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A1 Team Malaysia was the victim of a mascot kidnapping at the Mexican round of the A1GP Series, with their Orang-utan, Allen, taken from the team’s garage to be replaced with a ransom note. After an absence for the remainder of the season, the team was finally reunited with Allen at the end of season [...]

Luke Fink won Round Three of the 2008 Toyo Tires Drift Australia Series at Adelaide’s Mallala Motorsport Park today, reigniting the championship battle after runaway series leader Leighton Fine struck mechanical problems.
A former World BMX Champion, Fink (Holford Motors Nissan Silvia) entered the weekend second in the championship, 19 points behind Fine, but now slashes [...]

South Australian Leighton Fine heads to Mallala Motorsport Park this weekend intent on becoming the first driver to win three-consecutive rounds of the Toyo Tires Drift Australia Series.
Fine, 23, has won the opening two rounds of the 2008 Australian Drift Championship after joining Adelaide-based outfit Team CTS during the off-season.
A win at Mallala, his [...]

In a thrilling event at the ultra-modern Sepang circuit in Malaysia this weekend, Macanese car racing driver Rodolfo Avila celebrated three podium finishes in the first round of Asia Supercar Challenge 2008.
The first event on the 2008 ASCC calendar got off to a start on Thursday and Avila delivered a likely shine on the opening [...]

The grid for the inaugural Aston Martin Asia Cup’s opening race at Shanghai on 25 May will boast drivers from across the region and beyond in a packed weekend of motor sport action. The series, in partnership with Michelin, Dura, Racing Logistics International, Auto Media China and Graham, is the first ever Aston Martin one [...]

Look past the front gaggle of cars at this weekend’s third round of the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship and you’re likely to see a battle just as intense as the one raging for the outright lead.
The Formula 3 National class has exploded in 2008 with a depth of competition and ferocity of racing [...]

Earl Bamber has scored a clean sweep of the Toyota Racing Series events at the Hamilton 400.
Bamber, 17, was fastest in testing, took pole in dominant form in the two qualifying sessions and won both races. It was his first clean sweep of the 2008 season and included a new race lap record [...]

Bamber makes no mistake to win at Hamilton 400
Wanganui driver Earl Bamber made the most of pole position to win the first Toyota Racing Series at the Hamilton 400 Saturday.
He got a clean start on the damp track and defended a mid-race challenge from Australian Nathan Antunes to lead all the way to the chequered [...]

Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander won the first race of this weekend’s Hamilton 400 in New Zealand.
Tander ran in second for most of the first half of the race but looked set for victory thanks to a confusing opening to the race. Tander was followed closely home by HSV Dealer Team’s Rick Kelly, pole [...]

After a dominant performance during Friday’s qualifying sessions at the Hamilton 400, New Zealand V8 champion John McIntyre went on to win the first rain-shortened race.
Having set a qualifying time more than eight-tenths of a second faster than Angus Fogg, his closest rival - the biggest qualifying margin all season - McIntyre led from start [...]