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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2008 AUTOBACS SUPER GT Round1 SUZUKA GT 300km
The race started at 14:00 under clear blue skies worthy of the season opener. The temperature at the start was 19 degrees C. and the track surface temperature was 33 degrees.
After suffering transmission trouble in the morning free session, the No.1 ARTA NSX had to start the race [...]

Craig Baird made history at the Australian Grand Prix when he claimed the first ever Australian Carrera Cup round win at the Albert Park circuit.
Baird took the win after a victory in race three, but the Kiwi champ had to scrap all the way with a determined Dean Fiore.
Fiore’s second place gave him the same [...]

Holden secured the Australian V8 Supercars’ inaugural Manufacturer’s Challenge at Albert Park today thanks largely to Garth Tander winning all three races.
The Red Lions’ cause was also aided by in-fighting among the leading Ford drivers, who were supposed to be teaming up to take Holden down in the non-championship event.
Tander, the reigning V8 Supercar champion, [...]

Paul Kemal, an Aussie Racing Cars Super Series stalwart scored a sensational round victory at Sydney’s Eastern Creek today with a win and three top 5 finishes. Fourth place in the final, which was won by V8 Supercar driver Paul Morris, was enough for Kemal to take outright victory.
Kemal stood strong over the four races [...]

John McIntyre is celebrating winning his second consecutive New Zealand V8s Championship title this weekend, but it wasn’t an easy run to the end for the BP Ultimate Ford driver.
Having run the same engine all season, McIntyre’s Ford suffered a broken timing chain during the weekend’s first race at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill meaning McIntyre [...]

Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom continued his climb up the order after a poor qualifying performance as he took victory in the final race of this weekend’s V8 Supercar round at Eastern Creek.
Winterbottom wasn’t affected by a safety car period very early in the race and another in the closing laps brought out by a [...]

In a turn around from the first race, Ford drivers dominated the second race in the 2008 V8 Supercar Series at Eastern Creek today, finishing in the top three places.
The first Holden across the line was Ford defector Russell Ingall in his Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore VE. Race one winner, Garth Tander could only finish [...]

Kayne Scott has won race two of three at the final competition round of the New Zealand V8 Championship at Teretonga.
Angus Fogg finished second to close the gap to just eight points in the championship, as series leader John McIntyre finished 16th.
Ben Harford has won race two of the penultimate round of the Toyota Racing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Defending champion John McIntyre had the worst possible start to the weekend when mechanical failure caused his retirement from the first of the last three races of the 2007-08 New Zealand V8s Championship at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill.
Despite having his 115 point margin over closest rival Angus Fogg reduced to 55 points, McIntyre still feels [...]

REIGNING V8 Supercar champion Garth Tander gave Ford a stark reminder of just how dominant he can be with a comfortable, go-to-whoa victory at Eastern Creek Raceway.
The Holden driver immediately hit back after disappointing finishes of 23rd and 19th at the season-opening Clipsal 500 in Adelaide a fortnight ago.
He capitalised on his pole position to [...]