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WTCC: Rydell too ill to race in Marrakech

Written By limadu on Jumat, 17 April 2015 | 09.28

Thursday, April 16th 2015, 18:46 GMT

World Touring Car Championship returnee Rickard Rydell will miss the second round of the championship in Marrakech this weekend due to illness

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F1: Thursday press conference - Bahrain

Thursday, April 16th 2015, 18:14 GMT

DRIVERS - Sergio PEREZ (Force India), Max VERSTAPPEN (Toro Rosso), Will STEVENS (Manor), Pastor MALDONADO (Lotus), Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes), Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull)

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NASCAR: Newman's points penalty reduced

By Mark Glendenning Thursday, April 16th 2015, 21:03 GMT

NASCAR has upheld the penalties issued to Richard Childress Racing for tyre tampering on Ryan Newman's car at Fontana last month, although some have been reduced in severity

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F1: Williams must 'understand' soft tyre

Written By limadu on Kamis, 16 April 2015 | 09.28

By Lawrence Barretto Wednesday, April 15th 2015, 15:35 GMT

Williams needs to understand why it has struggled to make Formula 1's soft tyre work if it is to challenge Mercedes and Ferrari, says performance chief Rob Smedley

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DTM: Blomqvist keeps BMW on top on day two

By Mitchell Adam Wednesday, April 15th 2015, 16:41 GMT

Rookie Tom Blomqvist kept BMW on top in the second day of the DTM's final pre-season test at Oschersleben, leading fellow Brit Gary Paffett

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INDY: Hunter-Reay penalised for NOLA crash

By Mark Glendenning Wednesday, April 15th 2015, 18:56 GMT

Ryan Hunter-Reay has been docked points and placed on probation after IndyCar officials determined that the Andretti Autosport driver was responsible for the three-car accident that ended his race last weekend at NOLA

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DTM: Wittmann tops first day of last test

Written By limadu on Rabu, 15 April 2015 | 09.28

By Mitchell Adam Tuesday, April 14th 2015, 17:05 GMT

Reigning DTM champion Marco Wittmann led the way as BMW dominated the opening day of the final pre-season test at Oschersleben

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INDY: Servia in RLL return for Indy 500

By Mark Glendenning Tuesday, April 14th 2015, 19:18 GMT

Oriol Servia will renew his association with Rahal Letterman Lanigan next month after signing on to drive a second entry for the team in the Indianapolis 500

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INDY: Karam, Saavedra sharing Ganassi drive

By Mark Glendenning Tuesday, April 14th 2015, 19:52 GMT

Sage Karam and Sebastian Saavedra will share the fourth Chip Ganassi Racing entry for the remainder of the 2015 IndyCar season

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WEC: Nissan switches LMP1 testing focus

Written By limadu on Selasa, 14 April 2015 | 09.28

By Gary Watkins Monday, April 13th 2015, 14:22 GMT

Nissan is focusing on endurance testing as it resumes running its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 prototype today ahead of its race debut in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June

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F1: Red Bull takes comfort from Ferrari

By Ben Anderson and Lawrence Barretto Monday, April 13th 2015, 14:20 GMT

Red Bull boss Christian Horner says Ferrari's transformation back into a race-winning Formula 1 team is proof his team can turn its fortunes around too

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OTHER: Karthikeyan fully recovered from crash

By Edd Straw Monday, April 13th 2015, 16:34 GMT

Ex-Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan is confident that he heads into the 2015 Super Formula season fully recovered from the major accident he suffered last year

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GT: Lamborghini excluded from Monza win

Written By limadu on Senin, 13 April 2015 | 09.28

Sunday, April 12th 2015, 20:13 GMT

The new Lamborghini Huracan GT3 has been disqualified from its debut victory in the Monza Blancpain Endurance Series race, handing victory to the Rinaldi Ferrari

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INDY: Hinchcliffe wins messy NOLA race

By Mark Glendenning Sunday, April 12th 2015, 21:56 GMT

A gamble on strategy rewarded James Hinchcliffe with victory for Schmidt Peterson in a damp, incident-filled incident-filled IndyCar race at NOLA on Sunday

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MOTOGP: Marquez extends Austin winning streak

Sunday, April 12th 2015, 20:54 GMT

Honda rider Marc Marquez claimed the first victory of his 2015 MotoGP campaign in the Grand Prix of the Americas, maintaining his perfect Austin record in the process

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OTHER: Hoy takes first win as LMP3 debuts

Written By limadu on Minggu, 12 April 2015 | 09.28

By Edd Straw Saturday, April 11th 2015, 19:01 GMT

Olympic cycling legend Chris Hoy believes LMP3 is the ideal stepping stone towards the Le Mans 24 Hours after taking his first motorsport race win in the class' inaugural event

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MOTOGP: Marquez on pole after sprint for spare

Saturday, April 11th 2015, 19:58 GMT

Marc Marquez took one of the most extraordinary poles of his MotoGP career at Austin after sprinting down pitlane for his spare Honda with under three minutes to go

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INDY: Storm hands NOLA pole to Montoya

By Mark Glendenning Saturday, April 11th 2015, 23:24 GMT

Electrical storms forced the cancellation of qualifying for the IndyCar race at NOLA, meaning that Juan Pablo Montoya will start from pole position in a field set by entrant points

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard working on space series with Elon Musk

Written By limadu on Sabtu, 11 April 2015 | 22.48

"I'm obsessed with him, because he succeeded at three different things that were so different than one another," said Grazer. "He has such a unique brain and the brain of the future."

Musk is the visionary behind the Tesla (TSLA) electric car, SpaceX and PayPal.

One of Musk's biggest ambitions: To colonize Mars. That makes the venture a natural fit for Grazer and Howard, who produced the Oscar-winning movie Apollo 13, based on one of America's space missions to land on the moon.

When will it appear and where? Grazer declined to give more details.

Grazer and Howard also teamed up on a TV mini series called "From the Earth to the Moon" for HBO. The episodes focused on NASA's Apollo program, which resulted in 11 spaceflights, between 1969 and 1972, and a total of 12 astronauts walking on the moon, according to NASA's website.

Musk in January spoke about colonizing Mars in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit, according to SpaceX's website. He said details of his Mars Colonial Transporter would be unveiled by the end of the year.

In addition, SpaceX, and Boeing will soon be transporting astronauts to the international space station, replacing the government's shuttle program. That operation was grounded in 2011. The government awarded contracts to the two companies last year, Musk told CNNMoney.

Grazer has a new book out, "A Curious Mind," in which he writes about what's he's learned from a series of conversations he's had with "everyone and anyone" from the doctor who developed the vaccine for Polio to Princess Diana - and yes, Elon Musk, which Grazer confirmed to us after this story was published.

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CNNMoney (New York) April 10, 2015: 6:17 PM ET


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'The Hand That Feeds' details nasty food fight for rights

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A group of undocumented New York City deli workers defy being arrested and deported to form a union and take on a corporation that had denied them benefits like a minimum wage, sick days and paid vacations. They overcome long odds to win recognition as a bargaining unit, only to see the store's owner close the store rather than bargain with them.

The workers have also told their story in a powerful new documentary called "The Hand That Feeds," which opened in New York this week.

The film had its theatrical debut in New York City's Cinema Village and will screen in Los Angeles' Laemmle Music Hall 3, beginning April 10.

Directed by Robin Blotnick and Rachel Lears, it puts a spotlight on the working conditions that many undocumented workers endure to earn a living in a city that depends on their work.

The film opens in the kitchen of a ubiquitous New York City Hot and Crusty sandwich shop. Mahoma Lopez, a soft-spoken sandwich maker from Mexico City, films his colleague counting his weekly wages: $260 -- way below minimum wage.

"You get settled in, and see the reality of how dollars are earned." Lopez says.

In January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight.

Related: More undocumented workers moving into management

In one of many poignant scenes, Margarito Lopez, a Hot and Crusty dishwasher, opens up about his fears, his dreams, and providing for his daughter, a university student in Mexico, that brought him to the United States. He also has strong opinions about undocumented immigrants' vulnerability of being preyed upon.

"We are undocumented. That doesn't mean they have to profit from our hunger," Lopez says.

'The Hand That Feeds,' beautifully shot and edited with New York's cacophony serving as its backdrop, recounts the tumultuous years the workers spend fighting for their rights in a David and Goliath battle against Hot and Crusty.

With the help of the advocacy group the Laundry Workers Center and Occupy Wall Street activists, the workers score their first victory: a settlement for back wages from Hot and Crusty.

Related: 5 immigration myths debunked

Emboldened, the workers seek more. They demand benefits commonly given to on-the-books employees: paid sick time, vacation time, respectful managers and a safe work environment. Hot and Crusty won't negotiate, arguing that the management is only required by law to bargain with a unionized workforce.

Undeterred, the workers go through the Federal National Labor Review Board's process, and after a tight, stressful vote, they become officially recognized as a union by the NLRB.

But it was a costly victory. Hot and Crusty decides that rather than negotiating with the newly formed union it would shutter the store.

The now unionized workers continue their fight. They march, sit-in, and struggle on, taking over and then picketing in front of the shuttered store risking arrest and deportation as their frayed nerves and their families' fears nearly tear the union apart.

Related: The activist nun reforming for profit prisons

The stories of the characters in "The Hand That Feeds" make for a powerfully emotional movie that moved the diverse audience of New Yorkers to tears at times.

The filmmakers say that Hot and Crusty refused to take part in the film. According to a person that answered the phone at one of the Manhattan locations, each store is independently owned now. Since the the documentary was shot, the store that was featured in it has closed and been re-branded. The union is still in place there and all the employees were rehired, according to the filmmakers.

CNNMoney (New York) April 10, 2015: 4:22 PM ET


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