Faced with a wild weekend weather conditions that plagued across the United States of America, NASCAR delayed Sunday's Food City 500 race of the 2018 NASCAR Monster Energy Series, but with the weather turned from rainy to cloudy and with Bristol Motor Speedway now dried up, the race goes on where everything is possible in a race proud enough for its catchphrase; IT'S BRISTOL, BABY!
Here's what it sums up. On Lap 4, an 8-car wrecked was triggered with Chase Elliot and Martin Truex Jr. caught in the crazy mix. With six laps to go in the first stage, another one occurred with the #51 and the #12 got caught in a collision course. With the race restarted, Kyle Larson got ahead but then the rain dropped, triggering a race delay that lasted until 1300 hours local time. With 176 laps to go at this race, Kyle Larson got knocked off by Ryan Newman and then Kyle Busch goes for the offensive. But then, with six two go, the duel between the two Kyles got interrupted by the sudden appearance of Kurt Busch and there you go.
Kurt Busch nailed his second race in a row and his seventh Bristol win in his career.
Next race is on Richmond Raceway for the Toyota Owners 400 this 21st of April.
After the streets of Long Beach experienced the roar of the IMSA machines last Saturday, it's the turn of the IndyCars for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach leg of the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series and those spectators who felt the Saturday hangovers didn't felt like they're having hangovers at all as the speed of the machines kept them awake to witness the moment where every twist and turn can make a big difference.
Summing about what happened in this race, Alexander Rossi leads the 24-car field to the green flag, then Graham Rahal collided at the back of Simon Pagenaud's car, causing Rahal to get the drive-thru penalty for unavoidable contact. Ryan Hunter-Reay's car suffered a front wing damage, Robert Wickens suffered mechanical problems that pushed him to a 22nd place finish, Kyle Kaiser went off track on turn one in Lap 42, triggering a race restart that sent Rossi flying to a massive lead, Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais are hounding themselves for 2nd place, there's more.
Lap 60 sees Zachary Claman De Melo crashed through the wall while Dixon and Bourdais faced misfortunes by a pit penalty for the Kiwi and a spin for the Frenchman. With the race restarted, Will Power's on the offensive against Rossi but in the end, Rossi wins the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach with Will Power placed 2nd and Ed Jones placed 3rd.
Four years have passed since the worst maritime disaster in South Korean history that killed 304 people, mostly high school students on a field trip to Jeju Island. In memory of the Sewol-ho ferry victims, memorial ceremonies were held across the country on Sunday.
People visited to the official government memorial alter at Ansan, Gyeonggi-do Province, where the government will hold a special ceremony on Monday. Some five thousand people, including Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and the victims' families, are expected to attend.
A separate memorial service will also be held in the western port city of Incheon, where the memorial alter for non-student victims has been prepared.
- The Philippine National Police refused to place two former Immigration officials and retired PS/Supt. Wally Sombero under their custody. Sombero along with Former Immigration Deputy Commissioners Al Argosino, and Michael Robles are currently facing plunder charges for their involvement in a Php 50 million bribery scandal.
- President Rodrigo Duterte's supposed signing of an executive order against labor contractualization hits a snag, according to DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III. Bello said the chief executive was supposed to meet with labor groups Monday afternoon for the supposed EO signing but this was cancelled because Duterte would have an important appointment.
- 5,744 villages are under Philippine National Police's election watchlist ahead of the barangay and SK elections next month.
- Last weekend, Singapore's competition watchdog outlined a set of interim measures for ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber Technologies to ensure an open market as it continued its investigation into their merger in the city-state.
- The BBC World Service will bring The Art Hour on Tour to manila at the Star Theatre in Pasay City on April 26.
- Mahindra announced the debut of Automobili Pininfarina, which will set to entre the luxury EV market with their first electric hypercar in 2020.
- Nisekoi will spawn a live-action film this December.
- Here's what to expect in the 2018 remake of the Meteor Garden TV series.
- Musician Chito Miranda expresses thoughts on being a gun owner.
- Ahead of the upcoming fight with Lucas Matthysse this July, Manny Pacquiao remains mum on who will coach him following last weekend's relieve of his famed trainer, Freddie Roach.
The F1 2018 season says ni hao to Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix and this race sees the tables turned for the drivers on the track as out goes for the big ones and in goes for the underdogs as this race has becoming a dog-eat-dog world for them.
From everyone's perspective, they can see a lot of carnage in store for the Chinese GP such as seeing the Toro Rosso drivers colliding each other at the hairpin on Lap 30 of the 56, as well as Max Verstappen ran off track while trying to hunt down Mercedes-AMG's Lewis Hamilton and later collided with Sebastian Vettel.
From all of that madness occurred in Shanghai, Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull has ascended for his first win of the season followed by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen.
Onto the overall standings, it looks like Vettel's lead has been narrowed to nine points over Hamilton, 54 vs. 45, with Bottas 3rd place at 40.
The next race of the F1 2018 season will be at Azerbaijan on the 29th.
The recent update on the Project CARS 2 game gave us a new racing Ferrari in our stable called the Ferrari 488 Challenge but before explaining the latest vehicle ever to emerge from Ferrari's answer to the Lamborghini Super Trofeo racing series, just what is the Ferrari Challenge?
Since its establishment in 1993, the Ferrari Challenge is an FIA-approved one-make race series where Ferrari dealerships and distributors from across the globe compete in three different categories such as the Trofeo Pirelli, Trofeo Pirelli Am, and Coppa Shell. For the year 2017, they are using Challenge-spec Ferrari 488s for this one-make race series, which is the first Ferrari Challenge machine to have a turbocharged engine producing 670HP of power from the V8 3.9L engine sourced from the 488 GTB, making it the most powerful car in the Challenge history. To differentiate it from the normal 488, it's been given race-derived aerodynamics that stays true to its design. They've improved the front radiator layout which is now inclined towards the rear, resulting to better air flow over the radiators in racing conditions whilst reducing drag. This new layout requires new vents below the bumper ahead of the wheels.
The Ferrari Challenge has three series such as Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Project CARS 2 got not one but three 488 Challenge machines as provided from their respective series and while they boast the same performances, their liveries vary from each region. I went for the one used in the Asia-Pacific series because of that interesting livery that got me noticed because one of them used in the Ferrari Challenge Asia-Pacific series is a Filipino. Yes, I can tell why one of them is from the Philippines is because of the suspicious-looking logo which came from a hotel chain Victoria Court, the Philippine flag, and the name of the team that used it which is none other than the official Ferrari distributor of the Philippines, Autostrada Motore. Wish I want to talk more but since this is a Bandai Namco game, I've gone for the one used by the Rosso Scuderia Tokyo dealership and the venue I just pick for my run with the 488 Challenge is none other than Long Beach.
I never thought that the streets of Long Beach felt so alive right now in the weekends. We have the IMSA and the IndyCar that spices this Californian port city with vigor and now, here I am, trying out the Ferrari 488 Challenge round the city center to see what is like. I once tried the GT3 variant of the 488 but the Challenge spec is far more different because while it's got more power and faster than the GT3 version, it's slightly heavier and you can slightly tell the difference when you handle them both. However, despite bearing different aerodynamics and performance, they're still a blast to drive and driving the 488 Challenge on Project CARS 2 is a stepping stone to introduce players the latest generation of the Ferrari Challenge machines. Speaking of which, would you like to see how I did with it?
The Ferrari Challenge maybe only reserved for official Ferrari dealerships and distributors worldwide but with Project CARS 2, you can sample what is like to be part of Ferrari's one-make race series with the 488 Challenge. With practice, you can get your hopes up that one day, your nearby Ferrari dealer will enlist you to be part of the team and the next thing we hope for is to see the world's best Ferrari Challenge drivers compete around the globe in unity. While it sounds irrational, an introduction to Ferrari's one-make race series with Project CARS 2 makes it worth a shot to understand how the 488 Challenge works. The more you know.
The ABB FIA Formula E Championship arrived for the first time in Rome, Italy, for the first ever Rome e-Prix, and in this race, the gladiators in racing overalls gathered their chariots of electricity, charging their way to the finish line in this Rome street circuit that was built on a day.
Although this is new in the history of the FIA Formula E Championship, the Rome circuit has became one heck of a treacherous course for some drivers and as demonstrated by a four-car pileup in the early stages, the viewers can really tell just how challenging this new Rome circuit can be. Moving on, as the race progresses, Mahindra's Felix Rosenqvist, which is the first pole positioner of the first Rome ePrix, ran out of juice and he was therefore out of the race. With Rosenqvist out, the race becomes a free-for-all battle royal for all the drivers survived their way to the very end.
At the end of the first-ever Rome ePrix, DS Virgin Racing's Sam Bird wins the race, making it his 7th career win and 13th career podium, with a fastest lap time of 1:38.955. Lucas Di Grassi from Audi Sport placed 2nd and Andre Lotterer from TECHEETAH placed 3rd.
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The next race is on Paris, France, on the 28th of April.
