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On 29/01, 17:07
The Honda Racing team announced, during the launch of its RA108, that Mike Conway and Luca Filippi will be their young drivers in the test driver lineup for the 2008 season.
On 29/01, 16:52
The official presentation of the Honda 2008 took place today at the team’s headquarters in Brackley. The launch follows the initial tests of the brand-new RA108 in Valencia carried out last week by drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button. The testing programs will continue later this week. During this launch day, it was the reserve […]
On 28/01, 21:24
Enrique Bernoldi announced today that he has signed a contract with the Champcar Rocketsports Racing team for 2008. The 29-year-old driver, who raced in 2007 for Brazilian Stock Car, has decided to come to the North American discipline that allowed Bourdais to sign 4 championship titles, replacing Alex Tagliani. « I am already very excited […]
On 28/01, 20:23
Alain Menu is optimistic about his chances of winning the driver’s title this 2008 season. The Chevrolet driver was in private testing last week at Estoril with the new version of the Chevrolet Lacetti, which he will officially drive on March 2nd, at Curitiba for the first round of the 2008 WTCC championship; In Brazil. […]
On 28/01, 20:08
BMW is reportedly considering entering the 2008 World Touring Championship with only TDi Diesel engines, just as Seat did in 2007. The German team, which has 5 gasoline-powered BMW 320si cars, plans to equip its drivers exclusively with Diesel TDi from the second race of the season. According to recent tests conducted by the team, […]
On 28/01, 19:18
The FIA executives and officials of the WTCC – World Touring Car Championship – have authorized thirty-minute private testing sessions on six occasions during the FIA WTCC season. These sessions have been authorized to ensure that competitors have additional time to test and check their machines after they have been transported to championship rounds not […]
On 28/01, 19:14
Rydell, who drives for Seat Sport, has renewed his contract for 2008 and 2009 with the Spanish team and will drive a Leon TDi this season. In Kyalami, South Africa, Rickard Rydell got back behind the wheel of a Seat Sport touring car, just as the Swede had done in Macau last September. However, last […]
On 28/01, 18:25
Ron Dennis has ruled out the possibility of replacing Max Mosley as president of the FIA in the future. Mosley, who has been in charge of the FIA since October 1993, might retire at the end of his four-year term which will end in 2009. A position which the McLaren-Mercedes team boss wouldn’t see himself […]
On 28/01, 18:15
The head of the GP2 team bearing his name, Adrian Campos, has ruled out any rapprochement with Formula 1 in the near future, despite a recent financial boost… Indeed, the Campos team was renamed Barwa International following significant investments from a Qatari company. The Spanish team has been linked to the world of F1 after […]
On 28/01, 17:59
Sebastian Vettel believes that his Toro Rosso team will have an advantage at the start of the season because in Melbourne it will be 2007 cars that will start. The Italian Scuderia does not intend to present its new car before the fourth or fifth round of the 2008 championship. They believe that seeing Vettel […]
On 27/01, 20:59
The N.Technology team, after using Alfa Romeo cars for two years in the WTCC championship, will equip themselves with new steeds in 2008: Honda. After announcing a few months ago that it had lost its partnership with the Italian brand Alfa Romeo, the N.Technology team was unsure about returning to the WTCC this season. With […]
On 27/01, 20:32
Sébastien Loeb and his Monegasque co-driver, Daniel Elena, win the Monte Carlo Rally for the fifth time in their career, driving their C4 WRC. By achieving this unique feat, the Citroën team definitively enters the legend of the oldest and most prestigious rally in the world. Re-entering in SupeRally this morning, Dani Sordo and Marc […]
On 27/01, 20:23
The new test driver for the Subaru WRT team in the World Rally Championship, Marko Martin, has been very satisfied so far with the new car. Martin completed nearly 1000 km of gravel testing in Sardinia with the future 2008 Subaru Impreza, in addition to tests already conducted in Norway. « The tests are very […]
On 27/01, 14:44
Sébastien Loeb continued to assert his supremacy in the 76th Monte Carlo Rally, thus winning the most popular WRC rally for the 5th time: A new record. The Frenchman, Citroën driver and already a four-time world champion, opted for a very cautious day. He didn’t try to attack but still managed to extend his lead […]
On 27/01, 14:22
Renault boss Flavio Briatore claims that the McLaren-Mercedes experience has strengthened Fernando Alonso. After the 2007 season spent with the Woking team, the Spaniard is said to have an even greater hunger for success now than when he clinched his two driver titles with the French team in 2005 and 2006. « Fernando has returned […]
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