Monday, October 7, 2013

Daily Drive: Franchitti crash video and new Mustang front end

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Monday, October 07, 2013                 
Dario Franchitti was involved in an awful wreck on Sunday at Houston. 13 fans were injured....
If you thought Dario Franchitti's wicked wreck on Sunday was scary when you were watching it on TV, imagine watching it from the grand stand. Check out this fan video of the wreck, which injured 13 fans and sent Franchitti to the hospital with a broken ankle and two fractured vertebrae. Miraculously, no one was...

  The 2015, or 2014.5 depending on who you ask, Ford Mustang will go on sale next April, on the car's 50th anniversary. It will most likely arrive with four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines and for the first time an independent ...

  If there is one type of vehicle offered at the Lambrecht Chevrolet auction in just about every condition and color, it had to be Chevrolet pickups. But the selection on the field was not limited to Chevys, as there were a few ...

  ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: This 2013 Dodge Dart GT is a somewhat stylish car, but the most noticeable thing on this test car compared to our long-term Dart Limited is the “sport-tuned suspension.” Since one of biggest complaints about that car (other than the lack of punch)...

  Hyundai is adding the Legato Concept to its SEMA stand in Las Vegas. The sleek, silver coupe is based on the Genesis and will debut Nov. 5. Legato means “tied...

  Every now and then, the electric car industry comes together in a sort of Woodstock-of-the-Watt-Hour to take stock of itself and to exchange ideas, sign contracts and maybe have a beer. The most recent parliament of the plug-in was last week in San Diego at an annual industry event known as Plug-In ...

  The 2014 Honda CR-Z goes on sale Oct. 8 with a base price of $20,785, including destination. That's a $20 premium over last year's car. The entry-level hatchback gets a six-speed manual, Bluetooth, rearview camera, USB...

  -- Even as the hammer fell on Juan Miguel Fangio's $30 million Mercedes-Benz W196R, we knew that that car wasn't the most expensive one ever sold -- it was merely the most expensive car sold at auction. Other cars were...


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  Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti fractured two vertebrae and broke his right ankle when his car went airborne into a fence Sunday on the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston. The accident showered debris into the grandstand, injuring 13 fans and an IndyCar Series official....

  Editor's note: IndyCar issued the following statement at 6:15 p.m. ET:Medical update from Dr. Michael Olinger, IndyCar director of medical services:Izod IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, spinal...

  Sebastian Vettel now has one hand on the Formula One world championship title after securing a fourth straight win with a victory in the Korean Grand Prix on Sunday. With the win, Vettel extended his lead to an almost insurmountable 77 points with five races to go over nearest championship...

  Formula One's teams received a record amount of prize money last year as the return of races in the United States and Bahrain gave the series its biggest-ever calendar and boosted its fortunes.The Bahrain Grand Prix was cancelled in 2011 due to a civil uprising in the country but it was back on the ...

  Kevin Harvick crashed the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup party. Kyle Busch simply crashed the party -- at a track that continues to bedevil him. And with a bizarre power failure in the last two laps, Johnson failed to cash in decisively on Matt Kenseth’s skittishness with the new tire...

  For at least a few Formula One race fans, the best news of the day in Korea on Sunday was that predictions that a typhoon would interfere with or even cancel the Korean Grand Prix were off.No typhoon sighting at the track meant the race would go on, and the grid girls of Korea would not have to don ...

  After a similar charge in Singapore, Kimi Räikkönen enjoyed another good run to the podium in the Formula One Korean Grand Prix, coming all the way from ninth place on the grid to finish second.Crucially, he got ahead of Lotus teammate Romain Grosjean just after the first safety car restart. The...

  Kevin Harvick cracked the top three in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship points with his win at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, and five-time champion Jimmie Johnson shaved five points off the lead and closed to within three points of leader Matt Kenseth.There are just six races left in the Chase....

  With two races left in the NHRA season, a familiar name has found its way to the top of the Funny Car points as John Force extended his points lead by racing to the win on Sunday at the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway.Shawn Langdon won in Top Fuel and Jeg Coughlin took care of...


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