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Indy Racing League IndyCar Series
Bridgestone Indy Japan 300 - Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan
April 20-22, 2006 - Round 3 of 16
Race Distance: 300 miles or 482.80 kilometers (200 laps around the 1.5-mile oval).
Firehawk Race Tires Supplied: Firestone shipped 700 Firehawk racing radials for use this weekend. All were produced at the Firestone [...]

Delphi Fernandez Racing’s Scott Sharp grew up in Connecticut and now calls Jupiter, Fla., home. The 11-year veteran, who won the first IndyCar Series race at Twin Ring Motegi in 2003 and was runner-up last year, has seen and done just about everything in auto racing. He briefly talks about the weeklong trip:
It’s just a [...]

V8 Supercars Australia is certain the reverse grid format to be introduced for the first time in New Zealand this weekend will guarantee fans an unrivalled spectacle and add to the pure racing package.
The reverse grid format will be used for the first time in 2006 in race two of the three-race New Zealand event, [...]

New Zealand driver Jason Richards is oozing confidence heading into round two of the V8 Supercars at Pukekohe this weekend.
Richards has his eye firmly set on a podium finish, after tasting success with a second placing at the Bathurst 1000 late last year. He says that has been an incredible boost for both him and [...]

There are still more than five months to go before the second A1 Grand Prix series kicks off at Zandvoort, Holland on 1 October, but at least seven or eight countries are lining up their bids to be part of the action, including aspiring teams from countries in Europe, Asia and South America.
While the identity [...]

The King of the Mountain ‘Monster’ Nobuhiro Tajima of Japan exceeded all expectations at the Silverstone Race to the Sky on Sunday, when he smashed his own record set in 2003 by nine seconds, to win the title for the seventh time clocking 8. 01.17.
Tajima blitzed the field in his powerful Suzuki Escudo and while [...]

The WPS Bathurst International Motorsport Festival kicked off today with several categories hitting the famous Mount Panorama circuit.
Practice and Qualifying for the Legends V8 Utes, Aussie Racing Cars, Historic Touring Cars and Australian GT championship featured throughout the morning until late afternoon at the legendary Bathurst circuit.
For the first time ever, the Legends V8 Ute [...]

All-Japan F3 round 2 is held in Suzuka circuit. Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) took a top with unofficial lap record 1′54.127. TOM’S drivers, Kazuya Oshima and Adrian Sutil followed.
In the morning session, each team devoted itself to setup, and Roberto Streit (INGING) set the pace. Honda’s drivers Tsukakoshi and Takuya Izawa (Honda Toda Racing) [...]

Despite ranking third overall in the inaugural A1 Grand Prix series, A1 Team Great Britain has told Arden International that it will not be requiring its services for the second A1 Grand Prix series that kicks off at Zandvoort in Holland on 1 October.
“We were pleased with third overall,” said Team Principal John Surtees, “but [...]

NZ V8 Championship leader John McIntyre has had the book thrown at him for a breach in the engine regulations.
McIntyre and fellow Ford driver Paul Pedersen have lost all the points they gained with the illegal engine, plus an additional 20 points and a $420 fine.
The Hydraulink Racing driver goes from first to eighth on [...]

Alex Yoong says he prefers the novel A1 World Cup style open wheeler series to motor racing’s pinnacle, Formula One.
The Malaysian, who was F1’s perennial backmarker during stints for Minardi in 2001 and 2002, won the recent Chinese A1 sprint race from pole position.
”I would definitely stay in A1, it would have to be a [...]

Some of the closest times seen in series history have been posted during today’s two qualifying sessions for the second round of the 2006 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship at Symmons Plains Raceway this weekend.
The three main championship protagonists – Ben Clucas (Team BRM), Michael Trimble (Astuti Motorsport) and Chris Alajajian (Insight F3) – [...]

Some seriously hot times have somewhat displaced the freezing cold weather in today’s opening practice sessions for round 2 of the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship at Symmons Plains Raceway.
With James Cressey’s Formula 3 lap record of 52.3 seconds in the sights of teams and drivers this weekend, seven of the fourteen car field [...]

Holden will revive its Holden Young Lions driver scheme for the 2006 V8 Supercar Series, lending support to five young drivers racing Commodores in both the main V8 series and the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Development Series.
V8 Supercar Championship Series drivers Alan Gurr and Fabian Coulthard as well as Fujitsu Series drivers Jack Perkins, Shane Price [...]

New Zealand A1 team boss Bob McMurray is keeping his cards close to his chest over his future with the team.
The inaugural season has come to an end, with the Kiwi team finishing fourth overall, after grabbing an eighth and a fourth in the two races in Shanghai on Sunday.
McMurray originally signed up with the [...]