The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of Dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
When the race begins, all one can see is the rowers of each team driving their boats forward in unison to the beat of drums. The winning team is the one that first grabs the flag at the end of the river course and the difference between victory and defeat may be only a few fractions of a second. The energy and excitement of the race attracts thousands of spectators, who watch from the river bank cheering on their favorite team.
Dragon Boat Festival is highlighted by the dragon boat races, in which competing teams drive their boats forward rowing to the rhythm of pounding drums. This lively and colorful tradition has continued unbroken for centuries to the present day.
The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
The most popular dish during Dragon Boat Festival is tzung tzu, originally eaten in memory of the patriot Chu Yuan, but gradually evolving into a snack eaten during normal occasions as well.
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The Indy Japan 300 has a new champion. After Dan Wheldon monopolized the championship for the last two years, a new winner has raised: Helio Castroneves. The pilot claimed his second straight win of the season on the IndyCar Series. The first one was the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
Dan Wheldon was on the run towards becoming the first IndyCar Series pilot to triumph three straight years at the same track, but it just wouldn’t happen because Castroneves had different plans.
This is the first time Castroneves wins in Japan. He stood out from the other drivers during the 200 lap race. By the moment he crossed the finish line last year’s champion: Dan Wheldon was 6.3851 seconds away.
When Castroneves assured his victory, he got out of his strong Dallara car, and with his own traditional celebration, he climbed the fence to show everyone he had won at the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi circuit north of Tokyo.
The 93 points that the pilot had accumulated during the IRL championship worked out just fine for him as he got to start the race from the pole position. This, but most of all his driving skills helped him to lead for 184 laps and finally obtain the victory over all the other pilots.
Dan Wheldon was on the run towards becoming the first IndyCar Series pilot to triumph three straight years at the same track, but it just wouldn’t happen because Castroneves had different plans.
This is the first time Castroneves wins in Japan. He stood out from the other drivers during the 200 lap race. By the moment he crossed the finish line last year’s champion: Dan Wheldon was 6.3851 seconds away.
When Castroneves assured his victory, he got out of his strong Dallara car, and with his own traditional celebration, he climbed the fence to show everyone he had won at the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi circuit north of Tokyo.
The 93 points that the pilot had accumulated during the IRL championship worked out just fine for him as he got to start the race from the pole position. This, but most of all his driving skills helped him to lead for 184 laps and finally obtain the victory over all the other pilots.
A tragic crash took away Paul Dana’s life during the Indy Race opening day at the Homestead-Miami Speedway last Sunday.
Ed Carpenter lost control and crashed his car against the wall and after some spinning ended up in the middle of the race track. Most of the drivers got to avoid hitting Carpenter’s car but Dana couldn’t. He crashed at an approximated speed of 200 miles an hour during the final warm up for the season–opening race.
Paul Dana who was 30 years old died just before noon. This was the first time Dana raced for the Rahal Letterman Racing Team. After the awful accident during the Toyota Indy 300 the other two teammates: Danicka Patrick and Buddy Rice wouldn’t participate in the race out of respect for Dana.
Carpenter suffered of a bruised lung, and was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Monday. According to a statement he is awake and alert.
What everybody is wondering now is why Dana didn’t see the signs. Yellow lights where there to let him know something was happening and he should be careful.
IRL President Brian Barnhart declared that even when the series didn’t call it an investigation, they are looking into the accident: this includes reviewing video of the incident, skid marks on the track and the cars involved.
Ed Carpenter lost control and crashed his car against the wall and after some spinning ended up in the middle of the race track. Most of the drivers got to avoid hitting Carpenter’s car but Dana couldn’t. He crashed at an approximated speed of 200 miles an hour during the final warm up for the season–opening race.
Paul Dana who was 30 years old died just before noon. This was the first time Dana raced for the Rahal Letterman Racing Team. After the awful accident during the Toyota Indy 300 the other two teammates: Danicka Patrick and Buddy Rice wouldn’t participate in the race out of respect for Dana.
Carpenter suffered of a bruised lung, and was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Monday. According to a statement he is awake and alert.
What everybody is wondering now is why Dana didn’t see the signs. Yellow lights where there to let him know something was happening and he should be careful.
IRL President Brian Barnhart declared that even when the series didn’t call it an investigation, they are looking into the accident: this includes reviewing video of the incident, skid marks on the track and the cars involved.
Lewis Hamilton drove the team’s 2008 Formula 1 car, the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-23 for the first time today at the Jerez circuit. Lewis left the garage at 09:10 and completed over 456kms and 103 laps during the course of the day.
Lewis joined his new teammate, Heikki Kovalainen at the Spanish circuit for the first of four days of testing over the coming week. Heikki also passed the 100 lap mark, as the Finn clocked up a total of 101.
Following yesterday’s session, which saw Heikki and test driver Pedro de la Rosa take both MP4-23 chassis for their initial runs, work at the test saw Lewis and Heikki continue to focus on both drivers and team familiarising themselves with the 2008 challenger. Yesterday was the first time in the history of the team that it had completed two chassis for the first day of testing.
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Lewis joined his new teammate, Heikki Kovalainen at the Spanish circuit for the first of four days of testing over the coming week. Heikki also passed the 100 lap mark, as the Finn clocked up a total of 101.
Following yesterday’s session, which saw Heikki and test driver Pedro de la Rosa take both MP4-23 chassis for their initial runs, work at the test saw Lewis and Heikki continue to focus on both drivers and team familiarising themselves with the 2008 challenger. Yesterday was the first time in the history of the team that it had completed two chassis for the first day of testing.
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Auto Racing Now Has Its Very Own Social Networking Website
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Auto racing has become the number one spectator sport in America. It is also one of the largest participation sports as well. Local, short track stock car racing is thriving across the country as well as drag racing, road course racing, kart racing and drifting. The weekend, local track racer now has a place to call home on the internet at Racematrix.net.
Racematrix.net is a free community based social networking website for auto racers and their fans. Members build their own racing profile webpage, share photos, videos, news, forums, blogs and join groups. Members are assigned their very own URL (www)wed-address and can print it on to thier autograph cards, business cards and car. This address will take one directly to the racers webpage.
Members may also link to other websites they have as well as those of their sponsors. One could call this the MySpace or Facebook for auto racing.
Racematrix.net is open to all styles of auto racing. Groups have been formed for the following categories:
-Asphalt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds, Trucks
-Dirt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds
-Drag Racing
-Jr. Dragsters
-Sprint Car
-Midgets
-Quarter Midgets
-Thunder Roadsters
-Legends
-Bandoleros
-Drifting
-Road Course
-Off-road
-Demolition
-Kart Racing
As the community grows, more groups will be added.
Racematrix.net offers many key features for its members as well as for those just visiting the site. The home page offers a wide variety of the latest members, photos, videos and discussion topics. Once inside, the offerings are plentiful. The members profile page is a star feature. One has the option to build his or her profile page using a number of different templates or styles. The number of pictures and videos one may upload and display is unlimited.
The forums and blog sections gives the racematrix.net members the opportunity to teach and learn from one another we well as make new fellow racer friends, fans and in many cases, a mentor.
As with all member content based websites, racematrix.net is the place to go for an assortment of member submitted articles regarding all aspects of auto racing. Among the more popular forums are: Tech tips, Beginners advice, How to get started in auto racing and the Youth auto racing forum. Kids are starting to race cars at ages as young as five years old and this is a great forum for kids and parents with questions regarding safety issues, costs and expenses, etc.
As racematrix.net continues to grow, other features to the web community that are on the drawing board and in the works will be launched. The classifieds section offers everything for the racer from complete race car packages to finding or swapping parts. This will be the first next feature for the site. Other features include: a sponsor shopping package, a fan data base and messaging center. Also in the works is a race track locator/data base for all types of race tracks in the United States.
Check out the racematrix.net community now for a full, feature-rich experience for auto racers and their fans. Joining is fast and easy and will never cost a dime. No experience is needed to build your webpage either. Just fill in the blanks, add some photos and/ or videos of you and your car and your done! You then have a webpage of your very own to gain valuable exposure to the world about you and your race car!
Racematrix.net is a free community based social networking website for auto racers and their fans. Members build their own racing profile webpage, share photos, videos, news, forums, blogs and join groups. Members are assigned their very own URL (www)wed-address and can print it on to thier autograph cards, business cards and car. This address will take one directly to the racers webpage.
Members may also link to other websites they have as well as those of their sponsors. One could call this the MySpace or Facebook for auto racing.
Racematrix.net is open to all styles of auto racing. Groups have been formed for the following categories:
-Asphalt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds, Trucks
-Dirt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds
-Drag Racing
-Jr. Dragsters
-Sprint Car
-Midgets
-Quarter Midgets
-Thunder Roadsters
-Legends
-Bandoleros
-Drifting
-Road Course
-Off-road
-Demolition
-Kart Racing
As the community grows, more groups will be added.
Racematrix.net offers many key features for its members as well as for those just visiting the site. The home page offers a wide variety of the latest members, photos, videos and discussion topics. Once inside, the offerings are plentiful. The members profile page is a star feature. One has the option to build his or her profile page using a number of different templates or styles. The number of pictures and videos one may upload and display is unlimited.
The forums and blog sections gives the racematrix.net members the opportunity to teach and learn from one another we well as make new fellow racer friends, fans and in many cases, a mentor.
As with all member content based websites, racematrix.net is the place to go for an assortment of member submitted articles regarding all aspects of auto racing. Among the more popular forums are: Tech tips, Beginners advice, How to get started in auto racing and the Youth auto racing forum. Kids are starting to race cars at ages as young as five years old and this is a great forum for kids and parents with questions regarding safety issues, costs and expenses, etc.
As racematrix.net continues to grow, other features to the web community that are on the drawing board and in the works will be launched. The classifieds section offers everything for the racer from complete race car packages to finding or swapping parts. This will be the first next feature for the site. Other features include: a sponsor shopping package, a fan data base and messaging center. Also in the works is a race track locator/data base for all types of race tracks in the United States.
Check out the racematrix.net community now for a full, feature-rich experience for auto racers and their fans. Joining is fast and easy and will never cost a dime. No experience is needed to build your webpage either. Just fill in the blanks, add some photos and/ or videos of you and your car and your done! You then have a webpage of your very own to gain valuable exposure to the world about you and your race car!
Auto racing has become the number one spectator sport in America. It is also one of the largest participation sports as well. Local, short track stock car racing is thriving across the country as well as drag racing, road course racing, kart racing and drifting. The weekend, local track racer now has a place to call home on the internet at Racematrix.net.
Racematrix.net is a free community based social networking website for auto racers and their fans. Members build their own racing profile webpage, share photos, videos, news, forums, blogs and join groups. Members are assigned their very own URL (www)wed-address and can print it on to thier autograph cards, business cards and car. This address will take one directly to the racers webpage.
Members may also link to other websites they have as well as those of their sponsors. One could call this the MySpace or Facebook for auto racing.
Racematrix.net is open to all styles of auto racing. Groups have been formed for the following categories:
-Asphalt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds, Trucks
-Dirt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds
-Drag Racing
-Jr. Dragsters
-Sprint Car
-Midgets
-Quarter Midgets
-Thunder Roadsters
-Legends
-Bandoleros
-Drifting
-Road Course
-Off-road
-Demolition
-Kart Racing
As the community grows, more groups will be added.
Racematrix.net offers many key features for its members as well as for those just visiting the site. The home page offers a wide variety of the latest members, photos, videos and discussion topics. Once inside, the offerings are plentiful. The members profile page is a star feature. One has the option to build his or her profile page using a number of different templates or styles. The number of pictures and videos one may upload and display is unlimited.
The forums and blog sections gives the racematrix.net members the opportunity to teach and learn from one another we well as make new fellow racer friends, fans and in many cases, a mentor.
As with all member content based websites, racematrix.net is the place to go for an assortment of member submitted articles regarding all aspects of auto racing. Among the more popular forums are: Tech tips, Beginners advice, How to get started in auto racing and the Youth auto racing forum. Kids are starting to race cars at ages as young as five years old and this is a great forum for kids and parents with questions regarding safety issues, costs and expenses, etc.
As racematrix.net continues to grow, other features to the web community that are on the drawing board and in the works will be launched. The classifieds section offers everything for the racer from complete race car packages to finding or swapping parts. This will be the first next feature for the site. Other features include: a sponsor shopping package, a fan data base and messaging center. Also in the works is a race track locator/data base for all types of race tracks in the United States.
Check out the racematrix.net community now for a full, feature-rich experience for auto racers and their fans. Joining is fast and easy and will never cost a dime. No experience is needed to build your webpage either. Just fill in the blanks, add some photos and/ or videos of you and your car and your done! You then have a webpage of your very own to gain valuable exposure to the world about you and your race car!
Racematrix.net is a free community based social networking website for auto racers and their fans. Members build their own racing profile webpage, share photos, videos, news, forums, blogs and join groups. Members are assigned their very own URL (www)wed-address and can print it on to thier autograph cards, business cards and car. This address will take one directly to the racers webpage.
Members may also link to other websites they have as well as those of their sponsors. One could call this the MySpace or Facebook for auto racing.
Racematrix.net is open to all styles of auto racing. Groups have been formed for the following categories:
-Asphalt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds, Trucks
-Dirt Oval: Late Model, Sportsman, Modifieds
-Drag Racing
-Jr. Dragsters
-Sprint Car
-Midgets
-Quarter Midgets
-Thunder Roadsters
-Legends
-Bandoleros
-Drifting
-Road Course
-Off-road
-Demolition
-Kart Racing
As the community grows, more groups will be added.
Racematrix.net offers many key features for its members as well as for those just visiting the site. The home page offers a wide variety of the latest members, photos, videos and discussion topics. Once inside, the offerings are plentiful. The members profile page is a star feature. One has the option to build his or her profile page using a number of different templates or styles. The number of pictures and videos one may upload and display is unlimited.
The forums and blog sections gives the racematrix.net members the opportunity to teach and learn from one another we well as make new fellow racer friends, fans and in many cases, a mentor.
As with all member content based websites, racematrix.net is the place to go for an assortment of member submitted articles regarding all aspects of auto racing. Among the more popular forums are: Tech tips, Beginners advice, How to get started in auto racing and the Youth auto racing forum. Kids are starting to race cars at ages as young as five years old and this is a great forum for kids and parents with questions regarding safety issues, costs and expenses, etc.
As racematrix.net continues to grow, other features to the web community that are on the drawing board and in the works will be launched. The classifieds section offers everything for the racer from complete race car packages to finding or swapping parts. This will be the first next feature for the site. Other features include: a sponsor shopping package, a fan data base and messaging center. Also in the works is a race track locator/data base for all types of race tracks in the United States.
Check out the racematrix.net community now for a full, feature-rich experience for auto racers and their fans. Joining is fast and easy and will never cost a dime. No experience is needed to build your webpage either. Just fill in the blanks, add some photos and/ or videos of you and your car and your done! You then have a webpage of your very own to gain valuable exposure to the world about you and your race car!
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