Penske expects to keep team intact

Penske is now confident that it has put together a sponsorship package that will allow it to keep Will Power, Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe on board for the full 2011 IndyCar season. The end of the team's long sponsorship deal with Phillip Morris meant that Briscoe and Castroneves' cars ran without primary backers this season.

Source: http://www.inracingnews.com/indycar-news/indycar/penske-expects-to-keep-team-intact/

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Park Slope Civic Council Names Prospect Park Gateway Design Comp Winners

The Third Street entrance to Prospect Park as imagined in the winning entry, "Stone Garden." The Park Slope Civic Council announced the winners yesterday in its design competition for the Third Street entrance to Prospect Park, which has sported rickety metal barricades since it was closed to cars in April 2009. In addition to designing a [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/12/03/park-slope-civic-council-names-prospect-park-gateway-design-comp-winner/

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Kuipers gets WRC Ford Fiesta

Dutchman Dennis Kuipers has become the latest driver to commit to Ford's new Fiesta World Rally Championship contender, and will enter the car on 10 rounds of next year's series. The 25-year-old has been a regular privateer WRC entrant over the past three seasons, initially with a Ford Focus WRC, before switching to the S2000 version of the Fiesta in 2010. The Ipatec Racing team will continue to run his car

Source: http://www.inracingnews.com/world-rally-championship-news/wrc/kuipers-gets-wrc-ford-fiesta/

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Video: Race-Star ConverTTable may be the coolest coffee table we've ever seen

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Race-Star ConverTTable is our kind of furniture - Click above to watch video after the jump

A driving wheel sounds like a nice addition for any racing video game, but in reality it might not work as well as you hope. You have to find a place to mount the wheel and a make sure your pedals aren't sliding around the floor. It's not that much of a hassle, but a dedicated space for both wheel and pedals would be nice... throw in a racing seat and the virtual-racing ante has officially been upped.

But where would you store something like that and how do you craft it so as not to be a total eye-sore? Austrian company Race-Star has the answer and it comes in the form of the ConverTTable.

What appears to be a fairly basic box table actually hides a special gaming secret. The ConverTTable unfolds to reveal a driving wheel, adjustable pedals and a track mounted racing bucket. You can slide it in front of your TV and the Nürburgring on Gran Turismo 5 goes from a controller-hucking experience to a carousel-shredding event. When it's time to shut down the fun, simply fold the table back up and it turns right back into drink-holding furniture.

The price for a Race-Star ConverTTable setup is listed at €4,999, which translates to about $6,605 USD. That is a lot of coin for something you might be able to engineer in your garage. Can you produce the same level of fit-and-finish as Race-Star has achieved? Probably not, unless you are used to working with high-quality plastics. Regardless of the price, the Race-Star ConverTTable has earned its place on our Autoblog Holiday Wish List.

Hop the jump to see it in action.



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