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2008 Delaware Co All Horse Parade

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Manchester Homecoming Parade 9-6-08 105

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The Iceberg 2.0 - Disney's Electrical Water Pageant

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BTCC greats attend Anniversary Celebrations at Silverstone

Classic cars, Vintage Racing, Classic Rally

- 13 hours and 29 minutes ago

Past Champions and legends from the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) were at Silverstone today to celebrate the 50th, 60th and 80th anniversaries of the BTCC, Silverstone and British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) respectively. The anniversary celebrations, which took place during Silverstone’s round of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship, involved a host of BTCC stars being reunited with some of the iconic cars that have graced the championship during its illustrious 50 year history.

The historic Northamptonshire circuit was also celebrating a milestone anniversary of its own â€“ 2008 marking 60 years since Silverstone hosted the first-ever Grand Prix in 1948 â€“ while the BRDC, of which many of the attending BTCC legends are members, was also celebrating its 80th Anniversary.Image (left): Jack Sears driving the 1958 Austin Westminster, followed by Bill McGovern in the Hillman Imp

Former BTCC Champions who attended the festivities included Jack Sears â€“ winner of the inaugural 1958British Saloon Car Championship, as it was known back then; 1961 Champion, Sir John Whitmore; 1965 Champion, Roy Pierpoint; three time Champion Bill McGovern â€“ 1970 to 1972 inclusive; Richard Longman â€“ Champion in 1978 and 1979; Andy Rouse â€“ winner of a record 60 races and four BTCC titles(1975, and 1983-1985 inclusive); and Chris Hodgetts â€“ ’86 and ’87 Champion.The Champions were also joined by a host of BTCC legends such as Jackie Oliver, Gordon Spice, Jeff Allam, Martin Thomas and Tony Dron, taking part in â€˜Meet and Greet’ sessions with the race day crowd, and jumping behind the wheel of the iconic classic BTCC cars for a celebratory Parade Lap around Silverstone’s National Circuit.In addition to the anniversary celebrations, and despite the inclement weather, a 27,000 strong crowd enjoyed three titanic battles in each of the BTCC races. Jason Plato won Race 1, with Fabrizio Giovanardiwinning Race 2 and BRDC Superstar Mat Jackson Race 3.

However, the biggest winner on the day waspossibly Italian driver Giovanardi, who tightened his grip on the 2008 Championship.Richard Phillips, Managing Director of Silverstone Circuits Limited, commented, “We have had a fantastic weekend of celebrations, both on and off the track. It was great to see the British Touring Car Championship back at the Home of British Motor Racing, and our shorter National Circuit produced its fair share of action and drama for the fans.” Speaking about the anniversary celebrations, Phillips added, “I would like to thank all of the drivers and car owners for their tremendous support today. It was fantastic to see so many legends and cars in the same place at the same time. “Celebrating three milestone anniversaries was always going to make this a special weekend and the atmosphere certainly lived up to expectations. The fans loved having the opportunity to meet the drivers -many of whom are Members of the BRDC, and all have extremely fond memories of racing here at Silverstone. They are all part of the circuit’s rich heritage and today has been a perfect tribute to the BTCC, Silverstone and the BRDC”.

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Succès de foule pour la City Parade

Everyone Needs To Calm Down

TechCrunch

- 15 hours and 37 minutes ago

I haven’t had a lot of time to jump into the fracas this weekend emerging about TechCrunch50 because the team has been busy organizing the conference and spending hours and hours working with the 52 startups that will be launching at the event to make sure their demos properly reflect what they’ve worked so hard to create.

But I do have a few things to say.

First, thanks to Chris O’Brien at the San Jose Mercury News who wrote such a great article on TechCrunch and the conference. What a wonderful, positive way to kick things off as we go into the craziness on Monday. He really gets what we’re trying to accomplish and how honored we are that these startups have chosen to launch at our event.

Second, I some of the press out there is starting to go a little crazy with the drama between TechCrunch50 and Demo. We’ve stated from the beginning that we think the DEMO format is unethical. If you are going to parade out a bunch of startups on a stage that paid you $18,500 each, you simply can’t say they’re the most qualified companies to be at the event. It’s just a lie. Here’s what they are: Sponsors. And here’s what’s going on: Payola.

We’re approaching the market in a straightforward and honest way. We aren’t charging companies to get on stage. We are charging people to attend. And we also have sponsors (really kick ass sponsors who get what we are trying to do). All of the economics are transparent, there is nothing hidden.

Most of the press gets this, and DEMO organizer Chris Shipley sounds like she’s about to blow a fuse over the fact that their business model is finally being questioned.

Third, CNET really needs to chill out about press coverage of the event. This $1.8 billion company has published at least four articles whining about the fact that we are not disclosing the companies launching at the event until Monday morning, and/or about the fact that TechCrunch the blog has some sort of unfair advantage in covering these startups launching at TechCrunch50.

We aren’t disclosing the names of the startups because we want the press to actually attend the event, not cover it from their office. We want them to hear the ooh’s and ahh’s (and maybe boo’s) from the audience first hand as they write their stories. We want them to actually participate. And based on last year’s coverage, the model works very well. I’m sorry if it doesn’t suit CNET, but it suits us and it suits the startups launching there very well. And when it comes to TechCrunch’s coverage, we’ll be sure to link out to all the quality third party coverage out there. Also, we’ll have critical company information on each launching startup available on CrunchBase starting Monday morning. CNET and everyone else is free to grab that data and use it however they like, with no requirement of attribution (it’s not our data, it’s the startups’ data).

Finally, Can we please remember what’s important? There are 52 companies launching at TechCrunch50 this week, and they deserve their brief moments in the spotlight. These people have put their hearts and souls into creating whatever it is that their entrepreneurial spirit compelled them to create, and they only get to launch once. We’re putting on one hell of a show for them, and my sincere hope is that we can get all this political garbage out of the way today so that we can focus on what really matters at the event: the startups.

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