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.
A ceremony at Toyota?s new manufacturing facility here officially kicked-off production of the RAV4 sport utility vehicle.
Audi?s motorsport division has made a series of tweaks to the standard car to ensure that the R8 LMS is the ultimate ?off-the-shelf? racer
Veteran Japanese Formula One driver Takuma Sato will test again with the Toro Rosso team at Jerez in Spain next week, raising expectations that the 31-year-old will secure a drive for the 2009 championship.
Kamui Kobayashi also signed the fastest laptime in a 1:43.079, scoring the bonus point which, together with the two points from pole position and the 10 points from victory, places him in first place in the drivers? championship with 22 points, 3 more than Rodriguez.
Chris Paulsen, owner of C Racing Inc., co-partner in PEP and president of the Indiana Motorsports Association states, ?Indy is the Racing Capital of the World, and the IMIS show will thrive in this town which is deep in auto racing history and heritage.?
It looks even more muscular than its predecessor, and fans can expect the FQ400 to have mind-blowing performance, too.
While Dale Earnhardt Jr. has struggled to find sponsorship for his JR Motorsports Nationwwide Series program, television ratings have spiked for the soon-to-be Camping World Truck Series. Between the Truck Series gaining in exposure and being cheaper, wouldn?t that be a good target for the future of JR Motorsports?
NASCAR?s last three-time winning crew chief, Ray Evernham, was basically given carte blanche by Dodge to restart its NASCAR program. In today?s financial climate, Chad Knaus understands the same opportunity may not come his way if he decides to pursue a new career challenge. Therefore, he?s realistic about his upward mobility.
Petty, the team founded by seven-time series champion Richard Petty, has no full-time sponsorship lined up for next season. The team fields its flagship No. 43 for 2000 NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte and a second car that Chad McCumbee and Kyle Petty shared this season.
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.
Veteran Japanese Formula One driver Takuma Sato will test again with the Toro Rosso team at Jerez in Spain next week, raising expectations that the 31-year-old will secure a drive for the 2009 championship.
Kamui Kobayashi also signed the fastest laptime in a 1:43.079, scoring the bonus point which, together with the two points from pole position and the 10 points from victory, places him in first place in the drivers? championship with 22 points, 3 more than Rodriguez.
Honda has pulled out of the Formula 1 Championships citing unsustainable costs and the need to focus engineers on the coming challenges faced by all automotive manufacturers. The entire global motorsports industry will now hold their collective breathes and hope that one-by-one the other manufacturer?s don?t follow suit and start a destructive rippling through the industry.
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.
The 25-year-old Anglo-American underwent a surgical procedure to remove the metal plates from his left ankle and left foot, inserted following his high-speed crash during practice for this year?s Dutch TT at Assen in June.
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.?
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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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