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While We Were Out

The big events from June through December of this year, while the site was on sabbatical. June   Malaysia Airlines Flt 357 Still Not located. The plane originally went missing on 8 March 2014. Apple introduced a new programming language for iOS and OSX called SWIFT. Pro-Russian Militants fight with Ukrainian military. KKR(Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts) buys new …

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COMT V: PEACE

The Hunt For New (Christmas) Music: The Fifth Playlist in the Christmas One More Time Series. It’s  Christmas Music you probably haven’t heard before. It’s  Christmas music you can dance to. The next list of new music will be posted on December 6th. 21 Songs. 1.2 Hours  

Risi Competizione Sponsors Young Journalists at Circuit of the Americas TUDOR Race on 20 September

Program provides real world experience to University of Texas School of Journalism students; one weekend in the fast lane. (Houston, Texas)…..Risi Competizione, the Houston, Texas based TUDOR United Sports Car (“TUSC”) Series racing team, famous for the success of a series of red, No. 62 Ferrari race cars, has announced a new journalistic initiative for …

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The Daytona 24 is the quintessential ‘crap shoot’ of endurance races

Risi Competizione’s Rick Mayer, Team Engineer, continues his tradition of writing a preview of what it’s involved in setting up a car for a race with this very insightful brief on getting the Risi Comp Ferrari F458GTC ready to run the 24 Hours of Daytona. For over 5 years, Rick has provided a unique perspective …

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The Fast Track

  This piece on the Circuit of the Americas (COTA)was originally published in September 2013, in advance of the first races at the circuit. It is republished here for background on this weekend’s TUDOR Series and WEC races at COTA. What is most interesting about Circuit of the Americas from a track design/layout perspective is …

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