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Archive for October, 2010

It’s the last race-free weekend of the 2010 season. What are you doing with yours? Have your say in the comments.

Here’ today’s round-up:

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Williams indicates Hulkenberg will stay next season (BBC)

Frank Williams: “It was a little disappointing, maybe, in the first few races, perhaps because he was being over-cautious. But lately he has become very competitive and we have just seen the beginning of something exceptional.”

Schu ‘very impressed’ with Merc spirit (ITV-F1)

“The season is coming to an end and I have to say that I am very impressed with how our guys have coped with it, especially in the last few flyaway races. Even though we have not had any big developments recently, we have still delivered promising performances.”

‘I crossed myself and faced Modena’ (ESPN)

Stirling Moss: “When you’re 20 years old and you’re asked to go to meet Ferrari you cross yourself and face Modena. It’s a big deal.”

Comment of the day

DB was in the stands at Korea:

Sunday was cold and rainy as you probably saw on TV. It wasnt that it was raining hard, just that it never stopped sprinkling from the night before so the track could never dry out. We were sitting in the very top left corner of the grandstand facing the section between turns 9-10 as if you were facing the stands. You could probably see me standing there if you were able to slow down the footage enough. It really did get quite dark at the end of the race. On TV the cameras amplified all the ambient light but in reality the sun was set already. Lucky they finished when they did. /> DB

From the forum

Here’s a great question: Do drivers sneeze?

Site updates

The new design work has been finished and it should be implemented over the weekend.

Happy birthday!

No F1 Fanatic birthdays today. If you want a birthday shout-out tell us when yours is by emailling me, using Twitter or adding to the list here.

On this day in F1

This Michael Schumacher retrospective I wrote following his first retirement four years ago makes interesting reading since he’s returned. Particularly:

Fernando Alonso is a relentlessly fast, exceptionally professional driver cast in the Schumacher mould, only without the controversial edge.

Since writing that I think the ship has sailed on that last part.

Read more: F1 2006 Review: Michael Schumacher retrospective

Ever driven a beaten up car? That too, in uneven and slushy terrain? Heres your chance to live the experience! Paddock Hacks, the upcoming TV series produced by Top Shelf, takes a sneak peek into the practice of driving beaten-up cars into extinction on farm properties. The creative mind behind the show is David White, the former Central Hawke’s Bay man.

The series, which will feature the motorsport phenomenon, aims to showcase rural New Zealand and modified old cars in the craziest ways possible, and then thrashing them through mud, along river beds, or any accessible harsh terrain.

The teaser of the series, which has been posted on YouTube has already attracted more hits numbering more than half a lakh.

The pilot features David White driving blindfolded and it was shot at Takapau and Waipawa. “New Zealand …New Zealand men … New Zealand cars … one sport … one TV show … Paddock Hacks coming soon,” says the YouTube trailer.

The publicity material of the program says it is the usual weekend entertainment event of many people in New Zealand that has inspired the creation of such a television series.

Producer Top Shelf has pointed out that this is a show made for everyone who loves the smell of petrol and New Zealand’s can-do attitude. The series will travel throughout New Zealand.

Here’s the teaser for you:

The race is the oldest form of sport known to mankind, so it is not surprising that men began to race in automobiles almost as soon as they began to build them. The first automobile races were held at Narragansett, Rhode Island, before the year 1900, but automobiles would only go 10 or 12 miles an hour then, so the races were not very exciting. Race horses go more than twice that fast. However, by 1902 a man had gone faster than a mile a minute in an automobile (it was William K. Vanderbilt of New York, a very rich man who later built a fine automobile race track on Long Island).

The most famous racing driver of the early automobile years was named Barney Oldfield. Henry Ford’s business of selling automobiles was not making money, so Ford decided to make a fast racing car and try to win prize money in races. He built the car, which he called “Number 999,” and Barney Oldfield drove it for him and won several races. In 1911 a group of automobile manufacturers built an automobile race track at Indianapolis, Indiana, so that new ideas for automobiles could be tested. The track was of hardwood, oval in shape and 2V2 miles around. Since then, every year on Memorial Day (May 30), the biggest of all automobile races has been held on this track, which is now asphalt-covered It is a 500-mile race. The average speed of the winning car has risen gradually, from 74 Vi miles per hour in 1911 to almost 131 miles per hour in 1954. Smaller races were held at fair grounds all over the United States, on the same tracks that were used for horse races.

These were called “dirttrack races,” and they were very dangerous. Since the 1930s, “stock-car races” have been more popular. These are also races on dirt tracks, but closed cars-sedans and coupes-are used. In the old dirt-track races, open cars were used and many drivers were killed when their cars skidded and turned over. In closed cars they are much safer. The “stock cars” are not really the same as the regular automobiles that people buy for personal use, because the engines are changed to make them faster. The speeds in stock-car races are not nearly as high as they are in the Indianapolis races, but the cars often go more than 100 miles an hour. “Midget racers” were once very popular.

These are tiny open cars, just barely big enough to hold the driver. Because they are so small, they seem to be going very fast even when the speed is only 40 to 60 miles an hour. Midget races, too, are very dangerous to the driver, and stock-car races have taken their place. Some drivers have preferred to race “against time” and not against other cars. The favorite place for trying to set speed records is Bonneville, Utah, on the hard “salt flats” near the Great Salt Lake. Another favorite place is the hard sandy beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. The driver gets a start, then races a mile and is timed; he turns around and races the mile in the other direction. This is so the wind cannot help him. The average time of the two runs is his record. John R. Cobb, in 1947, set a record of a little over 394 miles an hour, at Bonneville. Before Before that, Sir Malcolm Campbell, an Englishman, had held the record. Going in one direction, Cobb went faster than 400 miles an hour.

Introduction

This databook shows how the light vehicle aftermarket has developed and is forecast to evolve in the next 5 years. It quantifies the size and segmentation of the market. The report details the market dynamics for key fast moving aftermarket products by product family (tyres, service parts, wear and tear parts, mechanical parts, consumables and accessories, and crash repair.).

Scope

*Value of the aftermarket at retail prices, both for “”parts only”" and for “”parts and labour”" (i.e. including fitting charges)

*Value of aftermarket by product family – tyres; service parts; wear & tear parts; mechanical parts; consumables / accessories; crash repair parts

*Market volume by product family along with replacement rates

Highlights

In an increasingly competitive aftermarket, review the prospects for growth in the market. Understand how market volume and value for key products are forecast to evolve.

Reasons to Purchase

*Discover quantitative trends affecting the market, including changes in market size, volumes and values by product, and shifts in replacement rates

*Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting

Table of Contents :

OVERVIEW 1
Catalyst 1
Summary 1
INTRODUCTION 7
Reasons to purchase 7
FRENCH AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET OVERVIEW 10
Aftermarket overview, 200414 10
Aftermarket retail value by product family, 200414 12
FRENCH AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET PRODUCT ANALYSIS 16
Tyres value and volume analysis 16
Service parts value and volume analysis 20
Wear and tear parts value and volume analysis 27
Mechanical parts value and volume analysis 35
Consumables and accessories value and volume analysis 41
Crash repair parts value and volume analysis 47
APPENDIX 55
Further reading 55
How to contact experts in your industry 55

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Automotive aftermarket overview, France, parts value (m) and labor value (m), 200414 10
Figure 2: Automotive aftermarket, France, value by product family (m), 200408 12
Figure 3: Automotive aftermarket, France, value by product family (m), 200914 14
Figure 4: Automotive aftermarket, France, tyres value (m) and volume (units, 000s), 200408 16
Figure 5: Automotive aftermarket, France, tyres value (m) and volume (units, 000s), 200914 18
Figure 6: Automotive aftermarket, France, service parts value by product type (m), 200408 20
Figure 7: Automotive aftermarket, France, service parts value by product type (m), 200914 22
Figure 8: Automotive aftermarket, France, service parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200408 24
Figure 9: Automotive aftermarket, France, service parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200914 26
Figure 10: Automotive aftermarket, France, wear and tear parts value by product type (m), 200408 27
Figure 11: Automotive aftermarket, France, wear and tear parts value by product type (m), 200914 29
Figure 12: Automotive aftermarket, France, wear and tear parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200408 31
Figure 13: Automotive aftermarket, France, wear and tear parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200914 33
Figure 14: Automotive aftermarket, France, mechanical parts value by product type (m), 200408 35
Figure 15: Automotive aftermarket, France, mechanical parts value by product type (m), 200914 37
Figure 16: Automotive aftermarket, France, mechanical parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200408 39
Figure 17: Automotive aftermarket, France, mechanical parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200914 40
Figure 18: Automotive aftermarket, France, consumables and accessories value by product type (m), 200408 41
Figure 19: Automotive aftermarket, France, consumables and accessories value by product type (m), 200914 43
Figure 20: Automotive aftermarket, France, consumables and accessories volume by product type (units, 000s), 200408 45
Figure 21: Automotive aftermarket, France, consumables and accessories volume by product type (units, 000s), 200914 46
Figure 22: Automotive aftermarket, France, crash repair parts value by product type (m), 200408 47
Figure 23: Automotive aftermarket, France, crash repair parts value by product type (m), 200914 49
Figure 24: Automotive aftermarket, France, crash repair parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200408 51
Figure 25: Automotive aftermarket, France, crash repair parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 200914 53

For more information, please visit :

http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/Automotive-Aftermarket-in-France-Product-Analysis-to-2014-46328.html

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