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The 2007-08 A1GP championship will be decided at Brands Hatch next month after leaders Team Switzerland failed to clinch the title in Shanghai.
Driver Neel Jani dominated Sunday morning’s Sprint Race from pole position and, with New Zealand’s Jonny Reid failing to finish, Switzerland needed to take another two points from their nearest rivals in the [...]

The good folks at A1 Podium are reporting a new A1GP team will be announced from the Asia-Pacific region Sunday, reportedly at a cost that runs to seven figures.
Also, there will be about three new venues next season with a couple of the current ones being dropped. David Clare said that they basically already know [...]

Neel Jani gave Team Switzerland the perfect qualifying result in their bid to wrap up the A1GP title by bagging pole position for the sprint race in Shanghai.
The ex-Toro Rosso F1 tester pulled a great late effort out in the closing stages of the second 15-minute session to take the top slot from the impressive [...]

Takuto Iguchi (Petronas Team TOM’S) secured his maiden F3 win from pole position in 2008 Japanese Formula 3 Championship opening round in Fuji Speedway. Carlo van Dam (Petronas Team TOM’S) and Kei Cozzolino (Now Motorsports) also secured the podium in their first Japanese race. Hideki Yamauchi (TOM’S Spirit) secured a win his first National Class [...]

Dutch racing driver Carlo van Dam finished second at Fuji Saturday in the opening round of the 2008 Japanese Formula 3 Championship. Carlo, who races for Toyota Team TOM’s, will start from third place in the second race, held at the same circuit tomorrow.
Saturday Carlo was on the front row of the grid, having set [...]

Frederic Vervisch took a lights to flag victory to win the 2007-8 Asian F3 Series Championship in style. Matt Howson was second from Rafael Suzuki.
Fred Vervisch had already a comfortable lead in the Asian Series and came to Batangas with only one thing in mind: assuring his title. This Asian F3 title is not only [...]

Fredric Vervisch qualified on pole position for the first race of the final 2007-8 Asian Formula Three Series event to be held at the Batangas Race Circuit in the Philippines. Rafael Suzuki was second with Matt Howson third.
Vervisch set a time of 1m 26.154 in hot and sultry conditions from his Team Goddard team mate, [...]

Dams driver Kamui Kobayashi claimed a historical victory today in Sepang as the first Japanese driver to have ever won a GP2 race.
It was very hot on the Malaysian track Sunday morning as the GP2 Asia drivers placed their car on the reversed grid. Trident Racing Harald Schleghelmilch started on pole position, next to BCN [...]

Uwe Alzen scored his second Speedcar victory in the Sunday morning race at Sepang International Circuit, having already won the second ‘reverse grid’ event at Sentul, Indonesia. The German touring car veteran chased early leader David Terrien, and eventually found his way past.
The grid saw the top eight line up in reverse order, with Saturday’s [...]

Defending drivers’ world champion Kimi Raikkonen bounced back to form and back into the scrap for this year’s title when he won the Malaysian Grand Prix for Ferrari on Sunday.
Starting second on the grid, the Finn assumed control of the race following the first set of pit stops and eventually took the checkered flag some [...]

The GP2 Asian series continues to have heated battles in their inaugural season. Sepang International Circuit is the venue for this weekend’s third round of action and today’s first race of the weekend kept the Malaysia fans attention from the start to the finish. Russian Vitaly Petrov notched his first victory in the Asian series, [...]

Aditya Patel, a 19-year-old from Chennai, grabbed the third spot in the Formula BMW Pacific series amid heavy rain Saturday as he made his debut in international singles-seater racing.
Starting seventh on the grid, Aditya, driving for Team Eurasia, improved his position in the very first lap as the heavy rain that lashed the Sepang International [...]

Germany’s Christian Menzel and China’s Team StarChase took victory in the opening round of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia today, an official support race to the Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix. Second was Marchy Lee, racing for Team BetterLife in his first full season with the series, ahead of fellow Hong Kong driver Darryl [...]

Sepang, Malaysia — Japanese newcomer Ryuichi Nara (19/Team E-Rain) and Formula BMW Junior Simon Moss (16/RSA/Mahara) took a pole apiece for Rounds 1 and 2 of Formula BMW Pacific, which gets underway this weekend as an official support race to the Formula One Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix.
It was a good start to the season for [...]

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 [...]