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...Meanwhile, the organisers of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a 20-lap race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, showed off a driverless race car they called “the fastest autonomous vehicle ever developed”....
...This week, the Indianapolis-based real estate company began selling €750m ($1.02bn) of euro-denominated seven-year bonds....
...It is five years since the last F1 race in the US, on an Indianapolis speedway track, and the sport has always attracted smaller audiences in the US than in Europe....
...International Speedway Corporation is the largest operator in the country, with the Daytona Speedway and a dozen other tracks....
...General Motors and Ford are mining a rich new source of marketing buzz for their vehicles at this year’s Detroit car show....
...F1 dropped the race from its calendar in 2007, two years after a dismal showing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when seven of the 10 teams failed to race due to risk of tyre failure....
...There are also two 1960s Carreras with dials printed with the logo of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and even models designed for boating, such as a Solunar from 1976 and a Skipper from 1974....
...Mr Saunders singled out cutbacks by the three Detroit-based carmakers – General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler – which are heavily involved in the sport....
...It offers the biggest purse of any motor race – a record $18.7m this year – and attracts the biggest television audience....
...More radically, a Hydrogen Electric Racing Federation has been launched in North America following a meeting of senior figures including Tony George, chief executive of Indianapolis motor speedway....
...General Motors has agreed to sell Allison Transmission, an Indianapolis-based maker of transmissions for commercial trucks and military vehicles, to two private-equity firms for $5.6bn....
...In the US the cards have been used to promote ticket sales by the Indianapolis 500 motor race and by the US Tennis Association....
...The car racing stereotype is one of good ol’ boys in Carolina body shops, drenched in motor oil and guzzling beer....
...The Bus rumbling to victory in the Motor City – it does have an undeniable ring to it....
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