The 26-year-old Patrick won in her 50th career IndyCar start, taking the lead from Castroneves on the 198th lap in the 200-lap race. picked by coldbladed 2 years ago

Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses. All teams were given the rules 24 hours in advance of the start of the race (10a EST on Friday). The rules include route requirements (such as two a... read full post picked by dfelteau 3 years ago

Senator John Goedde sponsored a bill to sharply increase fines in Idaho for speeding in school zones...

...Can you see where this is going? picked by muppet 2 years ago

A leatherback turtle called Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 5 to 6 kilometres per hour, organisers say. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The UN has entered a new race of people on our earth based on the definition of the word. The new race which is one of the largest on our planet is the new Geek race. As always with races comes racism and the UN have quickly defined racist terms for the new race which include retard, noob and nerd. picked by Richye 3 years ago

A car speeding 100 miles an hour launched into the air, flew across a road and slammed into a Beaverton apartment in a fiery crash Thursday night. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Sets record for speeding ticket in USA.
The story is old, but this is an analysis of whether such a feat is possible.
The pilot managed to clock both Tilley @ 205 and his friend @ 111 at the same time, using two stopwatches while flying a plane.
Update here picked by Skippii 2 years ago

Patrick Stewart was a witness to his father's repeated acts of violence on his mother. Being a child he felt incapable of stopping it. Here he discusses how such horrors has stayed with him his adult life. picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago

Patrick McGoohan, best known for starring in cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

No one likes getting a speeding ticket in the post.

But when South Australian police sent one half way around the world to David Smart in northern England, the 65-year-old former surveyor was flabbergasted. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The original event, the Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt County, California, is also called the "Triathlon of the Art World" because art and engineering are combined with physical endurance during a three day cross country race that includes sand, mud, pavement, a bay crossing, a river crossing and major hills. (A Blog documenting the daily trials of the race, with many, many phot... read full post picked by psycmoe 2 years ago

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has been given only five weeks to live, a US magazine has claimed. picked by doggylives 2 years ago

Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. I cared very much for this actor. I'm so sorry he had to suffer and die young.

*Thanks to abandonedcouch for the news story link picked by equinox 6 months ago

As bizarre it may sound a university team in the UK has developed an eco-friendly race car designed to run on chocolate and vegetable oil. The new race car is the ecoF3 from WorldFirst, a small team from Warwick University in the UK, which envisages the car – or at least some of its technologies – one day being used in a FIA-sanctioned motorsport competition. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Russia is leading the race to complete a manned mission to Mars and could land a Russian on the Red Planet by 2025, a leading scientist was quoted as saying on Tuesday. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

What happens if, unhappy with the levels of violence, killing, easy sex and loose morals in video games, you decide to make your own without any of these things.

Hopefully you'd do better than The Zoo Race, but perhaps not. After all, it has won awards.

And not one of them for worst game ever. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist. picked by eljay 2 years ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 14-year-old girl riding in a mountain bike race was attacked in the dark of night by a Grizzly bear Sunday and severely injured, but she was able to make a brief 911 call that eventually resulted in her rescue.

Detailed account here picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

The event itself, now in its third year, takes place on Sunday 6 September 2009 when thousands of plastic ducks will be launched into the Thames to race down a 1km course from Molesey Lock to the finish line at The Sherriff Boat Club on Albany Reach. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Here are a few depressing facts: •Only 8% of white American high-schoolers have a best friend of another race. (For blacks, it’s about 15%.) •The more diverse a school is, the less likely it is that kids will form cross-race friendships. •75% of white parents never or almost never talk about race with their kids.•A child’s attitudes toward race are much harder... read full post picked by cecilberman 1 month ago