Archive for February, 2009
Last year DTM driver Mattias Ekström founded a junior team in the Swedish JTCC championship. The then 16-year-old Simon Reinberth drove a newly developed Audi A3 to sixth in the championship. With Simon moving on to the German Volkswagen Polo championship this year the Audi A3 seat is available and Ekström is looking for someone [...]
Patrick at Motorsport Ramblings wrote an interesting article last week about the poor status of the GP2 Asia series. A series that mostly acts like training grounds for the main championship and is not the high profile championship the organizers hoped it would be. Go on click the link, it’s a good read. Is it [...]
The rumoured (yeah, I won’t really believe it until I see a car on the grid) new Formula 1 team for U.S.A., USF1, were reportedly showing an interest in Danica Patrick and talked about snatching her from the IndyCar series. It would mean instant publicity for the team to have americas most famous open wheel [...]
The Honda Formula 1 team has now confirmed that they are negotiating with Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and that they have made a bid to purchase the team. “We are negotiating with several buyers and one of these parties is the Virgin Group,” a Honda spokesperson said. According to sources close to the deal Crash.net [...]
Audi has now confirmed its line-up for the 2009 DTM season. Not surprisingly they will keep the same drivers as last year. The four 2009 spec Audi A4 cars will be run by Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline and will be driven by 2008 champion Timo Scheider, 2004 and 2007 champion Mattias Ekström, multiple Le [...]
The 2007 German Formula 3 champion and the 2008 Japanese Formula 3 champion Carlo van Dam surprised most people when he yesterday announced that he would join the Kolles & Heinz Union Volkswagen team in this year’s F3 Euro Series. Van Dam, who totally dominated the Japanese championship last year, was by many believed to [...]
The successful Formula Renault 2.0 team Motopark Academy will move up the ranks this year and race in Formula 3 for the first time. The team has won the Eurocup three times with Scott Speed, Filipe Albuquerque and Valtteri Bottas. The new Formula 3 challenge will be headed by Atte Mustonen, who also will be [...]
According to Italiaracing.net the 22 year-old Italian Davide Rigon is set to join the GP2 Asia championship where he will take over the seat at Trident Racing left by Spaniard Adrian Valles. Rigon was the champion in 2008 Superleague Formula where he raced the Zakspeed Panoz DP09B for the Beijing Guoan football team. In 2007 [...]
The 2008 Spanish SEAT Leon Supercopa champion Tom Boardman has signed for the 2009 World Touring Car Championship with the Spanish team SUNRED Engineering Development. He will run a petrol-fuelled SEAT Leon and will have the experienced Tom Coronel as team mate. Boardman ran two WTCC races for SUNRED at Estoril, a prize for winning [...]
The Spanish F3 champion joined last week and now the 2008 Italian Formula 3 champion Mirko Bortolotti joins the F2 championship. Mirko finished the championship ahead of Italia’s A1GP driver Edoardo Piscopo and managed to score no less than nine wins and fifteen podiums in the 16 races that were held. He got a nice [...]
