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Notes Taken During the 2008 Hungary F1 Race

Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of the Hungarian GP on Aug. 3, 2008. Welcome to Hungaroing, site of the Hugarian FORMULA 1 ING MAGYAR NAGYDIJ 2008. 29th running of the Hungary GP which was slapped down in Hungary in...

Hamilton wins second straight F1 pole

Lewis Hamilton captured the pole for the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix. It was Hamilton's second consecutive F1 pole. The No.22 McLaren circled the 2.722-mile, 14-turn Hungaroring in one minute, 20.899 seconds.

Stewart F1 Golf Cart: Cool & Costly

I realise that there's a perception that golf is a game for those with cash but that's not always true. In the case of the F1 Lithium electric golf caddy from Stewart Golf though, it most certainly is. The F1 - attempting to pole position itself at the front of the golf caddy grid - is the latest from the makers of the popular [with the well-heeled that is] XR3. However this one has been built from the ground up and is different in almost every way, the most noticeable difference being the new ...

Raikkonen's Charity Corvette Missing in Action

We reported back in February that Sharon Stone was putting up her mint 1974 Corvette Stingray at Elton John's Academy Awards extravaganza. It was reported yesterday that successful F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen purchased the vehicle for some $313,000 (US) from an auction in Monaco a couple of months ago. Now how the Stingray got from Stone to that charity auction, we don't know. What we do know is that he has only seen it once and never driven it. In fact, he hasn't heard anything since he laid out ...

Notes Taken during the 2008 F1 German Grand Prix

Notes taken during the pre-race show on SPEED and the race broadcast on FOX of the FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND (German Grand Prix) 2008 at Hockenheim ring. Pre-race on SPEED, which I recorded just to see pit...

Renault Megane R26.R Returns 27 MPG, Sets FWD 'Ring Record [2008 British Motor Show]

What you're looking at isn't just the ugliest front-wheel-drive car ever, it's the ugliest and the fastest FWD car ever. Renault wants to make sure its customers know this, so they etched the R26.R's 8m 17s Nurburgring lap record for production FWD cars into the rear windows. Find out what makes the .R so special after the jump. Using the Mégane Renaultsport 230 F1 Team R26 as a basis, the .R uses a carbon-fiber hood, polycarbonate windows and a titanium exhaust, and drops all the interior bits...

Hamilton wins German GP, solidifies F1 lead

Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix on Sunday, solidifying his lead in the Formula One standings with two dramatic passes that made up for a strategic blunder by his McLaren team. Medical assistants help Toyota Formula One driver Timo Glock from Germany after a crash to entrance in a medical car during the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheim Formula One racetrack in Hockenheim, Germany, Sunday, July 20, 2008. Renault Formula One driver Nelson Piquet Jr. of Brazil is carried on hands by his ...

Cool: Batman's Tumbler As A Transformer, Also, Tumber Vs. F1 Race Car, WHEE!

This is what Batman's Tumbler might look like as a Transformer. I say "might look like" because I'm pretty sure the real Transformer would be more piratey. You know, with a patch and peg-leg. Make sure to check out the high-res picture, including info, here. And since the Dark Knight is dropping tomorrow and I'm as excited as the time I found out my girlfriend wasn't pregnant after all, I threw up some pictures and a video of the Tumbler and Toyota's F1 race car going at it after the jump. Kris...

Eee mods & hacks: add Bluetooth, GPS, FM transmitter & more

If you bought into the ASUS Eee early on, and now are looking enviously at the array of budget ultraportables available today, why not redirect your angst into crafting an upgrade for the compact notebook. Since there are numerous points on the Eee motherboard where both 3.3v and 5v power can be tapped into, plus some extra space in the casing, adding an internal Bluetooth adaptor, GPS or card reader (to mention just a few) can be relatively straightforward. Assuming you’re pretty handy (or at...

Measurement improves software development

Peter Mancini has written another excellent blog post entitled “Measurement improves software development“. In it, Pete discusses how we started down the path using F1 (or F-Measure) to develop and improve one of our current products, GeoLocator. This approach to using measurement throughout development and software refinement is taken much, much farther in a new [...]