2002

Top British F3 team Menu Motorsport has confirmed its plans for 2002 as it hope to build on its debut-year performance. The team, run by former British Touring Car champion Alain Menu and experienced engineer Mike Baker has signed a new driver and new engines for 2002.

The lowdown on Ferrari's latest Formula One car - the F2002 - launched at Maranello, Italy on Wednesday 6 February 2002: Model: F2002 Engine: 3000 Ferrari (Type 051), V10 Total Displacement: 2.997 cm3 Timing Gear: 40 valves

Nearly a year ago, Infiniti introduced the all-new Infiniti Indy 35A engine. Eddie Cheever Jr. won with the engine at Kansas Speedway, and Robbie Buhl led the final four races of the season with the powerplant.

Red Bull Cheever Racing has announced that the Lincoln Financial Group will sponsor team boss and 1998 Indy 500 champion Eddie Cheever Jr's #51 car this coming season.

Lee Richardson has agreed terms with Coventry after returning from a winter trip to New Zealand. Richardson, a former World Under 21 Champion, has been with Coventry since a tribunal fixed ?22,500 transfer from Poole in 2000.

It may have lot FedEx to Williams, but Ferrari still manages to attract new backers into Formula One with the announcement that it will carry the logos of IT company AMD this season.

Officials of Chicago Motor Speedway have suspended the track's 2002 racing schedule, claiming that the planned events there were not financially viable due to business and economic conditions in the motorsports industry.

Tony Kanaan and the Mo Nunn Racing team head west this week for the annual CART Sneak Preview media days after a productive two-day test session at Homestead Miami Speedway last Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 30-31).

With the green flag for the CART Toyota Atlantic Championship's debut in Mexico quickly approaching, the driver line-up that will make up the 2002 Championship is starting to finalise, and it appears to be a wide open race for the season ending trophy.

Bobby Hamilton Jr. will make his debut in the No. 25 Team Marines Racing Ford Taurus at Daytona International Speedway in the NASCAR Busch Series on February 16, 2002 with one thing on his mind - taking his new team and new sponsor to victory lane.

The now traditional season opening international motocross will take place on 17 February at Hawkstone Park in the British midlands, when the cream of the dirt-track world turn out to prepare for the world championship.

Toyota Motorsport has defined the individual programmes for all three of its young drivers for the upcoming season.

Pedro Diniz has overturned a legal charge brought against him by Arrows boss tom Walkinshaw, which claimed breach of contract when the Brazilian quit the team in late 1998.

Basildon, Essex based speedway rider Colin White will be making sure his colleagues at Arena Essex are tailor made for success this season because the Kent Sweepers sponsored Hammers star is currently making the team's riding suits.

Premier League Isle of Wight have swooped to appoint former Swindon boss Jed Stone as their new team manager. Stone takes over the reins from George Major and co-promoter Dave Pavitt is delighted to have secured his services.

Following a request by Dorna Off-Road to the FIM/CMS, the Motocross Grand Prix Permanent Bureau decided to make changes to the 2002 Motocross Rules, amongst which the main ones are the following:

Jaguar Racing and Steve Nichols have gone their separate ways after the disappointing debut of the new Cosworth-powered R3 in testing this season.

After weeks of speculation, reigning UK Formula Ford champion Robert Dahlgren has signed with for Duma Racing for this year's British Formula Three Championship.

Defending AMA Supercross champion Ricky Carmichael made it look easy in round five of the 2002 campaign, stroking to victory on the series third visit to Anaheim in California.

Carlos Sainz may have taken another podium finish in Sweden, but the real hero of the event for Ford was privateer Janne Tuohino, who helped Colin McRae score points after a nightmare rally.

The official entry list for the 2002 World Superbike season is as follows:

Somerset have been forced to pull the plug on entering a team in the Conference League in 2002. The new Premier League outfit had planned to continue running a Conference League side to develop their own young riders.

Alister McRae and David Senior claimed their first points of the year for themselves and Mitsubishi by finishing the Swedish Rally, the second round of the FIA World Rally Championship, in fifth position.

Skoda Motorsport has had a bitterly disappointing end to the Swedish Rally with its most experienced driver Kenneth Eriksson, being forced to retire just 7km from the end of the final stage when his Octavia WRC overheated.