David Donohue on pole for Rolex 24 at Daytona

David Donohue edged Timo Bernhard by 0.001 second Thursday to capture the pole position for the 47th Rolex 24 at Daytona, breaking the Daytona Prototype track record in the process.

Donohue turned in a lap of 1 minute, 40.540 seconds (127.472 mph) in the No. 58 Brumos Riley-Porsche that he will share with Darren Law, Buddy Rice and Antonio Garcia.

The race will start at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Fox will open live network coverage at 3 p.m. Saturday. Speed Channel will resume coverage at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, continuing until 10 p.m. Sunday coverage on Speed will run from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Bernhard was at the wheel of Penske Racing’s No. 16 Riley-Porsche, turning a lap of 1:50.541 (127.470 mph) in the Daytona Prototype that he shares with Romain Dumas and Ryan Briscoe.

“Actually, winning the pole was a bit of a surprise,” said Donohue. “We had a bit of a problem with traffic on what I thought was my fastest lap. We were having an electrical gremlin, so I didn’t know how quick I was running. The team told me I was [fastest], but I didn’t know by how much and what to do with the tires. But I said it before, all that counts is where you are at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.”

Donohue joins his father, the late Mark Donohue, as a pole winner of the event. The elder Donohue won the pole for Penske Racing in 1971. The pair joins Dan and Alex Gurney as father-son pole winners for America’s most prestigious sports-car race.

While Donohue wasn’t sure of his position in qualifying, Bernhard thought he was atop the charts.

“I knew I put down a pretty good lap, and when they give me the time, I thought it would be good enough for the pole,” said Bernhard, the overall winner of the 2003 Rolex 24. “Then they told me it was very close, but I was second, but by that time, my tires were done. It was a great result for Penske Racing. It’s a new series for us in Grand-Am, and we’re already very competitive. Looking at it that way, [second] is a very good result.”

Starting from the second row will be Michael Valiante, posting a time of 1:40.651 (127.331 mph) in the No. 6 Michael Shank Racing Riley-Ford, and Richard Zonta, with a time of 1:40.892 (127.027 mph) in the No. 76 Krohn Racing Lola-Ford.

Scott Pruett, seeking a third consecutive victory in the Rolex 24 and fourth in a row for TELMEX/Target Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, will start sixth after running a lap of 1:41.016 (126.495 mph) in the No. 01 Riley-Lexus.

“That’s about what we expected to run in qualifying,” said Pruett. “For 24 hours, it’s not going to make a difference. The Ganassi guys have done a great job, as always, and we’ve got a great car for the race. With a little bit of luck, the TELMEX No. 01 car will be fighting for the victory at the end.”

Alex Gurney, the 2007 Rolex 24 pole winner, will start 11th in the No. 99 Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing Riley-Pontiac co-driven by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, Jon Fogarty and Jimmy Vasser.

The No. 2 Childress-Howard Motorsports Crawford-Pontiac of Danica Patrick, Casey Mears, Rob Finlay and three-time Rolex 24 winner Andy Wallace lost an engine during Friday’s practice and failed to qualify. They will start the race 18th, at the back of the Daytona Prototype grid.

In GT, Sylvain Tremblay captured the Rolex 24 pole for the second consecutive year in the No.70 SpeedSource Mazda RX. Tremblay and Nick Ham seek their second consecutive GT victory in the Rolex 24, and fourth consecutive triumph at Daytona--all from the pole position. David Haskell and Jonathan Bomarito will co-drive in the Rolex 24. TRG Porsche 911 GT3 driver Andy Lally qualified second. Martin Ragginger, Jeff Segal and Wolf Henzler rounded out the top five GT qualifiers.

Thursday’s qualifying locked in the top 40 positions for the Rolex 24. Final qualifying began at 11 a.m. Friday and will be followed by the Fresh From Florida 200 Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge race.

Nissan GT-R factory race-car undergoes testing, GT1 racing return possible

Nissan GT-R
Nissan GT-R
Nissan's long-awaited return to international sports-car racing is edging closer with the news that a race version of its GT-R supercar is up and

running.

The Japanese manufacturer, whose last major sports-car program outside of the Japan-based Super GT series came at Le Mans in 1999, shook down a GT-R test vehicle before Christmas. The car, built by Nissan's NISMO competition department, completed a five-day test last week at Malaysia's Sepang circuit.

Nissan has long been rumored to be evaluating new international GT1 racing rules that come into force in 2010, but the official company line is that the car has not been designed to a specific set of regulations.

"It is a test car. We are not claiming there is a specific category we are looking at, although this car has not been developed for Super GT," said

Manaki Iwamoto, NISMO general manager of corporate planning. "Since the launch of the GT-R one and a half years ago, we have been looking at opportunities to race the car."

Speculation suggests that Nissan will confirm its entry into the forthcoming GT1 World Championship when the series is launched, most likely in March. Asked when Nissan might announce any plans for the GT-R, Iwamoto replied that "it is very difficult to answer that question in the current financial climate."

Nismo's first GT-R racer was shaken down by Nissan Super GT regular Michael Krumm at Fuji in Japan in late December. Aston Martin Racing regular Darren Turner joined up with Nissan for the Sepang test.

Penske to announce IndyCar Series drivers Tuesday

Penske Racing will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and will answer one of the biggest questions of the off-season so far: Who will drive the No. 3 IndyCar car that usually features Helio Castroneves?

Castroneves was indicted on federal tax charges in October, and his trial in Miami is scheduled to begin March 2, just five weeks before the IndyCar Series season opener in St. Petersburg, Fla. Penske attorneys previously asked the court to move the trial to a date after the season concludes and said that Castroneves would not be able to drive this year--regardless of the verdict--if it remained in March. The court denied the request.

It is unclear whether Penske will back away from its original stance and allow Castroneves to drive if he is found not guilty. But either way, the team needs a plan in place should Castroneves be unavailable for any amount of time. Rumors have circulated that leading candidates for the ride include IndyCar drivers Justin Wilson (formerly of Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing), Ryan Hunter-Reay (who drove for Rahal Letterman Racing last year; the team does not yet have sponsorship in place for 2009) and Will Power (KV Racing Technology in 2008).

A fourth name has now emerged as a strong possibility: Romain Dumas, the sports-car champion who drove for Penske's now-defunct American Le Mans Series Porsche prototype team and who was recently named as a Penske driver for the entire 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season.

Castroneves is also scheduled to appear at the press conference, but expect whichever new driver Penske confirms--along with returning teammate Ryan Briscoe--to be behind the wheel in place of Castroneves when the Indy Racing League holds preseason tests in late February at Homestead-Miami Speedway and in late March at Barber Motorsports Park.

Duh, It’s A Car Stereo!

Duh, It’s A Car Stereo!

Pretty self-explanatory isn’t it? It’s a stereo system in a car, you say. Whoa, hold your horses, it’s not that simple. Although some people like to put home stereos in their cars and vans (out of dire need for some sounds), sometimes it just doesn’t work. Yeah, maybe before it could’ve worked just fine, all you needed was radio and a cassette player (or 8 tracks, for the inner dinosaur in you) so sure, lug those big box speakers into the back seat and you’ll be blaring down the highway. But nowadays there are things like cd players and mp3 players and your popup LCD panels and all that techie knickknack you’d think they’d like to build a home theater system right smack on the console of your van. If you don’t know anything about these things but would like to have some sounds in your car anyway, here are some things to know about a car stereo.

As mentioned above, at first units and speakers from home audio systems and professional markets were just simply installed into vehicles. However, they were not well suited to the extremes of temperature and vibration which are a normal part of the environment of an automobile. Car stereo enthusiasts were not satisfied with the sound quality of regular car sound systems, and with the advent of the CD player, they really had to start modifying some of these home stereos in order to work well in a car environment and voila!, now we have the modern car stereo.

If you have a new car, first hand bought, say from about 90 to present, chances are you already have a “factory” car stereo in your car. It means the car manufacturer already included a car stereo system in your car, unless specified in the car model but most often this is the case. Some car manufacturers make their own car stereos, like BMW which includes a pretty decent car stereo package head unit and speakers. It is a standard which comes with all their cars (which isn’t surprising considering that BMW is included in the league of “luxury car manufacturers”). Or like Mercedes Benz or Volkswagen, they use car stereo systems from a German audio manufacturer called Blaupunkt.

A standard car stereo (also called a head unit) usually includes an auto-reverse tape deck, a cd player and sometimes the optional changer – a device which automatically changes the cd in play. On newer car models, the car stereo can also play mp3s and other digital audo file types like WMA and AAC, whether on a cd or a memory device which can be hooked up to the head unit.

The car stereo head unit is connected to several speakers. Older car models usually just had one speaker mounted underneath the dashboard, pointing through perforations towards the front windshield. The standard for car stereo nowadays is a pair of “tweeters” (used to bring out high treble) on the driver side/front passenger side dashboard, a pair of normal “mid” speakers on both doors, sometimes even the backseat passeger doors if it’s a large car and larger speakers capable of bringing out low ends at the back protion of the backseats.

Your car stereo is probably ok as it is, as car manufacturers ensure that the audio products that come with their cars can handle most dirver’s listening demands. But if you think that what you have isn’t enough, you can always CUSTOMIZE.

Mobile Multimedia: A New Peak For The Alpine Car Stereo

Mobile Multimedia: A New Peak For The Alpine Car Stereo

We all know that brand names matter when purchasing car audio hardware. There are brands that are surely more reputable than others. When you are at the store and they offer choice after choice after choice, suddenly you feel overwhelmed on what really to buy. But you can be assured of one thing, if they offer you an Alpine car stereo you can’t go wrong with it.

Alpine car stereo and electronics, founded in 1978, is a world leader in the industry of high performance mobile electronics. They specialize in mobile multimedia, an integrated system approach incorporating digital entertainment, security and navigation products for the mobile entertainment.

Alpine car stereos are a new breed of units which feature the convergence of high performance audio, video, navigation and telematics in the form of Mobile Multimedia. Navigation systems act as the resource center of the Alpine car stereo Mobile Multimedia lineup. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), DVD players, Dolby Digital systems, satellite digital audio radio, mobile data linking and communication through telematics devices will be fused with navigation systems to create a platform of products. Mobile Multimedia integrates Alpine's innovative audio, video, security and navigation products, as well as its new GUI for Drivers, human interface and information communications technology.

To grasp what the Alpine car stereo Mobile Multimedia is, take a look at the IVA-D901 Alpine car stereo Mobile Multimedia Station/CD/DVD Receiver/Ai-NET Controller.

The IVA-D901 has 400% more pixels than a conventional in-vehicle display, meaning that it has 1.15 million pixel elements. It has 50W x 4 built-in power and 3 PreOuts (4 volt), SAT Radio ready, a Hard Disc Drive (HDD), and Alpine car stereo Navigation. Key features include:


- 7" Fully Motorized Wide Screen Monitor
- 18W x 4 MOSFET Amplifier
- Built-in Dolby Digital/DTS Decoder
- Bass Engineฎ Plus
- Subwoofer Level Control
- Bass Center Frequency Control
- Bass Band Width Adjustment
- Treble Center Frequency Control
- Subwoofer Phase Selector
- Bass Type Control
- 4-Ch Digital Time Correction
- 3 Position 12 dB/Oct Crossover
- MediaXpander™
- SAT Radio Ready
- MP3 Text Information Display
- Quick Search Function
- CD/CD-R Playback
- CD Text, Text Display, Text Scroll
- M DAC
- MaxTune SQ Tuner
- 3 Auxilliary A/V Inputs with Remote Control Input
- Dedicated Navigation Input
- Dedicated Camera Input
- 2 Auxilliary Monitor A/V Outputs
- Navigation Audio Mix
- 3 PreOuts (4 volt)
- MM Driver (Hard Disc Drive) Ready
- MobileHub Ready
- Ai-NET Control Center DVD/CD/MP3 Changer Controller
- "Digital Art" Spectrum Analyzer Display
- RUE-4190 Universal Wireless Remote Control Included

If these all seems too much for you, Alpine car stereos also have more conventional head units to offer. The CDA-9835 Alpine car stereo In-Dash CD Player/Ai-Changer Controller lets you fully customize both illumination and sound, with a range of 512 colors and super-versatile Bass Engine functions like digital time correction and parametric EQ. You can download audio parameter settings and connect and control as many as eight amps. The BioLite display, Menu key and rotary knob make operation extremely easy.

Like most Alpine car stereo units, it is also SAT Radio Ready, giving you a much greater choice of listening options than ordinary local AM/FM radio. You can select from among a wide range of music genres, news, sports, and talk programs with digital quality anywhere.

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Tips on Online Marketing


Marketing in a traditional sense has always been done by putting an ad either in the newspaper, the radio and the television.

Being in the digital age, efforts done by marketing to get the message across is not that different. It has just become a little more high tech which continues to help drive sales.

Businesses that want to sell something in the market need 2 things. The first is the product to be sold which later on will be distributed. The second is marketing which is the vehicle that is used to carry that message across to the consumer so that people are aware of its existence then it is purchased.

One way of the fastest ways of doing marketing today is building a website. Should one decide to shift and decide to do this, here are some tips one needs to know to get started.

1. The first thing to do is to determine what the person wants to do. The product has to fill a need that the customers want right now. It should provide a solution of some kind that will make that will improve the quality of life either at home or at work.

2. The next is to do the proper research. If the business is done with a group of people or a single proprietorship, it is best to brainstorm for the best domain name for the business. It should be catchy and will easily be remembered by people. Given that there are probably other people who have been in the business longer and that it is possible that the domain name has already been taken, it is best to think of several names in case it can no longer be used.

There are sites in the web that have search engines to look for a specific subject and using popular keywords for ones website will easily help people find it. These sites also allow one to make a site map which can be downloaded in minutes for a small fee.

Another good example is the various email sites and by doing a tie-up with these companies, one can get exposure as well as free service since people who do not have an account can also sign up and be an active member.

3. A product of good quality should be sold at a decent price. Sometimes, the product one makes is already available in the market. To be competitive, one must figure out a way to convince people as to why this product is better than the other leading brands available. What features does it have that the competitor doesn’t? What makes it unique which is not only about the product on hand but the service that this can give as well?

4. Just like having a normal business, one must acquire the right equipment and machines for the job. These could be merchandise that is either physical or electronic and an online ordering system.

To be successful, one should be sure that the goods that a customer will order can be delivered on time. If there are any problems, a customer support staff or system should be ready to cater to that.

5. It takes money to make more money so one should be careful with what needs to be spent. By putting in tight controls in terms of expenditures and keeping track of the current balance while maintaining the same level of quality saves money which can be used for other things.

To avoid falling in this predicament, the first thing one must do is manage the expenses. It is always good to carry a notebook around to log whatever expenses have been made or have a logbook to keep track how much balance is left. That way, a person can stay within a budget on a monthly basis.

6. With everything in place, it is now time to promote the site. One can email to friends about the site and what it offers then this too will also be forwarded and advertised to others. Another is showcasing ones website in E-zines or electronic magazines to get more customer traffic.

Any business big or small must have the right resources available to get the message across to the people and building a web site or a site map takes time. One can do it alone if that person knows how to do it, get professional help or simply start from the basics and learn it from the ground up.


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