NEW DELHI: England won their third consecutive match at the World Cup on Thursday, but the game was overshadowed by a horrific ankle injury to captain Richard Mantell. The Reading defender will return home in the next couple of days and he will undergo surgery on his ankle on Monday, the Telegraph reports. England coach Jason Lee said: “Richard’s our key player and we’re going to miss him. He’s very good in long distribution of the ball.” Alonso downplays title hopes MADRID: Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has downplayed his chances of winning this season in spite of the Spaniard’s move from Renault to Ferrari.
“I understand that people can be disappointed if I’m not champion but I personally won’t be,” he told Spanish radio Cadena Ser late Thursday.“It’s a sport, (Real) Madrid and Barcelona are the best (football) clubs in the world but they can lose the Champions League or a match.
Not winning the championship is completely logical and
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Ferrari expands young driver academy By Matt Beer Saturday, March 6th 2010, 15:42 GMT Ferrari has announced that it has added Mirko Bortolotti, Daniel Zampieri and Raffaele Marciello to its Ferrari Driver Academy project, alongside first recruit Jules Bianchi.
Bortolotti and Zampieri have already tested for Ferrari as their prize for winning the Italian Formula 3 title in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Having raced in Formula 2 last year, Bortolotti is set for a GP3 seat with Addax in 2010, while Zampieri will drive for Pons in Formula Renault 3.5. Marciello, a 15-year-old karting graduate, will be placed in Italian single-seater category Formula Abarth (formerly Formula Azzurra) this year. Ferrari has also revealed that the champion in new Brazilian series Formula Future Fiat will automatically become part of its Academy programme next year. read more »
Bortolotti and Zampieri have already tested for Ferrari as their prize for winning the Italian Formula 3 title in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Having raced in Formula 2 last year, Bortolotti is set for a GP3 seat with Addax in 2010, while Zampieri will drive for Pons in Formula Renault 3.5. Marciello, a 15-year-old karting graduate, will be placed in Italian single-seater category Formula Abarth (formerly Formula Azzurra) this year. Ferrari has also revealed that the champion in new Brazilian series Formula Future Fiat will automatically become part of its Academy programme next year. read more »
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Group also plans CKD operations for certain models eugenicz@thestar.com.my KUALA LUMPUR: The Naza group, the new and exclusive distributor of Chevrolet vehicles in Malaysia, aims to boost sales of the US-based auto brand in Malaysia by introducing new Chevrolet models.
Naza is targeting to sell 1,600 Chevrolet vehicles this year, underpinned by sales of the Cruze that it expects to launch in the second quarter, according to Naza group of companies joint executive chairman and chief executive officer Datuk SM Faisal Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin.
“We expect to sell 1,200 to 1,500 units of the Chevrolet Cruze this year,” he said after signing a distributor sales and service agreement with US-based car manufacturer General Motors Corp (GM) yesterday.
Faisal said Naza was looking to introduce a full line-up of Chevrolet vehicles but declined to say what potential models were in the pipeline. Datuk SM Faisal ... ‘We expect to sell 1,200 to 1,500 unit read more »
Naza is targeting to sell 1,600 Chevrolet vehicles this year, underpinned by sales of the Cruze that it expects to launch in the second quarter, according to Naza group of companies joint executive chairman and chief executive officer Datuk SM Faisal Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin.
“We expect to sell 1,200 to 1,500 units of the Chevrolet Cruze this year,” he said after signing a distributor sales and service agreement with US-based car manufacturer General Motors Corp (GM) yesterday.
Faisal said Naza was looking to introduce a full line-up of Chevrolet vehicles but declined to say what potential models were in the pipeline. Datuk SM Faisal ... ‘We expect to sell 1,200 to 1,500 unit read more »
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The concept that hybrid cars have to be pious and pedestrian to deliver parsimony is set to be shattered mid-year, when a brand that makes performance a priority will set out to show Kiwis that Green can be mean, even when supersized.
The all-new version of the Porsche Cayenne was revealed at Geneva yesterday and will be launched in New Zealand in July. The initial wave of models landing then includes a version that presents something new for the powerbroker brand, a hybrid. A Porsche Prius? Well, not quite. Power and pace are still important brand drivers, and assuredly the new drivetrain - a marriage of do-good electrics with a bad boy supercharged petrol V6 - will give this version enough fizz to maintain all-important SUV supremacy in any traffic light GP.
Yet the model does go Green in a positive manner. It uses less fuel than any pure petrol edition and provides opportunity, in the right conditions, to cruise at almost 160kmh on electric power alone, a read more »
The all-new version of the Porsche Cayenne was revealed at Geneva yesterday and will be launched in New Zealand in July. The initial wave of models landing then includes a version that presents something new for the powerbroker brand, a hybrid. A Porsche Prius? Well, not quite. Power and pace are still important brand drivers, and assuredly the new drivetrain - a marriage of do-good electrics with a bad boy supercharged petrol V6 - will give this version enough fizz to maintain all-important SUV supremacy in any traffic light GP.
Yet the model does go Green in a positive manner. It uses less fuel than any pure petrol edition and provides opportunity, in the right conditions, to cruise at almost 160kmh on electric power alone, a read more »
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With his overtime goal in the Olympic gold medal hockey match, Canada's Sidney Crosby set off a national celebration. Now the question is, can he move some luxury condos? The party that lifted Canada's spirits also left Vancouver with a debt hangover, most of it in the form of $665 million the city borrowed and extended to the developer of the Millennium Water condominium complex where the Olympic athletes were housed.
The city put up that money when financing fell through and now needs to sell the 474 remaining units in the complex, in a former warehouse district on the shores of False Creek, at prices that are expected to range from $580,000 to $9.6 million each.
That would recoup the city's investment raised by selling debentures and commercial paper, and tapping a credit line arranged by Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) and avert a cut to its credit rating. Vancouver officials hope the link to celebrity athletes such as Crosby will help juice read more »
The city put up that money when financing fell through and now needs to sell the 474 remaining units in the complex, in a former warehouse district on the shores of False Creek, at prices that are expected to range from $580,000 to $9.6 million each.
That would recoup the city's investment raised by selling debentures and commercial paper, and tapping a credit line arranged by Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) and avert a cut to its credit rating. Vancouver officials hope the link to celebrity athletes such as Crosby will help juice read more »
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Le salon de l automobile de GenГЁve ouvrira ses portes le 4 mars pour 10 jours. De nombreuses nouveautГ©s sont lГ pour vous Г©merveiller. En premier lieu, le mot clГ© de ce salon est sans aucun doute Hybride. Plusieurs constructeurs ont prГ©sentГ© des modГЁles hybrides, mГЄme parmi les rГ©putГ©es marques sportives comme Ferrari avec la 599. C est le cas par exemple aussi de BMW avec la sГ©rie 5, Audi avec l A8 et A1 en version e-tron Vous pourrez donc dГ©couvrir les nouveautГ©s exclusives du salon. Chez Audi, c est Justin Timberlake lui-mГЄme qui est venu prГ©senter la nouvelle Audi A1, prГ©sentГ©e en plusieurs couleurs et modГЁles sur le stand. Audi a Г©galement prГ©sentГ© la nouvelle RS5 Г cГґtГ© de la plupart des modГЁles de sa gamme. Juste Г cГґtГ©, pensez Г aller voir les 3 modГЁles proposГ©s par Lamborghini, dont la nouvelle Lamborghini SuperLeggera, tout de vert vГ©tue. Plus loin pour rester dans le mГЄme type de voiture, Koenigsegg propose une trГЁs belle Agera, Г
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Un clima non propriamente clemente, ha accolto questa mattina il team 'AF Corse', che si и presentato in forze sull'autodromo romano di Vallelunga: ben 6, le Ferrari F430 GT2 presenti nei box del circuito.
In un box ci sono i due esemplari per Alesi e Fisichella, con le vetture gommate Michelin, di fianco a loro altre due F430, questa volta gommate Pirelli e infine altrie due, di cui una bianca (presumibilmente l'esamplare 'Megadrive') con Cioci che sta girando giа da un'ora.
L'asfalto и umido e la temperatura molto fredda, Fisico in questi minuti sta prendendo confidenza con la vettura, dopo aver fatto delle tornate di riscaldamento con le gomme intagliate, ora si stanno utilizzando le slick.
Il tempo pare reggere e sembra si stia affacciando un pallido sole. I vincitori del Ferrari Challenge 2009, stanno girando sulle vetture non di ultima generazione, gommate Pirelli. E' salito in macchina Alesi che nei primi giri segna tempi nell'ordine 1'3 read more »
In un box ci sono i due esemplari per Alesi e Fisichella, con le vetture gommate Michelin, di fianco a loro altre due F430, questa volta gommate Pirelli e infine altrie due, di cui una bianca (presumibilmente l'esamplare 'Megadrive') con Cioci che sta girando giа da un'ora.
L'asfalto и umido e la temperatura molto fredda, Fisico in questi minuti sta prendendo confidenza con la vettura, dopo aver fatto delle tornate di riscaldamento con le gomme intagliate, ora si stanno utilizzando le slick.
Il tempo pare reggere e sembra si stia affacciando un pallido sole. I vincitori del Ferrari Challenge 2009, stanno girando sulle vetture non di ultima generazione, gommate Pirelli. E' salito in macchina Alesi che nei primi giri segna tempi nell'ordine 1'3 read more »
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Ferrari pusese de mult ochii pe dublul campion mondial Fernando Alonso si a gasit, la sf rsitul anului trecut, portita prin care sa-i faca loc spaniolului n r ndurile sale. Felipe Massa a fost ntotdeauna pe placul sefilor scuderiei, chiar daca nu a c stigat niciun tilu mondial, astfel ca Ferrari a decis sa nu-i mai prelungeasca lui Kimi Raikkonen contractul. Finlandezul, campion mondial cu Ferrari n 2007, a negociat o revenire la McLaren-Mercedes, dar discutiile au esuat si, nedorind sa mearga la o echipa care nu se bate la titlu, a ales sa paraseasca Formula 1 n favoarea Campionatului Mondial de raliuri, competitie n care concureaza pentru Citroen.
Astfel, Alonso a provocat o prima miscare de reasezare: Renault l-a adus n locul spaniolului pe Robert Kubica de la BMW-Sauber, iar echipa elvetiana l-a cooptat pe pilotul de teste de la McLaren-Mercedes, Pedro de la Rosa.
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Astfel, Alonso a provocat o prima miscare de reasezare: Renault l-a adus n locul spaniolului pe Robert Kubica de la BMW-Sauber, iar echipa elvetiana l-a cooptat pe pilotul de teste de la McLaren-Mercedes, Pedro de la Rosa.
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