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Hendrick pays $1 million for first 2014 Corvette Stingray convertible

The first 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible sold Friday for $1 million at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Palm Beach, Fla., to car dealer and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick. Hendrick now has a pair of the seventh-generation Corvette after purchasing the first coupe for $1.05 million in January. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.

Toyota to unlock secrets of black-box recorders

Reacting to criticism that data from black-box crash recorders in its vehicles can be accessed only by the company, Toyota Motor Corp. is moving to ship hundreds of data-decoding machines to the United States and make them commercially available to help diagnose vehicle problems. The devices, known as event data recorders, are similar to the black boxes on airliners and record information such as vehicle and engine speed in the seconds before a crash.

India Grand Prix (2012) RESULT

Red Bull on the front row, McLaren on the second and Ferrari on the third. Can Vettel take another lights to flag win in the 2012 Indian F1 race? It was a nice simple starting grid for the 2012 Indian Grand Prix: Sebastian Vettel on pole with team mate Mark Webber alongside; Lewis Hamilton in third with Jenson Button alongside and Fernando Alonso in fifth with Felipe Massa alongside.