Top international photographer, Bruno Cocozza, took these images of Alinghi 5 in one of her last training sessions in Genoa, Italy, before being shipped to the United Arab Emirates.Â
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After qualifying eighth for Sunday’s event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Bobby Labonte said his TRG Motorsports team still needed funding to try and complete the race. Now, it appears they have it.
According to the team, Kevin Buckler’s organization has raised enough money to compete in the Sylvania 300. Although the hood of the team’s red race car was still blank as of Saturday morning, TRG confirmed that Massachusetts-based SBLI Insurance was on board as an associated sponsor, and four other companies — CBR Motorcars, employinit.com, Velocity Terminal, and Commonwealth Foreign Exchange — had signed on to help the No. 71 car get on the track.
Buckler, the team’s principal owner, said …Â Details
Buell hopes national sport bike victory fuels sales
A decades-long struggle for respect paid off for Erik Buell this month when a Buell motorcycle won a national sport bike championship race.
A Buell 1125R bike beat Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki motorcycles to win the coveted American Motorcycle Association’s sport bike championship Sept. 8 in New Jersey.
It was the first pro championship for an American motorcycle manufacturer since 1986 and the first for Buell Motorcycle Co., which is owned by Harley-Davidson Inc.
The victory was especially sweet for Erik Buell, given that …Â Details
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You did not dream it. There on NBC on Friday night was Drew Barrymore steering an electric Ford Focus between plastic palm trees and wobbly Al Gore dummies on a track painted like something out of the Big Top…
Barrymore is the first celebrity to compete in the Green Car Challenge on the new “Jay Leno Show”, which debuted this week on NBC.Â
The sight of A-list stars having fun in a C02-free car on national TV a couple of times a week has the potential to convert both the actors and the audience to the new generation of zero emission cars like, say, Ford’s coming all-electric Focus, which … Details