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Charlie Kimball, the only licensed driver with Type 1 diabetes in Indy Racing League history, is maintaining a steady course on the Indy Lights circuit.

Affixed to the steering wheel of Charlie Kimball’s Indy Lights racecar is a meter as crucial to his performance on the track as his speedometer or fuel gauge.  It’s a blood-sugar monitor, and for Kimball, its reading is not a matter of winning or losing, but of life and death…  Details

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Crash Video Automobile Off-road Snowmobile – Wipeout Of The Week 8/10/09

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An EPSRC funded researcher, Dr Kerry Kirwan from the University of Warwick, lead a research team who designed the first sustainable racing car in the world, a Formula 3.

In a ScienceDaily report it states that the car is made from woven flax and recycled carbon fiber. The steering wheel is composed of recycled resin and carrot pulp. The race car runs on biofuel that is made from chocolate and animal fats….  Details

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Sacrilege in the car business used to be so simple. It was bad. Bad, bad, bad and people wouldn’t spend their money on it. Remember the Cutlass Calais-based Olds 442?

But today, Sacrilege, like everything else, is more complicated. Today, it turns out, there’s Good Sacrilege and there’s Bad Sacrilege. And it has been proven that Good Sacrilege isn’t so bad after all.

In fact, Porsche proved that Good Sacrilege sells …  Details

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