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Post and Podcast by Kasey Kagawa Guitar Hero 3 debuts tomorrow, so I’m gonna make this a short intro section. Important/interesting launches from the Tokyo Auto Show get covered, I insult Subaru, Dodge, Toyota, the city of Detroit and Ron Dennis, Porsche’s plan to absorb Volkswagen in the Hive-Mind continues, and Ferrari teams up with another company that will not be named in the post to create the most smug-emitting device of all time.
Post and Podcast by Kasey Kagawa And here we go again, with a new podcast for this past week. Important events include a sneak peak at the Corvette ZR1 at Laguna Seca, the release of the official stats for the Nissan GT-R, stimulating diesel news, Pagani beating the production car lap record at the Nurburgring, Toyota’s ongoing reliability woes, and the most pointless limo conversion of all time. As always, send comments to dubspeedradio@gmail.com.
Post and Podcast by Kasey Kagawa Yes, it’s that time again, but a little earlier this week. I’ll be gone this weekend, so the three people I’ve told about it and the countless listeners out there will get your news goodness a little earlier this week. And by countless, I mean in the same way that you can’t count to zero. So enjoy our podcast mediocrity, and send comments to dubspeedradio A.T gmail.com.
The 10th Annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta is done and in the books after one of the most exciting finishes of any American Le Mans races in recent memory. After 1000 miles, it was just 0.923 seconds that put the LMP1 Audi R15 piloted by Dindo Capello and Allan McNish in front of the LMP2 Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder driven by Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard and Patrick Long. This victory comes on the heels of a tough season for Audi where the Porsche RS Spyders have escaped them all year long. The victory at Petit Le Mans is the first overall victory for Audi since the St. Petersburg race in March. The win for Audi wasn’t easy, as Dindo Capello had a seemingly insurmountable 30-second gap to close on Dumas with just a half hour of racing left. Fortunately for Audi, a caution flag worked to Capello’s favor and allowed the R15 to work its way up through traffic. With 15 laps to go, Capello took an amazing 8 minutes to pass Dumas and clinch the overall victory. The victory gave Dindo Capello and co-driver Allan McNish their second consecutive LMP1 driver’s championship.  #6 Penske Porsche RS Spyder of Maassen/Briscoe/Collard In GT1, Oliver Gavin, Max Papis and Oliver Beretta took a class victory in their #4 Corvette Racing C6.R, escaping the fate of DNFs for the #3 Corvette Racing C6.R and the pole-sitting Lista Racing Maserati MC12.
GT2 proved to be a great class to watch as the Porsches of Flying Lizard Motorsports battled it out with Wolf Henzler and Dominik Farnbacher in the Tafel Racing Porsches. At the end of 1000 miles though, it was the team Jorg Bergmeister, Johannes van Overbeek and Mark Lieb in the #45 Flying Lizard 911 GT3 RSR that took a three lap victory over Tafel Racing. The pole-sitting Risi Competizione Ferrari F430, driven by Jaime Melo, Mika Salo, and Johnny Mowlem, was the dominant car in GT2 until electrical problems took them out of contention.
All in all, this was the most exciting Petit Le Mans that we can recall in our minds. Anytime a 10 hour or 1000 mile race comes down to a fraction of a second between first and second, you know the attendees got their money’s worth. We hope next year’s race at Road Atlanta will be even better! Petit Le Mans @ Road Atlanta Race result (Round 10 of 11 races of the American Le Mans Series) Result LMP2 class Further class winners Points’ standings Manufacturers LMP2 class – Engine Manufacturers LMP2 class – Chassis Teams LMP2 class Drivers GT2 class Manufacturers GT2 class Teams GT2 class
Post and Podcast by Kasey Kagawa Not content with ruining your eyes with our awful words, we here at Dubspeed Driven have taken it upon ourselves to create a new feature with which we shall fill your minds with our poison: Dubspeed Radio. This weekly podcast will be focused on the automotive news that we usually let slide, like other news sites, but in handy audio format. Normally, we’ll have a cool widget on the website, but since Zerin’s off at Road Atlanta for the Petit Le Mans, I have a direct link to the MP3 file on the Dubspeed Driven server below. Look for a new edition of Dubspeed Radio every Saturday (we hope), and get your fill of quality automotive news straight from your only real friends, Dubspeed Driven.
Post by Kasey Kagawa The police in Los Angeles don’t really have the best reputation for fairness, courtesy and restraint, what with all the beatings and corruption scandals. The relationship between police and various communities would be best described as “bad,” something that idiotic “competitions” like Operation Any Booking won’t do much to improve. Operation Any Booking was carried out by the LA Sheriff’s Department, and it was basically a competition between various officers to see who could arrest the most people in a single day. According to Lt. James Tatreau, who helped organize the events, “It’s just a friendly competition to have a little fun out here…It’s a morale booster.” Yes, the potential for abuse in that idea is so large that it was tazed three times for simply walking near a police officer, and you’re not the only ones to figure that out. Police watch groups, after their minds allowed them to process the fact that a police agency in Los Angeles would do something so monumentally stupid, issued statements with words like “highly problematic” and “inappropriate” in them. According to the LA Times, the number of overall arrests did not increase, but there was a large spike in the number of vehicle impounds on the day of the event. The Sheriff’s Department has issued a statement that such an operation would not happen again, which is somewhat like shutting the barn door after the horse has already bolted, pulled over a suspect, kneeled on his back with his arm in a lock and then punched him in the face a few times. There’s a lesson to be learned here for both sides. Police, don’t have contests involving arrests, impounds, or tickets, it only affirms our suspicions that you’re a bunch of power-mad asshats who think that you can act with impunity because you’re the police. People, keep an eye on your police forces. Sure, if you’re not an idiot (or a criminal, the two terms are somewhat interchangeable), you don’t have much to worry about here, but on the other hand, I like my civil rights, and encouraging already somewhat trigger-happy cops by giving them some contest to win for most arrests, impounds, tickets, or whatever is just a little bit too close to living in a totalitarian police state for my tastes. Report: LA deputies held arrest contests [Yahoo News via Jalopnik] |
 
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