Archive for June, 2007

Fitch Affirms Nicor Inc, Nicor Gas L-T Ratings; Revises S-T Rating

Fitch Affirms Nicor Inc, Nicor Gas L-T Ratings; Revises S-T Rating
Forbes – Fitch Ratings affirms Nicor Inc.’s (Nicor) and Nicor Gas Co.’s (Nicor Gas) long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at ‘A’ and revises Nicor Gas’s short-term IDR and commercial paper rating to ‘F1′ from ‘F1+’. A full listing of ratings can be found

Schumi, Zidane race for charity
Beeld – I’ve always been struck by the sensitivity of the F1 fans who follow our initiative to develop medical research into brain and spinal cord injuries,” said the German. “It shows that sport can help to mobilise people’s conscience about a subject that

Wimbledon third round latest:
BBC News – Good to see young Lewis Hamilton continuing to fly the flag for us Britons in F1, which is more than can be said of the efforts of our home-grown players at Wimbledon. Still, it gives us all an opportunity to choose who to get behind, so I’m backing

F1 stars face drug tests in France
Home of Sport – A selection of F1 drivers will be randomly drug-tested at French GP venue Magny Cours this weekend. The sport’s governing body adopted World Anti-Doping Agency standards a couple of years ago but it is believed that this weekend’s tests will be the

Motor racing: Massa takes pole at French Grand Prix to signal Ferrari
MSN UK News – Hamilton took the pole in Canada and United States and won both races to make it seven straight podium finishes _ two wins, four seconds and a third in his rookie F1 season. He leads the drivers’ standings with 58 points, 10 ahead of Alonso and 19 in

Patience was key for Tracy, Montoya
Detroit Free Press – In F1, he was blindingly fast but also prone to mistakes. Tracy, who should have gone to F1, notched his 31st career victory at Cleveland but could probably have had 20 more had he not driven into and over people. “It was a good day — it was tough

Hornish humbled early by mistake at Richmond (AP)

Sam Hornish Jr. is the only driver with two IndyCar Series victories in the seven races the series has run at Richmond International Raceway, but he took himself out of contention Saturday night just as the race got started.

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Franchitti dominates at Richmond (AP)

Pole-sitter Dario Franchitti led all but nine laps and held off Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon with the help of a late caution Saturday night, giving the points leader his first IndyCar Series victory at Richmond.

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Franchitti wins SunTrust Indy Challenge (PA SportsTicker)

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Hornish likely to move to NASCAR Nextel Cup next season (PA SportsTicker)

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Massa masters Magny-Cours

Alonso in trouble

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Franchitti takes pole after qualifying washout (AFP)

Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti of Scotland captured pole position for Saturday night's Indy-Car Indy Challenge when time trials were rained out here Friday night.

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Saturday News from Magny Cours

Ferrari on wind tunnel

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Hamilton’s changing world

Hamilton’s changing world
BBC News – “Glory Boys”. “Rule Britannia”. “Lewis and Becks true Brit heroes”. So screamed the back-page headlines 12 days ago, after Britain’s new Formula One sensation Lewis Hamilton won his second straight Grand Prix on the same day David Beckham finally won

Council clamps down on ‘pay-to-play’ donors
New York Daily News – Currently, candidates can earn $4 in public funds for every $1 in private donations. That will change to a $6-for-$1 formula, providing up to $1,050 in public money for a $175 contribution. Several dissenters, as well as some who voted in favor

All Sections Formula One Ferrari will be 8th in the constructors
Home of Sport – All Sections Formula One Ferrari will be 8th in the constructors in 2008 Mc laren Will dominate for the next 4 years BMW got to love Page: 1 2 Next Post Reply

THIS week’s Nextel Cup race

THIS week’s Nextel Cup race
Arizona Daily Star – Juan Pablo Montoya showed off his road racing prowess again, stretching his fuel to the limit and grabbing his first Nextel Cup Fast facts: Hamilton has seven consecutive top-three finishes a first in F1 for a rookie.

Previous Selection Of Letters: Button Is The New Henman
Planet F1 – P-F1 readers are convinced that the only reason Dave Richards is being nice to Jenson Button is because he wants the Brit Not to knock on that new guy racing with the champ, but the car is what’s really impressive to this long-time McLaren fan

PRESS RELEASE: ToCA Race Driver 3 coming to SkillGround.com
gamesindustry.biz – ToCA offers a huge variety of racing options from arcade-style go-karts and lawnmower racing to open wheel F1-level competition. ToCA Race Driver 3 is an exceptional game with something to offer every level of gamer, which makes it a perfect fit for

Hamilton plays down French prospects
Home of Sport – F1’s rookie championship leader Lewis Hamilton has played down his chances of beating Fernando Alonso for a third 2005 and finished second last year, his McLaren teammate’s record at the circuit is less impressive despite ultimately racing

SENSE CAN SAVE SILVERSTONE FROM PITS SAYS HILL
Daily Mirror – The 1996 Formula One world champion (left) believes Lewis Hamilton’s impact will help keep racing at Silverstone beyond the But Hill is working on a masterplan to appease the F1 boss. He said: “We want to develop a new pit-paddock complex and

Montoya means more business
Denver Post – Mario Andretti and Dan Gurney have also captured victories in Champ Car, F1 and NASCAR’s top series. The IRL wasn’t around when Andretti and Gurney were racing, so Montoya is in a class of his own. Opportunities exist for every great racer

What The Experts Said They Said
Planet F1 – If only we could all be as wise (and humble) before and after the event as the oh-so-earnest Peter Windsor, Grand Prix Editor of the ludicrously self-satisfied F1 Racing Magazine. In his latest advertisement, sorry, column, on the ITV website

All Sections Formula One Giedo van der Gerde

All Sections Formula One Giedo van der Gerde
Home of Sport – I don’t think it’s quite that extreme, but apparently it helps if one of the team owners has shares in your company (Michel Mol has shares in Christijan Albers’ company as well as being Spyker’s owner). It also helps that Gr8 has connections with

Franchitti gets pole after rain spoils IndyCar qualifying (PA SportsTicker)

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Rain washes out qualifying (AP)

Season points leader Dario Franchitti was a happy recipient of the top starting spot for the IndyCar Series’ seventh visit to Richmond International Raceway after rain washed out qualifying on Friday night.

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Packed stands and schedule have Wheldon thinking NASCAR (AP)

Dan Wheldon loves to race, and a visit to NASCAR country with the IndyCar Series only highlights that passion — and makes him think more about moving over to stock cars and getting to do just about all the driving he can handle.

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AUTO RACING PACKAGE

AUTO RACING PACKAGE
FOXSports.com – Rookie sensation Lewis Hamilton did it again, racing to his second straight victory in the U.S. Grand Prix on June 17. The first black driver in F1’s 61-year history has finished all seven races this season in the top three. He now leads Mercedes

What The Experts Said They Said
Planet F1 – If only we could all be as wise (and humble) before and after the event as the oh-so-earnest Peter Windsor, Grand Prix Editor of the ludicrously self-satisfied F1 Racing Magazine. In his latest advertisement, sorry, column, on the ITV website

Carroll signs GP2 deal for weekend
Belfast Telegraph – Adam Carroll’s future in GP2 racing beyond this weekend’s rounds in the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours remains in doubt. The 24-year-old Portadown driver has been drafted in to replace Antonio Pizzonia at FMS, the team owned by Renault F1 star

Magny-Cours: DPR preview
Motorsport.com – David Price Racing (DPR) will return to racing action this weekend, with the third round of the Formula 1 supporting GP2 Series I think the drivers in GP2 with F1 experience will find it a little less difficult, especially as we have so little

Carroll, Viso return to action in France
Motorsport.com – Carroll unseats Antonio Pizzonia at Giancarlo Fisichella’s FMS International squad, while Viso steps into the Racing Campos Grand Prix driver Giorgio Pantano entered this year as the only two paid drivers in the series and as a pair of F1

Basil Shaaban Magny-Cours preview
Motorsport.com – SHAABAN HAPPY TO BE IN SHADOWS OF F1 STARS IN FRANCE Arab driver ready for stern Magny Cours test as Hamilton aims to build on world championship lead Dubai, UAE, 26th June, 2007: Basil Shaaban is ready for one of the biggest tests of his racing

Mountain course leaves little room for mistakes for Champ Car drivers
Canada East – straight title for Newman-Haas, holds a three-point lead over former F1 driver Robert Doornbos of Minardi USA after five races, but 2003 champion Paul Tracy of Toronto is coming off his first win in two years last week at Cleveland. Forsythe Racing’s

UK/D: Formula BMW Europe to launch in 2008
Motorsport.com – Valenciana Ricardo Tormo hosted the second Formula BMW World Final. 37 young racing drivers from the four regional Formula BMW series competed against each other with the winner Christian Vietoris receiving a test drive with the BMW Sauber F1 Team.

British GP: Grand Prix greats
Motorsport.com – Racing series F1 CHARITY Date 2007-06-27 GRAND PRIX GREATS The buzz of the formula one paddock at Silverstone will be experienced by five F1 fans, all of

Ecclestone biography imminent
Pitpass – Bernie , The first officially endorsed biography of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is due to hit the bookshelves in the Autumn the same principle to second-hand motorbikes and cars before channelling all his skills, passion and energy into motor racing

Boy racer, 3, goes professional

Boy racer, 3, goes professional
Enfield and Haringey Independant – But Potters Bar prodigy Ben Kasperczak has done just that, signing his first professional racing contract at the tender age of It is unlikely Ben could make an appearance in F1 for perhaps another 20 years, but this little boy racer could one day be

F1 stars face drug tests

At the French GP

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Andretti, Wheldon head to Richmond in different directions (PA SportsTicker)

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Patrick: ‘It’s time’ for breakthrough victory (AP)

Danica Patrick is in her third season as the most talked-about driver in the IndyCar Series.

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Danica among favorite female athletes (AP)

IndyCar Series driver Danica Patrick is listed among “America’s Favorite Female Sports Stars” for the second…

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F1 THREAT DRIVES HILL WARNING

F1 THREAT DRIVES HILL WARNING
Daily Express – BRITAIN S last Formula One world champion Damon Hill has warned Silverstone must take seriously the threat to its future from Bernie Ecclestone. While backing new star Lewis Hamilton to become the first rookie world champion, Hill the

Ferrari F1 employee denies sabotage
Xinhua News Agency – BEIJING, June 26 — Former Ferrari technical manager Nigel Stepney has accused the Formula One team of waging a dirty tricks campaign against him amid legal proceedings and allegations of sabotage. “I have confidence I’ll be cleared by the legal

Exclusive interview – ING CEO Michel Tilmant
Formula 1 – We looked at a number of sports and F1 presented a clear global platform with access to 17 GPs around the world and a global TV audience of 850 million fans. We believe that Formula One can help raise ING s brand awareness, and ensure that we are

TCS, Ferrari may jointly develop software
Economic Times – The two came together for the development of the Formula 1 racing car and the Ferrari Sports car and have since enjoyed an ongoing relationship that spans a gamut of the F1 car maker s IT needs for before, during and between races. This

Correction: Fitch Rates The School Board of Orange Co., Florida $105MM
Forbes – (This is an amended version of a press release issued earlier today containing revised information on the initial interest payment date of the COPs.) Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of ‘AAA/F1+’ to the $105,000,000 School Board of Orange County

No green light for night Malaysia GP

Organisers not ready yet

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No ‘chosen’ Champion – Haug

Alonso and Hamilton to fight

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Further 2011 proposals

Flexi wings in the mix

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Northern Ireland delegation convinces US lawmakers of new peace

Northern Ireland delegation convinces US lawmakers of new peace
International Herald Tribune – Congress that their new peace formula is for real. Emerging from a private meeting Tuesday, the Irish spoke of progress in their The IRA killed nearly 1,800 people from 1970 to 1997 in a failed campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United

US STOCKS-Wall St set for lower start on liquidity jitters
Reuters – S&P 500 futures (SPc1: Quote , Profile , Research ) were down 1.1 points and below fair value, a mathematical formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial