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Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Mustang GT

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I was more than a year removed from my last experience with the Mustang GT and its delicious 5.0 V8 when this new 2014 example rolled up to my driveway recently. Good weather and a planned road trip across the state meant that I would get plenty of seat time in this conservatively specified example, too. In total, I logged about 400 miles in a week of driving – not a lot for some of you super commuters out there, but quite a lot for this work-from-home journalist.

The basic formula of the 5.0 has stayed the same for 2014. The 2013 model year saw a number of updates to keep the Mustang fresh until it’s replaced with an all-new generation for 2015. So, for its bon voyage tour, the fifth-generation Pony Car has seen only a few modifications: a couple of new paint colors (Oxford White and Ruby Red Metallic), trim and wheel revisions and, sadly, the deletion of the Boss 302 from the Ford lineup. However, while the limited-edition Boss is likely to reappear sometime after the gen-six Mustang makes its debut in 2015, the GT Track Package cars like the one I tested provide at least a partial solution for those looking for hot laps.

Driving Notes

• The 5.0 V8 never gets old. 420 horsepower and 390 pound-feet of torque are delivered with satisfying linearity, as the Coyote motor spins up to redline far quicker than you’d expect for an engine of this displacement. Sonically rich, with just a hint of a hard edge to the exhaust over 5,000 rpm and a satisfyingly lazy rumble at idle, the soundtrack is pure enthusiast driving pleasure at most speeds. Oh yeah… on the first day I had the car I was reminded that the 5.0 Mustang is fast as all hell, too. Don’t let its ubiquity fool you, this is a serious performance machine.
• The six-speed manual trans is quite substantial, with a positive, metallic click heard when shifting through the range. The gates are nicely spaced and the throws short. I generally enjoy using this beefy gearbox, though when trying for really fast changes – especially downshifts – a lighter, more accurate action would be appreciated. Clutch action is pretty low effort and progressive, and with so much torque that it’s simple to get the GT moving – gently or in a cloud of smoke as your taste and situation dictate.
• As I mentioned, the Mustang I drove was equipped with Ford’s excellent GT Track Package. For $2,450, the track pack feels like an excellent value for weekend racers or drivers that might want to upgrade their GT substantially down the road. The options group contains a little bit of what made the Boss 302 cool, in a Bossless model year. (Automobile web editor Evan McCausland quipped to me that the test car I had was, “more of an assistant manager” than a Boss, which is about right.) The most noticeable equipment you’ll get if you spec your Stang this way are the larger Brembo brakes and the Torsen helical diff with its more aggressive 3.73:1 rear axle. In a week filled with random quick corners and side-trips to back roads, I can attest that all make the GT feel a lot more sports car-like than less-endowed base GTs. For actual track work, the package’s upgraded radiator (from the Boss 302) and engine oil cooler should help keep internals cool, as well.
• Not part of the track pack, my car also had optional ($1,595) Recaro cloth racing seats. A far cry from the fully stuffed leather chairs I’m used to seeing in media-fleet Mustangs, I ended up falling in love with these Recaros. The fabric they’re trimmed with is simple without looking downmarket, and the bolsters help them grip the driver firmly without squeezing too hard at the hips. Even my XL frame was a good fit. I’ll admit that after about 150 miles, I was feeling the frame dig into my thighs a little bit – these probably aren’t the best road trip seats – but for everyday driving or canyon road bombing, they’re superb.
• On that same road trip, I should mention that I had no trouble hitting the EPA-estimated 26 miles per gallon on the highway… if I set the cruise right around 70 miles per hour. At a more normal (for me) 75 or 80 mph, the econ drops to about 21 on the interstate. In town I was seeing roughly 11 mpg, though admittedly I was keeping the revs high quite a lot to better hear the exhaust. I think the 17 mph city estimate is doable, if you’re willing to blandly shift up into fourth a lot.
• Outside of the great seats, this interior is starting to feel pretty dated. With no navigation screen especially, there’s no end to the gray and black plastic you seen in front of you. Accessing SYNC via the standard radio’s buttons and knobs is an atrocious way to navigate your digitally stored music, and the voice commands feel utterly unwieldy compared to newer systems like Cadillac CUE. (Dan Roth’s, Chris Paukert’s and Consumer Reports‘ protestations to the contrary, CUE feels positively visionary after a week with this low-end, touchscreen-less SYNC.) Both iPhones and iPods were randomly spurned as “not recognized” devices; even after working the time before. And even when I could get my music to play, the sound system managed to sound both underpowered and badly voiced. It’s a good thing the V8 soundtrack doesn’t get old.

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Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/17/2014-ford-mustang-gt-quick-spin-review/

Guennady Moisseev George Holland Kevin Strijbos

MATT ARTIN JOINS NHRA AS DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS

NHRA
GLENDORA, Calif. (Jan. 4, 2012)

NHRA announced today that Matt Artin, an eight-year veteran in media planning, advertising and promotions, has joined the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body as director of advertising and promotions.

“We are excited to bring someone of Matt’s caliber to NHRA to spearhead our advertising and promotions for the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series,” said Glen Cromwell, vice president of national event marketing, NHRA.

As director of advertising and promotions, Artin will work in partnership with national event track owners and operators on all advertising and promotions for the 23-race NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. His primary and day-to-day focus will be to increase ticket sales at national events through creative and innovative strategies designed to reach the core as well as a broader fan base.

Artin comes to NHRA from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim where he spent the last six years as a senior marketing manager. In that capacity, he played an integral role in brand management, advertising, ticket sales marketing, game entertainment, special events and promotions. During his tenure with the Angels, he maintained a strong relationship with Major League Baseball and was responsible for the team’s brand and logos making sure the look and usage of core assets aligned with brand standards.

Prior to the Angels, Artin was a media planner at the Los Angeles-based agency PHD US, implementing media plans in the Pacific Northwest for Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep. Before that, he was a media assistant at Davis-Elen Advertising in Los Angeles, working on the McDonald’s account.

Headquartered in Glendora, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 23 national events featuring the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by ProCare Rx. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and the NHRA Drags: Street Legal Style presented by AAA. NHRA also offers the Jr. Drag Racing League for youth ages 8 to 17. In addition, NHRA owns and operates five racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida; Atlanta Dragway in Georgia; National Trail Raceway in Ohio; Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis; and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. For more information, log on to NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2012/01/matt_artin_joins_nhra_as.php

Andrew McFarlane Jimmy Weinert Bill Nilsson

Pedrosa stays on top in second practice

Dani Pedrosa led Marc Marquez in a Honda one-two in the second MotoGP practice session at Le Mans.

The afternoon featured constant position changes among the frontrunners as the teams made the most of what could be their last dry running before race day, if forecasts for Saturday are accurate.

Rain and hail had curtailed the preceding Moto3 session, but the track was virtually dry for the MotoGP bikes from the outset, although dark clouds gathered with increasing intensity through the session.

Morning pacesetter Pedrosa put himself back on top going into the closing stages.

He could not quite break into the 1m33s, despite edging ever nearer with a string of low 1m34s laps, and ended up on a 1m34.035s.

That increased his lead to 0.134 seconds, bigger than it had been for the most of the final runs, as Marquez jumped up to second on his last lap.

Yamaha men Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo were third and fourth.

Stefan Bradl put LCR’s Honda fifth, within the same tenth of a second as the works Yamahas.

After Ducati’s strong morning, Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden slipped back to seventh and eighth, behind Cal Crutchlow’s Tech 3 Yamaha.

Aleix Espargaro returned to the top of the CRT field in 10th overall.

Among the prototype riders he beat was Andrea Iannone, who had the session’s main incident when he crashed heavily at the last corner.

Although Iannone walked away, he appeared to be in pain, having undergone surgery to cure arm pump in the fortnight since Jerez.

Pos Rider                Team/Bike            Time      Gap       Laps
  1. Dani Pedrosa         Honda                1m34.035s            21
  2. Marc Marquez         Honda                1m34.169s + 0.134s   18
  3. Valentino Rossi      Yamaha               1m34.173s + 0.138s   21
  4. Jorge Lorenzo        Yamaha               1m34.201s + 0.166s   16
  5. Stefan Bradl         LCR Honda            1m34.299s + 0.264s   20
  6. Cal Crutchlow        Tech 3 Yamaha        1m34.512s + 0.477s   20
  7. Andrea Dovizioso     Ducati               1m34.578s + 0.543s   20
  8. Nicky Hayden         Ducati               1m34.590s + 0.555s   20
  9. Alvaro Bautista      Gresini Honda        1m34.739s + 0.704s   19
 10. Aleix Espargaro      Aspar Aprilia        1m35.045s + 1.010s   18
 11. Bradley Smith        Tech 3 Yamaha        1m35.362s + 1.327s   19
 12. Andrea Iannone       Pramac Ducati        1m35.433s + 1.398s   13
 13. Randy De Puniet      Aspar Aprilia        1m35.447s + 1.412s   20
 14. Michele Pirro        Ducati               1m35.864s + 1.829s   17
 15. Hector Barbera       Avintia FTR          1m35.940s + 1.905s   16
 16. Colin Edwards        Forward FTR          1m36.449s + 2.414s   18
 17. Claudio Corti        Forward FTR          1m36.643s + 2.608s   16
 18. Karel Abraham        Cardion Aprilia      1m36.759s + 2.724s   18
 19. Danilo Petrucci      Ioda-Suter           1m36.764s + 2.729s   20
 20. Hiroshi Aoyama       Avintia FTR          1m36.821s + 2.786s   19
 21. Yonny Hernandez      Paul Bird Aprilia    1m37.104s + 3.069s   18
 22. Bryan Staring        Gresini FTR-Honda    1m37.878s + 3.843s   18
 23. Michael Laverty      Paul Bird PBM        1m38.023s + 3.988s   15
 24. Lukas Pesek          Ioda-Suter           1m38.818s + 4.783s   15
 

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/pedrosa-stays-on-top-in-second-practice

Jacky Martens Ivan Tedesco Jeremy McGrath

Whitetails Poker Run is June 15 in Marble Rock, Iowa

Whitetails Bar and Grill in Marble Rock, Iowa will be hosting its Fifth Annual Motorcycle Poker Run beginning at 10 a.m. on June 15th. This run is a great opportunity to visit North Central Iowa.

This year’s run benefits The ARC Charities organization which helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the “That’s M.I.N.E. (Motorcyclist.In.Need.Everyday) Donation,” which helps bikers with certain living expenses if they are off work due to a motorcycle-related injury, and area hospice service providers.

Additional activities include a bike show, bike blessing, games, dinner and musical entertainment. Complete information about the ride and related activities is available on the Whitetails website.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BikerChickNews/~3/zar1K9SfgjE/

Jeff Leisk James Stewart Jr Auguste Mingels

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Colin Monahan Named Marketing Coordinator at Infineon Raceway

Infineon Raceway
SONOMA, Calif. (Jan. 4, 2012)

Colin Monahan has been named Marketing Coordinator at Infineon Raceway, raceway officials announced.

Monahan, 23, will assist the marketing team with the planning and execution of event-related initiatives and programs, coordinate off-site tradeshows and promotions, and oversee the raceway’s Little Racers Club and social networking efforts, among his many other responsibilities.

Monahan originally joined the team in 2009 and has worked as an intern and part-time employee the past three seasons. He graduated from Sonoma State University in 2011 with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. He is a native of Yorba Linda (Calif.), currently living in Novato in the North Bay.

Source: http://www.motorsportsjournal.com/archives/2012/01/colin_monahan_named_marke.php

Julien Vanni David Vuillemin Pierre Renet

Morgan Maassen for etnies

Source: http://etnies.com/blog/2013/4/07/morgan-maassen-for-etnies/

Gert van Doorn Arthur Lampkin Richard Eierstedt

Spain race quotes: Caterham

Charles Pic – 17th: “I’m really happy with today’s performance. Finishing 17th doesn’t really tell the whole story as we ended the race right behind one of the Williams cars which shows that we’ve made some good progress this weekend. The blue flags didn’t help as without them I’d have had a much better chance of overtaking him, but it was still good that I could attack him in the last few laps. The car felt great for the whole race, particularly after my third stop when we went for a 25 lap final stint on the hard tyres and I was able to manage the degradation levels well which meant I could push right to the flag.

“It’s good to have a Sunday like this as I hadn’t really been able to get the most out of the new package on Friday or Saturday, but it felt good right from the first lap today. There’s still more to come from the parts we brought here, quite a bit more in fact, so we’ll work on that back at the factory and see how much more we can extract for the next race in Monaco. That’s obviously going to be busy for me and the whole team, but after seeing the pace we had today, more to come from the race five update and the fact we’ve been strong there in the past, I think it could be a really interesting weekend for us.”

Giedo van der Garde – DNF: “It’s obviously such a shame that my race ended like it did today, but sometimes these things happen. I’d had a great start and was fighting with Button and both Williams cars through the first couple of stints The car felt great, really good and I was definitely having the best of the season so far. When I came in for my second stop I could feel that there was a problem with the left rear as soon as I rejoined the track. At some point the wheel came off so I tried to make it back to the garage to see if I could continue, but once the team had taken a close look it was clear I had to retire the car.

“As I say, it’s a shame but it’s another lesson for me and the team. Sometimes you don’t have the luck, but we have a lot of positives to take from this weekend. The updates on the car are working well, and we have more to come. Our race pace is really good, strong enough to fight with a few cars ahead and my quali performance was easily my best this year. Next up we go to Monaco, a track I know well and one where I was on the podium twice last year in GP2, and in Formula Renault 3.5, so another qualifying performance like I had in Spain, and a race like I had until retiring today, and I think we can do well.”

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/spain-race-quotes-caterham

HÃ¥kan Andersson Donny Schmit Nick Wey

Daryn Pittman claims Outlaw Thunder at Eldora Speedway

Source: http://www.skirtsandscuffs.com/2013/05/daryn-pittman-claims-outlaw-thunder-at.html

Andre Malherbe Larry Brooks Donnie Hansen

Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus, With ICS And LTE Now On Sale; Next Day Shipping

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Spain race quotes: Pirelli

Paul Hembery: “Strategy was again at the forefront of the Spanish Grand Prix, which as usual was very demanding on the tyres because of the unique characteristics of this circuit. This is why we saw high levels of degradation, which should not be seen again to this extent for the rest of the year. Our aim is to have between two and three stops at every race, so it’s clear that four is too many: in fact, it’s only happened once before, in Turkey during our first year in the sport. We’ll be looking to make some changes, in time for Silverstone, to make sure that we maintain our target and solve any issues rapidly.

“Congratulations to Fernando Alonso and Ferrari who pushed hard from start to finish to make the four-stop strategy work for them and seal a very popular result here. They planned their strategy from the start of the weekend, using the tyres wisely during qualifying, and then made it count with some fantastic overtaking moves.”

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/spain-race-quotes-pirelli

Tony DiStefano Marnicq Bervoets Neil Hudson

The Red Bull X Fighters Main Event at Glen Helen

The stage was set for a ground-breaking showdown between the best freestyle motocross riders in the world to battle head-to-head on the largest FMX course in the history of the sport. Amongst the roster of riders, Metal Mulisha team riders Todd Potter, Wes Agee and Rob Adelberg faced unpredictable winds throughout the week.

Thursday kicked off a practice session which then led into Friday for another practice and qual. Unfortunately they never got to qualify because once again… the wind held them back.

This placed riders in a shotgun effort to stack up during the final day with another practice, qual and battle during the main event. Wind once again set the tempo of the day as officials delayed scheduled times throughout the day for safety reasons.

Deegan, Scummy, Link, Jacko, Leduc, Bean and the rest of the team stopped by the pits to meet and greet with all the fans while the the Mulisha Maidens decided to have a party of their own! They really got the crowed pumped handing out a grip of free clothing, products, stickers and autographed gear.

Unfortunately the wind never let up and the results came down the qualifying score. All the riders agreed that it was too unsafe to compete due to the high winds that would drastically affect their rotations and tricks. With rider safety being #1 to Red Bull event staff, an agreement was made by both parties to cancel the event as it was dangerous to perform at their best for the fans due to the gusty conditions.

“It’s been windy the past couple days and we had to miss practice all day yesterday, and then we luckily got in some qualifying this morning after the main event was called off. I’d like to go up there fair and square and go through the whole way, head-to-head, and do it legitimate, but we all knew this morning at qualifying that it was going to be tough with the wind. We all made sure we did our best runs, and it just so happened I won it. A win is a win, so I’m pumped.” – Rob Adelberg

Congrats to the Adelberg and the team for going on there and giving it your all! Make sure to visit our Glen Helen X Fighters photo gallery and check back for more photos and updates.

The 2013 Red Bull X-Fighters tour continues June 1 in Osaka, Japan, for the fourth of six stops, followed by events in Madrid, Spain (July 19) and Pretoria, South Africa (Sept. 7).

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Source: http://www.metalmulisha.com/blog/2013/05/the-red-bull-x-fighters-main-event-at-glen-helen/

Joël Smets Kurt Nicoll Pekka Vehkonen