| Kristian Poulsen has been given a five-place grid penalty for the next round of the World Touring Car Championship at Oschersleben after causing a collision with Norbert Michelisz in race two at Donington Park. Race stewards decided that the Engstler BMW driver was guilty of spinning around Michelisz's similar Zengo-Dension car at Goddard's before the pair then collided head-on. Poulsen was not the only driver punished at Donington; former world champion Gabriele Tarquini was reprimanded for making contact with Colin Turkington in both races while Yvan Muller was given a suspended grid penalty after hitting his Chevrolet team-mate Rob Huff in race two. Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/touring-cars/wtcc/poulsen-gets-grid-penalty/ Rob Schroeder
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| Hack to the future. Not too long ago, securing a car meant popping the faceplate off the CD player, slapping a Club over the steering wheel, and locking the doors. As vehicles? electronic systems evolve, however, automobiles are starting to require the same protection as laptop computers and e-commerce servers. Keep Reading: Can Your Car [...] Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/caranddriver/blog/~3/mEg4sQJIifk/can_your_car_be_hacked_-feature Jesús Iglesias
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| Filed under: Performance, Wagon, Safety, Ford, Off-Road 
Over the last several weeks, there have been a number of reports on web forums of frame damage incidents involving the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Thanks to a number of reader tips, Autoblog was the first news outlet to inquire with Ford about the matter. After launching its own investigation into the claims centering around one particular organized Raptor Run in Nevada with 14 participating vehicles and 10 bent frames, Jamal Hameedi, a 20-year Ford veteran and SVT's Chief Nameplate Engineer, agreed to talk exclusively with Autoblog.
 AB: When did you first become aware of these Raptor frame claims?
Hameedi: We monitor all the blogs - I think there are three or four different versions of Raptor online forums. We saw that there was one particular run where several Raptors bent their frames on the same obstacle.
AB: How many Raptors have been reported with frame damage?
Hameedi: We have four nationwide since the beginning of production.
AB: It sounded like there were more than four vehicles damaged in this individual run alone - are these not included in that total?
Hameedi: I think we've been reading that there are ten trucks in question [in that run].
"We have a pretty firm understanding of what's going on."
Jamal Hameedi, SVT Chief Nameplate Engineer AB: So the four trucks you mentioned - those are just the ones that have been directly reported to Ford dealers?
Hameedi: Yes.
AB: Have they all been bent in more-or-less in the same way?
Hameedi: The ones on the run, I think there are varying degrees of how [badly] they are tweaked, but generally we have a pretty firm understanding of what's going on.Continue reading SVT boss goes on record about Ford Raptor frame damage claims [w/video] SVT boss goes on record about Ford Raptor frame damage claims [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | CommentsSource: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/07/21/svt-boss-goes-on-record-about-ford-raptor-frame-damage-claims-w/ AJ Foyt
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| No. 36 Golden Corral Chevrolet jumps back to 32nd in owner points 2011 NSCS No. 36 Golden Corral / Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet Impala SSMOORESVILLE, N.C. (July 17, 2011) ? Dave Blaney started 37th in the Lenox Industrial Tools 301. He drove the No. 36 Golden Corral Chevrolet up to the 17th position while the...more» Source: http://www.catchfence.com/2011/sprintcup/07/18/late-race-incident-relegates-blaney-to-29th-place-finish-at-loudon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=late-race-incident-relegates-blaney-to-29th-place-finish-at-loudon Brian ShaweTaylor
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