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Alex Yoong followed up his dominant qualifying display with a straightforward win in the A1GP sprint race in Mexico City.
The Team Malaysia driver led from the rolling start through to the finish, with only Team Great Britain driver Oliver Jarvis managing to stay anywhere near him. But even Jarvis was never close enough to threaten [...]

Malaysia’s Alex Yoong has taken pole position for Sunday’s sprint race at the Mexican A1 GP, the ninth round of the season.
The former F1 driver set an aggregate time of two minutes 53.138 seconds for his quickest two laps around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Yoong overcame tyre problems to set the fastest lap in three of [...]

A1 Team Malaysia driver, Alex Yoong, has been announced as the 2006 winner of the British Racing Drivers’ Club Bruce McLaren Trophy. This accolade is awarded each year to a driver residing in the Commonwealth who has established the most meritorious performances in international motor racing.
Yoong’s strong performance in the inaugural season of the A1GP [...]

Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy has joined the Spyker Formula One team as a test and reserve driver.
Ferrari-powered Spyker said in a statement that Fauzy, Dutchman Giedo van der Garde, Spaniard Adrian Valles and Germany’s Markus Winkelhock would be part of their test programme for the season starting on March 18.
The team, renamed after the Dutch luxury [...]

Neel Jani made Switzerland the sixth different winner in seven races when he romped to a comfortable lights-to-flag victory in the Sprint race for the fourth round of the A1 Grand Prix at Sepang, avenging his final lap defeat in last year’s race.
Making the most of his pole position and the short Sprint race distance, [...]

Neel Jani has taken Switzerland’s first pole position of the season after qualifying for the Malaysian A1 Grand Prix at Sepang.
The 22-year-old, who pulled off the same feat at the 5.5-km circuit last year, set the fastest time in two of the four 15 minute-long sessions to edge ahead of New Zealand’s Jonny Reid.
“This was [...]

A1 Team Malaysia has secured a comprehensive lights-to-flag victory in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Sprint race at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic. Canada, driven consistently by rookie James Hinchcliffe, came an impressive second, one second ahead of 2005/06 champions A1 Team France.
Malaysia’s Alex Yoong edged ahead at the rolling start after [...]

The anticipation of a second season of A1GP World Cup of Motorsport racing is building with the pre-season official test session set to take place next week at Silverstone race circuit in the UK. A1 Team Malaysia, alongside the majority of the countries competing in the next season of A1GP racing, will return to the [...]

The Asian Festival of Speed promises to be a fast paced weekend with four championships, nine races, a drift competition, a car exhibition and lots of fun.
To kick start the Asian Festival of Speed, Motorsport Asia will be hosting the AFOS Speed Bump at Velvet Underground, Zouk, in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The party [...]

Aaron Lim, one of Malaysia’s brightest racing prospects, has set his sights on landing the prestigious Formula BMW Asia Series title this year. The 20-year-old is determined to break out of the shadows of the other drivers in his second season in the highly exciting series.
“My aim this year is to win the Formula BMW [...]

Alex Yoong says he prefers the novel A1 World Cup style open wheeler series to motor racing’s pinnacle, Formula One.
The Malaysian, who was F1’s perennial backmarker during stints for Minardi in 2001 and 2002, won the recent Chinese A1 sprint race from pole position.
”I would definitely stay in A1, it would have to be a [...]

A1 Team Malaysia’s Alex Yoong converted his first pole position into the team’s first race win after a dominant performance in the Sprint race at the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Shanghai Circuit, China, taking his spot at the head of the grid for the following Feature race.
Series leaders, France put pressure on from the [...]

A1 Team Malaysia has arrived in China for the final event in the inaugural A1 Grand Prix series. The eleventh weekend of racing will take place at Shanghai International Circuit with Alex Yoong driving for the team at this state of the art motor racing venue. Lying tenth in the World Cup of Motorsport standings, [...]

Alex Yoong will be driving in the Le Mans Series with Jan Lammers, the A1 Team Netherlands seat holder during the A1GP off season 2006.
The first Le Mans series race is in Istanbul, Turkey 7, 8, 9 April 2006, the week immediately following the final A1 Grand Prix of Nations in Shanghai, China.
From Turkey the [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – An on-form Hamed Al Fardan (BRN/Team Meritus) made an emphatic one-off return to Formula BMW Asia this weekend, taking victory in Round 2 in front of the Formula One fraternity in Malaysia, and showing the young-guns he is at the top of his game. However, the new crop of [...]