Nico Rosberg closed the gap on Mercedes team-mate and Formula 1 world championship leader Lewis Hamilton to 10 points with a dominant victory in the Austrian Grand Prix.
The German dived down the inside of pole-sitter Hamilton at Turn 1 to snatch the lead and despite suffering tyre vibrations in the closing stages he held on to take his third win of the year.
Hamilton, who had five seconds added to his race time for crossing the white line at the pitlane exit, finished second with Williams's Felipe Massa scoring his first podium of the year in third after Sebastian Vettel was delayed at his pitstop.
Fernando Alonso described his rather early Austrian Grand Prix crash with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen as "scary" and "strange" after his McLaren Formula 1 car ended up perched on Kimi's Ferarri.
Raikkonen seems to have lost control under acceleration out of Turn 2 on the first lap of the Red Bull Ring race and collected Alonso, resulting both cars being pushed into the barriers.
"I was in the wrong place," said Alonso.
"It was a very strange incident because he lost the car in fifth gear or something like that.
"Obviously it was quite scary.
"Kimi started with the prime [soft] tyre and had a lot of wheelspin out of Turn 2.
"The car was moving left, right, left, right, with a lot of wheelspin.
"We were overtaking him left and right - all the cars - and then he lost the car on the left and I was on the left at that point and we crashed.
"I could not see anything because with the seat position I was looking only at the sky and then I looked in the mirror and when I stopped I saw the car under my car.
"I jumped quickly and checked that he was OK."
Both drivers escaped without injuries in the accident but paid precautionary visits to the medical centre. The incident will be investigated by the stewards.
Raikkonen was left puzzled by the crash."I got some wheelspin and then went left, which was unusual so it's hard to say [what happened]," he said.
Alonso's team-mate Jenson Button had been right behind the collision and said it was frightening to watch.
"It looked like Kimi tried to get on the power - there's very low grip there - lost the rear and went one way and tried to correct and went the other way," he said.
Apple’s original iPad mini, the only non-Retina iPad still on sale, was quietly removed from Apple’s online store last night, as noted by 9to5Mac. Comparing the iPad section of the store between this morning and yesterday reveals that the first-gen iPad mini has been dropped from the comparison chart, too, leaving the iPad mini 2 and 3, as well as the iPad Air and iPad Air 2 as the current tablet options available to purchase new.
End-of-life for the original iPad mini doesn’t come as a surprise – the device was first released in 2012, and still used the original iPad resolution of 1024×768. It was the first 7.9-inch iPad created by Apple, and while it represented a denser display resolution than had been available on the 9.7-inch iPad with the same number of pixels, it didn’t qualify for Apple’s high-density ‘Retina’ display designation.
Rumours is spreading fast about a supposed 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee “Trackhawk” with the 707 horsepower Hellcat engine, AWD, and a ZF 8-speed automatic is really actually definitely on its way to production.
An unnamed sources say it’s called “Project K” at Jeep HQ and its supercharged 6.2 Hemi V8 will get it from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds. Top speed is estimated at 200 MPH. Judging from the figure provided, it going to be one hell of an awesome truck.
It’s also reported that the 6.4 liter Hemi-powered Grand Cherokee SRT is not only sticking around too, but it’s getting an outboost boost to 490 horsepower.
WASHINGTON-- Honda Motor Co. confirmed an eighth fatal victim of a ruptured Takata Corp. airbag inflator after completing the investigation of a September crash in Los Angeles. Jewel Brangman was driving a 2001 Honda Civic she had rented in August when the accident occurred. Of the eight deaths in Honda vehicles, seven were in the U.S. Eleven different manufacturers, under pressure from U.S. regulators, are recalling cars to fix Takata-made inflators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been trying to speed the pace of repairs for a lingering defect that's now estimated to affect about 34 million airbag inflators. Automakers and regulators have had trouble reaching every owner because the defect dates back years and many of the cars have changed hands. Company records show the owners of the car Brangman was driving had never repaired its airbags, even though the vehicle had been recalled multiple times. NHTSA investigators have also concluded the Los Angeles fatality was likely to have been caused by a Takata airbag inflator, the agency said Friday. "This latest confirmed case underscores the necessity of NHTSA's actions to ensure that every American vehicle has safe air bags," Mark Rosekind, the agency's administrator, said in a statement. "The fact that this was a rental vehicle that had not been remedied is more evidence for why we are seeking authority to prohibit sale or rental of any vehicle with an open safety recall."
Nico Rosberg closed the gap on Mercedes team-mate and Formula 1 world championship leader Lewis Hamilton to 10 points with a dominant victory in the Austrian Grand Prix.
