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ADELAIDE - It will take some time to determine why a major crash at the Clipsal 500 caused life threatening injuries to driver Ashley Cooper at the weekend, with others walking away from similar incidents, race officials say.
Race spokesman Mike Drewer said Cooper remained on life support in the Royal Adelaide Hospital today, following a [...]

Title leader A1 Team Switzerland dominated the action in Durban this afternoon to win the incident-packed Feature race, as the tricky turn one claimed numerous victims throughout the 48-lap race. Today’s results move the Swiss team 10 points ahead of France in the championship standings while New Zealand now lies third, having scored a meager [...]

A1 Team Canada secured its first ever Sprint race victory in this morning’s action-packed race held around the streets of Durban in glorious sunshine, while Switzerland regained the title lead as France failed to score any points and New Zealand picked up one point for setting the fastest lap.
Eighteen-year-old rookie Robert Wickens, the youngest ever [...]

Lee Farrell has continued his love affair with the 3.2 kilometres of tarmac that make up the world-famous Adelaide street circuit after storming to an Opes Prime National Class victory in the opening race of this weekend’s second 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.
Though not fastest in practice, Farrell dominated qualifying yesterday and today [...]

Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup completed his weekend domination with victory in race two of the Clipsal 500 in the Adelaide Parklands.
It was a relatively uneventful race for Whincup, who looked in control after taking the lead on lap 20. But for many of the other frontrunners it was an eventful day as they failed to [...]

Parthiva Sureshwaren is on standby to race for A1 Team India tomorrow after Narain Karthikeyan injured his hand in a free practice accident today.
Karthikeyan ran into the tyre barriers at the exit of the second turn in this morning’s free practice session at the tricky Durban street circuit. Although X-Rays showed that nothing had been [...]

Ashley Cooper, a 27-year-old driver in the V8 Supercar second-tier Fujitsu series, has been taken to hospital following a serious crash at the Clipsal 500.
“His vehicle left the track on lap 11 of the second and final race of the weekend,” an official V8 Supercar media statement read.
“No further information is yet available but all [...]

A1 Team Canada’s Robert Wickens put in a stunning effort to qualify in pole position for tomorrow morning’s Sprint race at the A1GP Durban, South Africa, becoming the youngest ever pole-sitter in the series, while the Feature race will be led off the grid by Switzerland’s Neel Jani.
Sprint race qualifying
Eighteen-year-old rookie Robert Wickens set the [...]

Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup continued his strong practice form by taking pole position for race one of the Clipsal 500 in the Adelaide Parklands.
Whincup took pole with the fastest-ever V8 Supercar lap of the circuit, despite a last-minute effort by Jeld-Wen Motorsport’s James Courtney, Courtney missing out on pole by just over a hundredth of [...]

Round seven of the 2007/08 A1GP season takes place in South Africa on Sunday, with France, New Zealand and Switzerland all hoping that success on the streets of Durban will allow them to break clear of their rivals and establish momentum towards the championship.
With four rounds remaining, New Zealand’s superior number of race wins leaves [...]

A busy Earl Bamber will be part of a large Kiwi ‘clan’ competing at this weekend’s big Clipsal 500 motor race meeting in Adelaide.
However Bamber, the 17-year-old single-seater sensation from Wanganui, will not be driving a V8 Supercar like Shane Van Gisbergen, a Porsche GT3 Cup car like Jono Lester, or a Falcon ute like [...]

A new driver and car combination for IRWIN Racing will debut at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide this weekend. Marcus Marshall will make his race debut aboard a new, but proven #26 IRWIN Racing Ford Falcon.
Marshall got behind the wheel of an ex-Ford Performance Racing Falcon last week during testing. It was [...]

According to eNews Marcos “Kangaroo Meat” Ambrose (The Devil Racer Aussies love to hate) has signed a new three year contract.
The deal is said to be with JTG and will end his relationship with the Woods Bros team. Both teams share the same North Carolina race shops and for the remainder of the 2008 season [...]

Uwe Alzen dominated the second Speedcar Series round at Sentul, Indonesia Sunday.
The German started fourth on the grid but fought his way ahead of Nicolas Navarro, touring car guest star Klaus Ludwig, and local favorite and pole-sitter Ananda Mikola to assume the lead on the eighth lap.
Alzen built himself a comfortable lead and controlled the [...]

The competition is back this weekend on the track of Sentul in Indonesia.
Sentul International Circuit
Circuit Length: 4.12km
The 2008 GP2 Asia Series is in Indonesia this weekend for the second Round of the Championship. The twenty-six drivers will fight for the win at the Sentul International Circuit on Saturday and Sunday.
The Sentul International Circuit is located [...]