January 2010

The No. 9 car was white with a few stripes, but it should have been black–that’s how dark the horse was that won the 2010 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.

The Renault F1 team made a fresh start in Valencia on Sunday when the R30 was unveiled by the new management, as the French company seeks to distance itself from the Flavio Briatore era.

The Sauber team unveiled its 2010 contender in Valencia on Sunday afternoon. The car has a Ferrari engine and gearbox as the team renews is association with Maranello after four years of BMW ownership

Russian GP2 driver Vitaly Petrov was announced as Renaultand#8217;s second driver in Valencia this afternoon.

U.S. safety regulators are satisfied with a Toyota Motor Corp. plan for fixing an accelerator problem that is part of a widening global recall and unprecedented sales and production halt, a government official said.

Jimmie Johnson’s stock car resume is pretty impressive: 20 poles, 43 wins (including all the major events) and three consecutive Sprint Cup titles in his 276-start career dating to 2001.
Originally posted 2009-08-07 20:21:00. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda apologized for the recall of millions of vehicles around the world, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported, as the deepening recall crisis threatened to further damage its sales and delay an earnings recovery.

When Toyota Motor Corp. was on the brink of overtaking General Motors as the world’s biggest automaker in 2008, executives were busy sending out warning signals about the dangers of being No.1.

Hyundai Motor America joined the list of automakers seeking to exploit Toyota’s recall crisis by boosting incentives to lure Toyota trade-ins. Through Feb.

A House committee has begun investigating whether Toyota Motor Corp. and its top executives, as well as the Obama and Bush administrations, responded adequately to customer complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Rep.