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Bulgarian officials are set to meet with Bernie Ecclestone next week in the hope of securing a place on the 2011 Formula One calendar.

Bulgarian Motorcycling Federation president Bogdan Nikolov said that grand prix organising committee chief Rumen Petkov will meet with F1’s commercial rights controller at next weekend’s German Grand Prix.

Nikolov, who announced Bulgaria’s plans to host a Formula One race last December, was hopeful a contract could be signed.

He said the BMF had two projects for a circuit and were waiting to hear Ecclestone’s opinion. The track is likely to be near the northern town of Pleven…  Details

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Some non-sailors trying to understand what’s happening in the America’s Cup have emailed to say that they are puzzled by the ability of trimarans and catamarans to sail faster then the wind. The answer is explained by some relatively simple physics.

First, no sailboat can exceed the wind speed when heading straight downwind. We’ll see why in a minute.

But to understand how they sometimes can go faster than the wind speed, imagine sitting still on a bicycle with the wind blowing directly from one side at 10 miles per hour. That’s what sailors call…  Details