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Former Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan is exporing opportunities to join the US NASCAR series and has already tested with a new team, the Indian was quoted in local media as saying on Thursday.

One of the biggest names in the world of motorsport, Tony Stewart, will be heading ‘Down Under’ to compete at Sydney’s Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway later this month.

V8 champion Jamie Whincup will turn his back on the glitz and glamour of NASCAR to keep one of Australia’s greatest sporting teams together for another three years.

Ambrose, a former two-time Australian V8 Supercar champion, is back in Australia after his third season of racing in NASCAR. Ambrose visited Round 13 of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series at his home circuit on the weekend

Australian motor racing fans will get a unique insight into the world of NASCAR and the life of Aussie ace Marcos Ambrose when 60 Minutes resumes on the Nine Network early in 2009.

Hagen recently completed a successful test at Michigan International Speedway for the Brad Keselowski Racing team and has been offered a drive in the series next year.

For the second consecutive year Australian Marcos Ambrose has dominated the Montreal NASCAR round only to be robbed of victory, finishing third in Canada.

The extent of NASCAR’s influence never ceases to amaze me.
The latest wonderment comes via Australia and the brand new, never seen before, never raced before NASCUP racing car.
Behold - NASCUP racing cars.
Following in the tradition of Aussie Racing Cars (ARC) which is now recognized as Australia’s most successful motor racing category comes a new class [...]

MARCOS Ambrose claimed his second top 10 finish of the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series with a hard-fought 10th place in the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 at Darlington Raceway.
The Australian, driving a Ford Fusion, started from 20th but avoided wreckage with 13 laps to go to climb up the places.
“We got a bit of damage early [...]

Marcos Ambrose sees his first road course race for 2008 as a chance to gain a ‘leg up’ in this year’s NASCAR Nationwide Series in the Mexico Corona 200 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City this weekend.
Ambrose currently lies 17th in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings in the #59 Kingsford Hickory Ford Fusion. [...]

Marcos Ambrose is confident that his team can produce a team effort at the tough Phoenix International Raceway for the Bashas Supermarkets 200 in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend.
Ambrose qualified in the top ten for the spring race at Phoenix last season on his way to a 22nd place finish.
It is the second Phoenix race later [...]

When last seen Jacques “International Man of Mystery” Villeneuve was getting summarily booted out of the Bill Davis Racing Toyota Camry for lack of greenbacks. Greenbacks, it should be added, the organization was promised would flow like water down a flushing toilet. (metaphorically speaking of course. I think. -ed)
The cash never materialized and neither did [...]

Australian Marcos Ambrose recorded his best result of the NASCAR season with an 11th place finish at the Nicorette 300 in Georgia.
The former V8s driver, racing in NASCAR’s second-tier Nationwide Series, bounced back from a run of early-season bad luck to post the encouraging result in the 198-lap race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The race was [...]

Marcos Ambrose’s luckless start to the NASCAR season continued on Sunday when a collision forced him out of the Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Ambrose, racing in NASCAR’s second-tier Nationwide Series, started the race from fifth place and was eyeing a top-10 finish before spinning out on lap 131 of 202.
The former V8 [...]

Australian driver Marcos Ambrose has endured handling problems as he stumbled to 22nd in the second race of the Nascar season.
Ambrose, racing in Nascar’s second-tier Nationwide Series for the JTG Racing team, managed to hang on to record his first finish of the season, at the Stater Bros 300 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, [...]