Vallelunga – WSBK and WSS official test
World Superbike and World Supersport Championships face five more rounds before the last podium places and points have been allocated, but for the immediate future testing is the next hurdle to be overcome.

The Pirelli tyre development teams have already tested at Brno since the last competitive weekend at Misano, ... [ more ]

“Life is like this”
Injured Gresini Honda rider Toni Elias gave a press conference yesterday as he was released from the Institut Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona where he has been recuperating following his horror crash at Assen last Thursday.

Elias broke his left femur in a crash during the first free practice session at the A-Style TT Assen last week ... [ more ]

He has won three times from eleventh on the grid
With the MotoGP ‘pole jinx' extended to eleven races without a winner from the head of the starting grid –the longest ever sequence in premier class history- it is well established that race winners can come from somewhere other than pole position.

However, Valentino Rossi's latest victory at Assen last ... [ more ]

And it's a College!
A Japanese automotive college is the first official entry for this year's Rally New Zealand.

The 38th Rally New Zealand, round 11 of the FIA World Rally Championship, will be staged in and around the Waikato and Franklin districts from 30 August until 2 September.

The Takayama College of Car Technology entry was the first received ... [ more ]

With Barrichello, Button, Davidson, Massa and Wurz
Ahead of the first track action at the British Grand Prix Honda racer’s Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button faced the media along with Anthony Davidson, Felipe Massa and Alex Wurz.

Q: Alex, it’s been a few years since you raced here, but you’ve had a third and a fourth here. What are your thoughts on ... [ more ]

Ongoing investigation by the Modena courts
In what could become one of the biggest scandals in recent times within Formula One, the Ferrari team revealed today that they received a tip off from someone outside of the sport regarding the alleged transfer of team information. The following is a press release from the Italian team.

'Ferrari wishes to clarify ... [ more ]

British GP - Bridgestone - Preview
Straight off the back of the French Grand Prix Bridgestone heads to Silverstone for the ninth round of the Championship, where the medium and hard compound Potenzas will be put through their paces on the abrasive high speed challenging circuit.

Bridgestone Motorsport has its British base in Langley, only 70 miles away ... [ more ]

BRDC offered business partnership
A business Partnership, this week submitted a joint venture proposal to the British Racing Driver's Club (BRDC), which owns Silverstone.

The proposal, if successful, would secure the future of Silverstone and the British Grand Prix after 2009 when the present F1 contract ends, and would:


a) Allow the BRDC and ... [ more ]

British GP - Spyker Ferrari - Preview
Only one week after the conclusion of the French Grand Prix, teams will be out in action again for round nine of the FIA Formula One World Championship. The British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit Northamptonshire is particularly special for the Spyker Formula One Team. Based just across from the main gate of the circuit, ... [ more ]

Three decades on from the yellow tea-pop
16 laps, on July 16th 1977. On a weekend that saw the F1 debut of Gilles Villeneuve, and which was dominated by home favourite James Hunt who won the race from pole, those few short laps were a mere footnote. In the race results, the explanation for the failure is unerringly simple: ‘turbo’. The car had, though, done enough ... [ more ]

British GP - Ferrari - Preview
Ferrari dominated the French Grand Prix, taking a one-two result with Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa finishing half a minute ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Rivals McLaren may have shot themselves in the foot over their race strategy, but their was no denying the fact that Ferrari brought the more competitive package to the Magny Cours ... [ more ]