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Sep 12
Rookie Battle Tightens – Five drivers still alive for 2011 honor
Isabelle Tremblay trails Louis-Philippe Dumoulin by two points in the Rookie of the Year standings and looks to change that on Saturday, Sept. 17 in the Komatsu 300 presented by Wilson Equipment at Riverside International Speedway in Antigonish, N.S.
Sep 12
ACT Awards $80,000+ in Doubleheader Weekend
Williston, Vermont’s Brian Hoar secured his 8th career American-Canadian Tour Championship following a sweep of the doubleheader weekend in Quebec. Hoar earned over $10,000 for his Rick Paya Motorsports team with wins in the “Showdown at Chaudiere” at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jct., QC and the Riverside Can-Am 200 at Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC.
Sep 12
Sep 12
F2000 Championship Series
Leader of the F2000 Championship Series four races before the end of the season, Quebec driver Rémy Audette will compete this weekend at the Lime Rock circuit in Connecticut. At a track that he enjoys, where he still has the F2000 lap record, the goal for the Dimensions Doors / Novatech Van Diemen driver is to increase his lead at the top of the standings.
Sep 12
“The cheers of the crowd showed how much they love Vettel.”
Even the notoriously partisan Italian press was enthralled with German Sebastian Vettel’s performance in a blue Red Bull at Monza. Usually only impressed with feats in a red cockpit, the country’s media hailed 24-year-old Vettel as F1′s new great.
Sep 12
There could be a second Indian on the grid in Delhi next month, Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes admits.
It has already emerged that Narain Karthikeyan will be reunited with his HRT cockpit when India stages its inaugural formula one race. And his countryman Chandhok, who has already replaced Jarno Trulli this year at the Nurburgring, could be a second Indian racing around the new Buddh circuit.
Sep 12
All four of Sebastian Vettel’s championship rivals on Sunday said the fight for the drivers’ title is now over.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa is already mathematically out of the hunt, but according to the calculator his teammate Fernando Alonso, as well as the McLaren drivers and Mark Webber, could all still win.
Sep 12
Fernando Alonso has blamed the British media for his image as a spoilt number 1 driver.
O Estado de S.Paulo correspondent Livio Oricchio asked the Spaniard if it is true that all is well inside his team so long as he does not share equal status with his teammate. “That is a belief that was created in 2007,” said the Ferrari driver, referring to his ill-fated single season alongside Lewis Hamilton at McLaren.
Sep 12
Renault has imposed a deadline for the finalisation of its driver lineup for 2012.
The Genii-owned team has left open a vacancy for Robert Kubica next year alongside the confirmed Russian driver Vitaly Petrov. But media reports in recent days have revealed that Kubica, recovering from his horror February rally crash, actually does not have a contract for 2012.
Sep 12
Bernie Ecclestone’s long-time deputy Stephen Mullens is no longer working in formula one.
The Sunday Times reports that the low-profile executive has resigned from the seven companies that manage the sport’s commercial affairs. A Reuters report linked the story with the Gerhard Gribkowsky corruption affair, surrounding the sale of the sport to its current owners CVC five years ago.
