Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets in Barcelona this morning, with Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen third fastest and Robert Kubica fourth for BMW Sauber.
BMW Sauber team boss Mario Theissen has proposed a four-day GP weekend format, to allow teams to run third cars for young drivers.
“Laps at a race weekend are no more expensive […]

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Sebastien Bourdais took a controversial win in yesterday’s Champ Car race in Houston after cutting a chicane to overtake polesitter Will Power. Graham Rahal finished second, ahead of F1 refugee Robert Doornbos.
Mattias Ekstrom won the 2007 DTM season opener at Hockenheim yesterday, but the race was shortened after a massive accident involving Tom Kristensen, […]

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Newman Haas driver Sebastien Bourdais claimed pole position for this weekend’s Champ Car race in Houston, only to lose his fastest lap as punishment for blocking Team Australia’s Will Power, demoting him to second on the grid behind Power. Justin Wilson starts third for RSports, with PKV’s rookie Neel Jani fourth ahead of Oriol Servia […]

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Super Nova’s Luca Filippi took a surprise pole position for the first race of the 2007 GP2 series in Bahrain, just under a tenth of a second quicker than Piquet Sports’ Xandi Negrao. Andreas Zuber was third quickest for iSport, with Lucas di Grassi fourth for reigning champions ART. Bruno Senna was an impressive fifth […]

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Former GP2 and A1GP driver Alexandre Prémat will drive for Audi in DTM in 2007. The French driver, who recently tested for the Conquest Champ Car team following a largely unsuccessful season in GP2 in 2006, joins Lucas Luhr, Mike Rockenfeller, Tom Kristensen, Timo Scheider, Vanina Ickx and Mattias Ekstrom as Audi drivers.
Racing Engineering have […]

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Mercedes have confirmed former F1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen as a DTM driver for a third season.
“It’s nice to continue being part of the Mercedes-Benz motorsport family,” Hakkinen said. “It is important to continue my long-standing, successful partnership with them.
“My results in 2006 don’t reflect our true potential and my target is to rectify that. […]

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