Sports in Brief | Kanaan wins wreck of a race
Philadelphia Inquirer – Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest for his third Formula One victory of the year. Hamilton was followed by Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and Nick Heidfeld of BMW-Sauber. Running Haile Gebrselassie , 34, of Ethiopia, won the New York City

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren wins third race of the year at Hungarian GP
International Herald Tribune – BUDAPEST, Hungary: McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won his third Formula One race of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Formula 1 | Champ Car | NASCAR Nextel Cup

The Perfect Wealth Formula War Of High Tier Programs
WebWire – According to PWF top earner Johnny Scofield Perfect Wealth Formula is hands down the most lucrative online program today for the newbie or seasoned marketer and ranked the #1 income opportunity on the internet today. Top income earners and existing

Ferrari broke rules, says McLaren boss
Hong Kong Standard – Formula 1 leaders McLaren have accused rivals Ferrari of running an illegal car at the start of the season and making “grossly misleading” statements in a spy controversy overshadowing the championship. In a long and detailed letter to the head of

F1 boss Eccleston to auction his fabulous car collection (even the
Daily Mail – From starting out selling motors on the forecourt of a second-hand car dealership, Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone built up a 3 billion fortune and a formidable collection of rare cars. Now the racing supremo is about to auction 50 of the rarest

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Lewis Hamilton of McLaren wins Hungarian GP for 3rd F1 victory of year
CBS Sportsline – BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -Lewis Hamilton learned a lot about his McLaren team after a stressful weekend of racing. “How strong they are and how they deal with all the distractions,” he said Sunday after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix for his third

Back From the Dead
F1 Central – was the first site I ever posted on, but at the time I felt I needed to spread my wings and post on other sites not just racing It’s nice to come back and post again, I have continued to use the site for my F1 fix although I have’nt posted, I will be

Hamilton wins Hungarian GP
Sports Illustrated – More Front Page Boxing Cycling Horse Racing Olympics Track & Field Figure Skating year at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, beating Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and Nick Heidfeld of BMW-Sauber. Defending F1

Driver’s Seat
espnstar.com – Two weeks on from Fernando Alonso s win in the European GP at the Nurburgring in Germany, F1 visits Hungary. Not the most This is just a racing team exploiting their rights to the full and that is what racing is all about. Pushing to the limit.

All Sections Formula One Sebastien Bourdais
Home of Sport – I would agree ONLY that Champ Car is a potential road to F1 while IRL is not. Arguably, the racing, the teams, the drivers are, OVERALL, better in IRL than ChampCar. The major difference is that oval racing is not a natural progression to F1. Even

Paddock Postcard from Hungary
Formula 1 – The Japanese driver was on strong form all weekend, and for the first time in GP2 was racing in front of his illustrious father, former Lotus and Tyrrell driver Satoru, who made his first F1 appearance since Suzuka last year. Another former F1 face in

Glock, Zuber score Hungaroring front row
Motorsport.com – Perhaps he has been given a bit of extra confidence after his promotion as the BMW-Sauber F1 team’s reserve driver for the Starting on the third row in fifth will be Pastor Maldonado, the Trident Racing driver hit his best lap at 1:28.546. Adam

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F1 champ loses licence
PR Inside – A Brazilian Formula One champion has been sent to a driving awareness school after he repeatedly got caught for speeding. Nelson Piquet, who won the motor racing championship three times, lost his licence after picking up too many penalty points. He

Driver’s Seat
espnstar.com – Two weeks on from Fernando Alonso s win in the European GP at the Nurburgring in Germany, F1 visits Hungary. Not the most This is just a racing team exploiting their rights to the full and that is what racing is all about. Pushing to the limit.

Massa still confused by Alonso`s reaction
Planet F1 – We touched in what was a racing incident which happens very often in F1, which is why I don’t understand why his reaction was so severe.” The Brazilian added: “I am going to keep fighting and I am a racing driver which is why I will never give up

‘Disgraceful Alonso Should Be Banned’
Planet F1 – The huge respect and admiration I had for Fernando Alonso “F1 Racing Driver” has now gone. Whatever pressure he feels he is under to produce a third successive World Championship title, there is no excuse for what he did today. Denying Lewis the

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Todt bars drivers from title photo session
Home of Sport – F1’s espionage scandal reached a new and dispiriting low at the Hungaroring on Saturday. It emerged from the scene of the Hungarian grand prix near Budapest today that Bernie Ecclestone had to think again after summoning the four championship

All Sections Formula One F1 espionage row to go to appeal
Home of Sport – It seems FIA will give Ferrari a chance to present some evidence, something it did not do previously. Its puzzling but thats what the article says. I think the Ferrari people will get really imaginative to prove that McLaren has been using Ferrari

Drivers standings: F1
Worldnews.com – Cape Town – Latest standings in the 2007 F1 drivers’ championship. Standings after nine of the 17 rounds. 1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (GBR) 70 2. Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (ESP) 58 3. Kimi Latest qualifying positions: LATEST ACTION

‘Disgraceful Alonso Should Be Banned’
Planet F1 – The huge respect and admiration I had for Fernando Alonso “F1 Racing Driver” has now gone. Whatever pressure he feels he is under to produce a third successive World Championship title, there is no excuse for what he did today. Denying Lewis the

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Kubica on top in Hungary practice
BBC News – Kubica is sixth in the F1 drivers’ standings BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica set the quickest time in first practice for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The Pole held off

Flav: Stepneygate damaging F1
Planet F1 – Flavio Briatore is planning to attend the Court of Appeal hearing into Stepneygate in the hope it will be “a final step.” The saga that has dominated Formula One has this week resorted to a series of tit-for-tat letters made public. There have been

F1: McLaren’s Alonso fastest in qualifying to take pole position for
MSN UK News – Defending champion Fernando Alonso edged teammate Lewis Hamilton for pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Hamilton questioning McLaren’s team tactics after a lengthy pit stop. Alonso timed 1 minute, 19.674 seconds 4.381-kilometer (2.72

DENNIS FIRES BACK IN F1′S CAR WARS
Daily Express – Engines rather than men will snarl today as McLaren and Ferrari prepare to take their bitter battle back to the track but, such is the mood at the Hungaroring, that battlements should be fitted to their team motorhomes. The tension increased after

Round 10 – European
Worldnews.com – With just four laps remaining, double world champion Alonso barged the Ferrari of Felipe Massa out of the way to eventually go on to take the chequered flag. Hamilton admitted finishing off the podium for the first time in his F1 career was something

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Motorsport: Sun, surf and fast cars
New Zealand Herald – Many road-racing stars, including Mario Andretti, Bobby Rahal, and Danny Sullivan found success in the then-PPG IndyCar World Series. After former F1 champion Emerson Fittipaldi won the series title in 1989, additional drivers from South America and

NASCAR and Formula One differ in speed and style
Montreal Gazette – With F1 and NASCAR, gearheads now have the finest in open-wheel racing and fender-crunching stock cars in Montreal. Organizers aren’t saying how many fans they expect to attract today and tomorrow, but two F1-like grandstands lining the start-finish

All Sections Formula One F1 espionage row to go to appeal
Home of Sport – I agree F1 Fan this is about unhappy employees at Ferrari and one employee at McLaren trying to make a meal ticket for have a guilt feeling. I am lost in as I can find no logic reason to drag this mattetr out further lets get on with the racing

Alonso closes gap on Hamilton with European Grand Prix win
Worldnews.com – superbly in the closing stages to win by eight seconds from the Brazilian, Australian Mark Webber was third for Red Bull Racing F1 News24 Cape Town – Latest standings in the 2007 F1 drivers’ championship. Standings after nine of the 17 rounds. 1. Lewis

Honda appoints marketing director to push F1 Earth Car
Brand Republic – LONDON – The Honda Racing Formula 1 team has appointed David Butler as marketing director, replacing Alistair Watkins, who left to work for America’s Cup team Alinghi. Butler will be tasked with building on the team’s environmental marketing concept

Students take up FI racing
New Straits Times – F1 InSchools Sdn Bhd event sponsorship executive Marlini Mohamed Mahya proudly showing off the model F1 race cars designed by the students. No, not the real race, but the Formula One Technology Challenge which aims at encouraging student involvement

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F1 racing: McLaren’s Dennis blasts Ferrari accusations
MSN UK News – McLaren team boss Ron Dennis delivered a blistering response to Ferrari’s decision to continue their process against McLaren about obtaining confidential information in the Formula One championship and also brought up a case of Ferrari infractions

Fitch Rates Fifth Third Capital Trust V Trust Preferred Securities ‘A
Forbes – The trust will invest the proceeds of the trust preferred securities in floating-rate junior subordinated notes issued by Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB; rated ‘AA-/F1+’ by Fitch). The trust preferred securities will qualify as Tier 1 Capital under U.S

Montreal fans know racing, but will they embrace NASCAR?
ESPN.com – The Daytona 500 in February earned the highest rating for any Canadian sports program this year that wasn’t an NHL game or an F1 race. The F1 race each year draws around 120,000 spectators around the island course. Almost all of the 45,000 grandstand

McLaren fights back in spy row
BBC Brasil – It is a very interesting read and if McLaren are correct, the way that Ferrari have chosen to characterize the whole affair is an absolute misleading disgrace and it is Ferrari who should be charged with bringing F1 into disrepute and wasting the FIA

Drivers standings: F1
Worldnews.com – Cape Town – Latest standings in the 2007 F1 drivers’ championship. Standings after nine of the 17 rounds. 1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (GBR) 70 2. Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (ESP) 58 3. Kimi Latest qualifying positions: LATEST ACTION

Franchitti, Dixon turning IndyCar Series into two-man race
ESPN.com – College Sports WNBA Action Sports Outdoors BASS Fishing Cricket Lacrosse Rugby More Sports Home IndyCar: Schedule Champ Car: Schedule F1: The IndyCar Series field expands back to 20 cars for this weekend’s Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan International Speedway

Alonso tops F1 timesheet in second free practice
Raw Story – McLaren’s Fernando Alonso was the pick of the field in Friday free practice ahead of this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The Spaniard continued his recent good form by clocking the fastest lap of the day in the afternoon session at the Hungaroring

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Watches With Gauges and Gears. Alas, No Brakes.
New York Times – Mille s spokesman, said in an e-mail message that the company s watches implement either actual technology from F1 racing and the aerospace industry or the philosophies behind it into the actual wristwatch. For instance, he added, in Formula

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McLaren letter reignites spy row
BBC News – The Formula One spying row has taken a new turn after McLaren accused Ferrari of winning this year’s Australian Grand Prix with an illegal car. McLaren team boss Ron Dennis made the claim in an open letter to the FIA, the sport’s governing body

Expertus Named Leader in Training Outsourcing
Forbes – Our formula for success combines unmatched technology expertise across a wide range of enterprise applications with an in-depth 1 of 1

US STOCKS-Futures rise as Viacom, other earnings cheer
Reuters – S&P 500 futures (SPc1: Quote , Profile , Research ) rose 4.6 points, above fair value, a mathematical formula that evaluates talks with Taliban kidnappers | Video Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | Video Fisher-Price recalling 1.5

Is golf the perfect girlie sport?
Daily Telegraph – It can be as exciting as Formula 1, whether it is men or women playing. The British Women’s Open, which teed off at St Andrews yesterday , is bound to gather a new audience now that women such as Sophie Sandolo and Natalie Gulbus are upping the

ALMA Telescope Transporter Ready To Go
Post Chronicle – The ALMA antenna transporters are modified 28-wheeled trucks, each about 32 feet wide, 66 feet long and 20 feet high, weighing 130 tons and producing as much power as two Formula 1 engines. The vehicles will be able to transport a 115-ton antenna and

India says new WTO formula good basis for deal: report -
Worldnews.com – 1 hour, 14 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AFP) – India believes a new formula proposed for a deal on agriculture and industry tariffs is a good basis for negotiations to resume in the stalled Doha round of global trade talks, a report said. Earlier this week

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Ferrari broke F1 rules: McLaren
Nine MSN – Formula One leaders McLaren have accused rivals Ferrari of running an illegal car at the start of the season and making ‘grossly misleading’ statements in a spy controversy overshadowing the championship. In a long and detailed letter to the head of

German bank IKB’s ‘C’ rating placed on negative credit watch – Fitch
Forbes – The bank’s long and short-term issuer defaut ratings were affirmed at ‘A+’ with a stable outlook and ‘F1′, respectively to continue to reflect the extremely high probability of support from KfW and IKB’s importance to German small and medium

Students take up FI racing
New Straits Times – F1 InSchools Sdn Bhd event sponsorship executive Marlini Mohamed Mahya proudly showing off the model F1 race cars designed by the students. No, not the real race, but the Formula One Technology Challenge which aims at encouraging student involvement

Heidfeld and Kubica clear the air after collision
Reuters UK – Someone who crashes into two cars within 20 laps won’t last long in F1,” German media quoted the Pole as saying of his more experienced team mate. “He didn’t tell me that,” Heidfeld told reporters when asked about the remark. “I have seen a lot of

1976: Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash
BBC News – He retired from F1 in 1985. Before the 1976 accident he had been well on course to win it again – but eventually lost by just one point to James Hunt. At the end of the 1970s he launched his own airline Lauda Air, which was later sold to Austrian

ExxonMobil ratings affirmed with stable outlook – Fitch
Forbes – MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) – Fitch Ratings affirmed Exxon Mobil Corp ’s ratings with a stable outlook. Fitch has issuer default rating ‘AAA’, short-term IDR ‘F1+’, senior unsecured ‘AAA’ and commercial paper ‘F1+’ ratings on the company. The ratings

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Formula One
TSN – Schedule subject to change Formula One August 5 Pennsylvania 500 1:00 pm ET August 12 Centurion Boats at the Glen Live on TSN alt. channel 1:00 pm ET Centurion Boats

NYC Hospitals Ban Baby Bottles, Formula to Boost Breast Feeding
FOX News – Free formula samples and formula promotional materials are now banned from gift bags given to new mothers at the 11 hospitals of Rape, Drug Charges Missing 75-Year-Old Man Says He Was Held Hostage By Prostitute Mattel’s Fisher-Price Recalls 1.5M

Formula RUS: Round four final notes
Motorsport.com – Race 1 best lap determined grid position in race 7 so Sergey Mokshantsev yet again started from pole. Formula RUS newbie Vladimir Belyakov couldn’t take part in second race, following accident he had in first race doctors advised him to rest. Another

US STOCKS-Futures rise as Viacom, other earnings cheer
Reuters – S&P 500 futures (SPc1: Quote , Profile , Research ) rose 4.6 points, above fair value, a mathematical formula that evaluates talks with Taliban kidnappers | Video Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | Video Fisher-Price recalling 1.5

Ministry: Breast feeding best for baby
China Daily – The government is also worried about the growing use of powdered baby milk formula — which many Chinese believe is more “modern” and better for the baby — especially after 13 babies died of malnutrition in 2004 from being fed fake formula.

U.S. breast-feeding rates rise to record high
Reuters UK – exclusively to breast-feeding in the first months after birth as recommended by experts, turning instead to baby formula 1 | 2 Next >

Ferrari broke rules, says McLaren boss
Hong Kong Standard – Formula 1 leaders McLaren have accused rivals Ferrari of running an illegal car at the start of the season and making “grossly misleading” statements in a spy controversy overshadowing the championship. In a long and detailed letter to the head of

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Ministry: Breast feeding best for baby
China Daily – The government is also worried about the growing use of powdered baby milk formula — which many Chinese believe is more “modern” and better for the baby — especially after 13 babies died of malnutrition in 2004 from being fed fake formula.

US STOCKS-Futures rise as Viacom, other earnings cheer
Reuters – S&P 500 futures (SPc1: Quote , Profile , Research ) rose 4.6 points, above fair value, a mathematical formula that evaluates talks with Taliban kidnappers | Video Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | Video Fisher-Price recalling 1.5

R&B rookie has “Beautiful” view atop singles chart
Reuters – For the first time, streamed and on-demand music becomes part of the chart’s formula. (The chart is also determined by retail and digital sales, and radio airplay.). Kingston debuted at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs with 260,000 downloads sold of

Hospitals urged to suggest moms try breast-feeding
Memphis Commercial Appeal – Halting gifts of free formula to new mothers and getting breast-feeding started within the first hour of life are two steps Mid-South hospitals could take to make the region more baby-friendly. That’s the conclusion of a pediatrician and

Abandoned sea otter regains health
San Diego Union-Tribune – They’re bottle-feeding her a rich, milk-based formula. The pup has gained about a pound since she arrived at SeaWorld. She now weighs 3.85 pounds and measures 19 inches long. She gains about a tenth of a pound a day, said Mark Bressler, a

News from the virtual world
The Ledger – Crowds lined up at EA’s E3 suite for hands-on time with “Rock Band,” which adds bass, drums and vocals to the “GH” formula. Developer Harmonix is promising new downloadable tunes – and even full albums, starting with The Who’s “Who’s Next” – every

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5:01 am
Guardian Unlimited – To the Sunni Arabs he is courting now, the officials said, al-Jaafari was proposing a change in Iraq’s sectarian, power-sharing formula. He wants the president’s job, now held by Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, to be given to a Sunni Arab to achieve a better

All Sections Formula One Background of cheating
Home of Sport – True that this is a good article, providing a very insitefull view of all that has happened, it clearly shows that McLaren, Ferrrai, Renault, Honda, Williams and countless other teams have always bent the rules but it seems when some teams do it they

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Formula One spy case goes to appeal
Daily Telegraph – Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, has ordered a review of the decision not to punish McLaren for the ‘Ferrari-gate’ spying affair in its court of appeal. Accused: Nigel Stepney has denied passing on information to Ferrari’s F1 rivals McLaren

Wheel of misfortune: Lewis crashes into cash-flow crisis
The Independent – Hamilton, currently top of the F1 driver standings in his debut season, enjoyed a night out on the town on Friday. He and two chums visited Leicester Square’s Empire casino. Unfortunately, Hamilton’s new global megastar status was lost on some of the

F1 espionage row to go to appeal
BBC News – Formula One governing body the FIA has reopened the Ferrari spying controversy by sending the verdict not to punish McLaren to its court of appeal. FIA president Max Mosley said the move was because of “the importance of public confidence in the

German bank IKB’s individual rating downgraded to ‘C’; IDR affirmed
Forbes – Fitch affirmed the bank’s long-term issuer default rating (IDR) at ‘A+’ with a stable outlook and short-term IDR at ‘F1′ on its announcement that main shareholder KfW has provided liquidity support to safeguard confidence in IKB’s creditworthiness.

TEXT-Fitch release on Exxon Mobil Corporation
Reuters UK – July 31 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) (ExxonMobil) ratings: –Issuer Default Rating (IDR) ‘AAA’; –Short-term IDR ‘F1+’; –Senior unsecured ‘AAA’; –Commercial paper ‘F1+’. The

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