Lisbon-Dakar Rally To Continue Despite Terrorist Attacks
December 31st, 2007
It looks like it is going to take more than just a ‘little’ terrorist attack to call off the Lisbon-Dakar rally in Mauritania. Last week four French tourists and four Mauritanian soldiers were shot and killed in Mauritania allegedly by the Al Qaeda. After the attack many people assumed that the rally would be canceled – but after a meeting held by the chief of security for the rally and several government authorities in Mauritania they have decided to move ahead.
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Audi Has Successful Tests At Le Mans
June 4th, 2007
As usual with Audi Sport, the tasks were clearly divided: The Audi R10 TDI car number 2 (Dindo Capello/Allan McNish/Mike Rockenfeller) was fitted with additional data acquisition equipment. That was done in the morning time. In the afternoon, the team in car number 2 ran tyre tests. Last year’s winners Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner compared various suspension set-ups. The R10 TDI bearing number 3 in the race (Mattias Ekström/Lucas Luhr/Alexandre Prémat) was equipped with various aerodynamic variants.
Fast Cars & Fast Motorcycles at DragTimes.com
December 13th, 2006
Dragtimes.com is drag racing resource that maintains a database consisting of over 9,300 1/4 mile drag racing timeslips for fast cars and motorcycles. Many of the records contain dyno graphs that show horsepower and torque numbers for many of the fast cars as well as all performance related modifications to the vehicle. For records that do not have dyno sheets attached, a horsepower calculator is available to provide horsepower estimates that are calculated from the car’s trap speed, 1/4 mile ET and weight in pounds.
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