Asian Motor Sports

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A1 Grand Prix celebrated the end of its first season this evening (2 April) at a glittering ceremony at the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai’s business district, the tallest hotel in the world. Teams, drivers and Chinese dignitaries gathered to watch as season long achievements were honoured.
The most popular winners of the night were Stephen Simpson, [...]

The Czech Republic became the eighth nation to win an A1 Grand Prix event, crossing the line first at the end of the Shanghai Feature race. Snatching first place from Sprint race winner, Malaysia’s Alex Yoong who still managed to retain second ahead of Australia’s Ryan Briscoe who had his first podium finish of the [...]

A1 Team Malaysia’s Alex Yoong converted his first pole position into the team’s first race win after a dominant performance in the Sprint race at the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Shanghai Circuit, China, taking his spot at the head of the grid for the following Feature race.
Series leaders, France put pressure on from the [...]

After blitzing the field and scoring his first pole of the year, Honda’s Jenson Button was looking forward to ordering up something from Shanghai’s “column A,” a race win.
His Honda V8 wasn’t cooperative and on lap 56 of the 57 lap event - and while in fifth place - Button was served something from “column [...]

MARTINSVILLE, Va. Marcos Ambrose debut Saturday in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, wasn’t what team owners Woods Brothers or Ambrose had hoped for.
After a promising start that featured setting the 12th fastest time in opening practice and 18th fastest time in second practice - just shy of his highly rated teammate Bobby East - and [...]

Jack Daniels Racing’s Steven Richards split the Holden Racing Team down the middle to win the second of three non-Championship races at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Saturday.
Richards’ guile saw him take the win in a spectacular race that had five cars, at one stage almost side by side, battling all out for [...]

Shanghai – A1 Team Malaysia snatched their first pole position for the final Sprint race of the 2005/06 A1 Grand Prix season this afternoon after the flag had dropped in the last of the four Qualifying sessions. A1 Team Great Britain’s Darren Manning, who led from the word go, was denied the opportunity to head [...]

The A1GP Series has invited FRD Motorsports to setup a Formula Renault race as a support event for the last round of the A1-GP. This history-making event will take place at the Shanghai International Circuit on April 1 and 2.
The A1GP is known as the World Cup of Motorsports. Each team is from a different [...]