the form of particular person who is no longer satisfied with the superior-pace off-street functionality of the Ford F-a hundred and fifty Raptor, but usually are not really completely ready for a thing as uncooked as a straight desert buggy or race truck, Jimco Racing has a remedy for you. The firm builds almost everything from smaller buggies to trophy trucks, and it has not too long ago commenced setting up pre-runner trucks with some fundamental amenities, such as in its hottest example, the Reaper, which was 1st discovered by Off Street Racer.

This

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Robert Wickens feels like he’s almost back after virtual race

10/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Robert Wickens’ first virtual IndyCar race on Saturday seemed virtually like the genuine point.

“My eyes were burning,” the Canadian told NBCSN immediately after getting at the rear of the wheel for the first time considering that a around deadly crash two years back.

“It was a journey,” Wickens reported of performing his way as a result of the turns of the virtual Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama even though sitting in his basement as he completed eighth at the rear of Australian winner Scott McLaughlin immediately after an uncomfortable instant in qualifying.

“I was so mad at myself,” Wickens

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‘Race Motion’ video series depicts off-road racing at its most extreme

10/04/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Even if you happen to be not a die-tricky fan of off-road racing, you happen to be most likely a fan of viewing reason-constructed devices currently being employed at (and outside of) their structure limitations, in particular if that means negative-ass vans traveling off sweet, sweet jumps.

“Go into the entire world of off-road racing and get up near and individual with unbelievable cinematic moments that most men and women by no means witness.” That’s the pitch from the workforce behind “Race Motion,” a new collection from Mad Media that bundles unused racing footage into montages of twisting metal

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Tanner Foust drives his VW race cars in ‘Quantum Drift 2’

30/03/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Tanner Foust is back again with a follow-up to his stunt-driving video “Quantum Drift.” It has been four many years because that 1st video, but the simple concept is the identical: It really is a spoof of the Scott Bakula demonstrate “Quantum Leap,” but rather of jumping from particular person to particular person to help you save life, Foust jumps from particular person to particular person to push different automobiles. Some of individuals are his very own VW race vehicles.

The enjoyable sections are when Foust is actually performing his very own driving in his vehicles. Early in the video

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Honda Civic Type R 2020 BTCC race car unveiled

18/03/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Honda’s Civic Style R will yet again get the prospect to demonstrate its mettle on the monitor for the duration of the British Touring Auto Championship (BTCC). The manufacturing facility-backed Halfords Yuasa Racing team unveiled the current hatchback it will enter in the 2020 season of the series that starts in March.

The frequent-production Civic Style R is not for motorists in search of to continue to keep a very low profile, nevertheless the BTCC-spec design would make it seem just about subtle. It wears a front spoiler, very seriously flared fenders, and an even even larger wing on the

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MotoGP’s first race in Qatar canceled, next week in Thailand postponed

04/03/2020 Christine B. Holmes

The period-opening MotoGP race in Qatar future weekend at the Losail circuit has been canceled simply because of journey limitations on travellers from Italy and somewhere else owing to the coronavirus epidemic. The pursuing week’s race in Thailand has been place on indefinite hold.

In a joint assertion by MotoGP, the governing FIM and teams’ affiliation IRTA, it was stated that all travellers arriving in Doha, the money and most populous city in Qatar, on immediate flights from Italy, or who experienced been in Italy in the past two weeks, confronted a minimum amount of fourteen days in quarantine.

“Italy

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