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...lose interest. The racing was getting sterile, even boring. Now, with almost zero competition among the cars and drivers, you can count me as one whose interest is nonexistent. Larry Bolt Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. Schumacher's superiority is not hurting Formula One; it is the pinnacle of motor racing, and viewers should understand they are watching history in the making as Schumacher racks up more world championships than any other driver. He is a brilliant competitor with an incredible team supporting him. For the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to create regulations that would hobble him and Ferrari is backward...
...millions of other Asian motorists, the odds aren't a whole lot better. One of the dismaying side effects of the region's economic growth?and the accompanying boom in motor-vehicle purchases by the newly prosperous?has been a staggeringly high traffic-fatality rate. With just 16% of the world's cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, Asia accounts for more than half of the roughly 1.2 million traffic fatalities that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates occur globally every year. More than 600,000 Asians are killed and another 9.4 million are severely injured in traffic accidents annually...
DIED. RODGER WARD, 83, one of auto racing's most prominent figures during the glory days of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; in Anaheim, Calif. Before winning the Indy 500 in 1959 and 1962, Ward almost quit racing because of his involvement in two fatal crashes--one that killed his former crew chief Clay Smith, and another that claimed the life of his friend and two-time Indy 500 champion Bill Vukovich...
...infiNET Solutions software can also create larger click buttons on the website to accommodate people with motor control disabilities, Kattner said...
...California, pocket bikes are illegal on public roads, according to Rieboldt, because they are motor vehicles that require registration. But the department of motor vehicles will not register them because most do not pass safety regulations governing headlight height from the ground, taillights, brake lights, horns and so on. The California Highway Patrol has issued a statewide special alert about pocket bikes. Of course in some quarters, that will only add to the appeal...