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McNish rides luck to rain on Peugeot's parade
The heavens bestowed blessings on Allan McNish at last, and the relief was as palpable as the jubilation. Victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours was never more deserved or precious.
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Ryan Sharp: 'In the pit lane you're busy – the last place you're looking is in front'
Monday, 16 June 2008
Formula One is the most high-profile of motor sports, but the FIA GT championship – which stages the third race of the 2008 season next weekend in Adria, Italy – is claimed by fans and participants to be the most exciting. Justify that boast for us, please. GT is about so much more than the sheer speed, noise and technology of Formula One. Our cars are twice the weight, have a much greater braking distance. So there is much more overtaking. We've got all the big names of motor sport's heyday: Aston Martin, Maserati, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ferrari, Corvette. We're seen as endurance but most races are two hours, which isn't long at all. And with two drivers used per car per race – separately, but each for a minimum of 35 minutes – it's as much about a team, strategy and car than about one man.
Motorcycling: Injured Haga closes on Bayliss with double victory
Monday, 16 June 2008
Noriyuki Haga has strengthened his position as a contender for the World Superbike championship with his first double win at the Nürburgring.
Funny and fast, Kubica remains on Pole position
Sunday, 15 June 2008
"I have to thank Lewis that he chose Kimi and not me..."
McNish gears up to give Peugeot and France the fight of their life
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Allan McNish admits that his Audi team will need something other than raw speed to maintain their phenomenal record of success in the Le Mans 24 Hours race this weekend.
Motorcycling: Haslam sets up tilt at double victory with fastest practice time
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Leon Haslam got his Bennetts British Superbike Championship season back on track by topping the free practice times at Snetterton yesterday.
Rallying: Ford tactics mean Loeb will sweep the road
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Ford handed Citroën's Sébastien Loeb the lead at the end of the first leg of the Rally of Turkey yesterday in a ploy to keep the world champion in the unwanted role of "roadsweeper".
Touring Cars: Tarquini takes small lead to Brno
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Gabriele Tarquini defends a seven-point lead in the World Touring Car Championship heading into rounds nine and 10 at Brno, Czech Republic this weekend. The Italian heads Seat team-mates Yvan Muller and Rickard Rydell after the opening four weekends of this year's series. Britain's Andy Priaulx is fourth after winning at Pau in France last time out.
Hamilton raring to go after red light crash
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Despite the embarrassing red light gaffe in Canada last weekend that cost him a likely victory, his world championship lead and 10 grid places in the forthcoming French Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton has vowed that the incident will not destabilise his title campaign and that nothing can stop him now.
Stewart calls for 'selfish' Mosley to go for good of motor sport
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Sir Jackie Stewart, an implacable enemy of the FIA president, Max Mosley, who last year branded him a "certifiable halfwit" after the triple world champion had criticised his handling of the so-called Stepneygate spy scandal, launched a scathing attack on the Englishman's continued tenure following the recent vote of confidence by an extraordinary general assembly of Formula One's governing body in Paris.
Kubica celebrates first win as Hamilton rues pit-stop shunt
Monday, 9 June 2008
Some days you eat the bear, other days the bear eats you. In Montreal, BMW Sauber tucked into a post-race ursine feast as Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld scored a fabulous one-two on a day when favourite and early leader Lewis Hamilton inadvertently took out Kimi Raikkonen in a costly pit lane collision.
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