Archive for January, 2008
Garth Tander’s New Team
Holden Racing Team has a new driver - reigning champion Garth Tander no less - new cars painted in an eye-catching new livery and a new big sponsor ready to tackle the 2008 V8 Supercar season.
The pair of mainly white VE Commodores hits the racetrack at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in three weeks
One has [...]
Boris Said to V8 Supercars?
According to the “Unofficial” Boris Said blog Boris and his legion of Saidheads may have to be eating a lot of airline peanuts in the near future.
Allegedly Paul Morris Motorsports who fields a team in the Australian V8 Supercar Series, has signed the part-time Cup driver, and some-time Bobsled driver, to compete in the Phillip [...]
Grosjean Scores Second GP2 Asia win
Romain Grosjean marked himself out as a man to watch, not only in the inaugural GP2 Asia Series, but also in the regular summer campaign after claiming his second win of the Dubai weekend - from eighth on the grid.
The Frenchman made a strong start from the outside of row four to gain a handful [...]
Morbidelli Pulls Dubai Double
Gianni Morbidelli won his second consecutive Speedcar race held at the Dubai Autodrome Saturday. His victory was witnessed by special spectator, Michael Schumacher who watched the action from the Speedcar garages.
Mathias Lauda came in second, gaining a position since yesterday’s race where he finished third. Local favorite Hasher Al Maktoum thrilled the crowd when he [...]
Morbidelli Scores Inaugural Speedcar Win
One could reasonably expect F1 veterans Jean Alesi or Johnny Herbert to do well in Speedcar’s inaugural event held at the Dubai Autodrome Friday.
Those thoughts were strengthened by Alesi consistently topping the speed charts during pre-season testing.
So much for expectations, reasonable or otherwise.
Gianni Morbidelli, also an F1 vet having 67 starts for (among others) Minardi, [...]
Bruno Senna Takes Podium in Dubai
Bruno Senna has finished the first ever GP2 Asia race on the podium in second position as he took up his new position as an iSport International driver for the race at the Dubai Autodrome.
Following four encouraging pre-season testing days, Bruno hit the track today for GP2 Asia’s momentous first day in Dubai. Proving himself [...]
Grosjean Draws First GP2 Asia Blood
Romain Grosjean started his GP2 career in the best possible way with a dominant victory in the Asia Series opener at Dubai Autodrome on Friday afternoon.
The reigning Formula Three Euro Series champion led from start to finish after streaking away at the head of the field. The start was controversial, with the red lights only [...]
Qi-Meritus.Mahara Strike First in Dubai
Qi-Meritus.Mahara take 7 point in first race of GP2 Asian series
The inaugural round of the newly born GP2 Asia series started well for Qi-Meritus.Mahara with seven points in a strong finish in fifth and sixth places today for Luca Filippi and Hiroki Yoshimoto respectively at the Dubai Autodrome for the first of the two races [...]
Kiwi Circuits Battle for A1GP
A race is on between Taupo and Hampton Downs to see who gets to host the New Zealand leg of the A1GP world motorsport series.
Taupo has the contract until next year, but a track and infrastructure being built at Meremere looms as a rival.
While A1GP management have publicly praised Taupo, a gleaming new venue between [...]
Super Nova Asia GP2 Testing Report
Preparations for the opening rounds of the GP2 Asian Series were completed today as Christian Bakkerud and his Super Nova Racing team finished the fourth and final day of testing at the Dubai Autodrome.
A mixture of some good testing mileage and some frustrating gearbox maladies was the Dane’s summation of his test programme.
“When the car [...]
