The leading Italian teams competing in the Powerboat P1 championship in 2008 swept the board at the 2008 Sports Awards of the Federazione Italiana Motonautica – the Italian governing body of powerboating. Double SuperSport champion Angelo Tedeschi – who also won the Italian and European titles – picked up a host of medals.
Tedeschi dominated powerboat racing’s SuperSport class last year, notching up his second successive title in Powerboat P1 with the #44 Conam Racing entry. The Italian shared the Mercury-powered Chaudron 41 with Maltese ace Aaron Ciantar, as they notched up a near-clean sweep of wins from last season’s 11 races. .. More info
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EA Sports’ whimsical new NASCAR game represents a strategy shift that could lead to an overhaul of the sport’s gaming category.
Declining sales from the “NASCAR ’09” game, a desire to reach a broader audience and the need to create a game that fits the Wii console were all integral to the formation of “NASCAR Kart Racing,” which hit store shelves the week of the Daytona 500.
EA’s “NASCAR ’09” game can still be purchased, but the formation of new games in that line is on hold.
“The old game was more for the simulation players, the serious gamers…Â More info
As part of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show coming to Indianapolis this weekend, ArtBike! will be featured in the Mass Ave and Fountain Square areas.
It is an exhibition that marries bicycles and art in the form of street art, sculpture and installation art.
“It’s kind of hard to explain how beautiful these things are,” said Laura Brennan, account coordinator for O2 Sports Marketing. “They’re so pretty and you can tell that these people put so much work into them. . . . There’s no trick, there’s no hook. It’s bicycling, it’s art.”
The handmade works of cycling art will be displayed in six galleries.
One bike, made from bamboo …Â More info
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Several things are more pressing than the issue of who’ll drive for the Charlotte-based American Formula One team formally announced Tuesday, but the question is the one most fans want the answer to.
Peter Windsor, who along with Ken Anderson is leading the USF1 effort, threw out the names of several drivers who aren’t all that familiar to NASCAR fans but who are developing their careers in a somewhat natural path for a fledgling F1 team.
“If one had to take names now…the next generation looks …Â More info