SPEAKING OF WARNER As a longtime Road & Track photographer and writer, Warner was present at hundreds of noteworthy races. The Other Side of the Fence: Six Decades of Motorsports Photography, Warner’s new book, debuted at the Concours, and it contains some never-before-seen images from F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, Le Mans and other sanctioning bodies taken from 1959 to the present day. It will be available on Amazon.com June 1.
SEMINARS A SUCCESS
As usual, there were a pair of well-attended seminars on racing topics: Friday was on “Chevy Thunder,” the history of Chevrolet’s small-block V-8 engine, introduced in 1955, with the basic architecture still in use today. Panelists included moderator Ray Evernham, racer Dale Earnhardt, Jr., former GM racing head Herb Fishel, NASCAR’s Dr. Eric Warren, and racers David Hobbs, Brian Redman and George Follmer.
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Southeast sees gas shortages amid pipeline shutdown
Parts of the southeastern U.S. are seeing gasoline shortages following a cyberattack that shut down Colonial Pipeline.
As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 8 percent of Virginia gas stations, nearly 9 percent of North Carolina gas stations and nearly 6 percent of Georgia gas stations were without fuel, according to GasBuddy. That s an increase from earlier in the day.
Gas prices also appeared to be somewhat higher, averaging almost $2.99 per gallon across the country, according to the American Automobile Association. This is up by about 2 cents from Monday and about 7 cents from a week ago.
It goes beyond cars: Fuel supply shortages from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack are hitting airlines at a time when the industry is just beginning to emerge from the coronavirus recession.
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THE BIG DEAL Job openings jump to record high of 8.1 million: The number of open jobs in the U.S. reached a record high of 8.1 million in March, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
Job openings rose by 597,000 in March, an increase of 5.3 percent, to the highest level since the Labor Department began tracking the data in December 2000.
The largest gains came in leisure and hospitality (185,000), public education (155,000) and arts, entertainment and recreation (81,000).
The number of hires stayed even at roughly 6 million in March, a month when the U.S. added 770,000 jobs, according to revised totals from the April employment report. Layoffs also declined to a record low of 1.5 million in March.