May 2012
Four Wide: If you?re insane, place your bets on the All-Star Race!
Rounding up the best links from the week that was in NASCAR. Get up to speed without having to worry about getting run over.
? Good news ahead for the 48 team? Jimmie Johnson's pit crew won the Pit Crew Challenge, thus giving themselves another few hours of blessed employment. [AP/Yahoo! Sports]
? Are you betting on this weekend's All-Star Race? If so, you're a lunatic and need help, but here's some odds to get you started. [All Left Turns]
? Check this: the five greatest finishes in All-Star Race history. From Kyle Busch to Rusty Wallace to the Earnhardts, here are some good memories here; let's hope this weekend matches up to the past. [Sports Illustrated]
? Ryan Newman remains pretty darn ticked off at Kurt Busch. No love lost here, without a doubt. [Sporting News]
? Dale Earnhardt Jr. does shop at Wal-Mart, of course. But he usually does so around 1 in the morning. [USA Today]
? No more government spending on NASCAR, as a House Appropriations Committee voted to stop Pentagon spending on sporting events. [Reuters]
? Great story here: Jeremy Staat, a friend of the late Pat Tillman, is doing a bicycle ride across the country to raise awareness for wounded veterans. Brennan Newberry will be placing Staat's info on his No. 14 truck during the Truck Series event in Charlotte. [NFL Players / NASCAR.com]
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Sergio Perez: ?The car just went straight?
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/05/26/sergio-perez-the-car-just-went-straight/
May 2012
Q2: Massa into the 1m14s
Source: https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/q2-massa-into-the-1m14s/
2012 Le Mans MotoGP Sunday Post-Race Press Releases
Press releases from the MotoGP teams after Sunday's French Grand Prix at Le Mans:
Interesting news for sponsor-hunters
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/interesting-news-for-sponsor-hunters/
Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen
May 2012
2012 Le Mans Moto2 and Moto3 Sunday Post-Race Press Releases
Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 teams after the race on Sunday at Le Mans:
Gerhard Berger Eric Bernard Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia
Lola goes into adminstration as buyers sought
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/05/16/lola-goes-into-adminstration-as-buyers-sought/
Eugene Chaboud Jay Chamberlain Karun Chandhok Alain de Changy
Miller Motorsports Park Press Release: 5 Questions With Sylvain Guintoli
Miller Motorsports Park organized a phone-in press conference with Effenbert Liberty rider Sylvain Guintoli ahead of the US round of World Superbikes, scheduled to take place this weekend. Questions Guintoli fielded questions about injuries, the benefits of staying with the same team for more than one season, and the most important lessons he learned racing a private 250.
Below is the press release interview from Miller Motorsports Park:
Miller Motorsports Park Presents: Five Questions with Sylvain Guintoli
A Frenchman on an Italian bike for a Czech team breaks through in the Netherlands
TOOELE VALLEY, UTAH (May 18, 2012) — Miller Motorsports Park will again host the USA Round of the FIM Superbike World Championship on The BigM Weekend, May 26-28. As was the case last year, we will visit with race winners and other notable riders participating in the championship after each race during the 2012 season leading up to The BigM Weekend and bring you a new chapter in the “Five Questions with” series.
The subject of our second installment of the season is 29-year-old Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, who rides the No. 50 Ducati 1098R for the Czech Republic-based Team Effenbert Liberty Racing. Sylvain started out in the 250 GP class in 2000, racing there through 2006 with a one-off MotoGP ride in 2002. He moved up to MotoGP full-time in 2007 through 2008. Unable to find a MotoGP ride in 2009, he switched to the British Superbike Championship, but jumped to World Superbike later that year with Suzuki when Max Neukirchner left to join Honda. His first full season in WSBK was 2010, and he finished seventh in the championship on the Suzuki. He moved to Team Effenbert Liberty Racing’s Ducatis in 2011, and finished sixth in the title chase despite having to come back from a serious accident in the first round of the season. This year he scored his first series win at Assen, where his wet-weather skills helped immensely.
May 2012
2012 Le Mans MotoGP Warm Up Result: Crutchlow Holds Off Stoner In Wet
Results of a very wet warm up session:
Interesting news for sponsor-hunters
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/interesting-news-for-sponsor-hunters/
F1 and GP1
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/f1-and-gp1/
May 2012
Audi gets first over victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours with R8 LMS Ultra
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Audi just had a successful weekend despite terrible weather clouding the day; the company managed to record its first overall victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours with the new Audi R8 LMS ultra. The car was driven by German driver quartet Marc Basseng/Christopher Haase/Frank Stippler/Markus Winkelhock, while Christian Abt/Michael Ammermüller/Armin Hahne/Christian Mamerow from Team Mamerow Racing completed the one-two success.
This latest win adds to the overall success acquired by Audi in this particular event. In June 2011, the brand celebrated its tenth victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the R18 TDI LMP sports prototype. In July 2011, the customer racing R8 LMS race car also won the 24 hour classic at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium for the first time.
"We are absolutely delighted about this long desired victory," explained Dieter Gass, Head of Racing Commitments at Audi Sport. "For three years the Audi R8 LMS was always the best GT3 car at the Nürburgring. Now we have taken overall victory in the fight with seven other brands. Over the last 24 hours nothing whatsoever was handed to us on a plate. Our victorious drivers and teams produced a fantastic, consistent and error free performance. My sincerest congratulations go to our winners. This victory in a race car closely related to the production based car once again proves that Audi Sport customer racing provides its customers with a well refined, versatile and successful race car."
Audi gets first over victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours with R8 LMS Ultra originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:00 EST.
May 2012
The wait is over: Jimmie Johnson gets win No. 200 for Hendrick Motorsports
Seventeen races and a calendar turn after winning the 199th race in Hendrick Motorsports history at Kansas Speedway last year, Jimmie Johnson grabbed the team's 200th, winning Saturday night's Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
"You want to thank everyone from Harry Hyde to Tim Richmond to Geoff Bodine and all the guys along the way that won races and you think you're going to get there and you think you're not ever going to win another one when you get to 199," team owner Rick Hendrick said.
In that span of 17 races, victory had tantalized the Hendrick stable, most notably at Martinsville where Johnson and Tony Stewart were battling for the lead until a late caution flag flew and the two drivers were subsequently caught up in an accident. And while Johnson was the night's dominant driver at Darlington, he had to survive a rash of late-race cautions, including a green-white-checker restart to seal the deal.
However, that restart turned out to be pretty anticlimactic. Stewart, who was second to Johnson and on the inside as the green flag waved, saw his car's fuel intake burp as he hit the throttle, and Johnson cruised away for the win. (While the cautions gave Stewart and Kyle Busch opportunities to overtake the five-time champion, they also allowed Johnson to safely stretch his fuel tank to the end.)
[Related: Jeff Gordon's miserable luck continues at Darlington]
While Johnson's win quells all of the discussion surrounding when win No. 200 would finally appear, it also squashes all of the talk about the No. 48's victory "drought," which, captain obviously, also spanned those 17 races. It speaks to the standard of performance that we've come to expect from the five-time champions that a stretch of 17 races ? less than half a season in the Sprint Cup Series ? without a win is considered noteworthy. (It's actually not the longest span that Johnson's gone between wins either. That was 19 races from the end of 2002-2003)
Saturday night's win was the 56th of Johnson's career, far and away the second-most wins of any Hendrick driver behind Jeff Gordon's 85. Hendrick's first win as a car owner came at Martinsville Speedway in 1984, with Bodine behind the wheel.
It also moves Johnson into a tie for fifth in the points standings with Martin Truex Jr., 39 points behind points leader Greg Biffle. And if NASCAR's 25-point penalty against Johnson for C-post violations at Daytona hadn't been overturned? He'd be in ninth in the points standings, 64 points behind Biffle.
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