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Washington Post
05-04-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, study finds
Though more people are participating in long-distance-running events than ever before, a recent analysis found that the incidence of cardiac arrest among those running such races remains stable — and death rates from cardiac arrests during long races have fallen. Published in JAMA, the study reviewed the Race Associated Cardiac Event Registry (RACER), which collected information on the incidence of cardiac arrest during marathons and half-marathons, and compared race data from 2010 to 2023 with data from 2000 to 2009. The RACER database included 443 U.S. marathons and half-marathons between 2010 and 2023.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
RACER REVEALS NEW-LOOK MAGAZINE TO GO WITH LATEST EXPANSION
North America's leading motorsports magazine adds more pages and wider range of content in cover-to-cover redesign. IRVINE, Calif., April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning its 34th consecutive year of publication, RACER magazine today reveals its newest style and editorial expansion as part of a broader strategy to take the brand into the future. The redesign sees a sizable increase in page count, now at 140 pages per issue, along with a front-to-back reimagining of the layouts and editorial flow to accommodate its expansion into a variety of motorsports adjacent topics like car culture, performance cars, car collecting and offroad. The new-look magazine features a bolder use of imagery along with a more open design style aimed at bringing standard-setting content to the forefront, conveying the vibrancy and intensity of motorsports and performance automotive culture. "RACER magazine has always been central to our company and to our mission to elevate and celebrate the people, the cars and the culture of motorsports," says Editor-in-Chief Laurence Foster. "The print magazine landscape has changed significantly in recent years, but this iteration of the title demonstrates our confidence in RACER and the unique experience it delivers. Combining this new look with our all-new TV and streaming vertical platform, RACER and RACER Network are poised to lead the way for years to come." "We're storytellers who live and breathe motorsports and performance, and just like the sport, we're always moving forward," adds Foster. "The result is a bigger and better magazine that delivers an authentic, expert and entertaining experience for our readers. This also provides advertisers with a potent touchpoint and remains a vibrant and compelling showcase for the world of motorsports and performance automotive." As the redesigned magazine continues to show RACER's belief that print products are vital to a diverse media product mix, it coincides with the recent acquisitive expansion of the brand into broadcast television with the new RACER Network. Beyond these areas, RACER is also revitalizing its digital offerings with more platform reveals coming soon. "When RACER debuted in April 1992, we couldn't have imagined the amazing journey this brand has taken over the last 34 years," says RACER Founder, President and CEO Paul Pfanner. "From a print magazine at inception to today, where there's a RACER product available at every touchpoint in the media landscape, we remain at the forefront and continue to deliver platforms and content to satisfy every motorsports and performance automotive enthusiast. The fan's desire for great storytelling serves them best at every level of their engagement with the sport and the products it inspires." The new issue – No. 333 – suitably titled, "The New Challenges Issue," features wide ranges of captivating content. Leading off with cover star Lewis Hamilton, the issue takes a deep dive into his energizing switch to Ferrari and asks whether the 40-year-old, seven-time Formula 1 World Champion, still has what it takes to land an F1 record eighth title with the Prancing Horse. The new issue also showcases RACER's renewed emphasis on racing-inspired road cars, with a look at Ford's 'Ring-busting Mustang GTD, a no-compromise machine that doesn't just share DNA with the Blue Oval's multi-tier Mustang racecars, but rewrites the whole genome to spectacular effect. RACER's new format also offers more space to highlight racing's hobbyists and motoring enthusiasts. Feature stories covering industry legends like racing photographer Larry Chen, will highlight personal experiences. In Larry's case, he was able to get behind the wheel of a Mini Cooper S in the ChampCar Endurance Series. The desire for historical features has always run deep among RACER's devoted audience and the new RACER magazine format continues its legacy of placing the past within the context of today, as evidenced by the story of a multiple F1 champ taking on a fresh challenge with Scuderia Ferrari. Sounds familiar? In this case, it's Michael Schumacher's risky, yet ultimately hugely successful move to the storied marque in 1996. Those stories are only just a start of a feature-packed issue that includes more content from across the spectrum of motorsports, on both two wheels and four. RACER is published six times per year in both print and digital formats. To subscribe visit About RACERFounded in 1992, RACER is the premier motorsports media brand in North America, delivering industry-leading content across multiple platforms, including the newly launched broadcast platform RACER Network, plus the RACER Creator Network and RACER Podcasts along with motorsport culture-defining touchstones and RACER magazine. The company also operates a strategic consulting, branding and marketing agency – RACER Studio – and produces live streamed events. Its clients have included BMW, Dodge SRT, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Porsche, Toyota, IMSA, IndyCar, Laguna Seca, SCCA, Trans-Am, Monster Energy, American Legion, Lime Rock Park, Piloti and many others. Contact: RACER Communications racer@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE RACER Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Racing Heavy MAVTV Getting New Owners, New Look, New Name
MAVTV is getting a new owner and a renewed emphasis on racing content. Media outlet RACER has purchased MAVTV and is renaming it RACER Network. The network boasts a TV schedule it says will top 300 live events in 2025. Included in its programming are DTM, British Touring Cars, Pikes Peak, European Le Mans Series, FIM Speedway, FIM World Superbikes, AMA Arenacross, Australian Supercars, Race of Champions, Crandon Off-Road World Championships, Prodigy Racing League (virtual to real world racing). Much like Speedvision and later Speed TV catered to grassroots racing and car culture from 1995 until 2005, RACER Network will continue to offer live racing as well as coverage of car culture events such as the GAA Classic Car Auction in North Carolina, Vicari Live Car Auction in Mississippi, and the Rolex Monterey (Calif.) Motorsports Reunion. Expect the complete rollout to occur over the next few months, with branding and logos to start appearing with today's announcement.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Honda warming to idea of Acura FIA WEC Hypercar entry and customer programs
Could we see the Acura ARX-06 competing in the hands of private teams and/or in the FIA World Endurance Championship's Hypercar class in the future? Honda's new-look two-car IMSA GTP effort in lockstep with Meyer Shank Racing made its debut at last month's Rolex 24 At Daytona. The likelihood of an ARX-06 entering the WEC seemed slim when RACER asked HRC US President David Salters about it a year ago, but now it appears that its position on Hypercars is starting to shift. 'First, you've got to balance LMH and LMDh, which seems to be happening,' Salters told RACER 12 months ago when asked if it was viable for Honda to enter the FIA WEC. 'You have to make sure you can compete, then it has to make business and budgetary sense to Honda. Sometimes they line up, sometimes they don't. If in the future they could, we could be interested. 'There is already a rude reality of priorities in the company, and you'd imagine that at the moment, F1 is pretty high priority. We already do global motorsport at the highest level, and we sort of dominate!' A year later, though, it appears Honda is taking a closer look at the WEC's top class, which currently features 18 cars and is poised to swell to more than 20 in the next two years when Genesis, Ford and – as RACER expects – McLaren join in. Salters confirmed that an active evaluation is ongoing. 'Are we interested? Yes, we have an amazing car. The series is growing. Le Mans is Le Mans. Of course, we're interested,' Salters said. 'We've just got to figure out, does it make sense to Honda? And then the economics of it, all that sort of stuff. 'So we are interested, and we are working on it in the background, shall we say. But like all these things, it has to make sense looking forward. 'WEC is doing an amazing job. The series is in very rude health. Super rude health. We have a car that I think will be good. As we've always said, we keep evaluating it, and we are seriously evaluating it, and we see how it makes sense, and does it fit. 'Aside from that, I think IMSA is doing a really, really good job. This is growing here. And when I look over the ocean, ACO/ WEC is doing a really, really good job. The proof is in the pudding. It's growing!' As for the appetite from HRC US to offer customer ARX-06s, there's interest in this area, too. If there's one element of the current convergence era that's failed to take off, it's in the customer ranks, in part due to cost and the availability of cars. So far, Porsche is the only brand that has offered true customer cars to private teams with its 963 platform. But to this point just three teams have found a way to make the sums work, and with JOTA headed to Cadillac to run its WEC factory team this year, just JDC-Miller and Proton remain in 2025. Interestingly, though, there appears to be movement from some of the manufacturers involved in Hypercar and GTP to find a way to make customer programs work in the future. Lamborghini, for instance, is planning a customer-focused future for its SC63 project, and Salters has now confirmed to RACER that HRC US is now interested in supplying cars, should a credible party come forward. 'I think the cars are very complex, so it could have been a lot at the start for someone to get hold of a customer's car and just use it,' he explained. 'I think we're all getting smarter on how we could do that. That may be something that was prohibitive and now is OK, but then there have to be discussions about how we get the cost more under control. 'I'd quite like to have a couple of customers, and we support them, but it needs to be customer stuff. They also need to find the business case that works, because it has to be sustainable in that sense too. I have a budget. My peers have budgets. We can't just give out cash or cars. 'There's active discussion on how to make it cheaper. We need to carry on with the active discussion. It needs to become sustainable, but I'm not opposed to customers. I'd love some, but it's got to be done the right way. 'We are open to customers. We've had some interesting conversations. We're very happy to have more, but it needs to be done on an economically sustainable business basis. But also we want our customers to be able to win. 'It's an Acura. I don't care which Acura wins — the No. 60, the No. 93, or a customer. It's Acura and having more out there in endurance racing is a good thing.' Story originally appeared on Racer
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Ford confirms prototype program
Ford will enter the booming global factory prototype ranks with a new LMDh-based chassis starting in 2027. As RACER revealed earlier in January, the Blue Oval is set to chase overall wins at endurance sports car racing's biggest events, and it will start with the FIA World Endurance Championship and its marquee race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a factory program. 'We are entering a new era for performance and racing at Ford,' said Bill Ford. 'You can see it from what we're doing on-road and off-road. When we race, we race to win. And there is no track or race that means more to our history than Le Mans. It is where we took on Ferrari and won in the 1960s. It is where we returned 50 years later and shocked the world and beat Ferrari again. I am thrilled that we're going back to Le Mans and competing at the highest level of endurance racing. We are ready to once again challenge the world, and 'go like hell!'' No details on the team, number of cars, chassis supplier, or engine choice were provided, but RACER understands Ford took a serious look at partnering with Dallara to manufacture its Hypercar/GTP model — Dallara makes BMW's M Hybrid V8 and Cadillac's V-Series.R — before ultimately deciding to continue its alignment with Multimatic, which produces the championship-and Rolex 24-winning Porsche 963. Beyond its famous wins at Le Mans more than 50 years ago, Ford has made very few ventures into full-factory prototype racing. Its IMSA GTP programs in the 1980s, first with a front-engine car and then a rear-engine machine, along with a brief effort for Ford Europe in the WEC on a similar timeframe, a short Multimatic-led Daytona Prototype effort at the dawn of the DP formula, and a deeper engagement with Meyer Shank Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing during the second-generation DP era comprise most of the brand's forays outside of GT-based endurance competition. In returning to Le Mans, where Ford won on debut in the GTE class with the GT model in 2016, the American auto manufacturer will chase overall victories at the world's largest international motor race. The formal announcement, made in North Carolina, also included attendees from IMSA, where the new Ford LMDhs are expected to join the GTP class a year or two after the 2027 launch in WEC's Hypercar category. 'It is wonderful news to welcome Ford back to the top level of the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in almost 60 years,' said Automobile Club de l'Ouest president Pierre Fillon, who runs the event. 'It is a brand that has always had a close affinity with this very special race, and history shows that Ford does not compete to finish second. The renewal of its famous rivalry with Ferrari is truly an exciting prospect.' Story originally appeared on Racer
