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Ah… Singapore Slings! One of my all-time favorite beverages, but I digress.
The FIA has made it official and approved the finalized layout of a street circuit for the City-State’s first ever F1 event to be held next September.
The 3.15-mile circuit will feature 10 left-hand and 14 right-hand turns and will cross two bridges. One is [...]

THE Motorsports Association of Malaysia (MAM) strongly believes that its formation and activities are done within the laws of Malaysia and not governed by those set by international motorsports bodies.
Thus, the question of MAM’s duties overlapping with that of the Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM) does not arise, said Motorsports Commission of Malaysia (MCM) chairman [...]

The GP2 Series has great delight in today announcing the launch of the GP2 Asia Series, which will see the championship expand beyond its current predominantly European foundation into an increasingly global series in the coming years.
Beginning in 2008, the GP2 Series will spawn a brand new international championship to be known as the GP2 [...]

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation has announced that, after 11 years with the organization, its Chief Executive Officer Tim Bamford, has decided to step down.
Bamford has been the AGPC’s CEO for the past three years.
He will be replaced by Drew Ward, who was previously Marketing Services Manager and Event Manager at the Australian Grand Prix [...]

V8 SUPERCAR legend and lifelong motorsport fan John Bowe has described the program for the Australian Grand Prix this weekend as the worst ever.
Bowe, who raced in the Grand Prix in the 1980s at Calder Park and has won both the Bathurst 1000 and Australian Touring Car Championship, said yesterday that he was appalled by [...]

A full grid of 32 cars will be competing the Melbourne F1GP support races on March 15-18th. Joining the Australian F3 drivers will be seven drivers who will also be racing for points for the Asian F3 Pacific Driver of the Year award.
Aran Racing have entered Edwin Jowsey and Philip Forsman whilst Paul Ip, Henri [...]

In the lead up to next month’s season opening Australian Grand Prix, fans will be treated to a Ferrari Formula One festival in the heartland of Melbourne’s Italian community.
In front of two shining scarlet Ferrari’s, State Tourism Minister In front of two shining scarlet Ferrari’s, State Tourism Minister, Tim Holding confirmed that the festival will [...]

Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy has joined the Spyker Formula One team as a test and reserve driver.
Ferrari-powered Spyker said in a statement that Fauzy, Dutchman Giedo van der Garde, Spaniard Adrian Valles and Germany’s Markus Winkelhock would be part of their test programme for the season starting on March 18.
The team, renamed after the Dutch luxury [...]

Narain Karthikeyan, who became India’s first Formula One driver in 2005, will race in the A1 grand prix race in New Zealand on Sunday.
Karthikeyan, who was signed up by the then Jordan team, is now a test driver with Williams.
“I’m very proud to drive for my country in A1GP,” he said in a team statement. [...]

Or just a fantasy by financial heavyweights?
I bloviate, you decide. The following is courtesy Channel News Asia who quotes Today Magazine.
Note Fernando Alonzo has already won the 2007 F1 World Championship. All righty then, no reason to waste a few hundred million, if not a billion, on the ‘06 season. Do no not pass the [...]

The 11 teams competing for the 2007 2007 F1 World Championships have been pushing for a testing session at the Sepang International Circuit. They’ve gotten their wish.
The F1 race calendar this year has a three-week break after the opening round in Melbourne from March 16-18. This meant that the teams would have to transport [...]

Chinese hopeful Ho-pin Tung is reportedly targeting a full time test seat for the Spyker team in 2007.
The Dutch born F3 racer, who tested a Williams in 2003, has been in contact with Silverstone based Spyker through bosses Michiel Mol and Victor Muller, the magazine Formule 1 Race Report said.
With 9 wins and 4 poles, [...]

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 [...]

Alessandro “Alex” Zanardi who was involved in a horrendous racing accident in 2001 at EuroSpeedway in Lausitz, Germany that cost him both legs will make a triumphant return behind the wheel of an F1 car in late November.
Zanardi has been cleared for the test in a modified BMW Sauber F1 machine during the Formula BMW [...]

“Following discussions last week, Jacques Villeneuve and the BMW Sauber F1 team agreed to terminate their current contract with immediate effect five races ahead of schedule,” the BMW Sauber F1 statement said.
But weren’t the discussions last week dealing with an “injury” sustained in the German GP? Silly me! “I will now have more time to [...]