Geoffrey Pellows: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Montoya Claims Talladega Pole

Juan Pablo Montoya, shown earlier this season, won the pole Saturday for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.

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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Bring the Sanity (and Fear!) to D.C.

Sanity has been restored! Or fear has been instilled. Or, um, something happened today in Washington, D.C. With election day just around the corner, Jon Stewart squared off with Stephen...

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Ecclestone pushes for Mosley return

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Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he sees no reason why Max Mosley should not be handed a new role within the FIA.

The former FIA president opted not to stand for re-election last year and was replaced by Jean Todt.

However, Ecclestone said of Mosley: "Yeah, I didn't want him to go. It would be nice to have him back. Max could be president of the FIA looking after Formula One ...

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Justin Bieber to Debut New Video!

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Saab working on diesel hybrid?

Filed under: Hybrid, Technology, Saab, Diesel

A reporter from Sweden's Automobil was returning a Saab 9-5 to the factory in Trollhättan when he stopped at a gas station to fill the tank. And what did he spy with his little eye? A 9-3 Sedan also pulling up to the pumps, with a trunk full of batteries. When the car started up, the reporter realized that said 9-3 was also powered by a diesel engine. This has all led to speculation that Saab has picked up its previous work on a diesel hybrid powertrain.

Three years ago, in November 2007, some scribes visiting the same factory got an engineer to admit that General Motors and Saab were working on a diesel hybrid. The engineer said that "We will get everything to work together. With the next generation of hybrid we can lower the fuel consumption up to 40 percent. This is possible with the use of more electricity." Peugeot has a diesel hybrid coming in early 2011. It will be interesting to see if Saab could get in front of that wave and reap the benefits instead of playing catch-up.

[Source: Automobil via Saabs United]

Saab working on diesel hybrid? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Korean GP 2010: Alonso Takes Victory At Inaugural Event

Fernando Alonso took victory at the first ever Korean Grand Prix today, and he took full advantage of a double Red Bull retirement to take the lead in the world ...

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Simoncelli upbeat despite losing third

Marco Simoncelli said his fourth place at Estoril 'felt like a podium' even though he was denied the final rostrum spot by Andrea Dovizioso on the final straight. Gresini Honda rider Simoncelli has repeatedly come close to a breakthrough first MotoGP podium in recent races, and looked like he might get there today when he dived past Dovizioso's factory Honda for third at the chicane on the last lap

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Peter Jackson and New Line Announce 'Hobbit' Casting

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Martin Freeman is confirmed as Bilbo Baggins.

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MOTOGP: Lorenzo Storms To Third Straight Estoril Triumph

Jorge Lorenzo got back to his winning ways today by claiming the Portuguese Grand Prix for a third consecutive season.

Source: http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-lorenzo-storms-to-third-straight-estoril-triumph/

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Denny Hamlin Wins Again at Martinsville, Trails Jimmie Johnson by Six Points

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCAR

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Denny Hamlin needed a long green flag stretch to get his No. 11 FedEx Toyota to run at its best, and he finally got that run during the final 100 laps at Martinsville Speedway, making the race-winning pass of Kevin Harvick on lap 471 of the 500-lap event.

The victory, Hamlin's third in a row at Martinsville, allowed him to pull within six points of Jimmie Johnson in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. It's the closest margin between first and second in the Chase since the playoff format was instituted in 2004.

Hamlin took the checkered flag by 2.318 seconds over Mark Martin, who made up two laps and was charging toward the front at the end. Harvick finished third after leading most of the later laps of the race. Kyle Busch finished fourth, followed by Jimmie Johnson.

It was Hamlin's seventh win this year and his 15th career victory. He's now won three in a row at Martinsville and four in all.

"We are back, baby!" Hamlin shouted on his radio as he crossed the finish line. "Awesome job! Great job of adjusting the car. It was the best it's been all day long. Pit crew, you did it right there. You got me out. Thanks, guys. Relentless, relentless job, guys."

In victory lane, Hamlin said, "I don't think I've ever closed that well, ever. We did not have a race-winning car until the very end. My pit crew got me from sixth to third before the last restart and that was the key."

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Kim Kardashian Turns 30 With Kanye West

Kim Kardashian turned 30 on during a lavish yacht party surrounded by family, friends...and Kanye West! After the two hung out in Chicago earlier this week, Kanye was by Kim's side...

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Bird watching at Mercedes GP Petronas

Mercedes GP Petronas has confirmed that it will be giving GP2 driver Sam Bird a run during the upcoming F1 Young Driver test days at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on November 16 and 17. The 23-year-old has raced this year for the ART team and is currently fifth in the standings, with [...]

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Dovizioso anticipated last-corner move

Andrea Dovizioso said he had planned the last-corner move on Marco Simoncelli that secured his third place in the Portuguese Grand Prix well in advance, as he suspected the Gresini Honda rider would probably re-pass him when they reached the chicane for the final time.

Source: http://www.inracingnews.com/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/dovizioso-anticipated-last-corner-move/

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Watch: Buble Becomes Bieber!

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Your classic grand prix - race 16

The 1993 Japanese Grand Prix is the selected race in the latest edition of our classic Formula 1 series.

Last week, we asked readers to tell us which of three great races they would most like to see - the 1990, 1993 and 1995 Japanese Grands Prix - and the overwhelming choice was Ayrton Senna's victory in 1993.

The full 'Grand Prix' highlights programme broadcast on the BBC at the time is embedded below, with the shorter highlights of it and the other races linked underneath. There are also short and long highlights of Sebastian Vettel's victory in an incident-packed Suzuka race last year, too.

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WATCH SHORT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1990 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
WATCH SHORT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1993 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
WATCH SHORT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1995 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
WATCH SHORT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2009 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
WATCH LONG HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2009 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

Because of the Commonwealth Games, the classic races will not be shown on the red button, either on digital and satellite or on Freeview.

I have to say that I was surprised by just how popular the 1993 race was - it outdid the other two choices by something like five to one.

The 1993 race witnessed a great drive by Senna, and was full of action and intrigue both during the race and afterwards, but I have to say I thought the famous crash between Senna and Alain Prost at the start in 1990 would be the most popular choice.

There was all the drama of the start, Nigel Mansell putting paid to his chances by breaking his Ferrari's driveshaft with an over-exuberant getaway from a tyre stop, and the unusual podium of two Benettons and local hero Aguri Suzuki.

The 1995 race also made a strong case for itself - a superb drive from Michael Schumacher, comedy retirements from Williams drivers Damon Hill and David Coulthard (although it's fair to say the team's no-nonsense technical director Patrick Head wasn't laughing) and a battling drive from Ferrari's Jean Alesi before his retirement (also with a driveshaft failure).

Having said that, it is hard to argue against 1993. It was one of Senna's great wet-weather victories after a race-long battle with arch-rival Prost and there was the sub-plot of Eddie Irvine's electrifying grand prix debut.

Drafted in by Jordan for the last two races of the year, the Northern Irishman qualified an excellent eighth, and used his knowledge of Suzuka gleaned from three years in Japanese Formula 3000 to pass Schumacher and Hill at the start.

Later in the race, while battling with Hill, Irvine had the temerity to unlap himself from Senna. And when the great Brazilian, a little the worse for wear, confronted Irvine about it after the race, he did not find the novice as apologetic as expected - the two got into a heated argument which ended with Senna punching Irvine.

A number of you asked on my last blog whether there was film of this argument. There isn't. But the journalist Adam Cooper was in the room with Irvine at the time, and he recorded the whole thing. A transcript of the row was published in Autosport magazine - for which both Cooper and I were working at the time - and you can read it here.

There were also questions about why we had not chosen the 1996 race, when Hill clinched the world title.

The answer is in the name of this series - classic grands prix. Hill is a popular man, and with good reason, but in no way could that race be called an all-time classic in comparison with others we have chosen.

To recap, the title battle had distilled by the time of Japanwhich was the last race of the season, into a fight between Williams team-mates Hill and Jacques Villeneuve.

Hill led by nine points going into the race - which meant the only way Villeneuve could be champion was if he won and the Englishman was out of the points.

Villeneuve increased the tension by qualifying on pole, ahead of Hill, but his chances were effectively ruined within seconds of the green light, when the Canadian made a poor start and dropped to sixth, behind Hill, Benetton's Gerhard Berger, Mika Hakkinen's McLaren, Schumacher's Ferrari and Irvine's Ferrari.

Villeneuve managed to get past Irvine, but was still in only fifth place when he retired when a rear wheel came off going into Turn One with 15 laps to go. Hill, meanwhile, led untroubled from the start, going only as fast as he needed to, keen to conserve his car.

A popular result, yes, especially in Britain. But a classic grand prix it was not.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2010/10/your_classic_grand_prix_-_race_3.html

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BMW?s Future to Include 2-series?

BMW?like its competitors Audi and Mercedes?is hot to add to its small-car portfolio, and new information suggests that the Munich-based firm could be planning as many as four new and/or rethought products to slot below�the 3-series by 2015.
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Is Robert Pattinson Really Jealous of Taylor Lautner?!

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"Not only do they do the kissing scenes, they never do it when I'm on set. You genuinely feel like someone's cheating on you...I'd come back to work and be like, 'So how was...