Asian Motor Sports

The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, the region’s premier sportscar championship, today announced a record entry for the 2010 season, which gets underway in April as part of the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

In preparation for the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific series, the PETRONAS MOFAZ Racing team’s four young drivers resumed their Formula BMW tests at the Sepang Circuit on Monday 1st March 2010.

Auckland based Triple X Motorsport have confirmed drivers Earl Bamber (Wanganui) Stefan Webling (New Plymouth) and Chris Wootton (Brisbane) have joined their team to contest the five-round Toyota Racing Series starting mid-January in Invercargill.

Team StarChase driver Christian Menzel took pole position for Round 10 of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia as the current points’ leader out-paced the next closest driver by four-tenths of a second at the Shanghai International Circuit today.

Asia’s premier sportscar championship, the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, is set for a new look in 2010, with the addition of private teams to the line-up as well as the stunning new Porsche 911 GT3 RS-based version of the 911 GT3 Cup car and a stellar calendar.

Team StarChase driver Christian Menzel of Germany snatched pole position for the Porsche SC Global Carrera Cup Asia - Singapore 2009 today in dramatic fashion, collecting a valuable series point and closing the gap to points leader Tim Sugden of GruppeM Racing.

Felipe Nasr (BRA/17/Eurointernational) took a faultless lights-to-flag victory in Round 11 of Formula BMW Pacific, as the newly crowned Formula BMW Europe champion won his first race in Asia in support of the 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix on the 5.067km Marina Bay street circuit.

If ever a cat — or cats - were set among the pigeons, the addition of super-quick Briton Danny Watts and New Zealand’s Craig Baird to the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia grid in Singapore later this month is certain to rev up the already-furious competition.

Team StarChase driver Christian Menzel scored his third victory of the season during Round 8 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at the Sentul International Circuit. Saturday’s Round 7 winner Rodolfo Avila of Asia Racing Team was second

The Asia Racing Team (ART Motorsports) heads to Beijing for round two of the AFR Championship on top of the points standings and looking forward to racing again in Goldenport Circuit.

It was another spectacular outing for the Formula V6 Asia where Hamad Al Fardan took home his fourth consecutive win in the fourth race of the 2009 season.

Round 3 of the Formula V6 Asia started out in the rain and finished 12 laps later under scorching conditions but Hamad Al Fardan maintained his cool to claim his third consecutive win of the season.

The Formula V6 Asia season opener during the Asian Festival of Speed at the Sepang International
Circuit this weekend was definitely Hamad Al Fardan’s.

Questnet Team Qi-Meritus driver Rio Haryanto showed just what he is capable of when he won the sixth race of the Formula BMW Pacific season at the Sepang International Circuit this afternoon in sensational style.

A gapping hole, a broken clutch and some good luck were some the dramas in the Asian Touring Car Series Race 1 during the Asian Festival of Speed at the Sepang International Circuit today.