2002

Responding not only to the recent influx of drivers and teams from Mexico that are having success in the CART FedEx Championship Series, but also to the businesses and huge crowds that surround the CART events in Mexico, CART announced its Hispanic Marketing Initiatives over the weekend in Clevel

Jarno Trulli spearheads the Renault assault at Magny-Cours, with the French team hoping it can crown its return to 'home' soil with a points finish if not a podium position.

Todd Bodine may have been handed a Winston Cup lifeline by Travis Carter and Discover Card for the rest of 2002, but while Carter attempts to piece his #26 Cup team back together, the youngest Bodine brother has been enjoying a fruitful year in Busch Series competition.

Brian Jorgensen keeps moving up the ranks. The Husky factory rider finished fifth at the recent Swedish Grand Prix, his best result this season.

Team Telef?nica MoviStar Suzuki rider Kenny Roberts Jr. will miss next week's German GP, after problems at the last two races forced the decision to go ahead with surgery on his right arm a week earlier than planned.

Team Suzuki racer Akira Ryo will compete in the German and Czech Republic Grand Prixs as a wild-card entry on a GSV-R.

Rye House's American ace Brent Werner has been praised by team boss John Sampford for his heat 13 performance in the Rockets narrow 47-43 win over Reading at Hoddesdon on Sunday. While rising star Edward Kennett was unlucky not to go unbeaten in the Raiders' massive win over Newport.

With the summer weather finally upon us, a large crowd is expected to witness the grand re-opening of Wimbledon Speedway on Thursday evening when Wolverhampton are the visitors.

2000 SCCA Formula Mazda National Champion Matt Beardsley will make his Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series debut July 20 at Nashville Superspeedway. Beardsley will drive the No. 12 Alpine Bank Old-Republic Land Title Beardsley Motorsports entry.

When Alex Hofmann lines up on the grid at the Sachsenring riding the NSR West Honda Pons machine this Sunday, ask any German if a rider from their country has ever won a 500cc grand prix race.

Castrol Honda SP-2 rider Colin Edwards and Troy Bayliss won a race each in a thrilling ninth round of the World Superbike championship at Laguna Seca, USA on Sunday to send a partisan, record crowd of 98,000 fans home happy.

America's World Cup plans have been hit by the news that Sam Ermolenko has suffered a serious hand injury.

Patrick Carpentier ran among the leaders and took control when misfortune claimed his main competitors today, earning his second career victory in the FedEx Championship Series and first on Potenza tyres since Bridgestone became the Official Tire of CART this year.

Complete results from Sunday's Tropicana 400 at the 1.5-mile Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois, round 18 of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Valentino Rossi capped his 100th grand prix in perfect fashion, by taking victory number 46 in front of a packed Donington Park crowd at the Cinzano British Grand Prix.

Ford Rallye Sport pairing Colin McRae and Nicky Grist won Kenya's Safari Rally, the toughest event in the FIA World Rally Championship calendar, giving the Scottish driver a second consecutive WRC win and his 25th in all, moving him to the top of the all-time winners' list.

After months of speculation it has finally been confirmed that Joe Gibbs Racing will make the switch from Pontiac to Chevrolet for 2003 and beyond depriving one GM marque of its two best cars and casting doubts over its continued participation.

Having only just returned from a spell on the sidelines through injury, another accident was just what Max Sabbatani didn't want at the British Grand Prix - but is just what happened in the early stages of the 125cc race.

Frenchman Arnaud Vincent scored his most impressive 125cc victory to date with a finely judged performance from the outside of the fourth row of the grid at a sun-drenched Donington Park circuit.

Stage times and overall standings after SS12. Top ten stage times for SS12:

Colin McRae became the most successful rally driver in WRC history by winning the Safari Rally for the third time, leading home just eleven finishers from the 48 cars that began the event on Friday.

Proton Team KR's new V5 four-stroke MotoGP bike, aimed to contest the championship next year, is not the first grand prix racer to adopt this unusual engine configuration, but team founder Kenny Roberts was quick to deny that his latest project is in any way a copy of the V5 Honda.

Full results from Sunday's 250cc race at the Cinzano British Grand Prix at Donington Park.

Results - 14 July. Speedway results for Sunday 14 July. Premier League: Edinburgh 51 - 39 Somerset Frede Schott 14 - Kevin Little 14 Rye House 47 - 43 Reading Nigel Sadler 14 - Dave Mullett 14