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An El Monte man has been sentenced to one year in county jail and five years on probation for his role in a street racing related car accident last year in which his friend was killed and the passenger in the other car seriously injured.

In October 2007, 19-year-old Fitzgerald Paragas had been racing with his friend 18-year-old Brian Ramirez. Just prior to that, they had been watching the street racing movie “The Fast and the Furious” and decided to have a race of their own. As the two continued to race on the streets, Brian lost control of his car. His Mitsubishi careened across the median and into incoming traffic. A Volkswagen Jetta carrying the Saavedra family was coming in the opposite direction, and the Mitsubishi crashed into it. Ramirez was killed instantly, while the Saavedra family suffered serious injuries. At the time of the crash, Ramirez’s vehicle was apparently going at 90 mph.

After the crash, Paragas tried to mislead police into believing that he had not been part of the car accident at all. His initial claim was that he was at home at the time of the car crash, and had received a call from Ramirez who said he would be coming over. After waiting for an hour, when there was still no sign of his friend, Paragas told police he had driven off to take a look. It was then that he came upon the car crash site where his friend was killed. Later however, Paragas broke down, and admitted that he had been racing too.

He was charged with one felony count of murder with the special allegation of causing great bodily injury, one felony count of vehicular manslaughter and four counts of felony reckless driving causing injury, as well as misdemeanor street racing. A judge has now sentenced him to one year in county jail. He will also be required to pay restitution to the Saavedra family, a $100 court security fee and a $20 restitution fee. He is also prohibited from driving while under probation, and will have to participate in a safe driving program. He will also be required to educate high school students on safe driving as part of his sentence. The judge admitted that Paragas’ lack of a prior criminal record and letters written to the judge by the young man’s school teachers had led to what can only be called a light sentence.

The district attorney asked the judge to impose a four-year prison sentence to be suspended. If Paragas violates the terms of his probation, he would have to serve time in jail. Paragas was facing a maximum of eight years and eight months, and the prosecution had asked for a sentence of four years to six years.

Street racing can be either spontaneous races, like the one that seems to have taken place here, or coordinated races that are planned ahead of time. In either case, they can cause serious injuries and fatalities. With the high speeds that are the norm during such races, many motorists’ lives are endangered simply because they were unlucky enough to be around the scene when a race was on. Considering the gravity of Paragas’ action and the death that it resulted in, a stiffer sentence would have given out a stronger message to would-be street racers.

Here’s a real surprise when it comes to adding power to your car, ever hear that an oil catch can actually helps? An oil catch can, traditionally purchased and installed to keep you cylinder heads and intake tracts vented and clean, can actually increase power. Believe it or not, replacing a breather filter with a properly engineered catch can definitely bring you some noticeable power gains. But how can this be?

Oil catch cans are engineered to fit between a port in an engine’s valve cover an its intake. They also use the vacuum from an engine’s intake to draw blow by contaminants out of the cylinder head and into a reservoir where they can manually be disposed of. Blow by contaminants include oil, fuel, and exhaust gas that seeps past the valve seals during combustion. By drawing out these contaminants, they also create low pressure within the head, allowing components to move more feely. This decreases parasitic loss. In many OEM applications, an uncomplicated vacuum hose is placed between the valve cover and the intake. This alleviates excess cylinder-head pressure and draws contaminates out of the cylinder head. Unfortunately, this occurs at the expense of re-circulating them throughout the intake tract; soiling intake manifolds, fuel injectors, valves, and decreasing intercooling performance of force induced cars. Even more detrimental is when those cute little breather filters are used instead, these neither vent excess blow-by pressure as much as a vacuum driven alternative, nor stint the buildup of contaminants in the cylinder head-doubly robbing you of much needed power.

So the purpose of oil catch cans are to trap contaminates, but will an oil catch can really increase your power? You can experiment yourself by installing a quality oil catch can in a very dirty engine, so you can see and feel the difference it will make. You can compare its power output versus an off the self breather filter. To make sure of proper testing accuracy, be sure to put on a designated amount of highway miles with each arrangement before an engineering outfit to test for power changes with multiple runs at each stage. But we’ve gone thought all that trouble for you already. And here is what we found.

Not only does the catch can generate power, but you can see it actually working. A noticeable amount of blow by sludge will accumulate in the tank after extensive highway driving. And compared to the breather filter, there is no question. Power numbers will be low, as blow by pressure will have a significantly harder time exiting the head than when sucked out by the catch can. The result is the following: catch cans will have an impact on your racing speed. They keep engines clean and vent power robbing pressure from your engine’s cylinder heads. The more moving parts that make up your engine’s cylinder heads, the higher cylinder pressures increase, or the more your engine suffers form blow by, the more a catch can will help your car.

Formula One is a popular car racing sports that is popular across the world. In this race all the participants and even the cars have to follow a specified set of rules. The cars that participate in this racing sports are completely based on improved and efficient suspension, tyres, electronics, and aerodynamics. Without these essentials Formula One cars cannot run successfully on tracks.

 

Here are some of the most interesting facts on Formula One that many of us may not be aware of:

 





The fastest circuit of Formula One race is the Monza with the highest speed record of 375 kph.



Formula One cars can accelerate 0 to 200 km/k and back to 0 in just seven seconds.

When the racer applies full brake the car takes about 55 metres and 1.9 seconds to come back to a standstill.

It is also known that the Formula One racers lose their weight due to dehydration as they drive the race in hot weather.

British racer Damon Hill is one and only one Formula One racer who have won the F1 championship without leading even in a single lap.

Juan Manuel Fangio is the oldest F1 racer who won the championship when he was 46 years old.

Nigel Mansell is the only F1 racer who lost the championship award despite of leading in every lap.

Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazilian is the youngest F1 driver.

About 80,000 car components are combined together with accuracy to manufacture a F1 car. Even is there is slight inaccuracy in the assembly of these components, the car wont run on the track.

The engines of these racing cars have a very short life. They almost break down after one race. These need to be replaced for every F1 season.

The brakes of these racing cars are derived from disc brakes that are made of carbon fibres.

Most of the F1 car tyres are composed of nitrogen rather than normal air as nitrogen has more consistent pressure. The tyres of these cars like the engine have a very short life. These tyres live up to 90 to 120 km.

About one kilometre of an electric cable is used to connect about 100 sensors and actuators in these racing cars. All these linked sensors and actuators are used to control and monitor the performance of the Formula One car.

Formula One cars can accelerate from start to 200 km/h and back to standstill in just seven seconds.

The use of automatic gearbox is prohibited for use in Formula One cars.