Asian Motor Sports

FIA World Touring Car Championship (FIA WTCC) drivers Tiago Monteiro (SEAT Sport), Augusto Farfus (BMW Team Germany) and Robert Huff (Chevrolet) dash to the finish of the Macau Grand Prix Challenge today, with their tower of dim sum baskets, marking the start of the event.

Singapore’s Suriya Bala Kerisnan Thevar will be driving in next week’s world famous Macau Grand Prix, after agreeing a one-off deal to drive for top Macau Formula BMW outfit, Asia Racing Team (ART Motorsports).

Fresh from his fantastic win recently at Hungary’s Hungaroring Circuit in the World Series Formula Renault 3.5, Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy from the MOFAZFortec Motorsport team is raring to progress further in the series by showing his mettle this weekend on the 4th and 5th of July, 2009 at the Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, in his quest to achieve ultimate motorsport excellence.

Sri Lanka’s Dilantha Malagamuwa Takes Another Double Victory in Sepang in the Fifth and Sixth Rounds of the Aston Martin Asia Cup. The Aston Martin Asia Cup (AMAC) returned to the glorious Sepang circuit, Malaysia for rounds five and six.

Sepang International Circuit (SIC) is prepared to handle this weekend’s Super GT event with the final preparation set in place.

TYPE R Racing’s Wong Yew Choong, Soh Kee Koon and Tek Kean Kang stayed true to their promise, as the pole sitters took their Honda Integra through a smooth eight hours of racing, virtually leading from start to finish for victory in the inaugural Sepang 1,000km race at the Sepang circuit yesterday.

Inspired by their commendable performance in their debut at the Merdeka Millennium Endurance race (MME) last year, the all-ladies racing team RedBull Rookies has now penned their names for the inaugural Sepang 1000km, which is scheduled from June 4 to 6 at Sepang Circuit.

The Sepang 1,000km race at the Sepang circuit on Saturday will mark a new beginning for motor racing, ideally an expansion of the pool of drivers and teams in the lower classes.

The Endurance Asia Team has unveiled its livery and driver line-up for next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The squad secured its entry to the 77th Le Mans 24 Hours earlier in the month after climbing off the reserve list following the withdrawal of Epsilon Euskadi.

A 13 year old Indonesian schoolboy, called Sean Galael, is attracting the attention of the rallying world, after winning the first two rounds of the KFC Junior Rally Sprint in Indonesia.

The initial aim of 30 entries minimum has already been exceeded for the first two Asian Le Mans Series meetings in Okayama and Shanghai. The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) is delighted about this, and the club is harvesting the fruits of its painstaking preparation.
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The fastest NASCAR in the world is heading to New Zealand where it will star in the third annual Speedshow.

The 2009 Asian Le Mans Series will be held in Japan and China at the end of October and the beginning of November on the Okayama and Shanghai circuits respectively.

It was a split-second decision that could have resulted in catastrophic consequences. But Rosalind Choo couldn’t care less.

Singapore’s inaugural formula one race may be over but motor sports fever is still in high gear. A S$3 million extravaganza called “Carrerista Jamboree” is set to pump up the adrenalin from December 27 to 31 at the Changi Exhibition Centre.