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☆ NASCAR President on the state of advertising demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNASCAR President on the state of advertising demandCramer spoke with NASCAR President Steve Phelps and Jeff Gordon, vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports, on Tuesday.

Bought from McLaren by private equity firm Greybull Capital in 2021, McLaren Applied has adapted an efficient inverter developed for F1 racing for EVs. Fry says McLaren Applied is working with around 20 carmakers and suppliers, and the inverter will appear in high-volume luxury EV models starting January 2025. NO TIME TO LOSESome suppliers like Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Actnano have had long relationships with EV pioneer Tesla (TSLA.O). Coakley said CelLink was working with U.S. and European carmakers, and with a European battery maker on battery wiring. But it has now also developed battery packs, electric powertrains, e-axles and is working with around 20 customers, including carmakers and an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft maker.

☆ Larson to attempt Indy 500 and NASCAR 600 double in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Kyle Larson will attempt the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 double next year after announcing on Thursday he would join Arrow McLaren Racing for a one-off run at the famed Brickyard. Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, will become the first driver to attempt the double since Kurt Busch raced in both events in 2014. Only four drivers have attempted the double of racing in Indy 500 in Indianapolis and flying to Charlotte, North Carolina to jump in a car and run the Coca-Cola 600 later that same day. While Rick Hendrick's stock car teams have won a record 291 Cup Series races, the Indy 500 will mark Hendrick Motorsports first IndyCar series event. McLaren have routinely added notable names to their driver lineup for the Indy 500, including twice Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso.

☆ 'Malcolm in the Middle' star Frankie Muniz announces he’s now a full-time race car driver: ‘You can always chase your dreams’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Frankie Muniz is putting his racing career into high gear. The "Malcolm in the Middle" star shared on Instagram Wednesday that he will compete full time in the NASCAR-owned ARCA Series. He first drove a race car in 2004 while participating in the annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in California. "I have a lot to learn and I know that," Muniz told PEOPLE. "But I'm going in, I'm putting in a hundred percent because I don't wanna look back at this opportunity and go, man, I wish I tried harder."

☆ A Teenage Drag-Racing Champion Racks Up Trophies With Her Chevy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Andrew White For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Danika Fickler, 18, a freshman at Colorado State University, on her 1986 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer drag racer, as told to A.J. I did a lot of growing up at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, Kan. My parents honeymooned at this racetrack when they married in 1993. Both of them have been drag racing since before I was born. My mom was a class winner at Heartland in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and my dad won a National Hot Rod Association [NHRA] national event there in 2019. When I go to Heartland now, people come up to me all the time to tell me that they knew me when I was a baby.

☆ Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz celebrates with FC Red Bull Salzburg during the tipico Bundesliga match with SK Sturm Graz at the Red Bull Arena on July 1, 2020 in Salzburg, Austria. Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, announced Mateschitz's death Saturday. With the growing success of Red Bull, he significantly expanded his investments in sports, specifically motorsports and extreme sports, and Red Bull now operates football clubs, ice hockey teams and F1 racing teams. Red Bull also has contracts with hundreds of athletes in various sports and a deep driver development program to get racers to the top level.

☆ Dietrich Mateschitz, co-founder of Red Bull and F1 team owner, dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

AUSTIN, Texas — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, said Saturday that Mateschitz had died. With the growing success of Red Bull, he significantly expanded his investments in sports. Red Bull now operates football clubs, ice hockey teams and F1 racing teams, and has contracts with hundreds of athletes in various sports. The Austrian Servus TV station, owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, is known for promoting right-wing provocative views.

☆ How Oracle won the carmaker Subaru as a cloud customer by being cheaper than the competition
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Japanese carmaker Subaru is using Oracle's cloud for its high-performance computing. Discounting is also a common tactic to win over those marquee customers — especially as the use of multiple cloud providers has become more common. Subaru completed the move from its data centers to Oracle's cloud in about six months, anticipating a 30% reduction in its technology costs after moving to the cloud, Takekuma said. Subaru is also using other cloud providers in other parts of the company, including Google Cloud for some of its machine learning and artificial-intelligence capabilities. "So it's absolutely critical that our data transfer, our authentication, all of those pieces, are able to smoothly interface with the other cloud providers'."

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