Boost for UK road rallying chances

Widespread closed-road rallying on mainland Britain came a step closer yesterday when the government announced a consultation into the matter.

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Ogier clinches Portugal victory

Sebastien Ogier made up for his Mexico crash by winning the Rally of Portugal for a second consecutive year. The Frenchman led team-mate Sebastien Loeb in a Citroen one-two, with a variety of problems consigning the Fords of Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen to third and fourth. There had been nothing to choose between the top four in the first half of the rally, until Hirvonen suffered a puncture on Saturday morning and Loeb lost time running in his dust after the Ford rejoined

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Earthquake shouldn?t hamper Yamaha

Yamaha is confident that its MotoGP programme should not be affected by the Japanese earthquake.

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The Final Lap Podcast #150 ? Kurt Busch Says Don?t Dig

SHOW #150 – In this milestone episode Kurt Busch joins us to talk about digging up your house and more. Plus Toby Christie (rubbingsracing.com) joins us as our guest host as we recap California and preview Martinsville. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Paul Northrop LISTEN HERE (About 58 mins) Download audio file (tfl_podcast_150_11.mp3) SUBSCRIBE HERE [...]

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Martinsville NiSWC Broadcast Tuesday

Round Four of the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship at Martinsville Speedway will be broadcast Tuesday, March 29 at 9 pm EST (March 30 at 01:00 GMT). So far this season, three races have produced three different winners with Ray Alfalla taking the opener at Daytona, Brad Davies winning at Las Vegas and, most recently, Thomas Hazard coming home the victor at Bristol Motor Speedway. Alfalla takes a slim lead in the championship to Martinsville over Hazard and Josh Parker, while defending NiSWC champion Richard Towler looks to rebound from a disappointing start to his title defense that sees him well down the standings. Will Martinsville mark a turn-around in Towler?s fortunes. Will Alfalla, Davies or Hazard become the first two-time winner in 2011? Or will somebody new come [...]

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Kia Naimo Concept Unveiled in Seoul, Inspires Singing in Ann Arbor

Forgive us. We see “Naimo,” we think “name-o,” and there we are, on the rug in kindergarten, singing about the farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. There was also a Korean automaker who had a concept, and Naimo was its name-o. The company is Kia, the concept is being shown at [...]

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Webber baffled by Australian GP pace

Mark Webber says he plans to investigate all aspects of his Australian Grand Prix in a bid to understand why he finished a distant fifth, more than 41 seconds behind race-winner and team-mate Sebastian Vettel. The Australian has been uncharacteristically outpaced by the world champion throughout the weekend and was 0.8s slower than Vettel in qualifying as well, and seemed to be much heavier on the Pirelli tyres than the German

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