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News Archive AUGUST 2009 mail your news to editorthegrid@yahoo.co.uk 09/11/2009 IF RACE REPORTS LINKS REMOVED - FOLLOW 'Reports' LINK ON THE GRID above 31-08-09
Club Racing
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The Clubmans Cup saw Jonathan Hair win once again in his
Mallock Mk28B from Alan Langridge’s Mk27 while The Club Ginettas were in action at a damp and windy Pembrey over the weekend. They kicked off the weekend with two races in the dry on Saturday with the first going to Adam Morgan who won comfortably from Harvey Booth. Race 2 went to Dominc Petit who had a 14 second lead over second placed Paul Morgan with Adam Morgan third. The final race held in atrocious conditions on Sunday saw Pettit win again from Paul Morgan.
In
the Welsh Sports and Saloons Championship Chris Everell
driving a GinettaG20 won the opening race from Nicholas Jones
Renault Clio (pictured below - pic R Pascal), Neil Watts
was third in a Westfiled.
In
the Universal racing Services FF2000 races FF2000 debutant Alex
Osborne
(leading below)
The
URS FF1600s also got two races at the Welsh track and Joe Walton
Porsche Carrera Cup - James Sutton completed a weekend double with an impressive victory in round 16 of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Silverstone on Sunday 30 August. Tim Bridgman took second on the road but was later excluded from the results for his part in an incident that sent his title rival Tim Harvey out of the race. Glynn Geddie took another superb pro-am1 victory while Karl Leonard clinched a weekend double in pro-am2. Sutton also took a last gasp victory in round 15 on passing race-long leader Tim Bridgman in traffic on the final. Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship Pro-Am1 Class title contender Robert Lawson raced to his 11th podium finish of the season at a damp Silverstone National Circuit yesterday, Sunday, 30th August, with an impressive drive into the overall top five from ninth on the grid. More good news followed though post-race when the Bardon Aggregates and Bardon Concrete driver was promoted into fourth position on the final classification due to the exclusion of second placed Tim Bridgman, who was involved in contact with series leader Tim Harvey on the last lap Ginetta - Nathan Freke fended off a determined challenge from Frank Wrathall in both Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup races at Silverstone on Sunday, 30th August, to complete a hat-trick of wins over the course of the weekend and also extend his title advantage to a huge 94 points.
Wednesbury-based Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup and ELF Renault Clio Cup team Total Control Racing had one of its most difficult days of the year at Silverstone National Circuit on Sunday, 30th August, but the squad still managed a podium finish in the G50 Cup thanks to the efforts of Carl Breeze.Their Elf Renault Clio Cup title contender Alex MacDowall recorded his 10th podium finish of the year on Saturday.
Daniel Lloyd had a great race on Sunday ion the Clio Cup, running as high as third at one stage before he was 'bumped' off the track not once but twice, finishing the race a dispointed seventh. Saturday's race hasd seen him pick up another top six place. British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) Rising Star Alex MacDowall secured his 10th ELF Renault Clio Cup podium of the 2009 season at Silverstone National Circuit over the weekend, 29th/30th August, with a tremendous drive through the order from ninth on the grid in the 15th round of the campaign.
Dean Smith moved into the lead of the 2009 Formula Renault UK Championship for the first time at Silverstone National Circuit this afternoon, Sunday, 30th August, by securing his 11th podium of the season during round 16. GP2 - Alvaro Parente dominated the first GP2 race of the Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix with a lights-to-flag victory, his second win in GP2 and a first for his team Ocean Racing Technology. Starting from pole he led every lap and set the fastest lap in the process. “I didn’t start very well, because of a new clutch set-up, but the car was very well balanced”, began to say the twenty-four years old, that added: “I was very fastest, especially in the middle sector, and I started to gain an advantage to the pack and, with a good pit-stop from the team, I started to control the race and the gap for Nico Hulkenberg. When the Safety-Car came out, Nico was nearer, but I maintained a strong pace without taking too many risks, because there was such much oil on the track and it was easy to make a mistake”. The win moves Parente to sixth in the points. “It was fantastic to win this race and be able to offer to Ocean Racing Technology its first victory. However, now we have to focus in tomorrow’s race. I’ll start from eighth and I’ll give my best to reach another strong result”, Formula 3 - Tim Macrow will lead the Formula 3 Australian Driver’s championship into the 2009 finale’ at Sandown – one way or another – after coming out on top after a competitive and controversial pair of races at Oran Park. Both races results are provisional after two separate incidents involving Joey Foster and Mat Sofi in race 1 and Foster and Ben Crighton on race 2… 29-08-09
Formula 3 – Tim Macrow has taken pole for the first of the two Australian F3 races at Oran Park. Local hero Mat Sofi was quickest for race 2 , his first ever F3 Pole position.
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Porsche Carrera Cup GB - Glynn Geddie set the pace ahead of rounds 15 and 16 of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Silverstone today (Friday 29 August 2009). James Sutton was second fastest while Karl Leonard headed pro-am2. In a day that left the top times rather shuffled, Geddie (Team Parker Racing) set a best lap of 57.720s to top the testing times for the first time in his career. He also headed pro-am1, but cautioned that the qualifying pace could on Saturday morning could be faster still. "I'm pleased to be first," said the young Scot. "But most of the pro drivers were not on new rubber and I never really got the best out of my new tyres." Sutton (Red Line Racing) headed the times in the first session, which started dry but was almost immediately hit by a heavy rain shower. Conditions then improved, but the track was never fully dry. In the dry afternoon session, Sutton made a late switch to new tyres, but felt he should have been faster. "That's probably not far off, and the car feels good for qualifying." Michael Caine (Motorbase Performance), Tim Bridgman (Team Parker Racing) and Tim Harvey (Red Line Racing) were next up, and were very evenly matched as they all ran on tyres that had been used in the previous race weekend at Knockhill. "The car feels right," said Caine, who was one of three drivers to top the timesheets during the final three minutes of testing. Title contenders Bridgman and Harvey were content with their pace and are likely to jump to the top of the times when new tyres go on for qualifying. Sixth fastest overall and second in pro-am1 was Robert Lawson (JHR), while seventh overall and top pro-am2 was Karl Leonard (Team Parker Racing). Pro-am1 contenders Tony Gilham (Red Line Racing) and Ollie Jackson (Motorbase Performance) both ran strongly to take eighth and ninth fastest, while championship newcomer John Gaw (Team Kinfaun) was an impressive tenth fastest overall and second in pro-am2.
Star Mazda - The Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear had two test sessions on Thursday for this weekend's Mobil 1 Grand Prix of Mosport. Fastest overall was Conor Daly with a time of 1:15.607 (117.084 mph) in his #22 Andersen Racing / College Network / Indeck / Cytomax Mazda Karts - Harbury karting pilot Jordan King, has just enjoyed a week's work experience at Formula 1 World Championship leaders Brawn GP - this is his take on it WTCC - Rounds 17th and 18th of the FIA WTCC will take place next week in Germany, at Oschersleben's Motorsport Arena on September 6th. The German track, located in the Bode region some 30 km from the city of Magdeburg, is a traditional venue for the FIA Touring Cars having hosted the European Touring Car Championship from 2001 to 2004 and the WTCC from 2005. Oschersleben is regarded as BMW's home circuit because the BMW drivers have managed to win twelve out of the fourteen S2000 races held there so far, with Andy Priaulx claiming four victories. The Bavarian cars were only defeated at Oschersleben twice by SEAT. Last year's races were won by BMW Team Germany's Augusto Farfus and BMW Team Italy-Spain's Félix Porteiro.
Despite the decision of SEAT Holland to stop funding his participation to the FIA WTCC, Tom Coronel is determined to finish the season. Earlier this week SEAT's Dutch importer Pon Car, announced the decision to stop the WTCC programme after the events in Oschersleben and Imola, due to financial reasons related to the decrease in car sales."It is a big disappointment, because Japan and Macau are very special places to me. I fully respect the motivations behind the Pon Car's decision. They have always given me tremendous support and the fact that I have been racing in WTCC for the last five years is fully due to their efforts. However, myself and SUNRED Engineering are keen to finish the season, especially as we are still in contention for the Independents' Trophy. So we are looking for the budget that will enable us to race in Okayama and Macau. I never give up, so I will try everything I can to complete this mission," said Coronel.
LMS - Yann Clairay, Patrice Goueslard and the Luc Alphand Aventures team have won the LMS GT1 Championship title after simply finishing the Nurburgring 1000km Harold Primat finished second in last weekend’s Le Mans Series race at the Nurburgring 1000km. The Swiss driver was part of the triumphant Aston Martin Racing team which locled out the podium with a 1-2-3 finish at the German track DTM - Ahead of his appearance at DTM Brands Hatch on Sunday 6 September, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton spoke to the Kent circuit about his thoughts on the series and the UK fans , 27-08-09
Porsche Carrera Cup GB – After back-to-back wins at his home race at Knockhill ten days ago, Glynn Geddie is on a roll as the Porsche Carrera Cup GB heads to Silverstone this weekend. Aberdonian Geddie had class wins at both Snetterton and Knockhill which has moved him from 4th to 2nd in the Pro-Am 1 category behind Robert Lawson. "It's a crucial stage in the championship now so it's imperative we get every point we can over our rivals", underlined Geddie. "We're in a very strong position now, so as long as we can build on the form we've been displaying, stay focused and keep it together, there's no reason why we can't go for two more wins this weekend."
Other News - Grand Prix Shootout’s quest to find a future Formula One star continues next month with further assessment days planned for September 8/9 and 22/23. The scheme offers those already competing in karting and junior motorsport across the globe an opportunity to climb the sport’s ladder, regardless of budget, provided they have the talent. BERU f1systems is launching a North American operation to support customers and expand sales of its performance engineering solutions. With an initial emphasis on the company’s core professional motorsport market, UK-headquartered BERU f1systems seeks to increase local customer support for its tyre pressure monitoring systems – including its new revolutionary infra-red technology, composites, wiring harnesses and strain gauging equipment, among other components and systems for which it is known in international motorsport categories including NASCAR, ALMS and IndyCar. Heading up the North American operation, based in Indianapolis, is Steve Stover who brings extensive motorsports experience, having previously managed the US operations for Pi Research. “We are delighted to have Steve, as well as his knowledge and contacts, on board as part of bf1systems’ international growth strategy,” says John Bailey, managing director of BERU f1systems. “We look forward to providing a fast, local and dedicated service to existing and new customers in North America, and to eventually diversifying into the automotive, aerospace, defence and marine markets.” Stover added, “While BERU f1systems is an established player in IndyCar with its wiring and tyre pressure monitoring systems, there is huge potential for its full, superior product range including stress measurement equipment, load cells and electronics, and we need to target categories such as NASCAR and the other series where we have limited presence. Having a team on the ground or at the end of the phone in the same time zone will surely help the North American motorsport market realise the benefits of BERU f1systems’ products.” 26-08-09
BRDC - At an EGM convened at Silverstone on Tuesday 25 August, the Members of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) voted overwhelmingly to grant powers to their Board, authorising them to entertain offers of investment in Silverstone and its core land. It was reiterated that the BRDC Board would only consider deals upon terms which were clearly favourable to the long-term future of British motor sport and to the Club. The BRDC’s long term objective is to develop further Silverstone’s motor sport infrastructure, related technologies, education and training and to ensure that the UK continues to be the global leader in these specialist areas. Robert Brooks, Chairman of the BRDC said, “The resolutions proposed at this EGM called for the powers, granted to the Board at a previous EGM two years ago, to be extended to our core land. I am of course pleased with the outcome. It further illustrates the BRDC’s commitment to Silverstone and to the future of British motor sport.” Damon Hill, President of the BRDC said “This vote is a significant result for the future of Silverstone. Today’s EGM was not about selling Silverstone. BRDC Members were voting on whether or not the Board should be authorised to approach and negotiate deals, with potential investors, on behalf of the Club. It is purely commercial. Silverstone is an international sports arena and we are continuing with plans to develop it in keeping with the very highest standards. “The primary function of Silverstone will always be racing, hopefully with a Formula 1 British Grand Prix
BTCC – An ex-F1 star and a Vulcan bomber set for BTCC debuts at Silverstone. Johnny Herbert is gearing up for debut BTCC drive with Team Dynamics while a Vulcan bomber will be taking to the skies for a Silverstone display this weekend (29/30 August). The former F1 driver says there couldn't be a better circuit than Silverstone, scene of his 1995 British GP victory - at which to get his first taste of the action that makes the BTCC such a hit with the public. Herbert has signed to race with Team Dynamics, speaking ahead of the weekend Herbert commented, "I'm going to be going three or four abreast into corners for the first time since my Formula Ford and F3 days in the mid-Eighties.I'll be up against some of the best touring car names in the world with the likes of Matt Neal, Jason Plato and Fabrizio Giovanardi and I've seen what these boys get up to along the way..scraping panels and having a wing mirror or bumper taken off is part of the game and it's something I'm going to have to adapt to quickly." Herbert joins the BTCC grid at what could be a critical stage in the race for the title. Northern Ireland's Colin Turkington, aiming for his first Drivers' crown, will arrive at Silverstone leading the championship but by just nine points from Italian megastar Giovanardi, the BTCC champion for the past two years. Local favourite Jason Plato and Matt Neal are also still in with a realistic chance of the title.
Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell will race in the Autosport 1000km of Silverstone. The 55-year-old British racing legend will return to the cockpit after an absence of nearly two years when he races Team LNT's Ginetta-Zytek LMP1 prototype, alongside his son Greg and team boss Lawrence Tomlinson in the Le Mans Series season finale. "It's going to be very special for me to be racing again at Silverstone where I've had some of my most memorable wins," said Mansell. "I'm delighted that Lawrence has given us the opportunity to compete in the Ginetta-Zytek." To complete the family outing, Le Mans Series regular Leo Mansell will also be racing at Silverstone in a Team Modena GT2-class Ferrari. Drayson Racing expands portfolio. Busy government minister Lord Paul Drayson has recently announced that the team will take the step up from the GT2 class to the pinnacle of sportscar racing, Le Mans Prototype One (LMP1). Drayson Racing will compete at the Autosport 1000km of Silverstone in the No. 87 Aston Martin Vantage GT2 car before making the switch to a Judd V10-powered Lola B09/60 Coupe for the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta in the USA at the end of September. As a champion of environmental technologies, Drayson Racing will use the increased freedom of the LMP1 class to continue to advance new technologies for improved efficiency and performance. Lord Drayson will drive the car supported by young British talent Jonny Cocker, with Rob Bell an addition to the team for the Petit Le Mans race. As the UK government’s Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Drayson has a portfolio that stretches across both the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. In 2009 he took a sabbatical from the government to pursue his dream of racing in the famous Le Mans 24 Hour race. He achieved the feat earlier this year having already been welcomed back into his prominent government role. Le Mans comes to Euston Station. Commuters at London’s Euston Station will be treated to the sight of a stunning Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 car in Gulf Oil livery being displayed on the station forecourt on Wednesday, 2 and Thursday, 3 September. To promote the forthcoming Autosport 1000KM of Silverstone race (11-13 September), the Le Mans Series organisers and Aston Martin Racing will display the car that heads into the final round of the year as championship leader. Commuters who are not in a rush can settle in to watch a selection of Le Mans Series racing highlights on a big screen. 25-08-09 Westfields - Peter Daglish made a winning return to the BARC Westfield series at Croft over the weekend, taking to the track in his new works Aerorace 190M at. Despite Chris Davison’s very determined attempts to usurp him, Daglish did the double with two wins. Porsche Club - The Porsche Club Championship makes its annual visit to Castle Combe this Bank Holiday Monday, August 31st, for the sixth meeting in a season that has provided some superb racing. At the front of the pack, the battle between Ben Demetriou and Mark McAleer has been a constant theme – Demetriou easing away in the win stakes aided by a double at Thruxton two weeks ago and now heading the Class One points – while in Class Two Jez Clark remains undefeated this season and continues to head the championship overall. While the front-engined 968s have been doing the winning, they have been put under pressure by the rear-engined Porsches. Scott Kavanagh put his 993 C2 on pole at Thruxton, the first pole for the model on its debut year in the championship, with Richard Ellis finishing well in his 993. Kevin Harrison and Marcus Carniel are right the sharp end of the racing in their 964 C2s – the rear-engined cars always quick off the line at the start of the race as their weight distribution gives them superb traction. Others to watch for from Class One include Richard Higgins, rapid at Thruxton in his 968, and returning champion Richard Lambert, out in a 964. Leading the championship is reigning champion Jez Clark – who has stepped up to Class Two this year. Not only unbeaten in his class so far this season, Jez has twice qualified on the front row of the grid for races, and at Thruxton took two overall third place finishes. Leading the chase of Clark in Class Two has been Chris Dyer.
Mini Challenge - Arthur Forster proved to be the man to beat in two of the three races in the Mini Challenge at Croft last weekend, however the third race ended up as a duel between Martin Depper and Oli Mortimer, rain eventually deciding the outcome in Mortimer’s favour. In the Club class though Luke Caudle took a clean sweep. Radicals - Paul Steele won his Radical Club Cup victory with a superb lights-to-flag display at Croft in Round 9 before Colin Millar stole the show in Round 10 when Steele’s tyres appeared to go off. Steele eventually finished third behind Darren Luke .. BTCC - Anthony Reid will join Team RAC for the final three rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship starting at Silverstone this Sunday (30 August). Reid, who has not been in the BTCC since 2004, will race a third Team RAC-entered BMW 320si alongside Stephen Jelley and Colin Turkington. Northern Irishman Turkington currently leads the Drivers' championship but is coming under increasing pressure from Vauxhall's Fabrizio Giovanardi who already has two highly-competitive team-mates in Matt Neal and Andrew Jordan. Reid, with 15 race wins in the BTCC said: "Driving for Team RAC is a fantastic opportunity and one I just couldn't turn down. It's great being re-united with the crew at WSR again and I already feel right at home. It's especially good for me having Colin as a team-mate again and I'll be doing all I can to help him and Team RAC win the Championship." Team principal Dick Bennetts, who ran Reid in MGs from 2001-04, added: "Our hand's been forced by Vauxhall instituting team orders at Knockhill with Matt Neal and Andrew Jordan giving positions and points to Fabrizio. There's nothing wrong in them doing that; in fact it shows what good team-players they both are. However three against two isn't a fair fight, so that's why we've brought in Anthony to assist Colin and Stephen.It's going to be tough for him, never having driven the car before and having to carry maximum ballast of 45kgs (as a late entry penalty), but we expect him to be quickly up to speed and right up there in the races." Former Formula 1 star Johnny Herbert has also announced he will be racing a Honda Civic for Team Dynamics in the closing three events of the season. Three races - being broadcast live by ITV4 - await the BTCC field this Sunday (30 Aug) around Silverstone's tight National circuit. Turkington, aiming for his first Drivers' title, leads the series by just nine points from Giovanardi, the Champion these past two years. Third and fourth and still with realistic chances of winning the title are former champions Jason Plato from Oxford (in his Racing Silverline Chevrolet) and Worcestershire's Matt Neal.
LMS - Strakka Racing’s Nurburgring 1000kms came to a sudden and disappointing end after 4 and-a-half hours of running on Sunday. Danny Watts was at the wheel in fifth place as he came up tpo ,lap a slower GT2 car. It appears the driver of the car didn’t see the Ginetta Zytek and inadvertently ‘closed the door’ forcing Watts to take avoiding action. As he did so he clipped the edge of the track, loosing control and slidding off into the barriers..race over
Star Mazda - Mike Guasch won the ‘Masters Series’ Title in the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear at the most recent round with a sixth in-class finish at Trois Rivieres. Driving the #91 JDC Motorsports / Molecule Labs / MG4 Manufacturing Mazda Gausch picked up the title which is reserved for drivers 45 and older Karts - Callum Bowyer, who was the fastest driver on the track in the most recent round of the Formula Kart Stars (FKS) Championship at Genk in Belgium, only to come away with virtually nothing to show for his stunning pace and efforts after a weekend of cruel misfortune.
Masters Update - Entries open for remaining 2009 races - Spa 6 Hour Event – September 25/26/27. One of the most popular historic events of the year and always a great atmosphere! This is the big one for Masters Racers. Plenty of track time available for Masters Members in either one of, or all 4 races:- the 2 hour Gent Drivers race, the 60 minute WSM/SRM, the traditional 60 min combined race for TH/OBG/SOTS/CC - as well as 2 races for the Grand Prix Masters - Portimao Circuit, Algarve – October 16/17/18 - The Masters Finale is set for the all-new circuit in the Algarve over the weekend of October 16/17/18. Some late summer sunshine, a truly fantastic circuit – just ask anyone who has been and seen already – amazing, plus the swimming pool in the paddock. There are also free hotel rooms for each race entry. Entries are looking strong already - and you’re likely to be up against some tough Portuguese opposition as well, all keen to enjoy this great new event! Mallory Park – Sunday October 25 - As the regular season closer in the Top Hat calendar, Mallory Park always offers a fun-packed and easily accessible day’s racing. All of them are the 45 minutes races with pit stops, in the well-known standard Top Hat Raceday – Entry Forms for all are available by clicking into the ‘Event Information’ section on the website, at www.themastersseries.compen for you now! 24-08-09
Porsche Carrera Cup GB - The contests for all three drivers' titles in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB are really hotting up as championships moves to Silverstone for rounds 15 and 16 over the weekend of 29/30 August. Tim Harvey (Red Line Racing) and Tim Bridgman (Team Parker Racing) are the key title contenders and they head to Silverstone split by only four points – in Harvey's favour. Bridgman clawed just one point back in the course of the previous race weekend at Knockhill, so it is going to be a tense run-in to the title. "As each meeting goes by, it becomes tighter and history suggests it will probably go down to the wire," said Harvey. However, Michael Caine (Motorbase Performance) and James Sutton (Red Line Racing) are still chasing the title and a bad weekend for Harvey and Bridgman would bring Caine and Sutton right into contention. Meanwhile, young Carrera Cup scholarship winners Tom Bradshaw (Team Parker Racing) and Lewis Hopkins (Red Line Racing) are getting quicker and quicker and could yet join the big four over the closing races of the season. In the pro-am1 category, the competition is just as intense as Robert Lawson (JHR) battles to hold on to a series lead he has held since Oulton Park at the end of May. He has a gaggle of rivals and it is Glynn Geddie (Team Parker Racing) who is coming up strongly. A superb double win at Knockhill has brought Geddie to within 13 points of Lawson. Ollie Jackson (Motorbase Performance) and Tony Gilham (Red Line Racing) are well in contentionm on pro-am1, while Derek Pierce (JHR) will be quick and Michael Leonard (Team Parker Racing) rejoins the battle after missing Knockhill New this weekend will be Liam Griffin in another car from the Motorbase Performance. The points' situation in pro-am2 is also attracting a lot of interest and there has been some great racing in the category over recent race weekends. Robin Clark (Parr Motorsport) continues to head the standings, but his lead is under attack from Bob Lyons (Celtic Speed), Paul Hogarth (IN2Racing) and Glenn McMenamin (Parr Motorsport) and with scores to be dropped, it's going to be a close battle to the title.
Clio Cup - Sam Tordoff was out for Total Control Racing at Zolder over the weekend racing in the Belgian Renault Clip Cup Championship. The 21 year old did a pretty good job too, picking up two second place finishes
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Formula Renault BARC – Apotex Scorpio Motorsport’s Kieren Clark returned to his winning ways in the 2009 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championship with a double victory during rounds eight and nine at Brands Hatch Indy circuit on August 22nd/23rd. The 20-year-old produced two lights-to-flag victories, together with two fastest laps, to extend his lead over Reon Motorsport’s Dino Zamparelli.. Josh Mulholland picked up a good fifth place in the first of two rounds of the 2009 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championship at Brands Hatch on Sunday. He followed this up with a good top ten finish in the second race despite stalling on the grid and dropping back down the field at the start. He is now up to fifth in the championship. Hillspeed’s Ahmad Al Harthy climbed back into third place in the Formula Renault BARC standings after two fourth places finishes at Brands Hatch on Sunday Team-mate James Theodore finished an excellent second in the second race after a disappointing ninth in race 1
Oak Racing had a good fourth round in the 2009 Le Mans Series at the Nurburgring 1000kms. The OAK Racing Team Mazda entry of Matthieu Lahaye and Karim Ajlani came in third in LMP2, the pair’s second podium this year. On top of this the team’s second car, the #24 car came in fourth driven by Richard Hein and Jacques Nicolet.
Indylights - Andretti Green Racing/AFS Racing's J.R. Hildebrand took a decisive step to clinching the Firestone Indy Lights driver championship with a commanding victory in the Carneros 100 at his 'home track" of Infineon Raceway yesterday. Hildebrand can win the Firestone Firehawk Cup with a finish of 13th or better at Chicagoland Speedway on Aug. 29. This was Hildebrand's fourth win of the season and the fifth of his Firestone Indy Lights career. Felipe Guimaraes finished second, his career-best finish in Indy Lights. James Davison was third, his second-straight podium finish. It was Davison's 19th consecutive race finish, breaking the record he shared with Nick Bussell. Indycar - Dario Franchitti has won the latest round of the Indycar Championship at Infineon Racway in Sonoma California. Franchitti took a lights-to-flag victory starting from pole, his fourth win of the season. The Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver is now second to Team Penske’s Ryan Briscoe in the championship table, 4 points adrift. Briscoe came in second on Sunday ahead of rookie Mike Conway in third. "Track position was critical today," Franchitti said. "I did what I had to do to get out front. We stuck to our pit strategy. There were a couple hairy moments out there but this is critical and crucial for the championship." 23-08-09
Formula Ford - Mitch Evans has completed a great weekend of Formula Ford racing at Queensland Raceway winning all 3 races in Round six of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship. The result moves Evans into second place in the championship behind his team mate Nick Percat who was second in both of today’s races
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Historics - Clark's Lotus to return to Oulton Park for HSCC Gold Cup. One of the most important Grand Prix cars of the 1960s, the Lotus 25 raced by Jim Clark, will make a return to Oulton Park for the Historic Sports Car Club's Gold Cup meeting over the Bank Holiday weekend of 30/31 August. The Lotus 25 was one of the most significant cars in Formula 1 development of the 1960s, and was the first such car to feature a monocoque chassis construction. Clark won the 1963 World Championship in chassis R4, taking wins in the Belgian, Dutch, French and British Grands Prix as well as in the non-championship Gold Cup race at Oulton Park. In September 1963, Clark dominated the Gold Cup and recorded the first 100mph lap of the Cheshire track. Now, after a gap of nearly 46 years, Lotus 25 chassis R4 will return to race in the pair of races for the Historic Grand Prix Car Association. Subject to a final shakedown at the Lotus test track, chassis R4 will race in the hands of Lancastrian former touring car racer Andy Middlehurst, who is a life-long fan of Jim Clark. The car sold for close to US $1 million at auction late last year and is not thought to have raced since 1970. The car has spent most of the intervening years in New Zealand and Australia; it is now owned by Australian John Bowers and is being tended by Classic Team Lotus. "The owner wants to see the car race in Europe," said CTL's Clive Chapman, the son of Lotus founder Colin.
Tommy Entwistle – 88 years of age and still racing. One of the most remarkable drivers in action over the Gold Cup weekend will be 88-year old Tommy Entwistle, the oldest driver in Britain to hold an international race licence. Tommy, who has been racing since the early 1950s, will race his TVR Grantura in the Guards Trophy race on Monday and will be partnered in the two-driver race by Trevor Farrington from Knutsford, who also prepares the TVR for racing.As well as being an accomplished racing driver, Tommy has an amazing background as he was a Spitfire pilot during the Second World War and was one of the first jet fighter pilots in the RAF. Tommy comes from Bamber Bridge near Preston and, apparently, still goes to the gym every day! Bumper grids for HSCC Gold Cup. Underlining the status of the Gold Cup as one of the most important historic race meetings on the calendar, the Historic Sports Car Club has attracted a superb entry for the 18-race programme. Around 400 cars will be in action, with near capacity grids for two races for Formula Junior single-seaters, two races for the Guards Trophy Sports Racing and GT Championship and 30-car grids for both the Classic Formula 3 Championship and Historic Formula Ford 2000 Series. Even the smallest grid of the weekend will include 22 cars. Formula Ford - Sonic Racing’s Mitch Evans has won the opening race of round six of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship at Queensland Raceway this afternoon. Evans, starting from pole position was never challenged for the lead, taking his second race win for the year. “This weekend’s eventually making up for the shockers I had earlier in the season,” Evans joked. “I got a great start and was able to pull clear and stay out of trouble for the remainder of the race. The car’s got plenty of speed and I looked after my tyres pretty well so I should have plenty left to give it another crack tomorrow.” Joining Evans on the podium was his Sonic Racing teammate Geoff Uhrhane, who displayed he has what it takes to be a future race winner, finishing second after starting back in fifth position. “It’s great to be back on the podium again,” Uhrhane said. “I haven’t had a run like this since Winton (where he finished third) so it’s good to know we’ve got the package to take it to the likes of Nick (Percat) and Chaz (Mostert). It was great racing out there ... we all pushed pretty hard but all gave each other plenty of room – it was good clean racing,” he added. Evans made the most of his pole position, beating Chaz Mostert to turn one and then pulling away from the field who were left to battle it out for the minor placings ... and battle they did. No Fear racer Nick Percat and Mostert fought hard for second place over several laps mid-race, all the while Uhrhane kept the duelling duo within striking distance, eventually throwing his hat into the ring for a piece of the action. The threesome traded places several times each, before Uhrhane got the better of them to cross the line in second place. Percat and Mostert traded blows until the end, but it was Percat that managed to hang on to finish in third. After a horror start to the weekend, young Victorian Luke Ellery found the pace he was looking for and blitzed his way from 14th on the grid to finish in 7th place. CAMS Rising Star teammate Scott Pye wasn’t so lucky, experiencing gearbox gremlins that dropped him three places on the grid for the start of tomorrow’s second race. Round three of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship continues tomorrow with race two at 8.25am, followed by race three at 11.25pm.
GP2 - Alvaro Parente has qualified in sixth for the first GP2 race of the European Formula 1 Grand Prix in Valencia. Qualifying was held in very hot conditions with Parente up amongst the frontrunners. It wasn’t all plain sailing for the Ocean Racing Technology driver as he suffered an injury to his neck during the morning practice. Despite his physical problems he battled hard during qualifying to come away with sixth place. “I think it was hard to do better than this! The car is well balanced and we are competitive, which makes me confident. This qualifying wasn’t easy, because it was very hot and my neck was in pain, after my morning injury”, he said. Today’s 34 lap race will be very hard for the 24 year old although Parente assured his team that he will give his best and that he has the podium in his sights. “It won’t be an easy race! But, as always, I’ll give my best and I want to end in the top-eight so we can score some more points and get a good grid position for the Sunday race. The podium isn’t beyond our reach and, if I have the opportunity, I’ll grab it with both hands”. 21-08-09
Carrera Cup GB - Liam Griffin is the latest driver to step up to the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB and will join the Motorbase Performance team for the next two races at Silverstone (29/30 August). Griffin only started racing at the beginning of 2008, but has already made a big impression in the VW Cup, taking three poles and two wins to date this season. He now wants to consider the Carrera Cup GB for 2010 and will use the Silverstone weekend as a toe-in-the-water exercise. "I've always been a car nut," said London-based Griffin. "Then in 2007 I got invited to a track day at Spa. It was a day driving Porsches and it was the best day I'd ever had," he said. "So I decided to go racing. I got my licence in February 2008 and did six rounds of the VW Cup; going from near the back to near the front." Griffin returned to the VW Cup this season and now has two race wins under his belt. "I've put a lot of effort in and I'm prepared to listen and learn. I drive a Porsche on the road and I'm a massive Porsche fan, so it's a boyhood dream to race one." After a recent test at Silverstone, with team mate Michael Caine offering guidance, Griffin decided to tackle a race weekend. "I've never raced a rear wheel drive car and the sequential gearbox was new to me, so I'd got a lot to learn. But by the end of the test day I was happy with the car. I'm not expecting miracles but I'll look to do next season in the Carrera Cup if all goes well." Griffin recognises that he faces a big challenge, but says that the championship structure of pro and pro-am1 categories is ideal for him. "The idea of being in exactly the same car as drivers like Tim Harvey and Michael Caine really appeals; you can measure yourself and it gives you something to aim at. I want to learn and get better."Team boss David Bartrum is delighted to have Griffin joining Caine and Ollie Jackson in the Motorbase Carrera Cup squad. "Liam is a very focused guy and he's very switched on. He's already working well with Michael Caine and our engineer Patrick de Groot," said Bartrum. "We'd love to work with him beyond Silverstone; he fits in very well with the team." Formula Renault – Manor Competition heads for Silverstone next weekend for the 15th and 16th Rounds of the Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship (29th/30th August), These races could well decide the outcome of the 2009 championship as there Are now just 6 rounds to go. Dean Smith is currently second in the points, 6 behind the leader. However, with the championship’s double ‘drop-score’ ruling taken into consideration, he is in the lead.
WTCC - A rock concert will take place at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben on the same weekend as the FIA World Touring Car Championship, on September 5th and 6th. Popular German singers Sarah Connor, Reamonn, Milow, Hermes House Band and Eisblume will perform in the VR-StarArena concert on Saturday evening from 18.00 hours, next to the track.The tickets for the concert are not for sale. Fans may obtain them for free at the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken offices or win them on line at http://vr-stararena.de/templates/register/form.php. Those who win tickets for the StarArena will benefit from a discount to buy tickets for the WTCC event: 12 ? (instead of 20) for the Saturday and 20 ? (instead of 35) for the weekend. WTCC ticket holders will be also allowed to attend the concert
This weekend
WTCC independent driver Kristian Poulsen
will make a comeback to the Danish Touring car Championship and
team with younger brother Roland Poulsen who will make his debut
in a Super 2000 car. The Poulsen brothers will drive two BMW
320si cars in the championship's fifth race meeting at
Jyllands-Ringen. "It will be very exciting," Roland Poulsen
said. "I am really looking forward to be in a rear-wheel drive
car and fighting with the big boys. Kristian has assured me that
I will be able to race a BMW, so I think it will go well."
Alain Menu and
his Argentine team-mate Guillermo Ortelli were forced to retire during last Sunday's 200km of Buenos Aires. Their
Vectra car, run by the Chevrolet Elaion team, stopped on the
22nd of the 35 laps when the engine was switched off by the
protection system after a plastic bag brought by the wind fouled
up the timing gears.Menu was recovering at a stunning pace after
replacing Ortelli at the wheel on the 18th lap.
Saloons - The latest round of the LMA Euro Saloon and Sports Car Championship at Brands Hatch saw a double race win for Peter Challis who sealed DKMLabour.com Super Touring Car Cup title. Their were also class wins for Andy Harvey, Nick Hayes, Gary Whitehead , Joe Walton and Brett Walter with the latter named still leading the championship from Peter Challis A1GP -With just nine weeks to go before the first race of Season Five of A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, the first construction milestone was reached in Australia ahead of the SuperGP on the streets of Surfers Paradise, 22-25 October. The first steps in the construction for the this October’s event have been completed this week with the positioning of the first pedestrian bridge near Tedder Avenue. Gold Coast based company IEDM are instrumental in overseeing the extensive build procedure ensuring that the event is delivered on time and on budget. Information and tickets for the October 22-25 event are available at www.SuperGP.com. Current A1GP champion, A1 Team Ireland’s Adam Carroll was invited to join GT Driver Richard Dean, Tottenham Hotspur Superleague Driver Craig Dolby and Ginetta Junior racer Jordon Williams last Wednesday (12 August) to take part in a two-hour endurance kart race arranged by Sound Moves, the U2 production department. As expected, the professional racers beat the other 13 teams by 11 laps but everyone taking part had a great evening at the F1 Karting track at Colnbrook, UK. Adam Carroll set the fastest lap of the race, beating Richard Dean by 1000th of a second to win a donation to the charity of his choice with Carroll selecting Help for Heroes. LMS - Aston Martin Racing’s Stefan Mucke is at the Nurburgring for the next round of the Le Mans Series. He describes a lap of the German track. Karts - James Singleton, who courtesy of his second victory of the 2009 Formula Kart Stars (FKS) season at Genk in Belgium last weekend, will head into the finale at Whilton Mill in early October firmly in contention for the British Mini Max crown - something the 13-year-old admitted he could never even have dreamed of prior to the start of the campaign
Formula Ford - Sonic Racing's Nick Percat seems to have found the pace that eluded him at Sandown, posting the fastest lap times in opening practice of round six of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship at Queensland Raceway this morning. Percat, driving a Mygale posted a 1min 15.20secs, just two hundredths (.019) quicker than his nearest rival, Sonic teammate Geoff Uhrhane. "That was a pretty trouble free session," Percat said. "We've just used the sessions to work on our race set-up and hopefully the rod we're taking should be good enough tomorrow for a strong qualifying position." Urhrane's performance this morning is a promising sign for the Queensland rookie, who has struggled to maintain consistent pace. Third quickest in this morning's session was Mitch Evans – making it a Sonic and Mygale trifecta. Evans posted a 1min 15.35secs and hopes to improve with each lap as he gets to know the Queensland circuit. "The car was pretty quick out of the box this morning," Evans said. "We didn't really have to play around too much with our set-up and I was able to concentrate on learning the track seeing it's my first time here." Hometown favourite Chaz Mostert had a good run, finishing second fastest in the first session and fourth and the second. After a blistering performance at Sandown, he undoubtedly will be one to watch come race day. It wasn't a fun morning for the CAMS Rising Stars team, with Luke Ellery suffering a seized gearbox curtailing his first session and championship contender Scott Pye ending up in the gravel after dropping a wheel off the circuit during the second. Jon Mills has also had a terrible day – pulling the pin on his weekend after being struck down by a severe bout of the flu. Mills was bitterly disappointed after describing his car as the best it has been all year. Round three of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship continues tomorrow with qualifying at 8.55am, followed by race one at 1.05pm.
Porsche Carrera Cup GB – Paul Winter will step up to the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB for the next two races at Silverstone (29/30 August) as his prize for winning the 2008 Porsche Open title. Bournemouth-based Winter will race the VIP car from Porsche Motorsport as part of the package of support given by Porsche Cars GB to the Porsche Club GB's motorsport programme. Due to budget constraints, Winter has not yet raced this season, so he is really looking forward to the chance to sample the latest 911GT3 Cup car. He hopes to return to racing later in the season in his own 996-model 911GT3 Cup car. "I've been sitting out the season so far, but it’s frustrating being a spectator," said Winter. "I'm extremely pleased and very excited about the prize," said the Dorset-based sportscar specialist. "I can't wait to get out in the latest model car and be out with the professional racers in the Carrera Cup. But I've got no expectations for the weekend; I just want to bring the car home safely and enjoy myself. There are a lot of very talented drivers out there." After two years racing a BMW M3, Winter stepped up to the Porsche Open for 2007 and 2008.
Next TV dates
confirmed for Porsche Carrera Cup GB.
The seventh programme of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB will be
broadcast in the Motorsport UK programme on ITV4 at 5pm on
Tuesday 25 August, on ITV1 on the night of Thursday 27 August
and repeated on ITV4 on the afternoon of Saturday 1 August. The
Motorsport UK series will cover Round eleven of the season from
Snetterton. Motorsport UK will be broadcast as follows: GP2 - After the summer break, the GP2 Series will return next weekend in the streets of Valencia, where Alvaro Parente hopes for a good result. The 2008 Spanish round of the championship wasn’t a lucky one for the Portuguese youngster, since that he didn’t see the chequered flag. However, the circuit in the Valencia streets pleases the Ocean Racing Technology driver, who is confident this weekend. “I like this circuit, though I had to retire in the last year’s first race without fuel in my car, two laps from the end. I hope that we may have a well balanced car for this circuit and that we may fight for the top positions”. Though he scored a point in the second race at the Hungaroring Parente didn’t show the pace he had in the previous races. At Valencia he is confident that he can fight for a good result. “At Hungaroring we weren’t at the level that we expected, but, nevertheless, we reached the points in the second race. I’m very confident that, at Valencia, we can show the pace that we exhibited in the previous races and that we may fight for the top positions and, in that way, obtain a good results and some good points, which are our goals for the rest a of the season”,. Superbikes - Get set for British Superbike's legendary 'Party in the Park'. The most anticipated round of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship season is just over a week away, as race fans count down to the annual August Bank Holiday (29/30/31 August) extravaganza at Cadwell Park. Fans are expected to flock in their thousands to witness the most breathtaking round on the calendar, for the only chance this year to see the riders airborne over the famous 'Mountain' section. This round has traditionally produced some of the most dramatic and exhilarating moments in BSB history, as the best riders in the country go head-to-head for glory, and this year is expected to be no different. Leon Camier currently holds a commanding lead in the title stakes but this is HM Plant Honda’s home track and the Louth-based team are eager to repeat their double race winning form from 2008. Multiple Isle of Man TT race winner John McGuinness has been rewarded with a one-off ride at Cadwell Park and is determined to make his mark, and joins former World Supersport champion Karl Muggeridge. Former MotoGP rider Sylvain Guintoli(pictured) will also make his much anticipated return to the grid at Cadwell Park following a rapid recovery from the broken leg he sustained at the Donington Park round. The Worx Crescent Suzuki rider was one of the pre-season favourites to challenge for the title, but his aspirations were cut short following the crash. Now he is determined to return to winning ways and stamp his authority following a recent test at the Lincolnshire circuit. Advance tickets are available to purchase in advance from £23 per adult with children aged 12 and under free. For more information and to book visit www.cadwellpark.com or call 0870 950 9000. 19-08-09 LMS - Aston Martin Racing will enter three Gulf liveried LMP1 challengers in the penultimate round of the Le Mans Series, the ADAC 1000km of Nürburgring on the 23 August 2009. The race was established back in the 1950s with Astom martin winning it in 1957 to 59 with the DBR1. It is fitting that 50 years on from Aston Martin winning the World Sportscar Championship, the British marque will return with a chance of winning the Le Mans Series title in 2009. They are second in the Teams Championship at the moment 4 points behind Pescarolo Sport. Aston Martin Racing will also take three cars to the final round at Silverstone on the 13 September BTCC - Marking a first for Silverstone, the Northamptonshire circuit will be hosting two major championships - one national and one international - at the same time over the August Bank Holiday weekend. First there is the World Aerobatic Championships ollowed by the BTCC
Formula 2 – Julien Jousse enjoyed a dominant win in the FUA F2 Championship at Donington, leading from pole and setting fastest lap in the process. He has now moved into third place in the Championship behind Robert Wickens. 18-08-09
Formula Renault – Josh Mulholland has had a superb start to his single seat career in the 2009 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championship. With 4 podiums from 7 starts to his name already he couldn’t have asked for a better debut. It is even more impressive when one considers that to date only Kieren Clark and Dino Zamparelli have won, both of whom have considerably more car racing experience F3000 - Will Bratt is back in action this coming weekend in the F3000 Euroseries at Zolder in Belgium. After a long 7 week break due to the cancellation of the Donington Round. Will is now heading into the third round of the series looking for his first win after two podium [places in the previous outings at Portimao and Magny Cours. 17-08-09
Carrera Cup Asia - Rodolfo Avila took an excellent win in the latest rounds of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at Sentul over the weekend. The Macanesse driver won the opening race for his Asia Racing team before coming second in race 2
Formula BMW - Australian Formula BMW Junior, Chris Wootton had what can be termed a character building weekend in Formula BMW Pacific at Sentul in Indoneisa. After failing to finish in Saturday’s two races due to mechanical gremlins he recovered to claim a seventh and sixth on Sunday.
World snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan experienced all the highs and lows of his chosen new sport at Silverstone, but thoroughly enjoyed his maiden race outings at the wheel of number 147, the Addison Lee-backed Jetta.Ronnie qualified at the back of the grid for Saturday's race and made an early exit from the running when he spun the Jetta into a gravel trap. "It was a novice mistake," said O'Sullivan. "I just sort of splattered off the track." Right on cue and with a valuable lesson put away, Ronnie gave a more than respectable showing on Sunday to finish 14th. After a cautious start from the tail-end of the grid he gained pace and overtook one of his rivals before the end. "At least I got a whole race in," he said. "It was a good experience, I enjoyed it very much and now I am looking forward to having another crack at Brands Hatch next month."
Frank Wrathall got onto the top step of the podium in the Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup at Knockhill to win his third race of the season after Chasmpionship leader Nathan freke had won the earlier race in damp conditions. Freke’s lead in the championship is now out to 64 points after his closest challenger Carl Breeze had an ‘off’ weekend picking up only third and fourth place finishes.
Cash-strapped Ingram desperate for funding to get back on-track. Following a dream start to his fledgling car racing career, a podium in only his second meeting and a double pole position in his fourth, Tom Ingram’s dream has become a nightmare in the form of a funding shortfall focing him to sit out the last two rounds of the Ginetta Junior Championship.“It’s been awful,” lamented the young High Wycombe driver. “We went into the mid-season break and had a stand at the High Wycombe Motorshow to try to raise some sponsorship, but despite receiving a lot of interest, we haven’t been able to raise a penny. That’s been a bit disheartening, because we had been expecting to find something at least. As the weeks passed we got more and more dispirited; we had work we needed to do on the car, and with every passing week the time was ticking down. “The hardest thing for me was watching the racing on TV and following the results online – that’s made it even worse. But you can’t let yourself get upset about it. At the end of the day, that’s just life, isn’t it?” Requiring a total of £5,000 to complete the season – in which he stillsits only just outside the top ten in the title standings despite missing out on as many as 156 points – Tom admits that backing from the likes of Conway House Dental Practice and former Monodraught managing director Terry Payne has helped, but more, far more, is still needed. The Porsche Club Championship was in action at Thruxton circuit for the first time since 2005 at the weekend and the main title contenders each picked upm two wins. Ben Demetriou won both races outright while Jeremy Clark did the same in Class Two. Demetriou closed the gap b y a single point to Clark in the standings leaving him 35-points adrift with six races to go. Carrera Cup GB - Tim Bridgman won round 14 of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Knockhill on Sunday beating Title rival Tim Harvey an d James Sutton. In pro-am1 Glynn Geddie completed the double winning again while fellow Scot George Brewster won in pro-am2 to keep the home crowd happy...
Andrew Herron made his debut in the Carrera Cup GB at Knockhill coming away with am eighth place finish in Round 13. It could have beenn even higher if he hadn’t suffered a spin late in the race when he was running sixth. Round 14 wasn’t as good however, late in the race, a coming together with Derek Pierce saw Andrew end his race in the barrier, fortunately he emerged unhurt apart from a sore neck and leg.
Conor Daly Fastest At Trois-Rivieres But Finishes 13th. Even though Mazdaspeed-driver Conor Daly was fastest during the first practice day on Friday, and again the fastest driver through the streets of the historic Trois Rivieres circuit on race day, a thirteenth place finish was all he had to show for his efforts at the end of the weekend. After starting sixth when front row starter Peter Dempsey was late to the grid and was therefore penalized and had to start from the pit lane, Conor immediately began to move up and had just passed Adam Christodulo for fourth place when he suffered the first of two bizarre issues, as he could not down-change for turn eight. By the time he got the car back into gear he was back in ninth place. After regaining his composure Conor set off after the leaders and managed to climb back up to sixth place when his engine mysteriously cut out; again dropping him from the lead pack. Fortunately, the engine malady healed itself as mysteriously as it occurred, and Conor again reeled the lead pack in. With three laps to go Conor’s team mate, Joel Miller went wide at the entrance to the front straight, and Daly and Brazilian Dennis Navarro passed him on the run to the turn. Conor then attempted to pass Navarro but the two touched and the resulting impact broke the steering arm on his car.“I am just so disappointed because Mike (engineer) and Dave (mechanic) put a big effort in and I had a great car”, Conor said afterward. "It was very frustrating having to sit behind slower cars when I truly felt that I could have won today. On street races where passing cars is very difficult, any single issue during the weekend can create a cascade of challenges. The qualifying incident with Dempsey that shortened my qualifying effort is why I was so far back to start with. However, it was up to me to make the best of the situation and I was a little too optimistic with three laps to go. Setting the fastest race lap does not seem to be much consolation right now." Conor has now dropped out of the top-three in the Championshipn as it moves to Mosport for its next round on August 29th BTCC - Jason Plato, Fabrizio Giovanardi and Mat Jackson all had a turn on the top step pof the podium in the HiQ MSA BTCC at Knockhill in Scotland on Sunday. Colin Turkington came away still leading the Championship but his lead has been reduced dramatically by Giovanardi who still looks on course to complete his hat-triick of titles this year Atlantic - Simona De Silvestro driving the No. 78 Stargate Worlds/Maakoa/Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment/FireSky/Cardinal Technologies car for Team Stargate Worlds has won the Atlantic Championship race at Trois Rivieres in Quebec. The Swiss led from pole to cross the line just 0.886 secs up on John Edwards. Jonathan Summerton was third. De Silvestro has extended he lead in the points to 21 (156 to 135) with with three races remaining.
Formula 2 - Julien Jousse and Andy Soucek both won a race at Donington Park in the FIA Formula Two Championship on Sunday. For Jousse it was his first win in the series while it was Soucek’s third.
Jay Goodwin bounced back from a horrendous practice accident at Kimbolton, in which he ended up buried beneath another competitor and covered from head-to-toe in bruises, to storm to a podium finish just hours later - a performance that left many observers stunned. 16-08-09
F Carrera Cup GB - Michael Caine won the first race at Knockhillll in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB after risking slicks ion a wet b ut drying track. In a superb second place was Glynn Geddie who took the pro-am 1 class victory at the same time.
Fulvio Mussi driving the Yourracingcar.com-backed car finally got onto the podium on Saturday in Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup at Knockhill in Scotland. However his team Total Control Racing’s delight with his econd place was tempered by an incident that took out Mussi’s Championship contending team mate Carl Breeze. The latter was forced out after contact with Frank Wrathall on the last lap while running second. Then incident also delayed Wrathall leaving the door open for Fulvio to get past and take that second place. F2000 - Chris Miller took pole for the F2000 season finale at Mid-Ohio this morning in qualifying and added another three points to his championship lead over Matthew Inge, who lost a front wing during the session and will have to start seventh. Remy Audette will line up next to Miller’s JDC Van Diemen. Tim Minor will start third alongside yesterday’s winner Benjamin Searcy. Victor Carbone rounded out the top five. “We used our remaining two allotted Hoosier slicks on the left side,” Miler said. “That was a good call and we turned a couple good laps right in the middle of the session. Then I just pulled into save tires. I’d love to win the race but it’s more important to stay out of trouble and think championship.” Chris Miller now touts a huge 30 point margin in the championship over Matthew Inge. Inge said: “The car was so much better than yesterday with the wing package St. Clair put on. I think I could have put it on pole but was pushing way too hard and just lost it in one, ending my session.” Audette. The surprise of the 25-minute session was Mark Defer, who qualified his St. Clair Van Diemen in sixth. Matthew Inge followed in seventh with Slade Miller, Fabio Orsolon and Jerry Szykulsk rounding out the top ten. Caitlin Johnston got a solid lap in early before her car experienced mechanical issues and lost ignition, she will line up 12th for the 2:55 local time green flag.
Karts - Harry Crawley added to his ollection of silverware with a superb second in the prestigious annual Kartmasters meeting at PF International - incredibly his first-ever appearance in what is widely considered the highest-profile and toughest-fought event on the British karting calendar. Russ Danzey, who despite persistent balance issues and a damaged kart fought valiantly to seal a top six position in Kartmasters at PF International in Lincolnshire. 15-08-09
F2000 – F2000 Championship leader Chris Miller was back on top of the timesheets in the second practice session yesterday for the F2000 Finale at Mid Ohio. Earlier he had been ousted from the top spot by Benjamin Searcy who set the fastest time of the day with a 1:24.457.
 Indonesian
driver Rio Haryanto
will make his Formula 3 debut at Queensland Raceway next weekend
in the sixth round of the Formula 3 Australian Drivers
Championship for the CAMS Gold Star. There will be two races on
Sunday held alongside the V8 Supercars. 14-08-09 Club racing - Starting a trio of BRSCC run race meetings this weekend is the Oulton Park raceday tomorrow. There are thirteen races on the programme including a double header for the Ma5da MX5 Championship who have a full grid of thirty five cars. However, the most poignant race will be for the club Formula Ford s in the annual Moose Trophy, which is run in memory of a former marshal, Colin ‘Moose’ Benson who passed away in 2002. A full preview of the meeting with links to the entry list and timetable can be found at: OULTON PARK PREVIEW This weekend’s busy BRSCC race meeting at Brands Hatch is sponsored by Grand Prix Racewear and features a wide variety of championships contesting 21 races. Thanks to GPR, Gaz Shocks and Richard Egger Insurance the meeting will be filmed to produce a series of programmes to be broadcast on Motors TV to showcase BRSCC racing at its very best. A full preview of the meeting with links to the entry list and timetable can be found at:
Former BRDC assistant secretary James Beckett has joined the BRSCC’s admin team for the 2009 Formula Ford Festival, which will take place at Brands Hatch on Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October. James takes on the remit of promoting the 1600cc category of the Club’s ‘blue riband’ event, the 38th in the Festival’s rich history. BRSCC Competitions Director Drew Furlong said, “We are delighted to have James on board for the Festival. He brings with him a wealth of Formula Ford experience and contacts, evidenced by the success of the Walter Hayes Trophy, which he instigated and developed The Porscheracing Drivers Association plans for a race series for the Porsche Boxster S next year are progressing well. More information is available from the website PORSCHE BOXSTERS including draft technical regulations. The rules are designed to promote close racing between equally matched cars, while at the same time keeping budgets under control by limiting the amount of modifications permitted. A kit of parts is available from the organisers to convert a road going Boxster to the series specification. The kit costs £2,805.00 plus delivery and VAT and includes a roll cage kit, race seat and mounts, harness, race suspension dampers, fire extinguisher and one set of wheels. Vote for "The Greatest Circuit in the World’ today and you could win over £500 of track day fun and accommodation. www.motorsportcircuitguide.com and Circuits 2010 magazine, published by Discovery Media Group, provide complete and up-to-date info rmation about motor racing circuits and tracks worldwide as well as local amenities and special offers. It's time for you to have your say! Vote for "The Greatest Circuit in the World’ today and you could win over £500 of track day fun and accommodation. Email ben@motorsportcircuitguide.com with ‘Circuit survey-BRSCC' in the subject line and they will send you an entry form. Forms need to be submitted by September 15th, 2009. Terms & conditions apply. Carrera Cup GB - On a day when the rain got heavier and heavier, Tim Harvey set the testing pace ahead of rounds 13 and 14 of the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Knockhill today (Friday 14 August 2009). Glynn Geddie topped pro-am1 while George Brewster headed pro-am2 to make it a good day for the strong contingent of Scottish racers. GTs - Last weekend the latest rounds in the Aston Martin Asia Cup were held as par to fhte support to the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race, in Sepang. Although Championship leader Dilantha Malagamuwa (Sri Lanka, Dilango Racing) crossed the line first in both races subsequent penalties handed the wins to Concord Motorsport’s Mark Williamson in race 1 and Tunku Hamman in race 2.
BTCC - A huge crowd of some 18,000 people gathered in Edinburgh city centre to watch the Dunlop British Touring Car Festival on Thursday. The stars of the British Touring Car Championship demonstrated their race cars at high speed along Johnston Terrace right next to the Scottish capital's famous castle. And the route was packed either side with the public all eager for a glimpse of their BTCC heroes before they head across the Firth of Forth for their latest race at the Knockhill circuit in Fife this Sunday (16 August). After an autograph session that resulted in the BTCC drivers being besieged with people, the cars were then waved off by Edinburgh's Lord Provost George Grubb. Perhaps the biggest cheers were directed the way of Scottish BTCC driver Jonathan Adam who will surely be hoping for a race win in front of his home crowd at Knockhill this weekend in his Airwaves BMW. BTCC Series Director Alan Gow said: "This has been a truly great spectacle - for the city of Edinburgh, for the public and for the BTCC and its forthcoming round at Knockhill. Every driver has come back and expressed astonishment at just how many people were lining the route today. Many of these people of course will be new to the BTCC - here in Edinburgh for the world-famous festivals period - which can only be of tremendous benefit to the championship”. Cars from the supporting Ginetta Junior, Ginetta G50 and Porsche Carrera Cup - driven by Sarah Moore, Julien Draper and Barry Horne - also took part. . Atlantic - The Atlantic Championship, which has strong ties to Canada dating all the way back to the series' inception in 1974, will spend its next two weekends north of the border beginning with this weekend's Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres. Following the weekend, the series moves west to Mosport International Raceway on the weekend of August 30. read Preview
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Tom Coronel and Franz Engstler took part last Sunday in the 10th 12 Hour Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race at Sepang, Malaysia.They both drove Porsche 996 GT3 cars - Lammertink Racing for Coronel, Autoracing Club Bratislava for Engstler - and both retired because of technical failures.The race was won by Manabu Orido in a BMW Z4 of the Petronas Syntium Team; For the fifth time in six years, Chevrolet driver Alain Menu will take part this weekend in the Buenos Aires 200 km. The race counts as the seventh round of the Argentine TC2000 championship and the second round of the Endurance Series. Menu will share with local ace Guillermo Ortelli a Chevrolet Astra car run by the Chevrolet Elaion team.During his previous visits to Buenos Aires, Menu always managed to finish on the podium: he claimed victory in 2006, was classified second in 2004 and third in 2005 and 2008. 13-08-09
Saloons - Ric Wood did the double in the Performance N Economy Chip Tuning Sports/Saloon Car Championship at Anglesey winning both Rounds 8&9 last weekend( August 08/09). It was his first race on the current Anglesey circuit format but that didn’t seem to hinder him as he dominated in his ex-DTM Opel Astra FBMW - Chris Wootton heads to the third event of the Formula BMW Pacific season this weekend at Indonesia’s Sentul Raceway aiming to use his experience around the 3.9 kilometre circuit to score a bag full of points – and a first Formula BMW Pacific victory that has proved elusive so far.Currently 7th in points, the Queenslander admits that the competition will be tough, however after last year, where he enjoyed a troika of podiums from the four races, he’s excited about the prospects of this weekend. Heading to Indonesia earlier in the week, Chris will complete two days of official testing and practice before the expanded Asian Festival of Speed event kicks into top gear. He’s chasing young Irishman Gary Thompson who leads Formula BMW Pacific by some 11 points and his Eurasia Motorsport team-mate, Axcil Jefferies, who currently sits second in table. Between events (this one being postponed by a month due to the resurfacing), Chris has visited the BMW Sauber F1 Team factory and the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Karts - Jay Goodwin finished an excellent sixth in the recent Kartmasters meeting at PF International, an event that which attracted 40 of the very best Mini Max drivers in the country. This result was a 30-place improvement for Jay over his performance in the same event last year… Star Mazda - Trois-Rivieres, Quebec - Daly Entirely Committed To The Pursuit Of 2009 Championship. , “As one of five winners in the Star Mazda Championship this season, Mazdaspeed driver Conor Daly is looking forward to his first street Trois-Rivieres , Quebec , Canada . After his last two races at Autobahn in Joliet , Illinois . he finished third and fifth and moved up to third place in the points championship. I am very much looking forward to competing in my first street race," Conor said. "My Dad raced at Trois-Rivieres in 1979 for Fred Opert Racing in the Atlantic Series back when F1 drivers raced at Trois Rivieres on a regular basis, so it will be kind of nostalgic for him to watch me race there. We are committed to our Championship run even though our car appears to be outclassed by the new car Star Mazda that now has experienced and fast drivers (Dempsey & Christodoulou) behind the wheel. However, my personal goal is to get the best from myself and from my car. My team guys are great and we're always in the hunt, so even though this year has been a big learning curve for me as long as I can stay out of other people's trouble, we should produce a good result at the end of the weekend.“
Josef Newgarden travels to Silverstone this weekend (August 15-16) for Rounds 16, 17 and 18 of the MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain. For Newgarden, the sixth event for the British Formula Ford series marks the end of a summer break, and the perfect opportunity to return to the cockpit of his No. 21 Robo-Pong/Racer of Tomorrow Ltd/Joe Tandy Racing Mygale SJ08 Premier Power car. Newgarden thus far has enjoyed a successful season of racing in Europe. The Joe Tandy Racing rookie has won five races en route to second position in the current championship standings. "I'm looking forward to the action resuming in the British Formula Ford series this weekend," commented Newgarden. "I'm really excited to compete at Silverstone, it's a great track with a lot of heritage. I think the high-speed nature of the international circuit really suits my driving style and now that we've completed 15 of the 25 races, I think I've got a pretty good gauge on the competition! I'm confident, challenging for wins in all three races and eliminating any gap to the championship leader is a realistic goal." The MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain tripleheader at the historic Silverstone Circuit commences on Friday (August 14) with free practice. One day later, the lone qualifying session will take place in the morning, prior to Round 16 getting underway after the lunch break. Rounds 16 and 17 of the 25-race series will take place on Sunday (August16).
BTCC - Silverstone serving up double treat over August Bank Holiday . With the BTCC on 29-30 August and the 2009 World Aerobatic Championships on 28-29 August, Silverstone is going to be pretty busy over the August Bank Holiday. It’s the eighth round of the BTCC and Fabrizio Giovanardi will be fighting to defend his crown and claim a hat-trick of titles this season. His main rival on the National Circuit at Silverstone will be the current championship leader, Team RAC driver Colin Turkington. Former Champions Jason Plato and Matt Neal have also got their eyes on the 2009 Trophy and will be going all out to claim maximum points at the famous circuit. In addition to all the on-track action, Silverstone will be hosting the 2009 World Aerobatic Championships on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August. The tournament takes place once every two years and Silverstone has been chosen to host the 25th championship. The best and most talented ‘Unlimited’ pilots in the world will go head-to-head over Silverstone’s Southern Circuit, performing spectacular tricks and routines in the most physical and mentally demanding competition in the world of Aerobatics. Tickets for the Silverstone round of the HiQ MSA BTCC (29-30 August) are priced at £15 for the Saturday (qualifying) and £23 for the Sunday,(if booked in advance). Sunday tickets will cost £30 on the day. Weekend can only be booked in advance, and offer great value at £27 for both days. A combined BTCC weekend ticket and World Aerobatic Championship ticket for Saturday costs £32, and are only available to purchase in advance. To book tickets or for further information, visit www.silverstone..co.uk or call 08704 588 260 11-08-09 Grand-Am - Ricardo Zonta and Nic Jonsson gave the No. 76 Krohn Racing Ford Lola its second victory of the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season, winning the Crown Royal 200 at Watkins Glen. Zonta led the final 21 laps, holding off Scott Pruett to win the two-hour event by 3.325 seconds despite flat-spotting his tires on the final restart. "We were not happy after qualifying," said Jonsson, who started eighth, the furthest a race-winning car has come from in 2009. "Then we changed the car completely around, using the same setup we used here in the Sahlen's Six Hours. Even though the long course we raced in June is very different from the short course we raced tonight, it worked out." It was the third Daytona Prototype victory for Jonsson and second for Zonta. In second was Pruett and Memo Rojas who now lead the Championship with three races remaining in the Daytona Prototype championship. Driving the No. 01 TELMEX Lexus Riley, fielded by Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, they now have a 4 point lead over fourth-place finishers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty in the No. 99 GAINSCO Pontiac Riley fielded by Bob Stallings Racing. Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut gave Supercar Life Racing its first podium finish with third place in the No. 55 Supercar Life/Edata Solutions BMW Riley, while Bill Lester and Ryan Dalziel were fifth in the No. 45 Orbit Racing BMW Riley. David Donohue and Darren Law took sixth in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche Riley while defending race winner Mark Wilkins led six laps in the No. 61 AIM Autosport Ford Riley before finishing seventh, co-driving with Burt Frisselle.
Dane Cameron and Tom Sutherland took their Racers Edge/ClickAway GT1 Mazda RX-8. to a podium finish in a Grand-Am race at Watkins Glen at the weekend, a first top three finish in the series for the team
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- 10-08-09 Porsche Club Championship - The Porsche Club Championship visits Thruxton for the first time in several seasons this coming weekend, August 15th and 16th, and the high-speed Hampshire circuit sees the overall championship battle going strong. Jez Clark heads Class Two and the series overall, the 2008 champion having stepped up a class and still showing his pace, while closest challengers Ben Demetriou and Mark McAleer have shared the Class One wins between them – providing great racing but allowing Clark to open a gap in the points. Class One is numerically the biggest, with the lead drivers usually racing for the outright win. The 968s of Demetriou and McAleer have been the cars to beat so far this season, the battling pair taking a win apiece in the season opening meeting at Donington and that setting the scene for their seasons to date. Demetriou holds sway with six wins – but consistent finishing by McAleer, the 2007 Champion, sees him just 15-points behind. The 968 has been doing the winning in the races, but behind, the rear-engined models are gaining pace. New to the series for 2009 is the 993 C2, and the cars of Gary Duckman and Scott Kavanagh have been catching up as the drivers learn their new mounts, and a reduction n the minimum weight should see the 993s in contention at Thruxton. A feature of the rear-engined cars is their speed off the line, and Kevin Harrison has been the master of that at some circuits, his 964 C2 blasting into the lead from the second row of the grid at Brands Hatch. Third in the Class One points, Harrison should be a contender this weekend along with the similar car of Marcus Carniel, a Porsche Club regular who is always in the thick of the action. Others who could impress include Richard Higgins and former champion Richard Lambert. Although the series has not been to Thruxton for some time, the Class Two cars have always run well there and that could see Clark on for an upset in the two races. A front row qualifier when the Porsche Club Championship visited Anglesey earlier in the year, Clark’s 944 S2 usually declines to battle too hard with the Class One runners in his chase for class, and overall points, but the lure of a strong finish may just prove too strong at Thruxton. Unbeaten in class this season, Clark has stayed clear of the pursuing Chris Dyer, John Gilmore and Ian Balaam.The first of the weekend’s two 10-lap races is on Saturday with the second race at 12.15 on Sunday.
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Atlantic - Jonathan Summerton came away from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday night with another win in the Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda. Second was Championship leader Simona De Silvestro who has increased he lead in the table to 16 after second placed John Edwards failed to finish.
Karts - Ginetta Junior driver Tom Ingram made a one-off return to Karting last weekend in the Red Bull Summer BBQ and Race Day at Milton Keynes Daytona Raceway. Despite starting the race with slicks on a wet track he enjoyed a great battle with Alice Powell and Chris Dymond to bring his Kart home in second. Indycar - Scott Dixon dominated the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by Westfield Insurance to earn his 20th IndyCar Series victory ahead of Ryan Briscoe. This was Dixon’s fourth win of the season moving him back into the championship points lead with four races remaining. Three points behind is Ryan Briscoe with Dario Franchitti third 20 points back. Franchitti finished third for his ninth top 5 in the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car and Ryan Hunter-Reay gave A.J. Foyt Racing its best finish in more than a year with fourth after starting seventh in the No. 14 ABC Supply Co. car. The next race is on Aug. 23 at Infineon Raceway- IndyLights - James Davison led all 40 laps and won the Mid-Ohio 100 Indy Lights race for the second consecutive year. It was the first victory for Vision Racing five weeks after Davison gave the team its first pole at Watkins Glen. James Hinchcliffe, driving the No. 7 Hinchtown/Sam Schmidt Motorsports car, finished 4.0420 seconds back and Firestone Indy Lights points leader J.R. Hildebrand finished where he started (third) in the No. 26 ARPRO car for AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing. Davidson was clearly elated wit the win, "It was awesome. We didn't really have any pressure from behind. The whole team effort was awesome. I'm really happy. The tires started to wear off, losing front grip and rear grip, but it's the same for everybody. We were able to pull away from the next car behind us, so I gather we were the quickest car on the track." Danish Touring Cars – James Thompson continued his winni9njg ways in the Danish Touring Car Championship with two wins from three races at Padborg Park over the weekend. The third winner of the day was Henrik Lundgaard who won race 2 after Tom Pedersen’s gearbox broke 2 laps from home while he was leading.
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07-08-09 LMS - Le Mans 24 Hours 2009 race winner and Patrón Highcroft Racing star David Brabham has confirmed his support of the Humanity’s Team movement by signing a global grassroots petition appealing to the United Nations to declare an annual Oneness Day.
Karts - Junior Max regular Ed Brand switched to the KF3 class for last weekend's Kart Masters event and impressed with his pace against more experienced competition
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WTCC - The Chevrolet WTCC team tested yesterday in Zolder with Nicola Larini. The test was part of the intense programme of development and testing of the new Cruze car. It made its race debut at the beginning of 2009 and has already won five WTCC rounds tom date. The test took an interesting dimension since the Belgian track has been included in the WTCC's preliminary 2010 calendar. Given its demanding characteristics, Zolder is an ideal choice for a test session during the summer break. The team's aim was to continue the constant development work on the balance of the car, set-up and aerodynamics. Nicola Larini said: "I know Zolder well since the '90s and I think it is perfectly suited for touring cars. It is technical and demanding, especially for the brakes, with constant changes of rhythm, and it's also quite spectacular. I am really happy that the WTCC is coming back here and although this will only happen next year, having the possibility to test now will certainly be useful." Eric Nève, Chevrolet Europe Motorsport Manager, commented: "I am very pleased with the news of the WTCC going back to Zolder, because it is a perfect track for touring cars and enjoys a very strategic geographical location, at the crossroad between the Benelux countries, Western Germany and Northern France. This region happens to be a key car market and an area where interest for touring cars is very high."
06-08-09 British GT - Race victories for five different marques in GT4 across Europe this season are underlining the effectiveness of championship regulations aimed at promoting close, exciting racing. They are an indication that the category is set for a resurgence in the UK in 2010, says the Avon Tyres British GT Championship promoter, SRO Motorsports Group. The Corvette C6, Porsche 997, Aston Martin Vantage, BMW M3 and Ginetta G50 have all taken race wins in the Dutch GT4 Championship in 2009, and meanwhile in the GT4 European Cup there have been victories for the Ginetta, BMW, Porsche and Aston. "It is a clear indication that the GT4 regulations have been well formulated and that no one marque has an unfair advantage," says SRO Marketing Manager Alistair Spence. "Hopefully teams looking to contest British GT next season will take note of these results and they will broaden their perceptions. "SRO is fully committed to GT4 and everyone here believes that a strong GT4 category is vital to the continuing success of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship." Underlining that commitment, SRO is working hard with the Dutch and European series organisers to bring competitors from those championships to the UK for the season-closing British GT rounds at Brands Hatch next month. "It would be great to see some of the top European teams come over here and demonstrate what GT4 is really all about," added Spence. Click to download the Euro GT results
The Porsche Carrera Cup GB will take to the streets of Edinburgh next Thursday (13 August) during the Dunlop British Touring Car Festival. As a warm-up ahead of the Knockhill race weekend, one of the Carrera Cup cars will thrill fans alongside leading cars and drivers from the BTCC. The high-speed show is expected to attract a huge crowd along Johnston Terrace, right next to the city's iconic castle. Fans will be able to meet the drivers during an autograph session before watching the cars being put through their paces in this unique event, which is entirely free.The 420bhp 911GT3 Cup car will be entrusted to Scotsman Barry Horne for the demonstration runs. Barry was the inaugural Carrera Cup GB champion in 2003 and is now a Senior Driving Consultant for Porsche Cars GB, working from the Porsche Driving Experience Centre at Silverstone. "I've not done anything like this before," said the Dunfermline-based driver. "It's going to be a great experience and I'm really looking forward to it. I feel very privileged to be asked to drive the car in Edinburgh." Horne's connection with the Carrera Cup GB is strong as he is mentoring Aberdeen teenager Glynn Geddie in his first full season of racing in the championship. Glynn scored a fabulous double win in the pro-am1 category last time out at Snetterton and will be aiming to win again at Knockhill over the weekend. Public admission to the Edinburgh event is free. The autograph session will start at midday on Castle Terrace (next to Johnston Terrace), with the first car expected 'on course' on Johnston Terrace at around 1.00pm
2CV 24 hours - With almost 30 race-prepared cars and over 120 experienced drivers, the Professional MotorSport World Expo-backed Citroën 2CV 24-hour race, at Snetterton this weekend (8-9 August) – will make a great spectacle for race fans with the cars separated by just centimetres as they slipstream their way down the back straight at Snetterton! Now thanks to Drive Data, supplier of high-tech cameras and recording and live video equipment, the good news is that if you can’t make it to Norfolk to watch the wheel-to-wheel action in person, a 24-hour video stream of the race will broadcast live on the 2CV Racing Club’s website www.2cv racing .org.uk and on Drive Data’s website www.drivedata.com! The footage, which includes in-car cameras as well as circuit cameras, will be supported by a 24-hour commentary that is being simultaneously broadcast on the websites. There’s no fee or registration required – just log on and watch which team prevails! Ones to watch include Professional MotorSport World Expo’s own team in ‘Tete Rouge 2’, its drivers include Tony Robinson, founder of Professional MotorSport World Expo, Mike Robinson, Lewis Hopkins and Graham Johnson. The ‘Gadget Racing’ car that won last year’s 24-hour will be another strong favourite, it is the front-runner in the 2009 Championship to date with drivers Wayne Cowling, Steve Panas, Simon Clarke and Ainslie Bousfield. 2CV race club chairman Sir Aubrey Brocklebank, co-driving with James Levy and Martin Ryman, are also likely to be strong contenders. 05-08-09
Carrera Cup GB - Andrew Herron will make his Porsche Carrera Cup GB debut at Knockhill (15/16 August), when he takes his prize for being one of the six finalists in the 2009 Carrera Cup Scholarship Programme. The 21 year-old racer from Co Down, Northern Ireland, had hoped to graduate into the Carrera Cup this season, but was thwarted by sponsorship problems. Instead, he reverted to the Renault Clio Cup, where he has again been a front-runner. "I'm looking forward to it massively," said Herron. "I've never had as much fun in my life as I did in those 20 laps round Silverstone during the Carrera Cup Scholarship. Racing the car at Knockhill is going to be a bit challenging; it's not the easiest circuit to have your first race in a rear-wheel drive car." With no Renault Clio races at Knockhill, the Scottish track is the logical weekend for Andrew to race in the Carrera Cup. "Knockhill fits in with my Renault Clio programme as I didn’t really want to race both cars in one weekend. I've no major expectations for the weekend. I just want to go out there and enjoy myself. "The whole Porsche package is great for sponsors and we're definitely looking to try and do the Carrera Cup next year. That's where I want to be in 2010." Karts - Jack Barlow took his first major title last weekend when he won the Mini Max Kart Masters Title at PFi in Lincolnshire
BTCC - Edinburgh Streets prepare for the BTCC. The drivers who will perform a high-speed show for the public during Edinburgh city centre's forthcoming Dunlop British Touring Car Festival (Thursday 13 August) has been announced. Thousands are expected to line Johnston Terrace, right next to the city's iconic castle, to watch the event that will act as a precursor to the BTCC's race fixture that weekend (15-16 August) at the Knockhill in Fife. That's after the public has met the stars of the BTCC during an autograph session on Castle Terrace (next to Johnston Terrace). Public admission to the event is FREE. The autograph session will start at midday with the first BTCC car expected 'on course' on Johnston Terrace at around 1.00pm. Scotland's two BTCC drivers Gordon Shedden and Jonathan Adam will be star attractions in their Cartridge World SEAT Leon and Airwaves BMW respectively. Current series leader Colin Turkington (Team RAC BMW), reigning Champion Fabrizio Giovanardi and his VX Racing team-mate Andrew Jordan in their Vauxhall Vectras plus James Thompson (Team Dynamics Honda Civic) will also be in action. BTCC Series Director Alan Gow said: "This is a stunning line-up of drivers, teams and cars for what will be a quite exceptional event. Edinburgh has a real buzz about it and to see the BTCC's cars and drivers in action right next to such an iconic landmark as its castle - let alone experience the noise and speed generated by the cars - is going to be awesome. "Furthermore, of course, this all takes place right at the start of Edinburgh's world-famous Festivals period so as well as attracting many regular BTCC fans the crowd is also likely to include a fair percentage of people who've never before attended a BTCC event. It's a great event for Edinburgh, for the BTCC and for the public."
04-08-09 Historics - The Masters Historic Racing Donington raceday on Sunday 23rd August will have some very impressive machinery out on track. In the Interserie invitation race, Frank Bradley is expected to be out in his massive 8-litre March 717 CanAm car alongside the McLaren M8F of Richard Piper. John Grant, a Masters regular, has a McLaren M6F on loan as well so the noise should be superb! In the World Sportscar Masters a bevy of Lola T70s should be fighting it out with Andy Newall in a Alfa Romeo T33/3 getting in on the act as well. Sports car fans will also have the Gentlemen Drivers/Cloth Cap race for pre-66 GT carplus there will be saloon cars in abundance. read more
LMS - Syrian racing driver Karim Ajlani and his French team-mate Matthieu Lahaye were on the for a top three finish in LMP2 in the LMS Algarve 1000kms race at Portimao. That was before fule pressure problems, a broken plug and couple of punctures dropped them down the order.
A1GP - As the momentum continues to build ahead of Season Five of A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, Dutch fans are about to get their glimpse of the A1GP Powered By Ferrari car in Assen where the series will race for the first time on 14-16 May 2010.The Dutch, who have proved to be very enthusiastic and loyal to the series, will be able to see the car of A1 Team Netherlands at the annual Rizla Racing Day at the TT Circuit Assen on Sunday 9 August. Tickets for the opening race of Season 5, the Nitro SuperGP are on sale now through Ticketek. For all the latest ticket information visit the event’s website www.SuperGP.com. From a one day General Admission ticket to a four-day Platinum Grandstand seat, the Nitro SuperGP has ticket options to suit every style and pocket. See www.SuperGP.com for all ticketing information. Current A1GP World Champion Ireland’s star driver Adam Carroll is also continuing to be sought after as he decides what the future holds for him. He spent last weekend in Hungary putting his talents to good use acting as driver coach to iSport’s Giedo van der Garde. The Dutchman went on to score his maiden GP2 Series win in Sunday’s sprint race at the Hungaroring after finishing 7th in Saturday’s race. The 26-year-old racer from Northern Ireland is naturally seeking a move to Formula 1 or IRL for 2010 and has recently been rumoured to be linked to a drive with the newly created Manor Grand Prix. A1 Team Malaysia helped keep visitors entertained at the Indonesia Motorshow in Jakarta this week with the team’s race simulator appearing on the Proton stand. A1 Team Malaysia has a close relationship with commercial partner, Proton, who were at the show for the international launch of the new Proton Exora MPV vehicle. The team’s simulator has proved popular with team member Tomy Mathen George, on hand to help the budding A1GP drivers get to grips with the challenge of driving a highly sophisticated racing car. Mathen George said, “There has been plenty of interest in our team and no shortage of people wanting to try their hand at driving a racing car. I think it has been a very worthwhile addition to the Proton display and has encouraged visitors to take a closer look at the Proton range of cars. I’ve enjoyed meeting many fans of the team and I hope that they will be supporting us in the next season of racing which starts again later this year.” Owen Leed, Commercial Director, A1 Team Malaysia explains, “We are always keen to add value to our commercial partnerships and our presence at this Motor Show with the team’s simulator is a very appropriate marketing opportunity for both the team and Proton. We can draw visitors to the Proton stand with our interactive display chassis, while also promoting the car manufacturer’s links with our international racing team, which represents Malaysia in the nation versus nation championship.”
Ben Collins has joined The Drivers Club’s roster of hand-picked private driver coaches. The Drivers Club, run by Le Mans and Porsche racing team, Jota Sport, offers private, high performance driver training and exclusive driving events to discerning individuals who demand the best of the best. Collins, 34, personally tutored Bond star, Daniel Craig, for his driving scenes in the latest Bond movies and it was in fact Ben Collins himself at the wheel of the Aston Martin DBS in much of the famous car-chase scenes in 'The Quantum of Solace'. On the race track Collins has enjoyed a career in both single-seaters and sportscars, winning races in F3, Indy Lights and the LMS as well as twice contesting the Le Mans 24 Hours. This year he will do the endurance rounds of the V8 Supercar Series in Australia. Drivers Club founder, Sam Hancock, said: “In addition to his mentoring of Hollywood actors, Ben has an extensive history of private driver coaching with both professional drivers and amateurs alike. I’ve raced against him and worked with him on many occasions and know that whether he is training a young Formula 3 driver or putting a member of the security forces through an evasive driving programme, he is the consummate professional and a highly effective coach. I am thrilled that our members will now have access to his extensive experience.” 03-08-09
Total Control Racing had the perfect weekend at Snetterton. Not only did Carl Breeze win three from three in the Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup but the teams two Elf Renault Clio Cup racers, Alex MacDowall and Sam Tordoff both won as well.
LMS - RML AD Group’s seventh place in the Le Mans Series race at Portimao in the Algarve was their best result this year but it could so easily have been a podium. After climbing through the field form 32nd on the grid to second in LMP2 the team’sRML Lola Mazda picked up a strange vibration in the middle stint.Sadly this was just the first of several problems for the team but for once they got to the finish and that’s a start
Sportscars - Sarah Reader and her driving partner, Graham Fennymore, came close to a SPEED Series race victory on Saturday (1 Aug) at Brands Hatch but were foiled by the weather. Sarah, 26, and Graham may have missed out on victory in the Le Mans-style sports car series but were more than happy to achieve a solid second-place finish - their best result of the season so far. Australian Mini Challenge - The ROCK Energy Drinks, Bargwanna Motorsport Team have been working very hard recently to get their car ready for the weekend’s races in the Australian Mini Challenge at Sandown raceway. The car was badly damaged during the last outing at Townsville and the team were still finishing it off on Thursday. Hoiwever it all proved wortwile as they came away with a podium result and third place in the MINI Challenge Series. LMS - Rob Bell and Gimmi Bruni won the first race for JMW Motorsport in the Le Mans Series race at the Portimao circuit in the Algarve. The win not only gives JMW their maiden victory it also puts them into the lead in the LMGT2 Championship. Clio Cup – Total Control Racing’s Sam Tordoff and Alex MacDowall made it a great weekend for TCR at Snetterton at the weekenin rounds 13 and 14 of the ELF Renault Clio Cup with. Tordoff claimed his maiden victory in the one-make series while his team-mate took the honours in Saturday’s race. with Tordoff second. “Sixth wasn’t a bad result in the first race after getting forced wide early on at Sear but the second race definitely showed our true speed”, said Andrew Herron after taking third place in the second of the weekend’s Elf Renault Clio Cup races. And what a race, the top 4 were separated by just 0.6secs at the flag.
Total Control Racing's Alex MacDowall had a much better time in the Clio Cup than his rookie team-mate however, winning Round 13 on Saturday and coming fourth on Sunday. The results consolidate his second position in the Championship by extendinmg his lead to 44 points over the third placed driver.
Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship team Manor Competition and their title contender Dean Smith moved ever closer to the top of the points table at the weekend. Smith picked up two second places to get the gap to Championship leader Oli Webb down to just 6 points. The team’s other driver, the less experienced David McDonald also came away with a great pair of results, a fourth place in race two after his sixth in the earlier encounter. BTCC - Fabrizio Giovanardi came away from Snetterton with two wins and second place in the points behind Championship leader and winner of the third race Colin Turkington. The latter taking the victory when James Nash was excluded from the results after the race. ..read report
Superleague Formula -
Glasgow Rangers
made "home" advantage pay to become the €100,000 "Weekend
Winner" when John Martin of Australia netted the concluding
Super Final race honours in the Superleague Formula by Sonangol
at Donington Park in Britain yesterday (2 August). It was the
Scottish Premier League club and Australian driver's maiden SLF
race victory. Swiss club FC Basel and Max Wissel scored their
maiden SLF wins when the German, the youngest driver in the SLF
field, comfortably led home Rangers' Martin. Martin got stuck
behind the third-placed but yet to pit PSV Eindhoven car
allowing Wissel, who set the race's fastest lap, to sweep ahead.
Valles, who started from 10th place, finished sixth, 1 second
behind the Tottenham Hotspur machine of Craig Dolby (GB).
Meanwhile the pole-starting Corinthians car of Antonio Pizzonia
finished third having led until pitting on lap nine but a slow
pit-stop lost the Brazilian valuable time. ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup Sandritter celebrates double victory at Volkswagen's home round. After his maiden victory in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup on Saturday at Oschersleben, Maximilian Sandritter triumphed on Sunday as well and improved to second place in the overall standings. Like on Saturday, serial winner Maciek Steinhof, who had won four races in a row up to Volkswagen's home round on the outskirts of Wolfsburg, crossed the finish line as the runner-up and continues his clear lead of the standings. Elia Erhart, as well, experienced a dejà-vu on Sunday when he again mounted the podium as the third-placed finisher. Volkswagen apprentice Jann-Hendrik Ubben finished fourth and was thus the best contender in the rookie classification. Guest entrant Timmy Megenbier (USA) caused a surprise. The current leader of the Jetta TDI Cup standings and participant in Volkswagen's international exchange programme delivered a strong result of finishing the race in seventh place after retiring in the first race.
Team managers in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB
have reacted with universal approval of the plans for the 2010
championship, which were unveiled at Snetterton over the
weekend. Volkswagen Racing Cup - Former Champion Mike Neuhoff and race novice Simon Elliott, the Director of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in the UK, are among the drivers lining up for next week's (16 Aug) Silverstone rounds of the Hankook-backed championship.Northamptonshire-based racer Neuhoff, 39, will pilot a 2-litre Volkswagen Lupo created by ex-Honda F1 technician Kevin Poole. Neuhoff gave the car a front-running track debut in the Silverstone 24 Hours last season. It is now fitted with a 2-litre ex-Golf GTI normally aspirated petrol engine and will, says KPM Racing boss Poole, be a potent weapon: "It has the same engine as the Golf driven by the championship leader, Didge Dziurzynski, and hopefully we can give Didge a run for his money. Mike is a great talent and I am looking forward to working with him again." Neuhoff won six rounds of the 2001 VW Racing Cup on his way to the title. Mike's Golf TDI claimed the first British race win for a diesel in 2002, and he was a winner again in 2004. "I haven't raced since the Silverstone 24 Hours a year ago," says Mike, "so I need to get in training. At least I know the car, even if when I raced it last it had a diesel engine. It will be good to get back in action." Another returning face expected at Silverstone is that of Nick Beaumont, who was third in the championship in 2003. He will pilot the Europcar-backed Golf GTI usually raced by Michael McInerney. Simon Elliott is following in the wheeltracks of Peter Wyhinny, his predecessor at the helm of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Elliott will drive a RacingLine-prepared Golf GTI bedecked in the colours of Scunthorpe United FC, of which he is a director. "It's something I've always wanted to do," he says. "I've done track days and so on but have never had the opportunity before now to race competitively. RacingLine have led me through passing my track test and getting my licence and, if I enjoy my debut I'll definitely look at doing some more." IndyCar - Ryan Briscoe was a heartbreaker for Vision Racing at the weekend. The Team Penske driver held off a hard-charging Ed Carpenter to win the Meijer Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway. It was the second victory of the season for Briscoe and gave him the points lead by eight over Scott Dixon, who finished seventh, and by 11 over Dario Franchitti (sixth place) heading to Mid-Ohio for the next round of the championship. Carpenter, who started 14th in the No. 20 Menard's entry, had his best finish in seven IndyCar Series seasons and the best on an oval in the five-year history of Vision Racing. Through the final stops, Carpenter led Briscoe by 0.3657s on lap 180 before Briscoe reclaimed the lead on lap 192. The cars' sidepods appeared to be glued together on the closing laps - 0.0018 on lap 193, 0.0080 on lap 195, 0.0123 on lap 199. The final margin of victory was .0162 of a second, the 11th-closest finish in series history while Briscoe's average speed of 200.893 mph was the second-fastest race in series history. Tony Kanaan rebounded from his pit lane fire in Edmonton to take third in the No. 11 Team 7-Eleven car. Helio Castroneves was fourth for Team Penske with Graham Rahal fifth in the No. 02 McDonald's car for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. 02-08-09
Carrera Cup GB -
Tim Harvey
completed the double at Snetterton this afternoon (Sunday) when
he took his second win of the weekend in round 12 of the 2009
Porsche Carrera Cup GB. Glynn Geddie (below)
CAMSO - The Official European Late Model Series Forum is now open. Fans of the televised stock car championship can now talk directly to the organisers, teams and drivers in the series. You can join in discussions on the forum by registering you details with the forum administrators. Go to the European Late Model Series website at www.latemodel.eu and click on the forum button to register and then add your points of veiw to the European Late Model Series. You can watch the European Late Model Series on Motors TV channel 413 on your Sky box LMS - Danny Watt’s and Strakka Racing’s Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S came close to leading the LMS race in the Algarve and but for electrical gremlins they may have even won. For the first hour and 40 minutes Watts had raced with the leaders in the first night race in the LMS calendar. but just as the light started to vanish so did the team’s chances as a succession of electrical faults ended their run. OAK Racing Team Mazda France had a disappointing result in the third round of the LMS in the Algarve. Adter taking podiums in LMP2 at Le Mans and Spa a sixth and eighth place finish for their two cars was a bit of a let down,.
Formula Ford - Borland Racing’s Scott Pye was the man of the moment at Sandown this weekend winning both today’s races (Sunday) although he needed a tiny mistake from Chaz Mostert in race two this morning to ‘nick’ the win. Mostert was superb all weekend and could easily have picked up a victory but a combination of bad luck and unfortunate mistakes conspired against him. He did however get two very well deserved..
Clios - Total Control Racing had an excellent start to the weekend at Snetterton yesterday (Saturday). Alex MacDowall (On the left beside Sam Tordoff - pic Jakob Ebrey Photography) things going with his third win of then year in the Elf Renault Clio Cup while Carl Breeze made it a hat-trick of wins for the team with two superb victories in the Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup. Ginettas- Total Control Racing’s Carl Breeze made a remarkable comeback from his huge accident in at Oulton park in May to record two dominant wins in the G50 Ginetta Cup at Snetterton on Saturday. He also has pole for today’s race which along with the points accumulated yesterday puts him right back on track in the title chase 01-08-09
Formula Ford - Chaz Mostert may have started from pole for round five of the Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship at Sandown today but it was the weather that decided the final outcome. Both Mostert and his fellow front row starter Luke Ellery spun off in the slippery conditions leaving the way clear for New Zealander Mitch Evans to come through and win. However the results are still provisional after he had a ‘moment’ with third placed Ritchie Stanaway which has come to the attention of the stewards. Evans' Sonic Racing teammate Nick Percat drove a brilliant race to come from eighth to finish second. Formula BMW - BMW is cancelling the Formula BMW Americas series. The Formula BMW Europe and Formula BMW Pacific series, which have attracted stronger fields, will continue.“In the current economic conditions, it has proven difficult to establish the young driver program as successfully on American soil as managed by its sister series in their respective regions,” BMW said in a statement announcing the decision. “Taken in combination with the – by comparison with Europe and Asia – vastly different motorsport infrastructures prevailing in the Americas, this led to the decision to cease promoting the series in future. BMW will still hold a F1 test for 2008 Americas and European series champions Alexander Rossi and Esteban Gutierrez. American Rossi, now racing in International Formula Master, earned his chance to drive F1 machinery after winning the Formula BMW World Final last year, while Mexico’s Gutierrez won the Formula BMW Europe title last season. “Despite having announced our exit from Formula 1 this week, we will honour our commitments to young drivers in Formula BMW,” said BMW Motorsport director Mario Theissen. “Thus we are looking forward to granting another two Formula BMW graduates the opportunity of gathering experience in a Formula 1 car.”
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Paul Gibson(below) took third. Hair led from the start
and he had Langridge for company throughout the 18 laps
eventually crossing the line less than a second ahead. In
the second race in the wet Gibson was triumphant over Alex
Champkin after the pair had raced together for much of the race.
Hair came third just a couple of seconds behind.
Race
2 saw Jones take the honours from Paul Trowbriidge’s Ginetta and
James Haynes similar car. In the final race on Sunday it was
Trowbridge’s turn on the top step of the podiium after he had
seen of Jones who had pressed him hard in the first half of a
very wet race. In the BARC Classic Clubmans Peter Harper won
the first race on Saturday in a Connaught U2 from Mike Hickson’s
Mallock and James Woods in a Batten Mk1. Race 2 on Sunday saw
Steve Chaplin win in a Phantom , 11 secs up on Mike Evans
Mallock with Peter Harper coming third.
took
his first win in the category after early leader Ian Person
retired. In the second race in the appalling conditions on
Sunday Osborne looked set to repeat the feat, however Person
had other ideas, taking the lead off Osborne on lap 11 to win bt
5.6 seconds. However it wasn’t Osborne who came second it was
Richard Wallington who overcame Osborne a couple of laps later.
Osborne then had his hands full with Tom Pope who fastened onto
his tail with a few laps remaining. However he couldn’t get
passed and Osborne got onto the podium for the second time. 
won both and with them the Championship title. It was
effectively his as soon as the first race got underway on
Saturday. Walton’s only rival for the title, Stuart Kestenbaum
was taken out at the first corner landing upside down and
bending his roll hoop. This put him out for the weekend and
handed the title to Walton. Second in Saturday’s race was Andrew
Smith with Nigel Linwood third while on Sunday Paul Walton
followed Joe home with Mike Taylerson third.
Star
Mazda -
Sarah
Moore made a welcome return to the top step of the Ginetta
Junior Championship
IFM
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Clio
Cup
Formula
Renault - 
Star
Mazda
Jenzer
Motorsport's Fabio Leimer
GP2
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Superleague
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Grand-Am
The
WTCC in Oschersleben
Two
Danish drivers will join the championship at Oschersleben
Formula
3 - The 46-year old tradition of Australia’s fastest
racing cars visiting Oran Park
Star
Mazda -
European
Late Model Series
The
hugely successful Porsche Carrera Cup GB Scholarship Programme
DTM
GP2
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LMS
Star
Mazda -
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de V
CAMS
JMW
Motorsport 
Formula
Renault BARC -
Karts
Saloons
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Britcar
nternational
Formula Master
Sportscars
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GP2
LMS
Karim
Ajlani scored his second podium of the 2009 Le Mans Series
campaign after a determined display at the Nurburgring on
Sunday..
Formula
3
F3000
trakka
Racing’s Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S will start today’s Nürburgring 1000
Kilometres from the second row after Danny Watts was
unfortunate to encounter yellow flags at the close of a tightly
fought qualifying session. Four-tenths up on his previous best
for the first sector, he eased off in respect of the flags and
had to be content with a best of 1:42.966 – a second shy of pole
but still good for fourth. In common with more than half the
competitors in LMP1, Strakka Racing’s Team Manager Piers
Phillips elected to brave out the first half of the
twenty-minute qualifying session, hoping to make the best of the
track conditions. “It was entertaining, out there on the pit
wall, playing cat and mouse,” he said. “Maybe we were a bit
brave, leaving our run until the last few minutes, but it could
so easily have worked to our advantage. Unfortunately, an
accident at Turn 5 and the associated yellows conspired against
us, but it was a close thing.” The accident, involving one of
the top-three in LMP2, occurred near the start of the middle
sector, and was too serious to be cleared away before the end of
the session. “Danny was nearly half-a-second up on his previous
best until he encountered the incident and eased back,”
explained Nick Leventis, Danny’s co-driver. “The middle sector
has been Danny’s best throughout practice, so he could have
hoped to make up even more time through there, so the front row
was easily within our reach. However, there’s no point in
feeling discouraged by what’s still been a great performance.”
Watts will line up behind a trio of Aston Martin-powered coupés
for the 12:30pm start. “We’re confident that our race pace is
right on the ballpark,” claims Nick, “and being on the second
row suits us fine. Although we’re down on torque against the
larger-capacity engines, and lose in straight-line speed, we’re
able to gain on them on the entry and through the corners. It’s
a situation that hasn’t compromised us so far this season, and
works well here at the Nürburgring. Reliability is our next
issue, but we’re well-poised now for the race.”
GP2
Other
News
Formula
3
Karts
-
Grand-Am
F300
Volvo
took part in the latest WTCC event at Brands Hatch
ELF
Renault Clio
Formula
3
BMW
GT
GTs
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DTM-
Clubmans
- Jonty Hair took a double win from pole in both the
Clubmans Cup races at Thruxton over the weekend, his first wins
in the Championship. Jonty is the recipient of the 2009
Deserving Driver Award which is backed by Meiji Technno as part
of the Clubmans Student Challenge
British
GTs
F2000
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VW
Cup - 
Formula
Ford
Ginettas
Fulvio
Mussi’s weekend ended with the Yourracingcar.com driver picking
up three podium finishes at Knockhill. 
Robert
Lawson continues to lead the Pro-Am1 standings
Star
Mazda 
Formula
3
The
Formula 3 Australian Drivers’ Championship has announced a new
partnership with AmPro Tools
Karts
ormula
3 - Daniel Ricciardo moved a step closer to the 2009
Cooper Tires British Formula
Ginetta
G50 –
Star
Mazda – 
LM
Star
Mazda
Meanwhile,
up at Silverstone, there is the BRSCC run British F3/GT meeting
F2000
Karts
-
The
Russian Bears team that run the LADA factory squad
BMW
drivers are getting ready for when the WTCC resumes at
Oschersleben in three weeks
Formula
3 -
Formula
Ford - 
F2000
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Aim
Autosport
Formula
Renault – 
Karts
Callum
Bowyer produced a superb performance at Kartmasters
Formula
Renault -
didn’t
have a particularly great weekend at Donington in the 2009
Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championshi . In the opening race
he finished fifth after getting pi[pped for fourth in the
closing stages while his second race was ruined at the start
when he was pushed off. He put in a great recovery drive to
eighth but it could have been so much better. 
Front-running
Ginetta Junior Championship competitors Jake Hill and Jake
Rattenbury
Formula
Nippon
Formula
Renault 3.5
A1GP
Porsche
Carrera Cup GB -
Yann
Clairay
Grand-Am
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Rolex
Grand-Am series star, Memo Gidley, will be debuting his new
Muscle Milk extreme athlete Bell Infusion helmet this weekend at
the Crown Royal 200 at Watkins Glenn International Raceway. The
Muscle Milk Bell Infusion helmet is painted after their Banana
Crème flavor RTD (ready to drink) drink bottle. “I was asked to
choose a flavor to put on my helmet,” said Gidley. “I thought
man, I like every flavor and picking just one is going to be
tough! However, my choice, Banana Crème is very, very good.”
Even though Memo’s primary focus is racing the #77 McDonalds
Daytona Prototype, he can also be seen racing just about
anything and everything on any given weekend. 
Formula
3 -
SEAT
Sport's driver Tiago Monteiro
Formula
3 -
Formula
Ford –
Karts
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SPEED
Other
news - Rolex Grand-Am series star and Muscle Milk
extreme athlete, Memo Gidley, was in action last weekend at
the “Widowmaker” Jet Ski race with a little apprehension about
what to expect. Not only was round #7 of the 2009 DJSA Outlaw
PWC Series Race course run in the Suisun Harbor squeezed in
between 10 ft concrete walls as usual, but this race was also a
“night” race under the lights! “I have raced a lot of cars
between concrete walls…and a lot of cars at night,” said Gidley.
“But to race stand-up Jet Ski’s at night and under the
lights…these water racers are even crazier than I imagined!”
This “unique’ race was held in conjunction with the City of
Suisun’s “Hot August Nights” celebrations on the water. “It was
awesome to be part of Suisun’s Hot August Nights because the fan
turnout and interest was phenomenal,” said Gidley”. “I even had
a number of people come up that had heard my name over the event
PA and recognized me from cars, come up and talk to me
in-disbelief that I was racing a jet ski.” Gidley went on to
finish 1st and 3rd in his races to end up 3rd overall for the
night. “I had a great win in the first race,” said Gidley.
“Then a “Widowmaker” wave out of no-where sent me flying off the
ski while I was in second and trying to hunt down the leader in
the second race!” With his third place finish overall, Gidley
who is currently second in points, closed up to within 40 points
of the series leader. “It was a really fun weekend and my hats
off to the race promoter and all the event workers,” said Gidley.
“Now I look forward to more fun this next weekend racing the #77
McDonalds Daytona Prototype at Watkins Glen.“ Gidley currently
drives for the #77 McDonalds Daytona Prototype in the Rolex
Grand-Am Series for Doran Racing and his next race is the Crown
Royal 200 at Watkins Glen this weekend
Karts
- 
Formula Renault 
Formula
3
With
two pole positions and two wins Jake Cook
Heritage
GT -
Formula
Renault -
Hitech
Junior Team’s Nick Yelloly (right)came away from
Snetterton with a win 
Dean
Smith
In Race 2 the Hitech Junior run FC Porto car scored its first
victory of the season when Tristan Gommendy (F) got his and the
club's second ever SLF victory, coming through from 10th on the
grid. Sporting Clube de Portugal's Pedro Petiz (POR) did well to
fend off a hard-charging, back row starting FC Basel for second
place in the latter stages of the race to earn Portugal a
magnificent 1-2. Flamengo (Enrique Bernoldi) had started from
pole, after spinning out on the opening lap of race one, while
the cars of Rangers and AC Milan collided causing a Safety Car
period. 
Porsche
Carrera Cup GB 
Carrera
Cup- GB - 
Carrera
Cup GB -
LMS
-
LMS
-
trakka
Racing’s Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S will start from fourth on the grid
for this evening’s first-ever Le Mans Series “night race” in the