The 78th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most famous sports-car endurance race, is scheduled to begin Saturday at the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe track in France.
The long race includes different classes of race cars, each with multiple drivers, but the premier class features exotic prototype cars led by the diesel-powered entries of Peugeot and Audi.
One Peugeot team with drivers David Brabham, Marc Gene and Alex Wurz won the race’s overall honors last year, Peugeot’s first Le Mans victory since 1993 after several years of Audi domination  … Details
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Orlando, Fla. (June 10, 2010) –  The Quiksilver King of the Groms East Coast qualifying event finished yesterday with a limited field of 28 grom competitors from all along the Eastern seaboard and the Caribbean. In the end, Pat Schmidt was awarded the prestigious title of 2010 East Coast King of the Groms. Along with $1000 cash, Pat also clinched an all-expense paid trip to the Quiksilver Pro France to compete in the King of the Groms World Championships this September.
“I’ve never surfed at Typhoon Lagoon before and I didn’t think it would be that different surfing in freshwater, but it actually was,†says Pat Schmidt. “I’m stoked to  … Details
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Teen sailor Abby Sunderland, who today made international headlines by requesting a rescue via various distress-signal units, is in a portion of the southern Indian Ocean that is so remote it could take nearly two days for a ship to reach her position.Â
Sunderland, 16, had been a little past the halfway point in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone  … Details
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