| Extremely Cool Lotus Cortina
Ford's 1960s profile-raising competition program included recruiting Lotus boss Colin Chapman to give the new Cortina a sporting makeover. Chapman's brief was to develop a Group 2 competition version; Lotus would then build the 1,000 cars required for homologation. Launched in 1963, the Lotus Cortina featured the Elan's Ford-based, DOHC, 1.6-liter engine in the two-door bodyshell. Lotus Cortinas dominated saloon racing's 2-liter class, often challenging for outright honors. Works cars were driven by Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Peter Arundell, and Jackie Ickx, while Sir John Whitmore, driving an Alan Mann-entered Lotus Cortina, was European Touring Car champion in 1965. The Lotus Cortina offered here is one of the original Works racing saloons campaigned during the mid-1960s by legendary Formula One World Champion Jim Clark, while touring car champions Sir John Whitmore and Jack Sears also competed in this same car.
'Burnout Paradise' embraces openness, freedom
Open-world game play is all the rage, and honestly has been for several years, so maybe that concept is getting a bit played out. Still, when one comes along that provides you with a ton to do and no schedule to do it on, it's something to enjoy. "Burnout Paradise" is the newest of this crash-and-burn car-racing franchise, which wisely reinvents itself with each release. "Burnout" always gives you something new to experience, something that excites gamers and sometimes frustrates longtime fans. In this edition, you just drive. And drive. And drive some more. Challenges, races, time trials and much more await you everywhere around the city, and you can tackle them in whatever order you want (or not at all). There's a sense of freedom here that allows you to relax, smile and laugh as you blaze through intersections, crashing into anything and everything.
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Baerga played a key role in the Indians World Series run of 1995 and was a three time All-Star as a member of the Tribe. June 28, 2002 - Tribe fans angered over trade with Expos: Yep, I was one of those angry fans the day GM Mark Shaprio sent All-Star pitcher Bartolo Colon to the Montreal Expos for 1B Lee Stevens and three prospects; P Cliff Lee, INF Brandon Phillips, and OF Grady Sizemore. Needless to say, I got over it!!!! Well, that concludes my list of key Tribe trades over the span of the last five decades. Some were good and some were very bad, but they were all memorable. Feel free to mention those memorable trades by your favorite teams in the comment section and.... Thanks for Reading. .
Fox Sues Warner Bros. Over Watchmen
20th Century Fox has initiated a legal battle against Warner Bros. over the rights to develop, produce and distribute a film based on the graphic novel Watchmen, says The Hollywood Reporter. On Friday, the studio sued Warner Bros., claiming it holds the exclusive copyrights and contract rights to Watchmen. Warner Bros. plans to release on March 6, 2009 a big-screen version of the popular graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. The film is directed by Zack Snyder (300) and stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer. The trade says Fox seeks to enjoin Warner Bros. from going forward with the project, saying in the lawsuit that it seeks to "restrain (Warner Bros.
Samsung 500GB laptop notebook drive set for March debut
Samsung Electronics Sunday revealed that it is building a 500GB notebook hard drive that will ship in March. The new 2.5-inch Spinpoint M6 hard disk drive will feature three 166GB platters and measure 9.5 millimeters in height, said Samsung. By installing two Spinpoint M6 drives onto a notebook PC, up to 1TB of available storage capacity will be available to users, noted Samsung officials. The Spinpoint M6 drive was unveiled late Sunday at the International Consumer Electronics Show show in Las Vegas. Pricing details were not disclosed. News of the new 500GB notebook hard drive arrives just days after rival Hitachi disclosed that it will begin shipping its new Travelstar 5K500 2.5-inch 500GB spinning disk drive in February. The new Samsung drive features Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology and spins at up to 5400 rpm spindle speeds and has 8MB buffer cache.
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Cotman joins IndyCar executive staff
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IndyCar drivers welcome new qualifying format
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Rubicon Race Team announces Indy 500 attempt
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2007 Indy 500 winner given AARWBA top award
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McLean's wife stays on the move, lawyer says
In affidavits filed in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Eric McLean and his divorce attorney, Steve Sharp, allege former West High School student teacher Erin McLean is embarked on a rootless existence with a 19-year-old paramour. "(Erin McLean) has been to California and then to Austin, Texas, staying in cheap motels and then moving when she is unable to pay the bills," Sharp wrote. Attorney Bruce Poston, who is defending Eric McLean on charges that he killed Sean Powell, his wife's teenage student and lover, in March, said Tuesday Erin McLean has since surfaced in Boulder, Colo. Sharp has been trying to serve Erin McLean with divorce papers since September to no avail in an effort to gain custody of the couple's sons, ages 11 and 8. It was then that Erin McLean fled her mother's Nashville home with the boys after news surfaced that she had lied to get a job as a teacher at a private Christian school and allegedly tried to seduce a 17-year-old student.
Shah hoping for Test selection
If nothing else, though, Shah has put himself in the frame for selection in Thursday's three-day match against a Select XI including eight potential members of New Zealand's Test squad when England are expected to field a side close to the one they intend to select for Seddon Park. "I've known Strauss for a very long time, but the difference this time is that he's been there and played and done well against the best teams in the world," conceded Shah. "Things are obviously in his favour but I'd like to think I'm also putting pressure on the selectors and have shown what I can do and push for my selection. Runs on the board always count in my view and if I can keep doing that then hopefully I'll get selected. "It's still early days because we've got another three day game against a good side to come so if I do get chance in that and get some runs then I think I will have put some pressure on the selectors to pick me for the first Test," he added.
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