There was ecstasy and agony at Iowa Speedway after Josef Newgarden crashed out of the lead, handing Pato O’Ward his second IndyCar Series win of the year. It was a strong race for antipodeans Will Power, Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon who occupied second, third and fourth respectively. It marked back-to-back second place finishes for …
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Colton Herta says he won’t be getting a haircut any time soon despite it obscuring his vision after a balaclava failure in the latest IndyCar Series race. The Andretti Autosport driver started the 85-lap race at Exhibition Place from pole position but was usurped early on by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon who went on …
Nick Cassidy has claimed his first FIA Formula E World Championship race win despite crashing in the New York E-Prix opener. In arguably the most chaotic close to a Formula E race, the New Zealander was declared the winner after racing was halted before reaching the checkered flag. The Envision Racing driver led the lion’s …
The Repco Supercars Championship has earmarked its return to the streets of Newcastle in 2023, though its fixture on the calendar beyond that is up for debate. Supercars organizers have confirmed a proposed March 10-12 date with the local council for the fourth edition of the Newcastle 500. The championship hasn’t featured at the Newcastle …
“What do you think the rate of Covid-19 is for us?” This is the question that many Black people living in Berlin asked me at the beginning of March 2020. The answer: We don’t know. Unlike other countries, notably the United States and the United Kingdom, the German government does not record racial identity information …
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RuPaul might have drag racebut she’s not the only mogul in the drag world. Several years ago, after spending hours listening to a Golden Girls recap podcast while stuck in a Burning Man traffic jam, two former drag race contestants—Alaska and Willam—decided to strike out on their own. “We were like, ‘Why don’t we do …
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Second, Tomashenko says, researchers are looking at distributed and federated learning—where your data doesn’t leave your device but machine learning models still learn to recognize speech by sharing their training with a bigger system. Another approach involves building encrypted infrastructure to protect people’s voices from snooping. However, most efforts are focused on voice anonymization. Anonymization …
Two-time Bathurst 1000 champion Will Davison says his team has figured out what went wrong at the recent Winton round of the Supercars championship, following a nightmare weekend for Dick Johnson Racing. Davison, who sits fourth in the championship, finished 11th, 14th and 10th in the three races, having gone 2nd, 2nd, 6th, 1st and …
An enormous crowd of up to 300,000 fans is expected for Monday’s (AEST) Indianapolis 500, one of the world’s truly iconic motorsport events. On the starting grid will be three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin, the New Zealander who is enjoying a strong sophomore IndyCar season and sits third on the championship standings behind Australia’s Will …
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IndyCar officials will spend the next few days collecting information and gathering advice about improving aeroscreen visibility for races held in the rain. Many of the series drivers complained at the weekend that they struggled to see other cars late in the IndyCar Grand Prix — even though each has flashing red lights. It was …