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Jean Alesi won a spectacular Speedcar Series race at Sepang International Circuit on Saturday morning as the championship supported a Grand Prix for the first time. Many big names from the F1 world paid close attention to the action as Alesi won a race-long battle with his old friend and sometime Sauber team mate Johnny [...]

GruppeM Racing’s Tim Sugden got his title defense off to a superb start today, taking pole position for Round 1 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. The Briton clocked a time 0.424 seconds quicker than Team StarChase driver Christian Menzel who is making his Asian debut this weekend, with Hong Kong’s Marchy Lee securing a [...]

ART Grand Prix driver Romain Grosjean snatched his second pole of the season in Sepang today. iSport International Karun Chandhok will start next to him tomorrow on the grid of Race 1.
The leader of the 2008 GP2 Asia Series is back on top form this Friday: after he set the pace in this morning’s Free [...]

The field for the newly-titled Formula BMW Pacific more than lives up to its name with the most internationally-diverse grid so far. Drivers from no fewer than ten nations will line up for the start of the 17-round, 2008 season this weekend at the 2008 Formula 1™ Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix.
The three Formula BMW Juniors, [...]

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 [...]

On the eve of Speedcar Series featuring as the support race at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix this weekend, JJ Lehto and Marchy Lee are the Series’ latest additions taking the wheel of the 620 bhp monster stockcars.
Finnish driver JJ Lehto raced in Formula 1 from 1989 to 1994, participating in 70 GPs. He [...]

The GP2 Asia championship leader, ART driver Romain Grosjean, set the fastest lap time this morning during free practice at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia with a best time of 1:46.247.
Although the Frenchman was the quickest driver of the morning, he was closely followed by Luca Filippi at the wheel of his Qi-Meritus Mahara, the [...]

David Price Racing (DPR) heads to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this weekend for the third round of the 2008 GP2 Asia Series. Indian driver Armaan Ebrahim and Brazilian driver, Diego Nunes will once again line up for the team, as the Asian series makes its debut in front of the F1 paddock at the popular Sepang [...]

Malaysia’s most successful driver, Alex Yoong will drive for Speedcar Series in front of his home crowd this weekend at the support race to the Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix
The first ethnic Chinese to reach F1, Alex participated in 16 races in 2001 and 2002 driving a Minardi. Having then dabbled with the Australian V8 [...]

Trident Racing is ready to go for the third race of the 2008 GP2 Asia season, starting this weekend at Sepang, Malaysia. The driver’s fitness and the team’s technical approach will have to face an exceptional challenge, as temperatures are expected to be higher than 30° C, with a Relative Humidity of about the 90%.
The [...]

The race for the 2008 GP2 Asia title resumes this weekend in Malaysia. The 2008 GP2 Asia Series is in Malaysia this weekend for the third round of the Championship. The twenty-six drivers will fight for the win in front of the Formula One paddock at the Sepang International Circuit this Saturday and Sunday.
Two rounds [...]

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 [...]

Malaysia’s team Qi-Meritus.Mahara’s Luca Filippi has vowed to deliver podium finishes in the remaining legs of the inaugural GP2 Asia Series 2008.
The Italian, who was recently appointed as Honda Formula One test driver, had a mix outing in his debut for Malaysian outfit Qi-Meritus.Mahara in the opening leg of the GP2 Asian Series in Dubai [...]