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Virgin enters 2014 Formula E championship: worth a watch?

By Damion Smy First Official Pictures 05 December 2013 12:59 Sir Richard Branson will back a Virgin-entered car in the 2014 Formula-E championship, it's been announced today (5 December 2013). It's the ninth confirmed entry for the all-electric racing series, which gets underway in September 2014. But is this high-profile entry enough to make the championship credible to motor racing fans?

Top Indian cars fail crash safety tests

SEVERAL of India's most popular small cars have failed independent crash tests, a global car safety watchdog said. David Ward, head of the London car-safety watchdog Global NCAP, which performed the crash tests, said the car industry in India lacked adequate safeguards. Four of five small cars popular on the Indian market last year, including the famous Tata Nano, failed the crash tests.

NASCAR: Sprint Cup stars in Pennsylvania, Nationwide Series runs in Iowa

NASCAR's three-race, two-venue weekend has a somewhat different face now that Carl Edwards has re-signed with Roush Fenway Racing and Brad Keselowski has been told to skip the weekend's Nationwide Series race in Iowa. And what's with those big-time Sprint Cup stars running the Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway? Edwards is at Pocono all day Friday and part of Saturday to prepare for Sunday afternoon's Good Sam Emergency 500.