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Barrichello unfazed by Raikkonen talk

Rubens Barrichello says he is not going to waste time worrying about losing his place in Formula 1, amid mounting speculation that Kimi Raikkonen is pushing to replace him at Williams next year. It is understood that Raikkonen visited the Williams factory ahead of the Italian Grand Prix for talks with the team, as the former world champion eyes a return to racing in 2012

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/barrichello-unfazed-by-raikkonen-talk/

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Rossi set to take engine penalty

Valentino Rossi expects to start the Aragon Grand Prix from the pitlane with a 10-second penalty after exceeding his six-engine limit for 2011. The change to the latest version of the Ducati, with a part aluminium frame, required modifications to the way the engine was fitted, and with Rossi having already used five engines prior to the new bike being introduced, to convert both his race and spare bikes to the new specification was always going to mean incurring a penalty at some stage

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/rossi-set-to-take-engine-penalty/

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BMW Performance Kits for 335i and 135i Priced From $599, Add 20 hp

This past summer, BMW released a dealer-installed $550 Performance Edition package for new 135i and 335i models, and now the company has announced pricing and details for the retrofit version of that package. Interestingly, the retrofit Performance Power kits are dealer installed just like the Performance Edition package, but are intended for existing single-turbo N55-powered [...]

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Audi Planning to Bring Allroad Back to the U.S., This Time as A4

Allroads will lead to Rome (New York) once again, as Audi tells us that the Allroad, its jacked-up all-wheel-drive station wagon, will return to the U.S. The only Audi Allroad model offered in the U.S. was an A6, last seen here in 2005. Since then, Audi has canceled the A6 Avant here altogether, making a lower-volume [...]

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Brad Keselowski Visits Chicagoland NNS Victory Lane

By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (September 17, 2011) JOLIET, Ill.?A full schedule of double-duty driving didn?t hurt Brad Keselowski, who won Saturday?s Dollar General 300 Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in a prelude to his debut Sunday in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Keselowski won his third Nationwide race [...]

Source: http://thefinallap.com/2011/09/17/brad-keselowski-visits-chicagoland-nns-victory-lane/

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What?s Causing the Drop in Bike-on-Ped Injuries?

Well, it didn’t take long for our local media to mangle the Hunter College study measuring bike-on-ped injuries in New York state. Statewide hospital data compiled by professors Peter Tuckel and William Milczarik plainly show a drop in pedestrian injuries caused by cyclists between 2007 and 2010 — the same period when NYC doubled the [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/20/whats-causing-the-drop-in-bike-on-ped-injuries/

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Name That Shifter, No. 42: 1985 Chrysler Laser XE

On Monday we presented this week?s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. Several of you recognized the shifter as a 1980s-era Chrysler unit. The first commenter to correctly identify it as a 1985 Chrysler Laser XE was J D., who will receive a Save [...]

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