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DUBAI — Dubai Autodrome will host the Dubai Motorsport Festival at its facility on November 16 and 17, according to a media communique.
A host of mini-events aimed at families will be part and parcel of the race weekend.
Children under 16 will be entitled to free entry accompanied with adult.
Off track entertainment will include: kids activities [...]

Williams F1’s test driver Narain Karthikeyan has announced that he will take part in the Speedcar series this season, the competition that will pit 24 identical 600bhp cars against each other on tracks across Asia and the Middle East.
Karthikeyan is the first Asian driver to be announced as a competitor in the championship.
“I am very [...]

India’s youngest and hottest racing star, Armaan Ebrahim formally signed the contract with Team TARA-DTM in Zuhai, China today.
TARA is part of the global Tara Group Ltd based in Malaysia and Singapore. The TARA group is headed by its Chairman, Mr Helmi Abdullah, whose son Hafiz Koh is Armaan’s team mate. Taking note of his [...]

Narain Karthikeyan will return to the cockpit for India at this weekend’s A1GP round in Durban.
The 30-year-old made his series debut in New Zealand last month, where he finished seventh and scored his country’s first ever points.
Karthikeyan’s commitments as a test driver for the Williams Formula One team prevented his participation in the last round [...]

Ford’s Craig Lowndes has claimed third spot in the final race of the Bahrain Desert 400 to take the V8 Supercar Championship right down to the wire.
Rival and overall championship leader Rick Kelly could only manage fifth which means his advantage in the overall standings has been slashed to just seven points heading into the [...]

Manama, 23rd November 2006: The Australian V8 Supercars Series has arrived north of the Equator for the first time in its illustrious history to an enormous welcome from the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Desert 400 race weekend has already established itself as one of the highlights of the international calendar of events at the Bahrain [...]

The 2006 Formula Asia V6 by Renault series moves to the Sentul circuit in Indonesia and India’s Karun Chandhok is looking forward to battling for victory and re-claiming the top spot in the championship.
Indonesia has been rocked this week by the earthquake and tsunami, but the organisers are nevertheless expecting a good crowd.
Chandhok currently lies [...]

Basil Shaaban and Graham Rahal are keeping busy over the summer months during the A1GP off-season. Rahal continues to build his racing experience, racing yet another car, this time in the support race for the Formula One US Grand Prix.
Rahal, who competed in the final three races of the A1 season, is currently racing in [...]

A1 Grand Prix’s last race winner, Tomas Enge, has been posting more impressive results, this time in the third round of the American Le Mans Series at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Enge and team mate Darren Turner battled their way to third in the GT1 class, despite a series of set-backs including a puncture [...]

Britain’s Nigel Mansell took 1st place Saturday at the Losail International Raceway in Qatar at what many have described as the hottest race in living memory. The Doha (Qatar) desert heat produced almost unbearable conditions as a track temperature of 58 degrees was recorded at the start of the event.
A cock-pit temperature of 77 degrees [...]

Following one of his best A1 Grand Prix performances in the USA two weeks ago, when he worked his way through the field to finish 11th in the Feature Race, Adam Khan driving for A1 Team Pakistan is set to take to the track for the final event of the season in China.
The Shanghai International [...]

Graham Rahal, driver for A1 Team Lebanon this weekend, ably demonstrated his potential today at Laguna Seca, running in second place for nearly half the Feature race distance, until a spin put him off track.
In the Sprint race he also ran well, sitting comfortably in ninth spot until his retirement due to an incident with [...]

Qualified: 21st , Sprint Race: 15th , Feature Race: 11th
Weather dictated much of Sunday’s events on track. The first 30 minute Sprint race was held with torrential rain and very heavy spray, while for the one hour Feature race drivers faced a dry line with rivers of draining water crossing the track.
In the Sprint race [...]

Adam Khan will make his racing return for A1 Team Pakistan at the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Laguna Seca, USA this weekend.
The 20-year-old has been missing from the series since he injured his back in an accident in practice for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Durban, South Africa at the end of January, [...]

India’s Narain Karthikeyan is not too old to one day return to the formula one grid.
That’s the pledge of Sir Frank Williams, who has signed the former Jordan racer - and his sponsor Tata - for 2006.
But Williams, 63, said his team’s new second test driver has a long way to go.
”Narain is seen as [...]