His first F1 race (also the debut event for the turbo Renault) was at Silverstone in 1977 partnering James Hunt and Jochen Mass. Toward the end of the ’77 season Villeneuve had established a reputation as a promising talent, Teddy Mayer, due partly to Marlboro sponsorship considerations, declined to keep Gilles with McLaren, apparently leaving the promising young driver high and dry for 1978. But in August of 1977 Maranello called.

Enzo Ferrari said that when he first met the diminutive Canadian, he was immediately reminded of the great Nuvolari. Ferrari’s obvious interest in Villeneuve prompted Niki Lauda to jump ship at Canada in October, and Gilles began his short but storied Ferrari career in a less than auspicious fashion. In the Mosport race he left the course on someone else’s oil. The next race, at Fuji, saw him off again, but this time at the cost of some spectators’ lives.

Gilles Villeneuve vs Rene Arnoux

On the final lap at Imola in 1982 Pironi snuck past his unsuspecting teammate, who had slowed feeling that the race was in hand, to snatch the win. Villeneuve was uncharacteristically furious. Still feeling the sting and out to prove something two weeks later at Zolder, during Saturday qualifying, he came up behind a much slower March of Jochen Mass who may have been on one of his slow down laps and though Mass pulled over Villeneuve could not avoid his car. The resulting collision sent the Ferrari off into a cart-wheeling disintegration. Villeneuve was resuscitated at the scene, but his injuries were mortal. He died in a local hospital that evening.

Gilles Villeneuve Crash

With the major managers of Yamaha watching this fulminant race up to the last curve of the last round, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo keep battling on their motorcycles with only few centimeters distance and more than 280 km/h over the runway, attacking and overcoming each other, and after thirty rounds and 110 kilometers Rossi once again served 99 thousand customers his 101 win.

Bat of an eyelid

The spectators on the grandstands came into delightment (again), the adventure country Sachsenring opened its gates again for the MotoGP circus, and approximately 98,000 fans came alone on Sunday to see the races and/or Rossi. The majority of them saw finally their favorite right at the top on the landing in the MotoGP class.

Valentino, the only 46

Rossi, again and again Rossi. Eight times the 30 years old Italian won the world champion chip, he won in all classes and leads this year also in the rankings.
Four victories in nine racse, 101 successes altogether – a balance, which should deserve the highest respect. After its recent triumph Rossi did not sit on the podium, he was beaming with happiness.

It was fantastically there outside, it was unbelievable fun.

A relaxed and content man

The others racers however looked rather stressed, you could see the “work” they delivered for the last hour racing a genius like Rossi.

The distance between us becomes ever smaller, and in the future I can perhaps also win

said the 22 year old Lorenzo. In round 26 he pulled past on Rossi, but three rounds later the man with the world-wide known number 46 successfully counteracted. Almost it had the appearance, as if Rossi knew exactly that nobody would take this victory from him.

Of historical note is that this game matches up two franchises that were merged into a single team for the 1944 season, in response to the depleted rosters during World War II.

BBC Radio 5 Live will carry the game in the UK, with Arlo White commentating.

Rossi on interview:

For me it has been fantastic. It´s the first time that I´ve been able to win here, and it was an unbelievable race. The crew made some modifications and I was able to take a much better pace. I had a good start, then a great battle with Casey, which was a lot of fun. It´s an important victory –very emotional- and now in the summer break we will relax, because the championship is so long.

Prices of certification courses often range from $100 to more than $350. There is such a broad range because different courses include different things. It’s essential to find out every last morsel that is included in a course, because that $100 course can end up costing you more than the $350 one.
Ask about textbooks and dive tables, log books; equipment (students usually provide their own mask, snorkel, fins and booties, but rental fees for other equipment–like B.C.’s, regulators and tank–are usually included); boat fees; open-water dives; and the certification card (including picture).

The Burton european Open were held last week in Laax, but I had no time to get there…

After nearly a meter of snow fell in Laax over the last weekend, no clouds just blue sky, unveiling a perfect snow and untouched powder on the surrounding slopes.

Map of Laax, Swiss

Time loses its meaning, if in between sunrise and sunset it’s bright enough, thus like it enough that the surfer can get the enough wave speed to ride into the ocean.

Tonight, from a room only Dickens could love
Wearing moth-eaten sweaters and gloves
We will open the window and feel an on-shore wind
A-blowing in
Grab our boards from the back of our van
Paddle out ’til we can’t see the sand
Spin around and drop into the wave we hope will never end

Tyson info:

- Box records
- J.C Oates on Tyson
- Tyson’s persona
- Photo gallery
- Quotes

After D’Amato died, everything in Tyson’s private life went wrong: marriage to the low profile actress Robin Givens, the unfortunate liason with Don King and his career end at the fight with contender James “Buster” Douglas in Tokyo, 1990, forced by the mob. The betting at this time were 42–1 favorising Tyson, while confirmed info talks about a ten million US Dollar bet against Tyson. Count: 10 million with a 42-1 scheme, enough money to lay down.

Since then Tyson had no hand against the mob, followed by an arranged rape conviction in July 1991. After the unholy Douglas fight and the prison iron mike’s career was dead. Period.

Hum, now I need just a few bucks to get this metallic brown in color, with beige leather interior beauty previously owned by Steve McQueen, perhaps a donate button?

Apropos McQueen: forget those nowadays “cool” film actors, Travolta? A fat guy in a plane, the Coen Bros should make a movie about it.

Cruise? A control freak which is controlled from an obscure church.

Clooney? He likes Rock Hudson, don’t he?

Go back in time to find a REAL rival for McQueen: Robert Michum. Period.

Ever wondered how those high prized cars look like, when they are crashed? Especially the Porsche Carrera GT, which is a supercar worth $ 444,400 US Dollar.

Engine: using the 5.5L V10 from the prototype in a concept car shown at the 2000 Geneva Motor Show, producing 612 DIN (605 SAE) horsepower (450 kW) while the original concept car featured a 5.5 litre version rated at 558 hp (416 kW), includes a pure carbon fiber monocoque and subframe. Fun.

What a shame: kicking a highly acclaimed racer from the team, remember: Loris stayed with Ducati when the bikes were merely shitty to drive, and now, when the success is onboard, those hunchbacks are kicking him out, Shame on you DUCATI. <

a title="Con le foto di Macio, le notizie dal team, approfondimenti sul pilota, le novità sui gran premi e il MacioNetRace, gioco online per appassionati di corse." href="http://www.marcomelandri.it/">Marco Melandri is a good driver, but not as good as the winner of three World Championships and more than 20 Grand Prix victories, Loris Capirossi is one of the most experienced and best-loved characters in MotoGP. The Italian has been renowned for his all-action riding style ever since he first started competing at world level 16(!) years ago.

Below is the best of Loris Capirossi:

Wow, terrific, the noise, the sound, the look, the feel. It started at friday with the practice, then the qualifying at saturday followed by the magnificient race on sunday, where Alonso passed the slower running Massa in the last fifth round.
More coverage about the race at Eurosport.
Tarantino was there too, fortunately we didn’t met this twat, although we had some nice back pass “borrowed” from a friend.

Some interesting photos and videos about the Nuerburgring and the Nordschleife, view the satellite map, an onboard video of a one lap at the GP track and some statistics.

Lurking for deeper information about the cartoon, I’ve found the wikipedia article, the ACME site, the Road Runner show page, where I found the following:

If you’re on a highway and Road Runner goes beep-beep!
Just step aside, or you might end up in heap!
Road Runner, Road Runner runs on the road all day.
Even the Coyote can’t make him change his ways.

Sounds a bit like the sponsor hunting at the WordPress themeviewer right now…

Plymouth, a division of the Chrysler Corporation, released in the year 1970 this supercool Muscle car with a 426-cid Hemi engine, costs for Plymouth were $50,000 US Dollar (at that time) for the rights to use the Road Runner name and other bells and whistles ( beep – beep horn ).

Vale did it at the same corner with Edwards, Pedrosa and Hayden, thus the overtake gave him a clear track to the first place. What a pace…Now there shouldn’t be anymore rumours about Rossi turning to Ferrari (Hoax anyway), if you saw how Rossi celebrated his outstanding victory started from the 11th position in the grid.

About 10k cars, representing every model from every era, participated in the global journey, while the "Ferrari 60 Relay" was welcomed in each of the countries it passed with a gift dedicated to Ferrari. The 58 gifts are to be put to a charity auction and the money will be donated to children’s hospitals in Modena and Bologna.

The historical F1 cars entered the race track: from the 1947 125 S to the 2006 248 F1, all of them driven by former and actual Ferrari drivers: Ivan Capelli (with a 1932 Alfa Romeo P3), Nino Vaccarella (1040 Auto Avio Costruzioni 815), Luca Badoer (375 F1), Gerhard Berger (500 F2), Andrea De Adamich (Dino 166 F2), Felipe Massa (312 T), Jody Scheckter (312 T4), René Arnoux (126 C4), Jean Alesi (F1-90), Michael Schumacher (F2004), Kimi Raikkonen (F2007) and again Schumacher with the FXX. Piero Ferrari drove some laps with the 125 S, the first car ever built at the works in Maranello in the year 1947.

Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo waved as he arrives on the company’s track during a relay for the celebration of Ferrari’s 60th anniversary in the Italian town of Fiorano June 23, 2007.

A few tech gadgets for the

BEST VOTED SPORTS MOTORCYCLE OF 2007

The Testastretta Evoluzione engine is the crowning glory of Ducatis development and perfection of the L-Twin engine. World Superbike dominance for the last 15 years is the result of continual commitment to twin-cylinder technology and the 1098 Testastretta Evoluzione, the most powerful twin-cylinder production engine in history, is a fitting reward to our engineers continued ingenuity.

Now check more tech or watch the video:

Drive safely, the life you safe could be mine

Friday started with halfway good weather, no rain and good winds.
Saturday was rainy and cold (9degrees), but terriffic winds and good loops.
More info and webcams at Desenzano del Garda.
Looks like still bad weather conditions.

These three races are considered as a Triple Crown of the most famous automobile races in the world. Graham Hill is the only driver to have completed the Triple Crown, by winning all three races. The practice sessions for Monaco had overlapped with that for the Indianapolis 500 in the past years, the races themselves sometimes clashed too, but nowadays race drivers can asign to both races.

This is an attempt on a cool wallpaper for the Mustang GT. Listen to the original sound of a Mustang
GT.

Download the Ford Mustang wallpaper here.

If you want to know more about kitesurfing, here are some related faq’s:

• Can I relaunch the kite from the water?
• Can I use the kite to pull me on snow or ice?
• more…

In other news pagerank was updated this we, now milo has a nice and nifty pagerank of six.

- Technorati is still indexing milo the wrong way, wrote them several mails, but they kept insisting that I have to change some permalinks. Weirdo, if i do this, then big G won’t show the right search results anymore, only blankpages…

Weather: sunny / 18 degrees

Car: Jag XK8 convertible

Destination: Lago di Garda

Byebye…

What a beautiful car, it’s more an art sculpture than a chassis on wheels.

Vale has done it again: Rossi rules again the Moto GP: From second on the grid Rossi overtook Pedrosa at the kick start and accelerated into a lead for the whole duration of the 27-lap race.

With this fulminant victory ended his longest winless barren spell of five races stretching back to Malaysian GP (Home of Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix. Provides events, online tickets purchase, photo gallery and track information) last year and Rossi’s in a nine-point championship lead.

Felipe Massa is eyeing pole position for the Australian Grand Prix after going fastest on the opening day of practice on Friday.

This Artwork created by using two of the official F1 posters, my imagination and Photoshop. Copyrighted!