Nunes, da Costa join Hitech

GP3 racers Pedro Nunes and Antonio Felix da Costa will both join Hitech Racing's British Formula 3 line-up at the Nurburgring this weekend. Nunes (pictured), who is in his second year of GP3 with ART, previously raced in British F3 as an invitational entrant at the Algarve round in 2009, while da Costa, who ran duel campaigns in GP3 and the F3 Euro Series last season, will be making his British F3 debut

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Bentley Dresses Up New Continental GT with Mulliner Styling Specification Accessories (Read: Lots of Carbon Fiber)

Bentley?s redesigned Continental GT is hardly unbecoming, but even with its squared-off mug, defined deltoids, and beveled behind, the majority of the bourgeoisie might never guess that behind that shiny mesh grille reside 567 horses capable of launching the two-and-a-half-ton Conti to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds and on to a top speed of 198 [...]

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Williams appoints Somerville and Gillan

Williams has made the next steps in its ongoing technical rethink by appointing a new head of aerodynamics and a new chief operations engineer. Following the first phase of its regig, which will see technical director Sam Michael and aero chief Jon Tomlinson leave later this year, the team has signed Jason Somerville to take charge of aerodynamics and Mark Gillan to head up operations engineering.

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Interview: UPS, Ragan Show Off Ned Jarrett?s Scheme for Indy

UPS CELEBRATES JARRETT?S HALL OF FAME INDUCTION WITH THROWBACK CAR DESIGN Ragan?s No. 6 UPS Ford Transformed Into 1965 Championship Design SONOMA, Calif. June 24, 2011 ? UPS (NYSE:UPS) will pay tribute to Ned Jarrett?s recent induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame with a commemorative design on David Ragan?s No. 6 UPS Ford at [...]

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First NYC 20 MPH Zone to Slow Cars With Gateway Neckdowns, Speed Humps

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Stoner settled for points at Assen

Casey Stoner said he settled for a finish in the Dutch Grand Prix as soon as he saw that main title rival Jorge Lorenzo had been involved in a collision. Lorenzo could only finish sixth after he was taken down by Marco Simoncelli on the first lap of the Assen race. Stoner ultimately took second, despite a bad start.

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The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities

We wrote a few weeks ago that some early signs had emerged indicating the proliferation of suburban corporate office parks could be on the wane. That was a matter of some debate among readers. Pittsburgh has defied the trend toward job sprawl in second-tier cities in part because of the difficulty of cross-town commuting, Aaron Renn [...]

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Exclusive: 2014 Porsche ACC InnoDrive tested... hello, Big Brother?

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2014 Porsche ACC InnoDrive

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We have to remind ourselves to breath deeply at these high-tech junctures in the road. Porsche is still first and foremost a remarkable sports car company that we all love and adore for so many reasons. In recent years, yes, Porsche has challenged all of us with some product and tech moves that have caused a groundswell of debate. But the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen based company still continually makes the lion's share of enthusiasts dream big.

We have just been brought to the company's hardcore research & design center in Weissach in the verdant farm country just outside of Stuttgart to drive special Panamera S test mules equipped with the most recent iteration of an ECU-software development that Porsche knows is going to make people like us fret. Until we actually experience it first hand.

Adaptive Cruise Control is a pretty quotidian option these days, especially on larger Porsches that get driven regularly in busy highway traffic. It's a good idea that's been serving owners faithfully since its introduction.

But we've just tried the next phase in ACC development, called ACC InnoDrive, short for Innovative Drive. It's officially part of the Intelligent Drive Strategy sub-group within the Porsche Intelligent Performance umbrella. The InnoDrive system takes ACC into areas of our driving lives that a Porsche shopper would never have imagined from the brand just 10 years ago. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, maybe BMW, you bet. But the winningest company in racing?

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