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NEW DELHI: India’s youngest racing sensation, Ashwin Sundar has got a three-year sponsorship offer from leading German racing team Ma Con Motor Sports.
Seventeen-year-old Ashwin, champion in two classes of the JK Tyre National racing championship, would now be racing in the prestigious German formula Volkswagen ADAC Championship 2008.
Ma Con Motorsports conducted testing sessions for the [...]

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 [...]

Narain Karthikeyan, India’s first Formula 1 driver, is confident he’ll return to the premier series despite three years of disappointment.
He drove for Jordan in 2005, giving hope to a nation’s youngsters looking to take up sports other than cricket, but failed to produce fireworks and a two-year testing role with Williams gave him few opportunities.
Then [...]

The various UAE National motorsport championships are entering the crucial final phase where titles are on the verge of being settled as the season enters the final stretch, according to a Press release.
In all the classes the battle for top honours is tight and this weekend’s racing at the Dubai Autodrome will be decisive in [...]

Parthiva Sureshwaren is on standby to race for A1 Team India tomorrow after Narain Karthikeyan injured his hand in a free practice accident today.
Karthikeyan ran into the tyre barriers at the exit of the second turn in this morning’s free practice session at the tricky Durban street circuit. Although X-Rays showed that nothing had been [...]

Phoenix Racing will have a second car and driver, Klaus Ludwig, in Indonesia on the 16th and 17th of February. He will be driving the Alternative Capital Invest (ACI) sponsored “Legends Car” spearheaded by a different celebrity driver at each of the 4 Speedcar Series rounds left this season.
The German team will now have countrymen [...]

KUWAIT : President of the Higher Committee for Organizing Quarter Mile Auto Race Championships Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah Thursday announced plans to build a motor racing track for young enthusiasts in the country.
Speaking to the press Thursday at his Messilah palace, flanked by his sons Salem and Mubarak, Sheikh Basel said he will meet the Minister [...]

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan, £65m, a dedicated social networking site, go-karting initiatives.
All this and more is what Force India, the first and only Indian-owned team in Formula One, is using to force itself into the cricket-driven psyche of India.
Force India, the latest iteration of the former Jordan team, will race in this year’s F1 world [...]

ON THE face of it, it seems like a competition between the two big tyre companies. Although neither is ready to admit, the fact remains that two of the big changes in the last month or so in Indian motorsport circuit have come pretty close to each other.
Just a month ago, MRF announced their new [...]

Romain Grosjean marked himself out as a man to watch, not only in the inaugural GP2 Asia Series, but also in the regular summer campaign after claiming his second win of the Dubai weekend - from eighth on the grid.
The Frenchman made a strong start from the outside of row four to gain a handful [...]

Gianni Morbidelli won his second consecutive Speedcar race held at the Dubai Autodrome Saturday. His victory was witnessed by special spectator, Michael Schumacher who watched the action from the Speedcar garages.
Mathias Lauda came in second, gaining a position since yesterday’s race where he finished third. Local favorite Hasher Al Maktoum thrilled the crowd when he [...]

One could reasonably expect F1 veterans Jean Alesi or Johnny Herbert to do well in Speedcar’s inaugural event held at the Dubai Autodrome Friday.
Those thoughts were strengthened by Alesi consistently topping the speed charts during pre-season testing.
So much for expectations, reasonable or otherwise.
Gianni Morbidelli, also an F1 vet having 67 starts for (among others) Minardi, [...]

Nur Ali, the first Pakistani professional race car driver in the world, is set to compete in the upcoming ARCA Series Daytona 200 Race on February 9 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida - USA. A statement here on Wednesday said that the ARCA Race Series is the “Developmental programme for NASCAR” or the [...]

A1 Team Pakistan will be back in racing action this weekend, following a five week break over the New Year period. The fifth of 10 races on the A1GP calendar, the team near the half way point of the season and travel to New Zealand to compete against 21 other nations from around the globe.
The [...]

The world-premiere of the Speedcar Series at the Bahrain International Circuit has been hailed a resounding success by organisers.
With a 2-day festival of motorsport providing the ideal backdrop, Speedcar Series had the eyes of the race fans fixed on it as all the competition’s drivers performed exhibition laps to entertain members of the public for [...]