Asian Motor Sports

Garth Tander won Sunday’s second leg of the Clipsal 500 and so gives himself the chance of taking the Grand Slam prize (worth $2 million Australian) if he also wins the rest of the Big Four races this year - the Bathurst 1000, the Gold Coast race and the Sydney street race.

Despite setting the fastest time in today’s (Friday) practice for the Clipsal 500, Jamie Whincup is not convinced that he has the fastest car in Adelaide.

TeamVodafone’s dream start to the 2010 V8 Supercars championship has continued with Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup topping the timesheets in practice at Bahrain on Thursday.

Reigning V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup says he’s shocked by how well his new Holden ran on the way to claiming a comprehensive victory in the season opener in Abu Dhabi on Friday.

Italian Luca Filippi quickest in qualifying takes last poll position of the 2009/2010 GP2 Asia Series season.

In what will go down in history as one of the most thrilling GP2 qualifying sessions ever, Frenchman Jules Bianchi snatched his first GP2 pole position in an extremely close battle with Series leader Davide Valsecchi today at Sakhir in the third round of the season.

Welcome to Race 1 Press conference here in Abu Dhabi. Joining us tonight race winner Oliver Turvey for iSport International. Second and also from iSport International is Davide Valsecchi. In third and for the first time with us in a press conference is Jules Bianchi for ART Grand Prix. Starting with you Oliver, congratulations on a superb result. It seems the win was made at the very beginning with an awesome start.

Fast in Free Practice earlier today in Abu Dhabi, Arden’s Charles Pic gave his absolute best during qualifying and fended off Davide Valsecchi’s attacks to claim a maiden pole position on his second GP2 race weekend. iSport’s and rookie Oliver Turvey will start next to him on tomorrow’s grid.

Mitch Evans and Ben Crighton have put on quite the show to kick off the 2010 Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Wakefield Park, in overcast but dry conditions today.

The Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships is kicking off their 2010 season and celebrating a host of milestones this weekend at Goulburn’s Wakefield Park.

Joey Foster and Mitch Evans have created Formula 3 Australian Drivers’ Championship history at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne; a dramatic turn of events delivering Foster the championship and Evans the F3 SuperPrix season finale’.
Foster turned a three-point deficit to a seven-point victory in the Australian Drivers’ Championship today by winning race one and finishing second [...]

He may have been on new tires when most of the field were on olds, but there was no doubting the simple fact that Mitch Evans was the fastest person on his ‘official’ Formula 3 Australian Drivers’ Championship debut in practice at Sandown Friday.

The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, the region’s premier sportscar championship, today announced a record entry for the 2010 season, which gets underway in April as part of the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

Auckland based Triple X Motorsport have confirmed drivers Earl Bamber (Wanganui) Stefan Webling (New Plymouth) and Chris Wootton (Brisbane) have joined their team to contest the five-round Toyota Racing Series starting mid-January in Invercargill.

Asia’s premier sportscar championship, the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, is set for a new look in 2010, with the addition of private teams to the line-up as well as the stunning new Porsche 911 GT3 RS-based version of the 911 GT3 Cup car and a stellar calendar.

Felipe Nasr (BRA/17/Eurointernational) took a faultless lights-to-flag victory in Round 11 of Formula BMW Pacific, as the newly crowned Formula BMW Europe champion won his first race in Asia in support of the 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix on the 5.067km Marina Bay street circuit.

It was another spectacular outing for the Formula V6 Asia where Hamad Al Fardan took home his fourth consecutive win in the fourth race of the 2009 season.

The Formula V6 Asia season opener during the Asian Festival of Speed at the Sepang International
Circuit this weekend was definitely Hamad Al Fardan’s.

Indian racing sensation Karun Chandhok is bullish on his prospects for the GP2 series starting in Barcelona this weekend.

The Pizza Company Team Qi-Meritus driver, Earl Bamber, claimed his third Pole to Flag win of the Formula V6 Asia season today at Okayama International Circuit. The 19-year old maintained a fast pace close to the pace he set during the qualifying session held earlier in the day.

F1 hopefuls Stefan GP have reportedly signed Indian GP2 driver Karun Chandhok as they bid for a spot on the 2010 Formula One grid.

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 [...]