Asian Motor Sports

The V8 Supercars round in Perth has been scrapped by the sport’s governing body, with officials labeling the circuit “third world.”

IRWIN Tools and Stone Brothers Racing have unveiled the #4 Ford Falcon that Alex Davison will drive in the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series.

Champion-elect Jamie Whincup was left physically and mentally exhausted after one of the most grueling V8 Supercar Championship races of the year as he took the crown in the penultimate race of the title fight at the huge Sydney Telstra 500 Saturday.

Ford Performance Racing V8 Supercar drivers Mark Winterbottom and Steve Richards took to the helm of a pair of Volvo 60 Ocean Racing Yachts on the Sydney Harbour today, ahead of this weekend’s inaugural Sydney Telstra 500.

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.

Asian motorsport ambassadors MalaysiaQI-MeritusMaharaGP.com team’s new line-up of Luca Filippi and rookie Alexander Rossi was announced at a recent press conference hosted in the presence of Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA Vice President and President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE Ben Sulayem, FIA Vice President, showing the team’s strong Arabic roots through its Saudi partner, Chaiman Raad S. Abduljawad.

Scuderia Coloni is ready to tackle the GP2 Asia restart. The winter edition of the GP2 championship will indeed be back on track this weekend at Abu Dhabi, after a long break that everybody, from managers to engineers and drivers, used to relax in order to come back in their best possible shape.

In the year the Aussie’s attempt to reclaim Cricket’s Ashes, local drivers will again need to fight to reclaim Australia’s Premier Open Wheel series following conformation that Team BRM has snared yet another young international star for a Formula 3 Australian Drivers’ Championship campaign.

Mat Sofi has edged out the most competitive Formula 3 Australian Drivers’ Championship field of the season to take a thrilling pole position for tomorrow’s 22-lap Sandown F3 SuperPrix season-ending race at Sandown Raceway.

Gold Star history will be made, regardless of the winner, during this weekends final round of the 2009 Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Sandown.



Tim Macrow has clearly learned from the Joey Foster book of qualifying tricks. At the Clipsal 500 this year, Foster snared a last-ditch pole position over Macrow well after the checkered flag had fallen on the second session with a perfectly timed flyer.

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.

Team StarChase driver Christian Menzel scored his third victory of the season during Round 8 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at the Sentul International Circuit. Saturday’s Round 7 winner Rodolfo Avila of Asia Racing Team was second

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.

Dutch-born Chinese driver Tung Ho-pin is revving up to race in Formula One – all he needs is to find is willing sponsors.

Force India owner Vijay Mallya terminated the team’s contract with Ferrari as its engine supplier. The agreement was supposed to last through 2009, but Mallya wasn’t confident in Ferrari’s ability to supply the team with a complete engine, gearbox, KERS package for 2009.

Felipe Massa handled the glory of victory and the pain of defeat with equal dignity when he won the Brazilian Grand Prix in thrilling style but missed taking the drivers world title by a point.

Lewis Hamilton was crowned Formula One champion after finishing fifth in the Brazil Grand Prix.