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Carlisle motor racing star Alex MacDowall is cautiously confident of possibly his strongest weekend so far in the 2011 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship when the action resumes at Thruxton in Hampshire just over a week from now on Saturday, 30th April, and Sunday, 1st May. Heading into the event ninth in the driver [...]
Volvo Cars and its official motorsport partner Polestar Racing have signed two-time British and European driver champion James Thompson from 2011. James Thompson will drive for the Volvo Polestar Green Racing team in the 2011 edition of the STCC which has now fully transformed from Swedish to its new status of Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. [...]
It has been a 6 week gap between the last round at Bathurst where Nick Percat raced for the first time in the #222 Bundaberg Red VE Commodore and this weekend. However he has had another chassis change, this time jumping into the ex Will Davison HRT car. “The car I raced at Bathurst was [...]
It’s about damn time! Yes, it is. Paul Di Resta should have been in Formula 1 about the same time that Lewis Hamilton entered, but things took a slightly different route for Di Resta. Instead of keep doing the expensive single seater career move of going to GP2 after taking the F3 Euro Series championship [...]
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 [...]
