Asian Motor Sports

The eagerly-anticipated 2009 ‘Superleague Formula by Sonangol’ race series revved up for this weekend’s opening round at Magny-Cours in France with a dazzling display of power and passion on the city streets of near-by Nevers.

A1GP World Cup of Motorsport fans have chosen their winners from the 2008/09 season. After a series of accolades were put up for grabs on the series’ website fans from across the globe voted to decide who they thought should be rewarded in four special categories.

One of Europe’s most successful football clubs, Sporting Clube de Portugal officially revealed their single-seater which will take part in Superleague Formula´s 2009 season.

Adam Carroll crowned Team Ireland as A1GP season four champion at Brands Hatch with feature race victory on Sunday.

In a move aimed at establishing a fan base in and around Townsville, V8 Supercar team IRWIN Racing has formed an alliance with A-League newcomers the North Queensland Fury.

Next year’s V8 Supercar championship could be broken into two phases with a mid-season break from late July to mid-September, the sport’s executive chairman Tony Cochrane said yesterday.

Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup put in another strong performance to win the first race of the SkyCity Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway.

Lowndes and Whincup sport new helmet designs to support Red Dust at Darwin. TeamVodafone drivers Craig Lowndes & Jamie Whincup will be sporting a different look this weekend at Hidden Valley Raceway in Darwin.

On Monday Jenson Button wowed thousands of fans at the “Enjoy Honda – Honda Racing Thanks Day” event at Honda’s Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan.

The latest revision to the Formula One calendar for 2009 sees the Chinese Grand Prix moved to the third race of the season.

David Coulthard says he has no complaints despite being punted out of his final Formula One race at the first corner of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver, who has now retired after recording 246 starts in his career, was tapped into a spin by Williams driver Nico Rosberg and then collected by the [...]

“Before coming here I knew this was one of those difficult, technical tracks where I could be strong and my car could be very competitive. So I have been preparing and waiting for this grand prix and now here I am - Jarno Trulli.

The Asia Racing Team (ART Motorsports) heads to Beijing for round two of the AFR Championship on top of the points standings and looking forward to racing again in Goldenport Circuit.

Round 3 of the Formula V6 Asia started out in the rain and finished 12 laps later under scorching conditions but Hamad Al Fardan maintained his cool to claim his third consecutive win of the season.

Questnet Team Qi-Meritus driver Rio Haryanto showed just what he is capable of when he won the sixth race of the Formula BMW Pacific season at the Sepang International Circuit this afternoon in sensational style.

Formula BMW Pacific Rookies Axcil Jefferies (ZIM/15/Eurasia Motorsport) and Fahmi Ilyas (MAS/17/E-Rain Racing) took their first series victories in Rounds 3 and 4 respectively at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit today.

Round 2 of Super GT featured a back and forth fight between the MOTUL Autech GT-R and the ZENT CERUMO SC430 with the Toyota coming out on top while the IMPUL Calsonic #12 GT-R ran consistently to finish third.

It was a split-second decision that could have resulted in catastrophic consequences. But Rosalind Choo couldn’t care less.

As 2008 closes out the editors of Asian Motor Sports would like to take this opportunity to wish our readership a happy and prosperous New Year.

Nothing like a little Kiwi Cheesecake I always say.

Kamui Kobayashi will start tomorrow’s long race from pole in the final round of the Asian GP2 Series Championship, part of the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix meeting, on the Sakhir circuit.

Before returning to GP2 Asia action this week-end on the Bahrain International Circuit at Sakhir, Marco Bonanomi and Alvaro Parente, the two drivers for My QI Meritus.Mahara have been given the opportunity to fly and land a A330 Airbus at Bahrain Airport.

Fast and consistent since the beginning of the Malaysian round, Diego Nunes took an impressive first victory for Piquet GP this afternoon in the feature race at the Sepang International Circuit, while Roldan Rodriguez, his teammate, finished fourth. With fifteen points scored today, the Brazilian squad jumps from fifth to third in the championship standings.

My Team Qi-Meritus.Mahara heads home for the fifth round of the GP2 Asia season in Malaysia with high hopes after their driver line-up of Portugal’s Alvaro Parente and Italy’s Marco Bonanomi showed so much speed and potential in the last outing in Qatar.