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Adelaide’s Team BRM have finished on the podium of their first ever Ford Racing Australian Formula Ford Championship race, at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide today.
British driver Ben Clucas scored the stunning result after a frenetic 10-lap affair this afternoon, an event that was shortened to 7 laps after a crash partially blocked the circuit with [...]

On the second day of All-Japan F3 official test at Suzuka circuit blessed with good weather, Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) set a fastest time toward a season opener. Kazuya Oshima (TOM’S) and Takuya Izawa (Honda Toda Racing) followed, and rookies occupied top three.
Today, it became fine and road condition became dry too, and each [...]

Who will it be in 2006? Everybody is talking up Craig Lowndes, there’s many accolades on untested superstar James Courtney and the Champion Russell Ingall will loom large. And is their a smoky somewhere in the pack who will surprise all?
The 10th anniversary season of the V8 Supercar Championship Series starts on Friday. The Clipsal [...]

Team BRM driver Ben Clucas has placed inside the competitive top five in both of today’s practice sessions for the opening round of the 2006 Australian Formula Ford Championship at the Clipsal 500.
The strong result was made even more remarkable given today was the first on-track test for the pair of new Van Diemen RF06 [...]

Adelaide’s Team BRM has today confirmed their driver line up for this weekend’s first round of the 2006 Ford Racing Australian Formula Ford Championship at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide.
Englishman Ben Clucas and promising South Australian talent Shane Wright will give the team a driver line up more reflective of a Commonwealth Games athletic event rather [...]

(GMM) The fate of September’s Italian GP continues to look uncertain, after a civil court last week refused to overturn a ban on noisy cars at Monza.
Although the historic grand prix might be protected, one junior-category event at the track has already been axed.
Now, like F1, the ban also threatens events like touring cars and [...]

New Zealand racer Daniel Gaunt, who recently signed with Newman/Wachs Racing to contest the 2006 Champ Car Atlantics Championship has won his country’s Toyota Racing Series.
With still four races left in the series, Gaunt’s second place in Race One of Round Seven has given him an insurmountable lead in the championship. This will certainly be [...]

Cesar Campanico will become the second driver to race for A1 Team Portugal when he steps up to deputise for Alvaro Parente at the final round of the inaugural series, the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Shanghai, China on the first weekend of April.
The 25-year-old - a veteran of the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup in [...]

Adam Clarke came, saw and conquered the NSW Speedcar Championship at Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway, winning convincingly from runner-up Mark Cooper with Mark Brown lunar launching off cushion to snatch third on the final corner off Stephen Brown.
Earning the right to start from pole in the 30-lap Bikebiz NSW Speedcar Championship, Adam Clarke took control [...]

OPEN INTERFACE TOM’S SC430 (Wakisaka-Lotterer) clinch season Japan Super GT opener
While the sky was not threatening when the race started at 14:30, a cold wind had been blowing since morning and grew consistently stronger in the afternoon. As the machines took to the track for the formation lap, feelings were uneasy about the unstable weather [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – An on-form Hamed Al Fardan (BRN/Team Meritus) made an emphatic one-off return to Formula BMW Asia this weekend, taking victory in Round 2 in front of the Formula One fraternity in Malaysia, and showing the young-guns he is at the top of his game. However, the new crop of [...]

Malaysian driver, Aaron Lim, has been awarded the BMW Rookie Scholarship prize for the 2005 Season which has allowed him to join the Eurasia Motorsports Team for the Malaysian GP support races.
The Rookie prize became available after those drivers who finished ahead of him in last years Rookie Championship were unable to join the series [...]

Female racer, Gabby Dela Merced, confirmed she has signed to race in the Promotions Class with Speedtech Asia. Her first race will be at the season opener on May 7th at the Batangas Race Circuit.
Team Boss, Edgen Dy-Liacco reported that “We are very happy to have signed Gabby, I have seen her race in Formula [...]

As Formula BMW Asia gears up for the start of its fourth season at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix this weekend, the field this year is the most international ever, with drivers from the Middle East, across South and East Asia, and all the way “down under

Macanese F3 driver Rodolfo Avila recently completed a total of four test days in preparation for the 2006 British F3 season. The opening rounds are scheduled to take place at Oulton Park on Easter Monday, the 17th of April. The event marks Avila’s debut in the world of high level Formula 3 competition in Europe.
Completing [...]