Thursday, April 25, 2013
Rossi blames brake issue for poor race
After battling through to secure a podium in the first race of his Yamaha return, Rossi headed to Texas aware that Honda could dominate given its pre-season form at the circuit.
As a consequence Rossi said he started the race on the defensive and with a top-five finish his main target.
While Lorenzo and Cal Crutchlow on the satellite Tech 3 Yamaha were able to achieve that, Rossi felt a brake issue meant sixth was the best he could manage.
“This is a difficult track for us,” he acknowledged.
“We expected to do better, but I had a lot of problems in the race because I had a problem with the brakes.
“I had a vibration in braking because I lost one part of a disc so this didn’t help.
“We knew that we had to defend here; we know that when we cannot attack we need to try and arrive in the top five but today it was sixth.
“The balance of the first two races is positive and we arrive in Jerez optimistic for the next few races as the tracks are better for us.”
Yamaha team boss Massimo Meregalli said pre-race set-up tweaks had also proved ineffective for Rossi, although he insisted he was happy with the team’s return of third and sixth from the race.
“Vale’s team worked really hard to try and fit the bike to his riding style; they improved the bike through each practice,” Meregalli said.
“Unfortunately we made another step from the warm up to the race that didn’t work as we expected. He also had a vibration on the front from his brakes.
“I think we are leaving Austin in a really good shape and we are really looking forward to the Jerez race.”
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Report: Fiat pondering swallowing rest of Chrysler, US IPO
Filed under: Government/Legal, Chrysler, Earnings/Financials, UAW/Unions, Fiat
At the moment, Fiat is in court with the United Auto Workers, waiting for the justice system to provide some guidance on a fair price for 41.5-percent of Chrysler it doesn't own. Fiat owns 58.5 percent of the company and wishes to buy the remainder, which is owned by the union's VEBA retiree trust, but the Italian company and the UAW are on different sides of the galaxy when it comes to assigning a fair price to that outstanding stake.
Naturally, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is considering his options. A new report in the The Wall Street Journal says one of the scenarios being considered now is - depending on the outcome of the court case - to purchase the 41.5-percent stake and then issue an IPO to recoup some of the cost. About two months ago, Marchionne put the odds of an IPO for a wholly combined Fiat/Chrysler at 50 percent. Even with the WSJ report, it's not clear if those odds have changed.
The current company structure leaves a lot of options as to how a potential IPO could be issued, but it's said that Marchionne is against it, preferring "to be one company," under Fiat, indivisible. If Fiat is finally able to purchase all of the Pentastar, it would get access to Chrysler's war chest, pegged at $11.9 billion at the end of Q3 in 2012, and that money can't come soon enough for a brand taking a beating in Europe and delaying product over cash concerns.
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Midsize Madness - Day Two
Eight enter, four advance.
Welcome to Automobile Magazine's Midsize Madness, our comparison test of the kind of car you see on American roads every day, the midsize sedan.
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First Drive: 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT
Ah, the five-door hatchback: As popular in America as a Donizetti opera in Albuquerque, or charcuterie at your local White Castle.
Ah, the five-door hatchback: As popular in America as a Donizetti opera in Albuquerque, or charcuterie at your local White Castle. (Actually, a White Castle slider might be considered a form of charcuterie).
Photo Gallery: First Drive: 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT - Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: First Drive: 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT - Automobile Magazine
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2011 Technology of the Year: Electric Propulsion
Clean, green, high-efficiency machines are finally ready for the road.
The skeptics insisted it would never happen, that electric cars couldn't compete with internal combustion a century ago, and -- until cheap, powerful, and dependable batteries arrive -- they never will.
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2013 Racing Car of the Year: Ben Bowlby's Revolutionary DeltaWing
The Nissan DeltaWing is Automobile Magazine's slam-dunk Racing Car of the Year.
The Nissan DeltaWing is Automobile Magazine's slam-dunk Racing Car of the Year. In fact, we just as easily could have named it Racing Car of the Decade or even Racing Car of the Half Century. Not merely because the revolutionary, Batmobile-like design explodes conventional wisdom about how race cars are supposed to look and perform, but because the very existence of the DeltaWing forces us to question some seemingly self-evident truths about racing.
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Photo Gallery: 2013 Racing Car of the Year: Ben Bowlby's Revolutionary DeltaWing - Automobile Magazine
New Baby Seat Rules Considered Dangerous
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2012 Auto Sales
The comeback continues.
For the auto industry, 2012 was significantly better than 2011, which itself was a bounce back from 2010, which in turn saw carmakers pick themselves up off the floor, after having been KO’d in 2009. See a pattern here? The recovery continues, and in fact, is gaining steam.
Photo Gallery: 2012 Auto Sales - Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: 2012 Auto Sales - Automobile Magazine
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First Look: 2012 Chrysler Mopar ’12 300
Chrysler’s big sedan receives the Mopar touch.
Mopar’s string of factory-built, blue-on-black, special-edition models continues, but in a break from tradition, Chrysler’s aftermarket parts and accessories wing isn’t starting with a Dodge product. Instead, its latest limited-edition effort -- the Mopar ‘12 300 -- is based off the Chrysler 300.
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Photo Gallery: First Look: 2012 Chrysler Mopar ’12 300 - Automobile Magazine
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