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- NASCAR donates $160000 to Virginia Tech memorial fund – Auto
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- Auto leaders recommend higher gas tax
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SportingNews.com – May 5, 2007
– Is the Car of Tomorrow changing the conventional wisdom in NASCAR Nextel Cup racing? Traditionally winning a pole at Richmond with an early qualifying draw has been a daunting assignment because the track tends to cool down and speed up as the sun sets. But in the CT Friday Jeff Gordon qualified in the top spot despite taking his laps in the first third of the order.
NASCAR donates $160000 to Virginia Tech memorial fund – Auto
ESPN – May 5, 2007
– For the last three weeks NASCAR’s NextelCup cars have all displayed a Virginia Tech logo with a blackbackground in a show of support for the victims and families of themassacre that left 33 dead in Blacksburg on April 16. n Saturday night in the series’ first visit to the state sinceSeung-Hui Cho shot 32 fellow students and faculty members atVirginia Tech before also killing himself the decals were just asymbol and the support was something more tangible: money. In prerace introductions Virginia drivers Jeff and Ward BurtonElliott Sadler and Denny Hamlin presented Hokies football coachFrank Beamer with a check for $120000 for the Hokies SpiritMemorial Fund. And Richmond International Raceway president DougFritz presented him with a check for $40000 also for the memorialfund that he said was given by RIR and some sister tracks alsoowned by International Speedway Corp. Beamer who often comes to races at RIR said thanks during thedriver’s meeting.
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SportingNews.com – May 5, 2007
– Montreal Canadiens owner George N. is close to finalizing a partnership arrangement with Evernham Motorsports a source close to the deal said Saturday.
Auto leaders recommend higher gas tax
Toronto Star – May 5, 2007
Tony Van Alphen Business Reporter ttawa should introduce a gasoline tax to improve the environment and eliminate the new "feebate" program which rewards buyers of some fuel-efficient models major auto-industry players say. Senior industry executives told federal Industry Minister Maxime Bernier at a meeting in Toronto yesterday that a tax makes more sense environmentally and for the economy than the feebate program in the recent budget. "I think the feebate is flawed" Don Walker co-chief executive officer of auto-parts giant Magna International Inc. said after a meeting of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council. "The general feeling (in the industry) is you shouldn’t be picking winners or losers.