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Jules Bianchi has been excluded from the first Formula Renault 3.5 race of the season after his car failed post-race scrutineering. The Ferrari junior driver finished second to race winner Nick Yelloly, but his Tech 1 car was found to contravene the championship's technical regulations due to he use of elastic Belleville washers in the stacking of the car's limited slip differential. According to the stewards, that put the car in breach of article 19.15 of the sporting and technical regulations, but Bianchi told AUTOSPORT that Tech 1 intends to appeal the decision

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/bianchi-excluded-from-race-one

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Jost Capito took the reigns as new head of Volkswagen Motorsport on Wednesday, assuming the role occupied by Kris Nissen. Capito joins Volkswagen from Ford, where he was the director of global performance vehicles and motorsport business development.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/world-rally-championship-news/wrc/capito-new-vw-motorsport-head

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Will Davison regained some ground on Jamie Whincup in the V8 Supercars title race by winning round eight of the 2012 series at Barbagallo. Ford Performance Racing driver Davison had lost the championship lead to Whincup (Triple Eight Holden) on Saturday, when the Ford man was delayed in a first-lap crash and Whincup finished second to Davison's team-mate Mark Winterbottom.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/davison-recovers-with-race-two-win

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Valentino Rossi says rumours that he is set to retire from MotoGP at the end of the year are not true.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/motorcycles/motogp/rossi-refutes-retirement-rumours

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Some 24 Hours of LeMons races have a leader that runs away from the competition and takes the win on laps by a comfortable margin, as happened in Michigan two weeks ago. Other races, you get a weekend-long struggle between a half-dozen contending teams who spend hour after hour stuck within a few laps of [...]

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Between Ninth Avenue and Third Avenue, the proposal for 34th Street calls for a curbside bus lane on one side of the street and an off-set bus lane with expanded pedestrian space and loading zones on the other. Nearer to the rivers, the bus lanes would be off-set on both sides of the street. Image: [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/08/off-board-fare-payment-means-mta-can-run-24-more-34th-st-buses-a-day/

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Former Formula 1 racer Eliseo Salazar has admitted Rally Argentina is proving tougher than he expected, with the 57-year-old describing Friday's opening day as harder than a day on Dakar. Salazar, who is driving a Mini John Cooper Works WRC this week, has competed on the Dakar twice, but the 120-mile opening day of Rally Argentina was a tall order for the World Rally Car rookie. "In Dakar, OK, you do five or six hours and then you go relax and go in the hotel," said Salazar

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/world-rally-championship-news/wrc/salazar-wrc-harder-than-dakar

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Single-seater veteran Paul Tracy has rejoined Doran Racing for a further three races in the Grand-Am Series.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/tracy-back-to-doran-for-grand-am

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