Archive for December, 2008
Team Sunshine.co.uk has announced that they will run a two-car effort in the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship. The team will be run by Tech-Speed Motorsport and will run two ex-John Guest Honda Integras with Martyn Bell and Paul O’Neill behind the wheels. “We are pleased to announce that a deal has been [...]
Italiaracing are reporting that Davide Valsecchi is set to join the Renault Driver Development programme at the end of January. The 21 year old Italian is currently racing in the GP2 Asia series for Durango and was a recent race winner in Shanghai. Valsecchi joins Lucas Di Grassi, Romain Grosjean and Charles Pic in the [...]
French Formula 3 racer Franck Mailleux leaves the open wheel world and moves to the Le Mans Series with Signature. Mailleux raced this year in F3 Euro Series for Signature but will during 2009 drive Signature’s LMP1 Oreca Judd in both the Le Mans Series and in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This will [...]
A while ago Race Incident reported that the Spanish bank Santander were switching to Ferrari to sponsor the team from the 2010 season and beyond. Santander previously sponsored McLaren when Fernando Alonso drove for them so the Ferrari-Alonso deal didn’t seem that far fetched – hence our little Alonso to Ferrari in 2010? post. Now Italian [...]
Rahal Letterman Racing (RLR) will assume the management of the Formula BMW Americas championship. The team will during 2009 run BMW M3′s in the American Le Mans Series so BMW must have seen it fitting to let the team Formula BMW championship, which will take part in the support package for ALMS at four tracks [...]
Former Formula 1 drivers Martin Brundle’s son Alex has signed for the inaugural FIA Formula Two season. Alex Brundle started his racing car career in 2006 in the T Cars touring car series and participated in the 2006 Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy. He now has two full Formula Palmer Audi seasons behind him and [...]
BMW Dealer Team UK will join SEAT on the British Touring Car Championship side-lines during the 2009 season. The team’s sponsor Accident Exchange will drop out for 2009 but hints on returning for 2010. “Experts are telling us that the current economic downturn is going to be a long-term issue and we feel that it [...]
Marco Barba and Bertrand Baguette has now moved one step closer to Formula 1 as their World Series by Renault team Draco has entered into a partnership with the Force India Formula One Team. The Draco team will run the Force India F1′s livery in the World Series by Renault and the team will be [...]
Adrien Tambay, this year third in the European Formula BMW championship, has will join ART Grand Prix for the Formula 3 Euro Series. Tambay, who is the son of Grand Prix winner Patrick Tambay, will have one of the title favourites Jules Bianchi as team mate for the 2009 season. Adrien Tambay‘s first season out [...]
The 2006 UK Formula Renault champion and 2007 and 2008 British F3 race winner Sebastian Hohenthal will be joining the Formula Two grid for the inaugural 2009 season. Hohenthal becomes the seventh driver to be confirmed so far in what is set to be a highly competitive inaugural season, and the 24 year old Swedish [...]
