September 17, 2009 9:28 AM

Audi TDI® clean diesel featured on “How It’s Made”

HERNDON, Va., Sep 17, 2009 - Audi today announced that TDI clean diesel technology will be a featured segment on the Discovery Communications program, “How It’s Made” premiering on Science Channel on Friday, September 18, 2009, 9 p.m. ET/PT, with an encore broadcast on the Discovery Channel on Thursday, September 24, 2009, 7:30 and 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.

- Featured content includes Q7 TDI® clean diesel engine manufacturing
- TDI segment debuts on Science Channel on Sept 18 with encore broadcasts on Discovery Channel on Sept 24
- Audi launching two TDI clean diesel models in the USA within a year

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December 9, 2008 6:11 AM

PORSCHE, DALLARA and LIFELINE FIRE & SAFETY SYSTEMS

RACETECH 2008 Award Winners

World Motorsport Symposium Award winners

Porsche's Thomas Laudenbach, Dallara's Dialma Zinelli and Lifeline boss Jim Morris were all present in Oxford to receive the World Motorsport Symposium awards, organised by the publishers of RACE TECH, Bernoulli and Moto Tech magazines, that honoured their achievements in 2008.

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March 25, 2008 9:13 PM

LEADING ENGINEER IN CAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO WORK WITH NHRA ON FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS

L. Daniel Metz, Ph.D., P.E., to work with world’s largest sanctioning body on car and motorcycle vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics and accident reconstruction

GLENDORA, Calif. (March 25, 2008)

NHRA has retained the services of L. Daniel Metz, Ph.D., P.E., to provide valuable technical analysis and engineering expertise to the sanctioning body on short- and long-term initiatives in both the professional and sportsman categories.

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March 20, 2008 9:38 PM

It Happened Yesterday: Demon Carburetors on How It’s Made

After eleven hours of filming, the Montreal-based documentary makers of How it’s Made completed their work at Demon Carburetion. They spent the morning in the assembly areas, and in the afternoon, they filmed extensively in the machine shops and in the wet-flow room. They finished the show with engine-bay footage of a Demon carburetor in operation. With almost 600 short films produced, the Demon carburetor segment will be the first to represent our industry.