Risi Ferrari suffers gearbox blow

By Kevin Turner Saturday, June 12th 2010, 20:59 GMT

Risi Ferrari, Le Mans 2010Ferrari's chances of taking GT2 victory in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours have suffered a blow, with the leading Risi Competizione entry hitting trouble in the eighth hour.

The #82 430 had spent the last few hours exchanging the lead with the #64 Chevrolet Corvette. Jaime Melo was fighting Corvette driver Oliver Gavin when he started suffering from an intermittent gear selection problems.

Melo has now brought the car in and the team expects the delay to be a lengthy one.

Risi's problems mean that Chevrolet is currently one-two in GT2, Jan Magnussen now running around a minute behind Gavin.

The leading Ferrari is now the #95 AF Corse car that is fighting the #77 Felbermayr Porsche for third at present.

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Pasadena's ESolar lands 2,000-megawatt deal in China

The firm will provide technology and assistance in setting up a series of solar farms for China, in the nation's first big venture into solar thermal power production.

ESolar Inc. of Pasadena signed an agreement Friday to build a series of solar thermal power plants in China with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts, in one of the largest renewable energy deals of its kind.

Coming four months after an Arizona company, First Solar, secured a contract to build an equally large photovoltaic power plant in China, the ESolar deal signals China's emergence as a major market for renewable energy.

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The Motorcycle of the Future Has Arrived

This is the MotoCzysz E1PC. It is electric. It is almost certainly the most advanced motorcycle on the planet. And it is the future.

We told you moto-genius Michael Czysz — pronounced sizz — was building another contender for the TT Zero electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. But we caught up with him early in the build and he wasn’t providing details or pics. Now that the bike’s hit the track, Wes Siler of Hell For Leather has all the details on the MotoCzysz E1PC in a piece posted over at Popular Science.

This bike is bad-ass, 

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Another New Old Car Coming From Morgan

Morgan Motor Co. is almost stubbornly retro and thoroughly contemporary at the same time. It combines the classic styling of the 1930s and 40s with current drivetrains in utterly unique sports cars. That tradition continues with the EvaGT, a sleek 40-mpg 2+2 that Morgan calls “a new concept for a sporting family.”

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