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The V8 Supercars will not be part of the Australian Grand Prix next year due to a date clash. V8 Supercars have traditionally raced at the Formula One Grand Prix as the premier support category.
However, the Grand Prix will take place on March 15-18 next year and V8 Supercars Australia CEO Wayne Cattach said they [...]

A1 Team Canada will take their race winning car home for the first time this weekend, giving race fans their first opportunity to see the car, as well as to meet the team’s star drivers. A1 Team Canada drivers Sean McIntosh and Patrick Carpentier will be in Montreal to meet fans and sign autographs.
As Montreal [...]

To say it’s been a bad week and a half for Super Aguri’s Yuji Ide would be a vast understatement. Last week he was Aguri Suzuki’s second driver on the fledgeling Japanese F1 team. A few days later he had been demoted, at the urging of the FIA, to the teams Man Friday.
That turned out [...]

Super Aguri’s rolling chicaine has been demoted to the teams Man Friday.
Super Aguri Honda has confirmed that Yuji Ide will only be participating in the team’s testing days effective immediately.
Franck Montagny will undertake the role of SAF1 Team second driver at the European Grand Prix this weekend. The move follows a not so suble nudge [...]

Britain’s Nigel Mansell took 1st place Saturday at the Losail International Raceway in Qatar at what many have described as the hottest race in living memory. The Doha (Qatar) desert heat produced almost unbearable conditions as a track temperature of 58 degrees was recorded at the start of the event.
A cock-pit temperature of 77 degrees [...]

Alex Yoong says he prefers the novel A1 World Cup style open wheeler series to motor racing’s pinnacle, Formula One.
The Malaysian, who was F1’s perennial backmarker during stints for Minardi in 2001 and 2002, won the recent Chinese A1 sprint race from pole position.
”I would definitely stay in A1, it would have to be a [...]

After blitzing the field and scoring his first pole of the year, Honda’s Jenson Button was looking forward to ordering up something from Shanghai’s “column A,” a race win.
His Honda V8 wasn’t cooperative and on lap 56 of the 57 lap event - and while in fifth place - Button was served something from “column [...]

(GMM) The fate of September’s Italian GP continues to look uncertain, after a civil court last week refused to overturn a ban on noisy cars at Monza.
Although the historic grand prix might be protected, one junior-category event at the track has already been axed.
Now, like F1, the ban also threatens events like touring cars and [...]

Not all things need a sponsor logo, but exceptions can be made!
And you thought we went to the races because of the smell of gasoline fumes and burning rubber.
For those unaware, the term “Brolly Babe” has it’s origination in Europe and the Formula One circuit. It refers to the British term for unbrella and is [...]

Super Aguri shook down the two chassis it will race in Bahrain and unveiled a revised livery at Silverstone today.
Both the team’s race drivers, Takuma Sato and novice Yuji Ide, were on hand to put a few miles on the SA05s, which were running with the definitive aero specification the team will use in the [...]

Formula 1 novice Yuji Ide was content with his first test for Super Aguri despite a gearbox electronics problem bringing his day to an early end.
Wednesday’s test at Barcelona was Ide’s first ever experience of an F1 car.
“I wish I could have driven more kilometres, but there were some problems that cut my day short,

India’s Narain Karthikeyan is not too old to one day return to the formula one grid.
That’s the pledge of Sir Frank Williams, who has signed the former Jordan racer - and his sponsor Tata - for 2006.
But Williams, 63, said his team’s new second test driver has a long way to go.
”Narain is seen as [...]

Australians, like Williams’ Mark Webber or Sam Michael, have officially been told to stay away from the scene of the 2006 Formula Oneseason opener, in Bahrain.
The renewed warning of the country’s federal ‘Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’, mirroring a similar American alert, said there is a ‘high threat of terrorist attack’ in the small [...]

The Honda-powered Super Aguri team made a slow start to their Formula One career on Tuesday when their debut test in Barcelona was cut short.
First the expected happened considering it’s a “new” car and team: The car, based on a four-year-old ex-Arrows chassis, stopped after just three laps with a hydraulic problem.
After that drama driver [...]

Courtesy of Sukudo-Online: Super-Aguri Shakedown Due Today.
And my obligatory snarky comment: Considering the four year old Arrows chassis with a new Honda engine duct taped to it’s butt shouldn’t that read, Aguri Breakdown Due Today? Will the normal Safety Car that follows be replaced by a flatbed with a modified front-loader bucket attached to pick [...]