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British Formula Three champion Mike Conway won an incident filled Macau Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Briton, who started seventh, seized the lead on the opening lap when Kamui Kobayashi and Marko Asmer were put down the escape road at Lisboa after being slid into by Paul di Resta, who then spun.
After a brief safety car [...]

Kamui Kobayashi took pole position for the Macau Grand Prix in a rain-affected and incident-filled qualifying session on Friday - before smashing his car against the barriers in the final seconds.
The Japanese ASM driver moved to the top of the timesheets with 14 minutes of qualifying remaining and, with light rain falling over the track, [...]

Qualifying sessions for Round 9 of the 2006 AUTOBACS SUPER GT, the FUJI GT300KM, took place at the Fuji Speedway (1 lap 4.563 km) in Shizuoka Prefecture on November 4. Loic Duval in the EPSON NSX captured the pole position (1st place in qualifying). He will start from the front row for the final race [...]

Another weather lottery saw New Zealand driver Jonny Reid achieve fifth and seventh place finishes at the seventh round of the 2006 All-Japan Formula 3 Championships at the Fuji circuit (in the shadow of Japan’s Mt Fuji) over the weekend.
Reid again struggled with set-up issues in qualifying - setting the ninth fastest time for the [...]

The 2006 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon 5th Round at Autopolis, August 6th, 2006
It was an extremely hot race day on Sunday at Autopolis. Though it was cool during the free practice run that begun at 9:00 a.m., by the time cars headed to their grid positions, temperatures rose to 32C, and pavement temperatures to 43C.
The [...]

On 5th August, two qualifying sessions and race 1 of All-Japan Formula 3 Championship Round 6 was held at Auto Polis where the series was opened for the first time. All sessions were favored with very fine weather, and it was the perfect day for Kazuya Oshima (TOM’S). Oshina took double poles and won the [...]

On 4th August, the free practice of All-Japan Formula 3 Championship was held at Auto Polis where the series was opened for the first time. Roberto Streit (INGING) set the pace, and TOM’S drivers, Kazuya Oshima and Adrian Sutil followed.
It was a fine day and each 1 hour session was held in the morning and [...]

On 8 - 9 July, the opening round of FCJ (Formula Challenge Japan) was held at Suzuka Circuit as support race of Formula Nippon.
FCJ is a new motorsport category aimed for upbringing of a promising young Japanese driver, and it is sponsored by Honda, Toyota and Nissan. 27 young drivers participated in the opening round [...]

1. Benoit Treluyer Impul Lola-Toyota 1hr 34min 26.397secs
2. Tsugio Matsuda Impul Lola-Toyota 1hr 34min 35.632secs
3. Satoshi Motoyama Impul Lola-Toyota 1hr 35min 00.301secs
4. Yuji Tachikawa Cerumo Lola-Toyota 1hr 35min 06.589secs
5. Andre Lotterer DHG-TOM’s Lola-Toyota 1hr 35min 32.191secs
6. Tatsuya Kataoka Le Mans Lola-Toyota 1hr 35min 42.185secs
7. Takeshi Tsuchiya DHG-TOM’s Lola-Toyota 1hr 35min 48.689secs
8. Tora Takagi Le Mans [...]

Free practice of Formula Nippon Round 4 was held at Suzuka Circuit. Yuji Ide who participated in four race in Formula One for Super Auper F1 Team joined DoCoMo TEAM DANDELION and returned to Formula Nippon. In addition, as a substitution for Sakon Yamamoto who joined Super Aguri F1 as third driver, Seiji Ara who [...]

New Zealand driver Jonny Reid is mentally preparing himself for yet another wet weekend as the 2006 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship returns to Suzuka on Friday.
“Yes, it looks like we’re in for rain again,” he said, as the weather forecasters in Japan talked about a possible typhoon warning.
This weekend’s round is the fifth of the [...]

A1 Team Ireland star Ralph Firman took the podium in round four of the Japanese Super GT Championship for Team Honda Racing this weekend in Malaysia, taking the championship lead in the process.
Firman, the principal driver for A1 Team Ireland last season, claimed pole position and won the race despite gruelling conditions which saw his [...]

Three Bond driver Fabio Carbone has finished on the podium at the third round of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship. The Brazilian was second in race two at Motegi, which means that he currently holds fourth place in the championship with 14 races still to go. The Quadra Sports-backed driver has maintained his impressive record [...]

Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) set the pace in free practice of All-Japan F3 Championship Round 5 & 6 at Twinring Motegi.
Free practice is held under the cloudy sky. Kazuya Oshima (TOM’S) set the pace in the morning session. Oshima’s best lap was 1′46.929, it was quicker than the best lap of official test which [...]

On May 10th and 11th, All-Japan F3 offcial test took the place at Twin-ring Motegi where round 3 will be open. Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) set the overall top time, Adrian Sutil who drove the third car of Midland F1 at Formula 1 European GP last week took the second place.
In the mornig session [...]