Another fantastic year of auto racing is drawing to a close and now we’re at that special time of year when everyone’s hard work is duly recognized at various award ceremonies and events. This year is no different, and already the AARWBA All-American Auto Racing Team nominees have been announced.
The F1 season has just drawn to a close and now it is time for all the other forms of racing to do likewise for the year. After a grueling year, Nicolas Prost has come on out top, becoming the 2009 F3000 Champion.
For years now the F1 Championship has been functioning on a points system: The drivers will collect points based on where they finish in the race during the course of the season and the person with the most points wins. It seems a flawless system – until you look at it a little more closely.
Whenever the LA Auto Show Design Challenge takes place, motoring enthusiasts keep an eager eye out to see who the winner is. This year it was the Mazda R&D team who has managed to beat some rather stiff opposition with their creative and innovative design.
?Today?s practice session was our first session back in the chassis we debuted in Darwin so we were pretty cautious and gentle in the first thirty minutes.? said Rick Kelly.
Australian motor racing legend Mark Skaife put the distractions of the past week behind him and headed out onto the track today in practice for the NRMA Grand Finale at Sydney?s Oran Park ? his last fulltime start after a glittering 21 year career.
Glenn McNally finished 10th in race 1 of the V8 Utes today after yesterday?s qualifying was thrown into disarray after a commuter error scrambled the times.
We have no plans to scale back our coverage. In fact, the issues you mentioned make the sport especially interesting right now. We?ll be eager to explore how reduced advertising budgets affect NASCAR (and all sports), whether fans continue to pack the seats at NASCAR?s big venues and how all of these issues play out in communities where auto racing is so prominent. We also want to find out if Jimmie Johnson is ready to let someone else take a turn at winning the Cup title.
It honors the late Buddy Shuman, a pioneering NASCAR driver who died in a hotel fire in Nov. 1955. ?Bob was a pioneer in NASCAR?s growth in the northeast,? said NASCAR President Mike Helton. ?He?s one of the most respected men in the sport ? ever.?
Tony Stewart doesn?t necessarily equate America?s financial crisis with the fact that he hasn?t yet secured full sponsorship on teammate Ryan Newman?s No. 39 Chevy for next year?s launching of Stewart-Haas Racing.
We have no plans to scale back our coverage. In fact, the issues you mentioned make the sport especially interesting right now. We?ll be eager to explore how reduced advertising budgets affect NASCAR (and all sports), whether fans continue to pack the seats at NASCAR?s big venues and how all of these issues play out in communities where auto racing is so prominent. We also want to find out if Jimmie Johnson is ready to let someone else take a turn at winning the Cup title.
It honors the late Buddy Shuman, a pioneering NASCAR driver who died in a hotel fire in Nov. 1955. ?Bob was a pioneer in NASCAR?s growth in the northeast,? said NASCAR President Mike Helton. ?He?s one of the most respected men in the sport ? ever.?
Tony Stewart doesn?t necessarily equate America?s financial crisis with the fact that he hasn?t yet secured full sponsorship on teammate Ryan Newman?s No. 39 Chevy for next year?s launching of Stewart-Haas Racing.
Bob Bahre, long a champion promoter and supporter of stock-car racing in the New England region, collected one of NASCAR?s most prestigious and longest-running awards, as the former owner of New Hampshire Motor Speedway, received the Buddy Shuman Award.
Scott Speed will race full-time next season in NASCAR?s elite Sprint Cup Series, a move anticipated since Red Bull Racing released AJ Allmendinger to make room for the former Formula One driver.
NASCAR drivers are being encouraged to show their emotions and not be too concerned about offending the companies behind their lucrative sponsorship deals, the head of the racing body said.
In a trouble-free session and a cleaner track than during Free Practice, Kobayashi signed the fastest laptime ahead of countryman Sakon Yamamoto at the wheel of his ART car.
Hakkinen, who won his world titles in 1998 and 1999, has been impressed with Hamilton?s ability to cope under pressure despite making high-profile mistakes on his way to becoming the youngest ever F1 world champion this year.
Kovalainen believes the reason he finished the season in seventh place is becuase his car was always given a heavier fuel load.
On a windy track, rookie Earl Bamber has taken the top spot in free practice today in Dubai in a 1:44.048, just 1/1000th ahead of Dam?s Kamui Kobayashi.
?If they approve a single engine, that would be the last straw. It would be time to start thinking about retirement,? Alonso said.
?2009 for Durango will be the 25th anniversary. It is an important achievement which we will start to celebrate having, for the first time, a Formula 1 world champion as official driver,? said team manager Ivone Pinton.
Rossi spent most of his time today on the new 2009-prototype M1, working on developing the setting and also trying out some new parts for the engine, amongst other things. He set his best time of the day on his 52nd of 54 laps, dipping nearly seven tenths of a second under the lap record with a time of 1?39.429.
Loris Capirossi and Chris Vermeulen recorded over 450 laps of the 4,448m Australian circuit between them over the three days, as the two conducted exhaustive tests on the Suzuki Factory?s prototype parts for the 2009 GSV-R.
Desmosedici GP9 Sat by the Finnish rider. Niccolò has worked hard on the set up of the bike, concluding just over half a second from his teammate. Notwithstanding the rain that came down during the night, the track had dried out quickly allowing the riders to ride for many laps from 2pm till 5.30pm.
Repsol Honda riders Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso completed their final test of 2008 at Jerez today, both men continuing the useful progress they made yesterday despite limited track time.
Alex De Angelis: ?We have started immediately well and I like the bike a lot compated to the version that we used during the season just finished, both in terms of the engine and chassis.?
?I am very satisfied by the lap times registered today because we haven?t done any modification on the chassis of the bike. We started with a good base set up and I preferred to don?t touch the bike to first understand its reactions in each part of the circuit.? said Niccolò Canepa.
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| Bristol Speedway | Virginia, USA (NASCAR) |
| California Speedway | California, USA (NASCAR) |
| Circuit de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain (F1) |
| Daytona Speedway | Florida, USA (NASCAR) |
| Hockenheim Ring | Hockenheim, Germany (F1) |
| Indianapolis Speedway | Indiana, USA (NASCAR) |
| Monaco Circuit | Monte Carlo, Europe (F1) |
| Monza Speedway | Monza, Italy (F1) |
| Phoenix Raceway | Arizona, USA (NASCAR) |
| Silverstone Speedway | Northampton, England (F1) |
| Talladega Superway | Alabama, USA (NASCAR) |
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