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South Australia’s Team BRM has today confirmed that British Formula 3 National Class race winner Ben Clucas has signed with the team to compete in the 2006 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship for the CAMS Gold Star. The British driver will drive a John Deere / Gawler Farm Machinery supported Dallara F304-speiss for the [...]

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Tokyo headquarters: Nissan announced their motorsport plans for fiscal 2006. A total of five Z33-type Fairlady Z (350Z) cars will contest the GT500 class in SUPER GT this season, with a further four privately-entered cars from three teams taking on the GT300 class.
Nissan Motorsports International (NISMO) Managing Director Mr Kunihiko Kakimoto [...]

CHONGQING, CHINA, FEBRUARY 15th 2006 - Changan Ford (CAF) announces today that it plans to set up “Changan Ford Racing

Motor racing pioneer Motorsport Asia Limited today announced the launch of Formula V6 Asia by Renault, a brand new series set to change the face of the sport in the region and massively increase the odds of Asian racers reaching Formula One.
For the first time, Southeast Asian-based drivers will be able to progress from karting, [...]

India will be represented for the first time in the Formula Renault UK Championship with Michelin after Position 1 Racing confirmed Team A1 India driver Armaan Ebrahim as it’s second driver for 2006. Ebrahim joins Richard Keen at the team, which was formerly known as Team Firstair, with a third driver due to be announced [...]

It is believed that 2005 Promotion Class Champion, Moreno Soeprapto, has agreed terms to run with a new team formed by Ananda Mikola’s (Asian F3 Champion and A1GP Team Indonesia pilot) Team Manager and Race Engineer from last year, Adachi San.
Three Bond Racing, which runs Nissan engines, has pulled out of the Asian F3 championship [...]

Eurasia Motorsport continue their pre-season test for potential drivers with a four day test starting February 20th at the Sepang F1 Circuit. Australian Daniel Ricciardo will run on all four days.
New Zealander, Dominic Storey will take part for three days from the 21st. The team are talking to several other drivers who will join the [...]

LOS ANGELES, California – Just like they used to do it in the Old West, the Newman/Wachs Racing Atlantic team held a shootout last week and in the end only two drivers were left standing. A strong performance on track and good chemistry with the first-year Atlantic team enabled both American Joe D’Agostino and Daniel [...]

Courtesy of Sukudo-Online: Super-Aguri Shakedown Due Today.
And my obligatory snarky comment: Considering the four year old Arrows chassis with a new Honda engine duct taped to it’s butt shouldn’t that read, Aguri Breakdown Due Today? Will the normal Safety Car that follows be replaced by a flatbed with a modified front-loader bucket attached to pick [...]

Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy will move to Super Nova International for the 2006 GP2 series 2005 DAMS GP2 series driver Fairuz Fauzy has today been unveiled as one of Super Nova International’s drivers for the 2006 GP2 series.
“I am thrilled I have signed with Super Nova Racing

Fisichella Motor Sport International has announced Petrol Ofisi as the new team’s title sponsor for the next two years in the GP2 series. The announcement came in Istanbul, Turkey, where FMS International also unveiled their second driver for the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Turk Jason Tahinci. Jason will partner Italian Luca Filippi for the next [...]

Autosport.Com is reporting that 2005 F3 Euro Series runner Fabio Carbonne is returning to the All Japan Formula 3 series for 2006 driving for Three Bond Racing. The Japanese-based website Formula 3 has the details of Three Bond’s recent testing session at Okayama International Circuit with drivers Carbonne and Marko Asmer.
Technorati Tags: All Japan [...]

Melbourne-Based Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Team Astuti Motorsport has been one of the first Multi-car operations to solidify their plans for the 2006 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship, confirming today that they have re-signed Michael Trimble for the 50th anniversary of the CAMS Gold Star.
Astuti Motorsport have also confirmed that they have signed [...]

Since the official A1 Paul Ricard test session in August 2005, A1 Team Malaysia has assisted A1 Team Indonesia with spare parts purchase and supply and other logistics issues as A1 Team Indonesia did not have its full complement of spares with the team having been put together very quickly in the last weeks leading [...]

A1 Team Canada fought their way from back of the grid to win the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Sentul Circuit, Indonesia giving them their first win of the season. In front of a packed grandstand of 32,000 spectators, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and government representatives including the Ministers for Sport and Tourism, A1 [...]