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...solar panels for half of Mongolia to offset the emissions of this orgy of gas-guzzling, but why muse on such deflating topics when there are eight fierce races to behold? This is the only street meet in the world that features both car races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix). Drivers will be negotiating the 3.9-mile (6.2-km) Guia Circuit, which thankfully skirts the precarious old streets that date back to the Portuguese colonial era but nonetheless presents plenty of deceptive...
...With a shocking photograph of a naked anorexic woman, shot by Oliviero Toscani, the eternal enfant terrible of fashion photography, Nolita's is the latest attempt to employ a formula that Toscani helped invent with Benetton in the 1980s: the use of provocative, socially conscious images to help hawk products. (And, in theory, the images attempt to accomplish the inverse as well: using consumerism to try to raise public awareness.) In the past, Toscani has used photographs of AIDS victims and death-row inmates in Benetton ads. But this time, the message is also targeted at the very industry that...
...just as in Formula One, there's "a black art to getting it all set up," says Smith. Depending on the weather or track conditions, mechanics will tinker with the transmission, or slide the wheels in or out along the axle to adjust a kart's handling. They can soften the ride with torsion bars, support the driver's seat to alter the load going into a corner, and switch between slick and treaded tires. Early exposure to those details "explains why people like [Hamilton] are that good," says Martin Hines, boss of the Hertfordshire-based Zip Kart Young Guns...
That track record makes karting a must for youngsters keen to copy their heroes. After Schumacher picked up the first of his seven Formula One titles in 1994, Germany's domestic karting championship took off, says Vincent Caro, executive secretary of the International Karting Commission, which is part of the FIA, world motor sport's governing body. Successive world championships for Alonso have inspired a karting boom in Spain, Caro says, and now traffic is building on the U.K.'s kart tracks too. Hamilton's record-breaking season - he's won three of the 14 races so far, becoming...
...current crop: Young Gun Oliver Rowland, 15, clinched the British title in his class in mid-September. His gritty style - after being relegated to the back of the grid at a recent race, Rowland sliced his way through the field to win - prompted McLaren to sign him to the Formula One team's Young Driver Support Program earlier this year. (One of its first recruits in 1998: a 13-year-old Hamilton.) As with similar schemes run by racing's top teams - Horner's Red Bull backs 16 young drivers of its own, all of whom cut their teeth...