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Team owners Aguri Suzuki and Adrián Fernández today announced that Kosuke Matsuura will return to Super Aguri Fernández Racing to contest the 2006 IndyCar Series. Matsuura will pilot the #55 Panasonic ARTA Dallara/Honda/Firestone entry in his third season of IndyCar Series competition.
“I am pleased to announce our continued participation in the IRL with Kosuke Matsuura [...]

All hail Donny Schatz: The entire fleet of Champion-stacked heavy-hitters within the Tyrepower PCR pit compound had one eye on Donny Schatz in the Pick ‘n Payless #2 J&J. Despite the world’s best throwing everything at the North Dakota resident, Schatz clean-swept the three-day Outlaws Downunder from a fighting Daryn Pittman in second, with Danny [...]

(GMM) The Sepang circuit has targeted a crowd of 120,000 for the eighth Malaysian grand prix in March.
At the race’s media launch in Kuala Lumpur this week, chairman Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir said ticket prices had been slashed to as little as about $15 (US) for a three day pass.
”We are confident of coaxing 120,000 spectators [...]

Japan’s Yuji Ide is now hot favourite to land the inaugural ‘Super Aguri’ seat alongside his compatriot, Takuma Sato. The Formula Nippon driver, who turns 31 on Saturday, is reportedly backed by a big sponsor and was spotted getting a seat fitted at the prospective team’s Leafield factory this week.
With ‘Aguri’ planning to start the [...]

As the A1 Grand Prix enters the seasons second half it appears there are two courses of action being taken by teams. Some are calling in “the Big Guns” and replacing current drivers with ones of much greater experience, while others have been forced to drop theirs due to prior commitments.
A1 Team Canada - lying [...]

A team from the Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia won the F1 In Schools World Final that took place last weekend during the Autosport International Show at UK’s national Exhibition Center in Birmingham.
The Trinity Grammar School team of Lachlan Nunn, aged 13; Alexander Nunn, 14; Douglas Lucas, 13; and Matthew Nirenberg, 14 emerged victorious [...]

Gold Coast businessman Craig Gore is believed to be making overtures to buy an American NASCAR team.
Details of how Gore intends to break into NASCAR are sketchy however there are suggestions that it could be based around a travelling road show concept that would provide a platform to “sell” Australian companies and their products to [...]

A1 Team China and the most popular Sports Channel- China Central Television 5 (CCTV 5) held a media conference on 15th Jan, 2006. It was the sign that the most powerful media in China will be strategic partner of A1 Team China.
They will organize conferences regularly in different part of China to promote A1 Grand [...]

Australian-owned Hawk Racing Speedcar team based out of Newcastle, NSW have captured the 20th Annual O’Reilly Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma with American Late Model hotshoe Tim McCreadie from Watertown, New York behind the wheel!
The potent #1A Spike/Hawk combination from the Steve Smith Hawk racing stable allowed McCreadie to advance from behind the [...]

American superstar Donny Schatz has sounded another ominous warning leading into next weekends Outlaw’s Down Under III by blitzing the field during round 15 of the Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway (TPCR) Sprintcar track championship last Saturday night (January 14).
After starting from the second row in the 30-lap feature race, Schatz took control of the lead [...]

Just two weeks after the death of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which caused organizers of the A1 Grand Prix series to suspend the Indonesia round of the inaugural championship, comes the news that Bahrain Crown Prince, Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, son of his Majesty King Hamad bin [...]

(GMM) 2006 will likely be tobacco brand Mild Seven’s final year in F1.
The long-time Benetton/Renault sponsor, according to speculation, will apparently stick to its current contract - which expires this year - but join Lucky Strike (Honda) and West (McLaren) in farewelling the sport amidst the backdrop of the European advert ban.
2006 will also be [...]

The Grand Prix Masters organisation enjoyed some success at the inaugural event (The results of which even led grown men to cry.) in South Africa in November and is now looking ahead to expand the idea and has announced a second race which will be held on the Losail International Racetrack near Doha, Qatar on [...]

A1 Team Malaysia is proving to be one of the top contenders in the new A1 Grand Prix series, lying ninth at the halfway stage of the season with its two talented and high profile professional drivers, Alex Yoong and Fairuz Fauzy.
So what are the ingredients of success for a team like A1 Team Malaysia?
Undoubtedly [...]

YAMAGUCHI, Japan, Jan. 13_(Kyodo) _ Toy maker Takara Co. said Friday it will close an auto racing circuit Feb. 28 in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to withdraw from unprofitable businesses toward a planned merger with Tomy Co. in March.
Takara is negotiating with some companies to sell the Mine Circuit, one of the circuits used for the [...]