Sep 24th Brussels – A meeting held in Brussels yesterday, between current, returning and prospective GT1 team owners, as well as the FIA and Championship organiser SRO, saw the 2012 FIA GT World project take a significant step towards the ultimate goal of bringing together ten teams, representing ten different brands, with two cars each. [...]

Wed 21st Sept, Beirut – Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Vice-President of the FIA and President of the Automobile & Touring Club of the UAE, today chaired the first ever meeting comprising both Middle Eastern and North African Motorsport National Sporting Authorities (ASNs). The meeting in Beirut marked the first steps in the creation of a new [...]

Ingolstadt, September 8, 2011 – Alongside the successful R8 LMS, Audi Sport customer racing is now offering another attractive customer sport race car: the racing version of the Audi TT RS can be ordered effective immediately. The front-wheel drive TT RS powered by an engine with an output of about 279 kW (380 HP) has [...]

Aug 25th 2011 – Danica Patrick has moved over full time to Nascar. After six years racing in IndyCar, and five of those with Honda/Dallara for Andretti Autosport, the American beauty will move over to Nascar full time. Having participated in Nascar part time in 2010, she had her best career finish of 4th in series on March [...]

Aug 25th 2011 – Following today’s (Thursday 25 August) Annual General Meeting (AGM), the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) is delighted to announce that Derek Warwick has been elected as BRDC President. Warwick, whose distinguished motor racing career includes 11 seasons and 147 starts in Formula One, wins in the prestigious Le Mans 24 hours [...]

Aug 25th 2011 – JRM has confirmed that it will enter its Nissan NISMO GT-R GT3 in this weekend’s fourth round of the Blancpain Endurance Series at Magny-Cours. The event marks the first ever competitive outing for the new car, which is being jointly developed between NISMO (Nissan Motorsports International Co. Ltd.) and JRM (JR Motorsports). [...]

Our media partners over at CAR Middle East have made the unexpected announcement that they will close the publication at the end of Aug. The September 2011 issue of CAR Middle East will be the last edition of the magazine. Many loyal readers have been left shocked by the recent news. Here at CPD we have [...]

Machdar Motorsports, India’s new premier motorsports management company announced their maiden motor sporting venture, the i1 Super Series. The i1 Super Series, is based on the popular city vs city based cricket IPL format with 9 teams representing different key cities across India. Each team will race with two cars forming an 18-car grid. The teams must include [...]

Aug 3rd 2011 – The first Gulf 12 Hours takes place this winter at Yas Marina Circuit inAbu Dhabi, arguably the most glamorous race track in the world. The event will end at night under the sparkling lights and magical atmosphere that made the final Grand Prix of the 2009 and 2010 Formula 1 seasons [...]

Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. (YME) has decided to withdraw their official Yamaha World Superbike Team at the end of the current season from the FIM Superbike World Championship. This announcement follows a full strategic review of the Marketing Operations within Europe including all Motorsport activities and takes into account the continuing severe and rapidly changing [...]