Articles in Motorsport Category
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 516 Views
Carlos Slim, the Mexican business tycoon, has denied having any talks with the Honda F1 team. The TelMex owner said he didn’t have any interest in buying the Brackley based team.
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 749 Views
Bidders from across the globe have shown interest in buying the Honda F1 team. The owner of Kingfisher and Team Force India F1, Vijay Mallya has been keen to purchase the Honda F1 Team. David Richards and the one of the world’s richest men, Carlos Slim, are also involved in ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008 581 Views
Force India has announced its 2009 driver line-up. Since the Force India-McLaren tie-up, there were rumours of Pedro de la Rosa, the current McLaren test driver, replacing one of the two current drivers.
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Monday, December 15th, 2008 531 Views
The Race of Champions was held on 14th December, 2008. Like every year, the event was a grand success. It was great to watch the best drivers racing head-to-head in the same machinery.
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008 528 Views
The Race of Champions in an international motorsport event which is held at the end of every year, where the best racing drivers from across the globe participate. It is the only event where drivers from Formula One, World Rally Championship (WRC), Le Mans etc. participate and race against each ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008 676 Views
Lamborghini has announced the "Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo", a single-make racing series that will kick off in May 2009 featuring a lightweight version of the Gallardo LP560-4. For the record, Blancpain is the Swiss watchmaker that will sponsor the race series. The Italian firm intends to build a total of ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008 759 Views
The top three finishers in this year’s Italian Formula Three Series got the chance to drive a Formula One car at Ferrari’s Fiorano circuit on Wednesday, as a reward for their success in the championship.
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Monday, November 24th, 2008 4,553 Views
MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi tested a Ferrari Formula One car on the Mugello track yesterday. Rossi's best time was 1 minute 22.5 seconds - compared to Rubens Barrichello's track record of 1:18.704. Massa and Raikkonen have timed 1:21 at Mugello.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008 494 Views
Pedro de la Rosa, who was a test driver for McLaren last year, will be back on the starting grid next season having signed with Force India for 2009.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 726 Views
Force India will use Mercedes-Benz engines and McLaren gearboxes from next season following the confirmation of a new technical partnership. It comes after last week’s news that Ferrari had agreed to end their engine supply deal with the team a year early.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008 1,014 Views
Lotus Engineering is supplying technical expertise to Oaktec in developing racing technology that exploits the performance potential of the petrol-electric Honda hybrid system. Lancashire based Oaktec, a specialist in energy efficient vehicle design, approached Lotus Engineering to investigate areas of battery and system control technology that enable maximum racing performance ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008 1,063 Views
The Automobile Club de l'Quest, which sets the rules for the 24 Hours and the series that take its name around the world, announced new engine rules for the diesels for 2009 at the Silverstone Le Mans Series event.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 943 Views
After a double victory in 2006 and a triple victory in 2007, the Porsche Cayenne S Transsyberia has filled in the first six positions of the 2008 edition of the Rally.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 828 Views
Next year's Paris-Dakar Rally will involve neither of the places that lend it its name. It will not even be held on the same continents – for next year, it will start in Buenos Aires on Jan 2 and end in the same city on the 18th. Officials have said ...
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