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- NASCAR back on track for extra day of testing in Atlanta26 February 2015, 11:07 pm
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — After the glitz of Daytona, it's time for the NASCAR grind.... 
- McLaren break down again, Massa fastest26 February 2015, 7:22 pm
Williams' Felipe Massa was fastest as McLaren's embryonic relationship with engine supplier Honda suffered another blow on the first day of the third pre-season test in Barcelona on Thursday. Massa completed more than 100 laps with his best time of 1min 23.500sec the quickest of the day ahead of Sauber's Marcus Ericsson....
- McLaren's big push ends back in the garage26 February 2015, 6:36 pm
By Alan Baldwin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Jenson Button completed just one timed lap as misfiring McLaren's hopes of picking up speed in Formula One's final pre-season test stalled before lunchtime on Thursday. Racing director Eric Bouillier had said last weekend, after Fernando Alonso crashed and was airlifted to hospital, that the team would be "pushing harder than ever" at the Circuit de Catalunya. Pushing the troubled McLaren back into the garage turned out to be closer to th...
- Auto-prix - McLaren break down again, Massa fastest26 February 2015, 6:30 pm
- Williams' Felipe Massa was fastest as McLaren's embryonic relationship with engine supplier Honda suffered another blow on the first day of the third pre-season test in Barcelona on Thursday. Massa completed more than 100 laps with his best time of 1min 23.500sec the quickest of the day ahead of Sauber's Marcus Ericsson. World champion Lewis Hamilton was third fastest despite also failing to run in the afternoon session due to a MGUK failure in the Mercedes engine. Jenson Button...
- Motor racing-McLaren's big push ends back in the garage26 February 2015, 6:27 pm
By Alan Baldwin BARCELONA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Jenson Button completed just one timed lap as misfiring McLaren's hopes of picking up speed in Formula One's final pre-season test stalled before lunchtime on Thursday. Racing director Eric Bouillier had said last weekend, after Fernando Alonso crashed and was airlifted to hospital, that the team would be "pushing harder than ever" at the Circuit de Catalunya. Pushing the troubled McLaren back into the garage turned out to be closer to the truth, tho...
- Lotus F1 hand development role to Spanish woman racer26 February 2015, 4:34 pm
Spanish female racer Carmen Jorda will be a development driver for Lotus this season, the Formula One team announced on Thursday. Lotus said she would attend grands prix and Formula One tests throughout 2015 as well as spending time in the team's simulator. Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado and France's Romain Grosjean are the regular race drivers. "I’ve been racing since I was 10 years old so it was my dream to drive a Formula One car since I was very young....
- Motor racing-Lotus F1 hand development role to Spanish woman racer26 February 2015, 4:32 pm
Spanish female racer Carmen Jorda will be a development driver for Lotus this season, the Formula One team announced on Thursday. Lotus said she would attend grands prix and Formula One tests throughout 2015 as well as spending time in the team's simulator. Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado and France's Romain Grosjean are the regular race drivers. "I've been racing since I was 10 years old so it was my dream to drive a Formula One car since I was very young....
- Female racer Carmen Jorda joins Lotus as development driver26 February 2015, 4:13 pm
Spanish female racer Carmen Jorda will join Lotus for the 2015 Formula One season as a development driver, the British team announced on Thursday. Jorda becomes the second female driver on a team this season with Scotswoman Susie Wolff undertaking testing duties for Williams. "It feels like a dream come true to join Lotus F1 Team," Jorda said. "We are looking forward to working with her over the course of the season and ultimately seeing her behind the wheel of the car," said...
- McLaren boss confident Alonso will be fit for season opener26 February 2015, 2:45 pm
McLaren chief executive Ron Dennis has insisted that Fernando Alonso should be ready to race at the opening Grand Prix of the season in Australia despite spending three nights in hospital following a crash in testing last week. The 33-year-old Spaniard was airlifted to hospital after crashing into a wall at the Circuit de Cataluyna in Barcelona on Sunday, where he stayed until being released on Wednesday afternoon. Alonso was then allowed to return home to the northern Spanish city of Oviedo for...
- Alonso 'completely fine' after crash, says Dennis26 February 2015, 2:09 pm
loBARCELONA (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso is "devoid of all injuries" from Sunday's crash in testing and is expected to line up on the grid for the season-opening race in Australia next month, McLaren boss Ron Dennis said on Thursday. According to Dennis the 33-year-old Alonso was knocked unconscious "for a few seconds" after hitting a wall in pre-season testing in Barcelona. Two-time world champion Alonso, who was released from hospital on Wednesday, is not taking part in...
- Strike ends at Brazil GM plant after union flexes muscle26 February 2015, 9:13 pm
Workers at a General Motors factory in Brazil ended a six-day strike today after the company dropped plans to lay off 800 employees, the union said, ending the latest labor standoff in the troubled Brazilian auto industry....
- Mini designers dream up a racy Clubman for 'Gran Turismo 6' video game26 February 2015, 8:59 pm
Mini has joined a growing list of automakers that have released high-performance concepts for 'Gran Turismo 6' on the PlayStation 3 game system....
- U.S. Senate panel OKs auto industry whistleblower incentive26 February 2015, 6:18 pm
A measure that would offer financial incentives for auto industry employees to expose safety defects won unanimous backing from a US Senate panel today....
- Fiat Chrysler to review its digital agency business, report says26 February 2015, 5:37 pm
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has begun a digital agency review, people familiar with the matter told Advertising Age, an affiliate of Automotive News....
- Automakers choose aerospace firm to run Takata airbag tests26 February 2015, 3:54 pm
A consortium of 10 automakers formed to investigate the root cause behind Takata airbag inflator ruptures said today they have selected Orbital ATK to test the supplier's troubled inflators on their behalf....
- Federal-Mogul delays split into two public companies26 February 2015, 2:58 pm
Federal-Mogul, the powertrain and aftermarket parts supplier controlled by Wall Street investment mogul Carl Icahn, said this week it will delay a prior plan to split into two separate public companies during the first half of this year....
- GM cuts capacity, jobs in Indonesia, where Japanese dominate26 February 2015, 12:32 pm
General Motors is to stop making cars in Indonesia, a battleground for global automakers in emerging Southeast Asia, closing an assembly plant, axing some 500 jobs and shifting its branding focus to SUVs....
- Ford hires 400 more than planned in Canada to support output of new Edge26 February 2015, 5:01 am
Ford has hired about 400 more workers than it previously said it would need to build the redesigned Edge crossover in Canada....
- U.S. orders Takata to preserve airbag inflators for federal probe25 February 2015, 9:39 pm
A federal safety regulator on Wednesday ordered troubled Japanese supplier Takata to preserve all airbag inflators removed through a recall process as evidence for a federal investigation and private litigation cases....
- Santander Consumer USA to pay $9.35 million settlement over military repos25 February 2015, 8:07 pm
Santander Consumer USA will pay at least $9.35 million to resolve charges that it improperly repossessed the cars of members of the military, the U.S. Department of Justice said today....
