According to a source at General Motors, the company will announce next Monday its new “faster, deeper” reorganization plan, which will likely include a death sentence for the Pontiac brand.
Inside Line called Tom Wilkinson, news relations PR man for General Motors, who said: “There’s nothing I can share with you at this time. Keep your eyes on our media site. Officially, nothing has changed with Pontiac’s niche-brand status, until you hear differently.” …Â Details
Porsche and Nissan are at it again. Last year, the two companies publicly feuded over lap times achieved at Germany’s famed Nurburgring Nordschleife. With the 2010 models rolling out, the companies are ready for a ‘Ring redux. Yesterday, it was reported that Porsche set a new record with its 2010 911 GT3, purportedly beating the Nissan GT-R. But while a Porsche spokesman was condemning Nissan’s claimed lap times, Nissan was setting what it claims is a new record. Confused? Read on.
Yesterday, Porsche spokesman and Project Manager of High Performance Cars Andreas Preuninger told Motor Trend the 911 GT3 lapped the ‘Ring in 7 minutes at 40 seconds. At face value, this sounds slower than Nissan’s 7:29 record. But Preuninger maintains… Details
At my first visit to Talladega, a veteran driver told me that qualifying at the 2.66-mile track would be the easiest thing I would ever do in a racecar. Then he told me that the racing there might be the most difficult. Over the next 13 years, I found that he was correct.
Qualifying at Talladega is simple. It requires leaving pit road in first gear, shifting three times, maintaining full throttle and not braking until you’ve completed your two laps and are heading for pit road. Really, the only way a driver could fail would be forgetting to steer. It’s almost that easy.
Racing at the Alabama superspeedway is an entirely new ball game. I would say the difference between racing at Phoenix last week and Talladega this week is…Â Details
Richard Petty Motorsports will hold a Fan Appreciation autograph session on May 22 at the team’s race shop in Statesville N.C.
Five hundred custom-made, collectible tickets will be distributed at 10 a.m. ET the day of the event. At 11 a.m. each ticket holder will receive an autograph from drivers Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, A.J. Allmendinger, Reed Sorenson as well as team co-owner Richard Petty.
“It’s very important to us as an organization …Â Details