Delhi, October 30th, 2011 – By winning his 11th grand prix this year, Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel is still on course to equal the record for the most number of wins in one season: 13, held by Michael Schumacher from 2004. The brand-new Buddh circuit on the outskirts of Delhi evolved considerably over the [...]
India Buddh Int’l Circuit, New Delhi – Bahrain International Circuit, ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’, lauded the success of Formula One’s back-to-back World Champions Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing by presenting them with special medals on the sidelines of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix. Making the presentation were Zayed Rashed Alzayani, [...]
Yas Island, 30 October 2011:Al Ain Raceway today formally announced that it will host this year’s Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals – the world’s most prestigious single karting event, to be held between 19 – 26 November 2011. The annual event, now in its 12th year will be the largest karting event to date with [...]
Ahmad Al Harthy and the Oman Air Racing Team are delighted to today confirm participation in the upcoming Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East – which includes a prestigious FIA Formula One World Championship support slot at Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi on 12th/13th November. The 30-year-old, from Muscat in Oman, has become one of [...]
Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena drove a perfect race on the Catalonian gravel and killed two birds with one stone thanks to the sixty-seventh victory of their career. First of all, they gave the Citroën Total World Rally Team their seventh world title with one round still to go before the end of the season, [...]
Oct 23rd 2011 – The Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix was red flagged and subsequently cancelled on Sunday after Marco Simoncelli suffered a serious accident, crashing on the second lap of the MotoGP race at the Sepang International Circuit. Despite immediate medical attention and the best efforts of the entire medical team at the [...]
Dubai Autodrome hosts the second UAE National Race Day Series of the 2011/2012 season this Friday, 21 October 2011, on the National Circuit configuration featuring five races on the day: two sprint races for Total UAE Touring cars, two sprint races for MotorCity UAE Sportbikes and a single 60 minutes mini-enduro style race for the [...]
The Boys are Back on the Podium As the late Phil Lynott may have said “The Boys are Back on the Podium”, well if he raced cars as well as being a singer that is. More of that later, but 1st the trials and tribulations of Race Day 2. Well the team have had a [...]
Dani Pedrosa topped a Repsol Honda shoot out and continued his domination of the MotoGP field during a searing qualifying session for the Shell Advance Malaysian Grand Prix, with Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso taking second and third. Following a crash on just his fifth lap, Dani Pedrosa, who missed the Malaysian GP last year [...]
The two Total UAE Touring Car Championship races at Dubai Autodrome on UAE National Race Day 2 at Dubai Autodrome were nail biting affairs with racing as a close as it gets, but they will be remembered for all the wrong reasons as a number of drivers were penalized for infringements during the course of [...]