UPDATE 1-Motorcycling-Stoner takes pole for Italian MotoGP

* Stoner claims pole for fifth time this season

* Pedrosa eighth on return from injury

MILAN, July 2 (Reuters) - World championship leader Casey Stoner took pole position for the Italian MotoGP in a rain-affected qualifying session on Saturday.

The Honda rider, champion in 2007, clocked one minute 48.034 seconds at the Mugello circuit to claim the 27th pole of his career and his fifth of the season.

American Ben Spies (Yamaha) and Italian Marco Simoncelli (Honda) will join the Australian on the front row of the grid for the eighth race of the year.

Stoner, who has won four races this season, was almost half a second faster than Spies who is racing at Mugello for only the second time. Simoncelli was edged into third spot by a hair's breadth.

World champion Jorge Lorenzo, second in this year's series, will start in fifth place as he tries to add to his solitary win of the season in Spain while Italian great Valentino Rossi was 12th.

Rossi's compatriot Andrea Dovizioso, third in the championship, will start fourth on the grid.

Italian Loris Capirossi, 38, misses his home MotoGP for the first time in 20 years after fracturing two ribs last week.

Spaniard Dani Pedrosa, back after breaking his collarbone in a fall at the French Grand Prix last month, qualified in eighth place.

Britain's oldest Pemotor 94 Year Old Grandpa

LONDON - When you love two-wheeled world, life would no longer be the primary. Look Reg Scott remains a 'child bike' even though he was now growing dusk, 94 years old!

Looking at the age of Scott, of course many people will shake their heads. That's why no one when Scott was awarded the title as oldest pemotor in England or Britain's Oldest Biker.

During his life, Scott has 74 years as a child of the motor. She started her passion for two wheels in 1937 when he bought a motorcycle carrying a Norton 16H 490 cc engine capacity. At that time, the price of these motors is only 73 pounds.

But though it was long enough to be kids bike, Scott including typical of the faithful. For over 74 years, he only has 7 motors only.

Now, Scott riding a Honda CBR250R motorcycle sebauh which she bought after getting funds from the show 'Deal or No Deal. "

"I am delighted to have been crowned Britain's Oldest Biker.Motorcycle gives me a sense of freedom, which allows me to be able to walk more easily while enjoying the open air, "he said as quoted from Visordown, Saturday (02/07).

"Age has nothing to do with it for me, I'll be on my bike as long as I can," he concluded.

Use More Features Captiva ECO Irit BBM 15%

Chevrolet wanted to throw extravagant image of gasoline in cars. That's why the ECO fuel efficient features installed in the latest petrol Captiva.

ECO feature can be activated by pressing a button near the gear lever. ECO active so there is an icon appears near the speedometer.

According to GM Service Manager PT Indonesia Lianggi Rico, with this feature Captiva can be more efficient to 15 percent.

"Yesterday we tried in a traffic jam, city driving with average speed of 41 miles per hour, without the ECO can be 12 percent efficient, with the ECO 15 percent efficient, and if more severe breakdown of gasoline consumption 10 percent," he said at the Senggigi Beach Resort, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on Friday (01/07) night.


If the ECO automatically turned on the car computer will force the car to reduce gasoline consumption, although the riders hit the gas pedal down.


But he could not mention the exact number of fuel consumption of new Captiva.

"That figure is not absolute, depending on the terrain and the driver," he explained.

ECO features can be found on Captiva variants automatically.
Captiva 2.4 petrol engine carrying the four-cylinder inline L configured through technology double overhead camshafts (DOHC) with Double-Continuously Variable Cam Phasing (DCVCP).

This machine is capable of generating a maximum power of 171 PS at
6400 rpm and maximum torque of 225 Nm at 4800 rpm. Power is channeled through GM's Tiptronic transmission (Special AT) 6 speed.


Captiva will be launched officially to the public at the exhibition Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS) at the end of this July with an estimated price of USD 320 million-350 million.