Archive for June, 2009
An entertaining and hard fought race at Loudon was given extra frisson by the weather gradually closing in: would anyone be able to play the rain card to perfection and pull off a shock win? Yes, actually, they could …
The starting order for today’s race was set by championship standings after qualifying on Friday was [...]
Ganassi dominated the SunTrust Indy Challenge under floodlights at Richmond from start to finish, with the only question being whether it would be Dario Franchitti or Scott Dixon who would win. It came down to a single fuel top-up.
Franchitti led away from pole position, although the race had a false start when Jaques Lazier managed [...]
Valentino Rossi notched up his 100th MotoGP victory at Assen, with a convincing performance that allowed him to dominate the race from early on.
Initially it was Dani Pedrosa who performed his trademark lightning lunge into the lead off the start line, but that was a short-lived affair and he was quickly shuffled back to third [...]
And so NASCAR arrives at a road course – Infineon Roadway in Sonoma, to be exactly. All of a sudden, the drivers would encounter right hand turns and have to work out how to deal with them: it was going to be a through the looking glass experience for many of them.
Brian Vickers led the [...]
There were times when it seemed Iowa couldn’t string together more than five laps of green flag racing before the cautions came out. But then the race suddenly went green for the longest time, and one driver suddenly shone – all the way to the chequered flag.
At the start, Tomas Schecker got a flier as [...]
Feature race
Alberto Valerio took his first GP2 victory at Silverstone, as championship leader Romain Grosjean had a uncharacteristically poor day.
Grosjean had the best start and rocketed away, almost two seconds up by the end of a single lap, but then Valerio closed up and was clearly the faster of the two. Finally the pressure he [...]
Oh dear. Do I really have to write an opinion piece about the split between the FIA and FOTA, and the threat of a rival breakaway series and a mass desertion from F1 in 2010? I suppose I do, if only to show that I’m paying attention and haven’t “missed” the story.
Basically: it’s a disaster [...]
Sebastian Vettel converted his strong performances in practice to a second consecutive race pole position.
Rubens Barrichello managed to stop Mark Webber making it a Red Bull lock-out on the front row, after Webber got a disappointing final run.
But Jenson Button slumped to 6th, struggling all afternoon to get his tyres up to temperatures with [...]
The LifeLock 400 was remarkably uneventful … and also entirely unremarkable for 199 laps. Dull, even. Except that it had a sting in the tale that made that all-important last lap a nail-biting classic sting-in-the-tail.
Kyle Busch quickly passed polesitter Brian Vickers for the lead at the start, shooting off like a canon; but his pace [...]
Formula 1- Hill: Schumacher could find return tough
- No buyer for Donington Park lease
- Ecclestone predicts 'jaw-dropping' 2010
- Boullier tipped for Renault role
- Brawn: Button left to prove himself
- Campos insists F1 plans on course
- Comeback kids: F1's famous returnees
- Lauda predicts Schumacher success
- Common launch plan aborted
- Summer blow fuelled Schumacher return
- NASCAR
- Karthikeyan eyes NASCAR move
- Nationwide to race at Road America
- Duno plans ARCA Daytona debut
- Patrick enjoys ARCA experience
- Patrick eyes summer NASCAR races
- Patrick to skip Daytona Nationwide
- Addington joins Busch at Penske
- Piquet set for further Truck tests
- Duno to join Patrick at ARCA test
- Kyle Busch becomes a team owner
- Indy Racing League
- Herta team plans Indy 500 entry
- De Ferran: IndyCar plan still alive
- Indy cuts qualifying to two days
- IRL launches 'Road to Indy' ladder
- HVM impressed by de Silvestro
- De Silvestro tests for HVM
- Andretti: Hunter-Reay is top of list
- Patrick says IndyCar still main focus
- Former Fernandez boss joins Andretti
- Andretti announces new Patrick deal
- MotoGP
- Aoyama beats Simoncelli in Sepang test
- Lorenzo considered quitting in 2008
- De Angelis gets Scot Moto2 ride
- Lorenzo: 2010 title win not essential
- MotoGP's 1000cc move gets green light
- 125cc champions to test FTR bike
- FIM: 1000cc best future for MotoGP
- Aspar to hold Aprilia Moto2 talks
- Aprilia will not compete in Moto2
- De Puniet undergoes ankle surgery
- GP2
- A1GP
- A1GP cancels China and Malaysia
- A1GP cancels Surfers opener
- A1GP expects 19 cars for Surfers
- A1GP completes crucial funding deal
- A1GP confident over season five
- Doubts cast over A1GP future
- Jani injured in mountain bike accident
- A1GP season to open at Surfers
- A1GP swaps Zandvoort for Assen
- Jani gallant after losing A1GP title
