Budapest, July 31st 2011 – McLaren’s Jenson Button has taken his second victory in mixed conditions at the Hungaroring. Button’s victory was the 11th of his career, taken at his 200th grand prix. The Hungaroring was also the scene of Button’s very first grand prix win in 2006, which was also held in wet conditions. [...]

Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium- 31 July 2011- For thirteen hours the nr33 Audi Sport Team WRT (Belgian Audi Club) Audi R8 LMS of Timo Scheider, Greg Franchi and Matthias Ekstrom led the largest field of cars to take part in the Total 24 Hours of Spa for many years and after completing 545 laps Scheider took the chequered flag [...]

Saturday, July 30 – Stephane Ratel, the CEO of the Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), officially announced today that seven teams had confirmed their solid commitment to the 2012 GT World project. The teams confirmed are Young Driver AMR (Aston Martin), Team WRT (Audi), Marc VDS (BMW), Vita4One Racing (Ferrari), Belgian Racing (Ford), All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport [...]

John Hopkins (Samsung Crescent Racing Suzuki) rocked the WSBK regulars with the Tissot-Superpole win at Silverstone. The American rider, a regular in BSB this season, took a new track best of 2’04.041 in the last of three superpole contests. He held off the challenge of Irish rider Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike), Leon Camier (Aprilia [...]

After their first exploit in 2008, Sébastien Loeb,  Daniel Elena and Citroën have won Rally Finland for the second time. This new historic success is rounded off by Sébastien Ogier’s and Julien Ingrassia’s third place. With its two DS3 WRCs on the podium, the Citroën Total World Rally Team has consolidated its first place in the [...]

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner took victory over Jorge Lorenzo at the Red Bull US Grand Prix race at the spectacular Laguna Seca circuit, his fifth win of 2011 to further strengthen his lead in the World Championship rankings. In front of a crowd of over 52,000 passionate fans, the MotoGP field lined up under [...]

Nurburgring, July 24th 2011 – McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton claimed his second victory of the 2011 season and the 16th of his career at the German Grand Prix, taking his first-ever points finish at the legendary Nurburgring after a thrilling 60-lap race that featured several intense battles for the lead. Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso was [...]

Yamaha Factory rider Jorge Lorenzo set out into the afternoon qualifying session apparently unfazed following an enormous highside at the end of the morning practice at the Red Bull US Grand Prix on Saturday. The reigning World Champion forgot to hit a switch that overrides the launch control system and engages the traction control during [...]

Ontario, Canada,  July 23, 2011 – Less than four tenths of second separated the top three qualifiers for Sunday’s Grand Prix of Mosport, Canada’s largest sportscar race. Chris Dyson, the Lime Rock pole sitter, qualified the Dunlop shod #16 G-OIL Modspace/Construct Corps Lola Mazda three tenths of a second behind the Muscle Milk Aston Martin. [...]

Nurburgring, July 23rd 2011 – Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber has claimed his second consecutive pole position, following his pole in Britain two weeks ago, setting a time of 1m30.079s at the Nurburgring. This was comfortably faster than his pole time of 1m32.230s in 2009 (the last time that the German Grand Prix was held at [...]