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The 2007-08 A1GP championship will be decided at Brands Hatch next month after leaders Team Switzerland failed to clinch the title in Shanghai.
Driver Neel Jani dominated Sunday morning’s Sprint Race from pole position and, with New Zealand’s Jonny Reid failing to finish, Switzerland needed to take another two points from their nearest rivals in the [...]

The good folks at A1 Podium are reporting a new A1GP team will be announced from the Asia-Pacific region Sunday, reportedly at a cost that runs to seven figures.
Also, there will be about three new venues next season with a couple of the current ones being dropped. David Clare said that they basically already know [...]

Neel Jani gave Team Switzerland the perfect qualifying result in their bid to wrap up the A1GP title by bagging pole position for the sprint race in Shanghai.
The ex-Toro Rosso F1 tester pulled a great late effort out in the closing stages of the second 15-minute session to take the top slot from the impressive [...]

V8 Supercars Australia has announced a unique new format for this year’s L&H 500 at Phillip Island in September.
For the first time in the history of the endurance event, two individual races will be held on Saturday with each co-driver contesting one or the other. Teams will decide which driver competes in which race but [...]

Aaron Caratti has claimed his second ever Carrera Cup Australia race victory after taking out Race One at Wakefield Park in Goulburn this afternoon.
The Perth based driver led the 18 lap race from start to finish, beating home the second placed Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy) with Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) in third.
Bryce Washington (ADRAD) was [...]

Former F1 racer Jean Alesi timed the fastest lap at Speedcar Series’ qualifying at the Sepang circuit here today, putting him on pole position when the first race of the weekend is flagged off.
Alesi clocked a best time of 2:11.342 followed closely by Briton Johnny Herbert, with a 1.39 second gap, leading by 0.01 second [...]

Motor racing legend Dick Johnson has been forced to auction off car parts and sell investment properties after his racing company collapsed with a $6 million debt.
The three-times Bathurst winner and five-times Australian Touring Car champion will face creditors at a meeting next week, where he will put forward a rescue package to pay back [...]

John McIntyre is celebrating winning his second consecutive New Zealand V8s Championship title this weekend, but it wasn’t an easy run to the end for the BP Ultimate Ford driver.
Having run the same engine all season, McIntyre’s Ford suffered a broken timing chain during the weekend’s first race at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill meaning McIntyre [...]

THREE-DAY grandstand passes at $498 each along the Padang for the 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix will go on sale on Monday.
A total of 10,000 tickets will be made available, while another 1,000 tickets at the same price on the City Hall steps will be released later this month once the configurations for seating have [...]

Defending champion John McIntyre had the worst possible start to the weekend when mechanical failure caused his retirement from the first of the last three races of the 2007-08 New Zealand V8s Championship at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill.
Despite having his 115 point margin over closest rival Angus Fogg reduced to 55 points, McIntyre still feels [...]

So says V8 Supercar veteran Russell Ingall. He unloaded on former teammate James Courtney - calling the Dancing with the Stars contestant a “pretty boy who should crawl back into his hole”.
On the eve of the blockbuster second round of the V8 Supercars, Ingall lit the fuse for an explosive Eastern Creek encounter when he [...]

Mark Skaife continued his phenomenal run at Sydney’s Eastern Creek circuit, setting the fastest time in practice for the second round of the V8 Supercars championship.
The 40-year-old Holden veteran is the most successful driver in the history of Eastern Creek with six round wins, four pole positions and nine consecutive front-rows.
He also holds the qualifying [...]

The various UAE National motorsport championships are entering the crucial final phase where titles are on the verge of being settled as the season enters the final stretch, according to a Press release.
In all the classes the battle for top honours is tight and this weekend’s racing at the Dubai Autodrome will be decisive in [...]

Supercheap Auto Racing’s Russell Ingall celebrates yet another milestone when he makes his 150th ATCC/V8 Supercar Championship start this weekend.
Ingall made his championship debut at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway in 1996 - the same venue for this weekend’s event - having landed a full-time drive with Larry Perkins’ then Castrol team after the pair won [...]

As previously noted Ford Motorsport has issued its drivers with a warning not to fight each other as tensions within the blue team threaten to explode ahead of this weekend’s Eastern Creek showdown.
A secret email was sent calling for calm after Ford drivers Craig Lowndes, James Courtney and Mark Winterbottom became involved in an extraordinary [...]