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This weekend the F1 circus goes to the A1 Ring in Austria and while the usual drivers will be competing for the ultimate honours surely it cannot be much longer until will see Mika Hakkinen on the top step of the podium.

F1 heads to Spain this weekend for the fifth round of the Championship. The big question is going to concern traction control. What effect will this have? If any, Who is going to be best prepared to exploit it?

The 2001 British Touring Car Championship gets off to a flying start on the April 15-16, when the first rounds are held on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.

John Reynolds reckons he can maintain his pace at the head of the pack as the British Superbike Championship roars into Silverstone on Easter Monday, 16 April, for a double race second round power-thriller.

F1 heads to Imola this weekend for the San Marino Grand Prix and with it the European season kicks off. It now seems as if we have three potential teams that could win races and six different drivers - something that hasn't been likely in F1 for some time.

Despite the loss of arguably its two biggest names and the factory Honda team, the 2001 British Superbike Championship is still shaping up to be an enthralling battle from start to finish and it gets underway this weekend at Donington Park with arch-rivals John Reynolds and James Haydon favourite

Formula One is all about winners and losers. After the opening two races it seems pretty clear that Ferrari - for the early part of the season at least - are going to be doing most of the winning.

With the 2001 Speedway season beginning shortly, here's the Crash.Net team-by-team guide of who's hot and who's not in both the Elite and Premier League's. ELITE LEAGUE. Belle Vue Aces:

After two highly specialised events this year, Rally Portugal is widely regarded as the first representative round of the World Championship.

This year's enthralling Fed-Ex Championship Series reaches its climax this weekend on the two-mile Fontana Superspeedway where any one of five drivers can still win the title.

The 12th round out of 14 in the 2000 FIA Rally Championship takes place at San Remo, Italy, with just five points separating the top four drivers at the top of the championship standings.

Australia's glamorous Gold Coast is the setting for the penultimate round of this year's CART Fed-Ex Championship Series and although Gil De Ferran has a 19-point lead there are still eight other drivers who can win the title.

Anthony Reid and Alain Menu will go head to head this weekend at Silverstone for the honour of being crowned 2000 British Touring Car Champion.

It will be the first restrictor plate race on a 1-mile oval this weekend after lengthy discussions over safety issues at the New Hampshire Circuit.

The Iberian peninsular plays host to its third, and Portugal's first, MotoGP this weekend, with all riders heading into something of an unknown.

Valentino Rossi's British Grand Prix win may not have blown the championship wide open, but certainly adds another iron to the fire as the MotoGP series heads to Germany.

The British Touring Car regulars race on into the night this Saturday for the BTCC's annual visit to Snetterton.

In 1997 Mark Blundell crossed the finishing line with 0.027 seconds to spare over the chasing Gil De Ferran and less than half a second over Raul Boesel, who took the lead just metres after the chequered flag fell, in what still is the closest finish in Champ Car history.

The toughest meet the roughest this weekend, as the WRC stars line-up for a crack at the Greek marathon that is the Acropolis.

The Formula One circus flies into Sao Paulo this week with more than one issue to be settled.

Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen are the only protagonists the experts would have us believe have a chance of success in 2000.