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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 [...]

Formula 3 Australia has today announced that it is ‘business as usual’ for Australia’s premier open wheel category, the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship for the CAMS Gold Star, irrespective of the issues surrounding Opes Prime, one of the category’s keenest supporters.
The Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship is in a sound financial position. [...]

A1 Team China driver, Congfu Cheng, is about to become part of history as he participates in the Olympic Torch Relay, a tradition that goes back to the year 766 BC, when the first recorded Olympic games were held. In an honour that is afforded to very few athletes, let alone racing drivers, he will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At Eastern Creek for the second round of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship, Sprint Gas Racing’s Greg Murphy has finished 9th and Jason Richards 13th.
During the race Murphy, who started 13th, drove strongly to withstand pressure from Mark Winterbottom and Richards maintained composure after losing a few places following the compulsory pit stop to finish [...]

Fujitsu V8 Supercar driver, Ashley Cooper, succumbed last Monday to brain injuries received from a high speed racing accident at the Clipsal 500 meeting in Adelaide.
As terrible as this incident was for his partner, Casey, and their two young children Ella and Bailey, their families, friends, and motorsport fans; Ashley has provided the greatest gift [...]

Andy Booth led from the front to win the weekend’s first New Zealand V8s race at the Timaru International Motor Raceway in the VnC Cocktails 200.
With fresh support from Big Ben Pies for his Tasman Motorsport Holden, the two-time V8s champion took pole position in the rain-affected qualifying sessions from defending V8s champion and current [...]

Defending champion Craig Baird heads to the penultimate GT3 round at Timaru with a healthy points lead - but the battle is far from over.
Gunning for the two-time Battery Town title holder are Toyota Racing Series graduate Daniel Gaunt who is second overall in the points standings, young gun Jono Lester who is third, and [...]

Supercar Club Hong Kong held its Race Drivers Meeting, together with our two new partner promoters, March 3 International Inc., and Motorsport Asia Limited . In attendance were the representatives from the three companies, and most of the ASCC drivers and new team managers. The new changes and rules and regulations for the 2008 Asia [...]

One week after presenting their World Touring Car Championship team, Liqui Moly Team Engstler announced their driver line-up for the Asian Touring Car Series for the 2008 Season.
For the team, being in the ATCS is as important as being in the WTCC. “We have to defend two championship titles in Asia and to advance the [...]

Asian F3 will now end the 2007-8 season with a bang, the Super Racing Festival at the challenging Batangas Race Circuit will take place over five days from March 26th to March 30th. Two days of practice will be followed by two races per day from Friday to Sunday.
The event will also feature the first [...]

The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia has announced the strongest line-up in its history for its sixth season as the region’s premier sportscar series, and arguably one of the best ever seen in Asia. With entries yet to close, eighteen of the finest racers in the category from Asia, the Pacific and Europe have already signed [...]

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 [...]

Speedcar Series is in Indonesia for Round 2 of the Grand Racing events. The V8 620 bhp stockcars will be racing at the Sentul International Circuit on Saturday and Sunday, the 16th and 17th of February, 2008.
Approximately 100,000 spectators are expected this weekend to watch local heroes Ananda Mikola and Moreno Soeprapto. They will battle [...]