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Nine drivers head for the streets of Macau, China with a chance of winning the 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship. The race for the title is led by Alfa Romeo’s Augusto Farfus, but with 20 points up for grabs, the Brazilian can be beaten by three BMW drivers and no fewer than five men [...]

A1 Team Italy has secured its maiden victory in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport after Enrico Toccacelo took advantage of problems for cars ahead to win the feature race in Beijing.
Toccacelo started the race from third on the grid after a podium finish in the sprint race and ran strongly throughout – hitting the [...]

Toll HSV Dealer Team’s Garth Tander took two narrow wins in wet, then dry conditions, in round ten of the Australian V8 Super Car Series at Symmons Plains Raceway Sunday.
With the inaugural round in Bahrain to be followed by the final round at Phillip Island, there are still 642 points available. The title battle at [...]

A1 Team Netherlands became the fourth different team to win a round of the 2006/07 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport as Dutchman Jeroen Bleekemolen secured a lights-to-flag victory at the Jingkai street circuit, just under 1.5secs from A1 Team Mexico’s Salvador Duran and Italy’s Enrico Toccacelo.
Following a difficult opening two days of the A1GP Beijing, [...]

Marcos Ambrose has survived a turbulent race to make a late charge up the order and take 15th in the Casino Arizona 150 at the Phoenix International Raceway in Arizona today.
The result made Ambrose the second highest finishing rookie in today’s NASCAR Craftsman Trick Series race, keeping the Team Australia ace on track for second [...]

Craig Lowndes’ V8 Supercar campaign became unhinged when a disastrous opening race at Symmons Plains allowed Holden rival Rick Kelly to seize the series lead.
The race was a triumph for the Ford Performance Racing duo of Jason Bright and Mark Winterbottom who scored their first one-two but Kelly’s third place proved a crucial result.
With the [...]

Following overnight modifications to the Jingkai street circuit, the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport’s inaugural Beijing race weekend got underway today with the third official practice session. After 25 minutes of action, the 90-minute long session was suspended following a red flag resulting from a manhole cover coming loose on the racing line between turns [...]

After a challenging first day for the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in Beijing the event is firmly back on track to create history in China. The first ever street track in the country’s capital will witness the cars at full speed on a track that has been modified to cope with the A1GP cars [...]

CLAIMANTS TO THE WORLD TITLE COMPARED
No less than nine drivers will be fighting to become World Champion during the 2006 FIA WTCC final race meeting, next week in Macau. The comparative table below summarizes their respective situations:
driver Car age points gap ballast best result in Macau
A. Farfus Alfa Romeo 23 60 80 kg 1st FIA [...]

Beijing, China - Friday’s two practice sessions for the A1GP races on Sunday have been canceled to allow organizers to address issues with the brand new street circuit.
The track was designed specifically for the A1GP series and received its FIA Grade 2 approval on Friday morning as planned, but organizers opted to delay on-track activity [...]

In its second season of competition A1GP World Cup of Motorsport continues to push the traditional frontiers of motorsport. This week, A1GP will become the first-ever motorsport series to race in Beijing when the cars take to the street circuit in the south east of the Chinese capital.
The third event of the 2006/07 season will [...]

When the 2007 Formula One season schedule was announced, with Australia being the opening event, it was also noted the wildly popular Australian V8 Super Car Series would not be part of the weekends program.
When Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker announced the absence of the V8’s the news was greeted with surprise by [...]

As some of you may know the New Zealand V8 Super Car Series commenced their season this past weekend at Pukekohe Raceway Park.
As it happens the Aussies smoked the field of Kiwi drivers and in true Roush-like fashion Fords swept the first seven spots in the standings. The Holden teams (GM to us Yanks) must [...]

This weekend A1 TEAM USA returns to A1GP action in Beijing, China for the third race — and the first street race — of the 2006-07 season.
Driver Phil Giebler will return for his third race this season. Giebler, who earned a second place finish for A1 TEAM USA in the season-opener in Zandvoort, The Netherlands, [...]

Graham Rahal is heading for a Champ Car World Series debut next year and plans are accelerating as this year’s championship nears its conclusion. He is expecting to test in the near future and is readying himself for this time.
Rahal has been forced to abandon his plans to race in the A1GP series due to [...]