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Archive for April, 2008
FIM World Superbike Championship
Weekend “Good and bad!”
Surely we will remember this first race at Monza as one of the most
challenging of our lives.
Since last Tuesday Garcia’s car suffered huge electronic problems that
prevented us to develop our private testing at Le Castellet, and in Monza
on Thursday and Friday . Just before qualify, we have finally managed to
identify that a [...]
Fiat Yamaha pair going for gold as MotoGP returns to China
Published April 29th, 2008 in MotoGP. 0 CommentsShanghai track
With just three months remaining before the city of Beijing plays host to the XXIX edition of the Olympic Games, China opens its doors to an equally talented array of athletes and a similarly historic championship this weekend as the MotoGP World Championship lands in Shanghai for the fourth round of an already [...]
MILLER MOTORSPORTS PARK
After wrapping up the trio of heat races with the final motos Sunday
morning, the first main events of the Stars of Karting Western Division
filled what was a great afternoon of competition. The primary
championship contenders stepped to the forefront at Miller Motorsport
Park today, as in four of the five classes, the winners swept both [...]
Clean sweep for Van der Garde
With one pole position and two victories, Giedo Van der Garde (P1
Motorsport) totally shut out the competition here at Monza. After leading
race two from start to finish, he took the victory ahead of the Spaniard
Alvaro Barba (Prema Powerteam). Charles Pic (Tech1 Racing) also made an
impression by coming home third in [...]
Bonanomi suffers unlucky break at Monza
The 2008 World Series Renault didn’t start in the best possible way for Marco Bonanomi.
The season got underway at Monza on the last 26th and 27th of April, with the usual dou-
ble race format. Bonanomi was entered by British team Comtec, owned by Jonathan
Lewis and featuring Martin Donnelly in its [...]
Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ferry Earns Top Five in Seattle
Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Timmy Ferry rode to a top-five finish on a rocky
track at Qwest Field in Seattle, Wash. His teammate Travis Preston finished
18th. In the season finale for the Western Region AMA Supercross Lites
class, rookie Austin Stroupe finished fourth for the Monster Energy/Pro
Circuit/Kawasaki team. His teammate [...]
Source: WRC: Standings after Rally Jordan
Source: AMA-SBK: Standings afrer Fontana
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Source: AMA-SBK: Supersport standings after Fontana
Furious Pro Stock battle stokes Coughlin’s competitive fire
ST. LOUIS (April 28) — Reigning Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr.
looks at the first quarter of the 2008 POWERade Drag Racing Series and
just shakes his head. A winner of 52 national events and four world
titles, Coughlin has seen his share of nip-and-tuck drag racing
competition, but even a [...]
GRANDAM: VIR: Riley-Matthews Motorsports race report
Published April 29th, 2008 in GRANDAM. 0 CommentsRiley-Matthews takes podium finish at VIR
Matthews scores Trueman honors as quick pit work helps move the team back
onto the podium
Alton, VA (28 April 2008)– Riley-Matthews Motorsports continued to
show fine form in Rolex Sports Car Series competition this weekend,
taking third place in Sunday’s Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia
International Raceway. The result marks the second-straight [...]
AIM Autosport #61 is P6 at VIR
Friselle and Wilkins drive to season’s second best result and another top
ten.
Alton, VA - April 27, 2008: The day started with wet conditions but both
Mark and Brian felt the car was strong on the rains and they would end
the session P2. There was a chance of rain for race [...]
Law and Donohue Caught Out by Mechanical at VIR
Brumos Porsche Riley Daytona Prototype drivers Darren Law of Pheonix,
Arizona and David Donohue of Malvern, Pennsylvania, again showed
competitive form in this past weekend’s Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car
Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 at VIRginia International
Raceway by qualifying third in the 19 car DP class field. [...]
Race 2
20 Mike Conway, 8th
21 Ho Pin Tung, 14th
After the bad break experienced yesterday, Trident Racing finally brought
the two team`s car to the finish on the second race of the weekend at
Barcelona. Mike Conway ended up in 8th after completing several passes
with no mistakes, while Ho Pin Tung paid [...]
Sensor Lets Sampey Down in the Semis
On a week bracketed by Danica Patrick’s first IndyCar win in Japan and
Ashley Force’s first Funny Car win in Atlanta, Angelle Sampey–the
winningest woman in professional motorsports–was on her game and on
a winning horse. But an up and down weekend for Angelle and the Rush
Racing team ended when a $$;10 [...]
The opening round of the GP2 European season at the Circuit de Catalunya
in Spain on the weekend did not go as well as the ART Grand Prix team
had hoped with gremlins affecting their performance from the start.
In qualifying Romain Grosjean suffered engine failure while teammate
Luca Filippi suffered gearbox woes as well as a water pump [...]
Zuber starts off the 2008 season in earnest with a podium at Barcelona
The first weekend of the new GP2 Series season
went well for Andreas Zuber, the Austrian driver who races under a UAE
license for Piquet Sports for a third year in GP2 main series.
“Everything is new for me this season: the team, my teammate Pastor
Maldonado [...]
Looking back it will probably be the race of the year. It had absolutely everything, including some not so nice aspects regarding three big accidents during the weekend, two of those in fact sending drivers to the hospital. The race itself was a cracker in all classes, two of the class results (including overall) being [...]
