Asian Motor Sports

Last season, events in Dubai book-ended the inaugural GP2 Asia Series, and as a result the circuit is a familiar hunting ground for many competitors, including Barwa Campos International Team’s Vitaly Petrov.

Mohammed Bin Sulayem; President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) today hosted a press conference for the My Qi-Meritus.Mahara team which has arrived in Dubai to participate in the Grand Racing Weekend at the Dubai Autodrome next weekend, 5-6 December 2008.

Australian racer Scott Pye took a flag-to-flag victory in the Wigram Cup today at Ruapuna near Christchurch.

Scott Pye and Nathan Antunes have set up a trans-Tasman tussle in the opening round of the Toyota Racing Series this weekend at Ruapuna. The pair have dominated in an Australian clean-sweep across all testing and qualifying sessions.

Fujitsu Racing’s Damian Assaillit is confident of a top-five finish at the final round of the Fujitsu V8 Series at Sydney’s Oran Park on 4-7 December.

Australian motor racing legend Mark Skaife is living in a rented three bedroom flat less than 1km away from his former Toorak mansion with his wife and two daughters as he faces financial ruin.
In one of the saddest stories in Australian sport.

Ambrose, a former two-time Australian V8 Supercar champion, is back in Australia after his third season of racing in NASCAR. Ambrose visited Round 13 of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series at his home circuit on the weekend to see old friends and speak with Australian media.

Championship leader Jamie Whincup kept his nose clean to pull off the win for race two at Symmons Plains this weekend.

On Monday Jenson Button wowed thousands of fans at the “Enjoy Honda – Honda Racing Thanks Day” event at Honda’s Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan.

The latest revision to the Formula One calendar for 2009 sees the Chinese Grand Prix moved to the third race of the season.

David Coulthard says he has no complaints despite being punted out of his final Formula One race at the first corner of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver, who has now retired after recording 246 starts in his career, was tapped into a spin by Williams driver Nico Rosberg and then collected by the [...]

“Before coming here I knew this was one of those difficult, technical tracks where I could be strong and my car could be very competitive. So I have been preparing and waiting for this grand prix and now here I am - Jarno Trulli.

Eurasia Team Goddard will follow in the footsteps of several drivers when it makes the move from Asian F3 to the Australian series.

In its sixth season the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, celebrated new milestones; it was there as motorsport history was made, spread its wings yet further, and fielded arguably the most exciting field in its history. From Shanghai to Indonesia to Bahrain, the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia soared to new heights and crowned its first two-time champion in Team Jebsen driver Darryl O’Young.

Mateusz Adamski will join Asia Racing Team (ART) Motorsports for the 5th round of 2008 Formula Asia 2.0 at Shanghai International Circuit. The 17 years old racer from Poland completed two single seaters seasons in Europe but he is a newcomer in Asia.

Mihai Marinescu took the first ever Formula BMW Pacific pole position at the Macau Grand Prix today. Michael Christensen (DEN/18/Motaworld) missed out on the top spot by less than four tenths of a second at the end of an eventful session.

TW Steel, the ‘Official Watch and Timing Partner’ of A1GP World Cup of Motorsport celebrated the series’ fourth visit to the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia today by crowning Miss Parveen Singh as ‘Miss TW Steel Malaysia’.

Forget the stereotypes - a Miss Indy finalist is blowing the blonde-haired, blue-eyed myth out of the water.
Kacey Elordi has the standard Miss Indy requirements a beautiful face, slender body and a cheeky smile but her unusual heritage has made her a stand-out entrant in the competition.
The 24-year-old Surfers Paradise nightclub manager owes her [...]

This Grid Girl from A1’s first round at Zandvoort, the Netherlands isn’t one of them!

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Last season, events in Dubai book-ended the inaugural GP2 Asia Series, and as a result the circuit is a familiar hunting ground for many competitors, including Barwa Campos International Team’s Vitaly Petrov.

Mohammed Bin Sulayem; President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) today hosted a press conference for the My Qi-Meritus.Mahara team which has arrived in Dubai to participate in the Grand Racing Weekend at the Dubai Autodrome next weekend, 5-6 December 2008.

It seems like Davide Valsecchi is making Sunday wins his specialty. After he dominated the last race of the GP2 Series in Monza last month, he drove from pole to victory in this morning’s sprint race in the opening event of the GP2 Asia Series.

Dams’ Kobayashi may have been the quickest man on track today at the opening race of the GP2 Asia Series in China, but it was Roldan Rodriguez who claimed victory at the end of the 34 laps after the Japanese went too wide in the last stages of the event.