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Brazilian Fabio Carbone has completed two successful days of testing in preparation for the fifth and sixth rounds of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in Motegi.
The 25 year-old, who drives for the Three Bond team, shook down a brand new chassis and also tested some new dampers. The rest of the test was aimed at [...]

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 [...]

FIRESTONE FIREHAWK FAST FACTS
Indy Racing League IndyCar Series
Bridgestone Indy Japan 300 - Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan
April 20-22, 2006 - Round 3 of 16
Race Distance: 300 miles or 482.80 kilometers (200 laps around the 1.5-mile oval).
Firehawk Race Tires Supplied: Firestone shipped 700 Firehawk racing radials for use this weekend. All were produced at the Firestone [...]

Delphi Fernandez Racing’s Scott Sharp grew up in Connecticut and now calls Jupiter, Fla., home. The 11-year veteran, who won the first IndyCar Series race at Twin Ring Motegi in 2003 and was runner-up last year, has seen and done just about everything in auto racing. He briefly talks about the weeklong trip:
It’s just a [...]

The King of the Mountain ‘Monster’ Nobuhiro Tajima of Japan exceeded all expectations at the Silverstone Race to the Sky on Sunday, when he smashed his own record set in 2003 by nine seconds, to win the title for the seventh time clocking 8. 01.17.
Tajima blitzed the field in his powerful Suzuki Escudo and while [...]

All-Japan F3 round 2 is held in Suzuka circuit. Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) took a top with unofficial lap record 1′54.127. TOM’S drivers, Kazuya Oshima and Adrian Sutil followed.
In the morning session, each team devoted itself to setup, and Roberto Streit (INGING) set the pace. Honda’s drivers Tsukakoshi and Takuya Izawa (Honda Toda Racing) [...]

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 [...]

On the second day of All-Japan F3 official test at Suzuka circuit blessed with good weather, Kodai Tsukakoshi (Honda Team Mugen) set a fastest time toward a season opener. Kazuya Oshima (TOM’S) and Takuya Izawa (Honda Toda Racing) followed, and rookies occupied top three.
Today, it became fine and road condition became dry too, and each [...]

OPEN INTERFACE TOM’S SC430 (Wakisaka-Lotterer) clinch season Japan Super GT opener
While the sky was not threatening when the race started at 14:30, a cold wind had been blowing since morning and grew consistently stronger in the afternoon. As the machines took to the track for the formation lap, feelings were uneasy about the unstable weather [...]

It’s almost here! The long awaited start of the 2006 AUTOBACS SUPER GT season arrives on March 18 and 19. This year’s opener will take place on the same Suzuka circuit that witnessed the final dramatic battle of the 2005 season in the rain last November.
Lexus SC430 Attention will focus first and foremost on the [...]

Tie-up between ENDLESS and Mitsuhiro Kinoshita sees unveiling of Hankook Porsche
With a 47% share of the Republic Korean tire market, and ranked eighth in the world, Hankook Tire is that country’s major player. Hankook Tire and ENDLESS Sports have joined forces to create the ‘Hankook ENDLESS Porsche Team’, and are planning to take part in [...]

SUPER GT: Maserati MC12 runs in Japan for the first time! (Photo: SUPER GT) Dunlop, others conclude Suzuka test. This time too, Z cars lead the way
The roar of SUPER GT machinery once again filled the air around Suzuka Circuit as car manufacturers and tire makers completed a two-day test at the circuit on February [...]

A1 Team Ireland racer Ralph Firman has re-signed to race for the Super Aguri Honda Racing Team in this year’s Japanese Super GT Championship, sharing again with Daisuke Ito.
“I’m delighted to have signed for Team Honda Racing and I’m confident that we will be highly competitive again,” said Ralph. “Last year was the first running [...]

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 [...]