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The second World Touring Car Championship race at Pau turned out to be eventful. The pre-race bickering about turbo pressures, rev-limits and disqualifications got overshadowed by total carnage on the lovely streets of Pau. After a couple of wrecks on the first lap the safety car turned out of the pitlane to race leader Franz [...]
With a 2009 Formula 1 seat out of reach the question about where Ayrton Senna’s nephew Bruno Senna would end up in 2009 has been on the minds of many during the pre-season. Staying in GP2 would be a dangerous move as he would definitely have to win it this year to not damage his [...]
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 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 Daily Telegraph are reporting that the former Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve is rumoured to be joining Super Cheap Racing in the Australian V8 Supercars championship. He is the top choice for getting the seat next to Russell Ingall, according to newly retired Paul Morris. “This is real. Absolutely. He is pretty keen [...]
The Vauxhall factory BTCC team has now confirmed their three drivers for the 2009 season. Reigning champion Fabrizio Giovanardi will continue with the team as will Matt Neal, who finished fifth last year. A newcomer to the team will occupy the third seat though as 19-year-old Andrew Jordan makes the move from Team Eurotech’s Honda [...]
Tomas Engström’s Honda Racing lost Thed Björk to Flash Engineering in the beginning of the year but the team have now confirmed that they will continue as a two car team for 2009. Tomas Engström will occupy one seat and the other is still up for grabs. According to TouringCarTimes they are still considering a [...]
Indy Car driver Danica Patrick and NASCAR driver Casey Mears will be racing in the Grand-Am Rolex Dayton 24 Hours for Childress-Howard Motorsport at the end of January. The two drivers will join Andy Wallace and Rob Finlay in the Pontiac Crawford. Danica Patrick raced for the team in the 2006 event (but then under [...]
The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Champion Thed Björk has joined Flash Engineering – a seat that became vacant when triple champion Richard Göransson left the squad to join West Coast Racing. Björk will partner team owner and 1996 and 1997 STCC champion Jan “Flash” Nilsson in the team’s two BMW 320si’s. “I’m extremely happy to [...]
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 [...]
