2002

Lynx Racing has won three times, twice from the pole with a Canadian driver, in the Toyota Atlantic race at the Toronto Molson Indy - and is going for a hat trick this weekend with Vancouver's Michael Valiante.

Lucky Strike BAR Honda are delighted to announce their new partnership with SmugOne.com, effective from this weekend's British Grand Prix.

"Joe Gibbs likes to play golf in his spare time and I like to go drive race cars, especially cars that I've never driven before. I went to Grand Haven, Wisconsin, a couple of weeks ago with Johnny Benson and I ran a super late model.

With only a 13-point gap between championship leader Mickael Maschio and fifth placed Steve Ramon, the World 125cc Motocross class is certainly the most open in the grand prix arena.

You've heard the term "Double Duty" applied to Tony Stewart before, but in those cases in pertained to Stewart competing in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.

Anyone judging the #10 MBV Motorsports Valvoline Pontiac team's performance this season shouldn't look for driver Johnny Benson's name in the points race. Instead it's the name of Nelson Bowers that matters.

"Chicago was the first race we could have gone to. We chose not to because I love road racing, you know, my goal is Formula 1, so it seemed kind of silly to go out and run an oval first that we have no experience on in the car.

Lucky Strike BAR Honda's Jacques Villeneuve has won twice at Silverstone - once in 1996 and again in 1997, his World Championship year.

As the CART FedEx Series tries to weather the current storm and begin its proper rebuilding process in 2003 the series announced yet another change behind the scenes promoted Shelley Shafer to Senior Manager of Promotions.

Stefan Hodgetts made a highly promising debut for Motaworld Racing in Sunday's latest rounds of the British Formula Three Championship.

Kyle Krisiloff, son of former Champcar driver Steve Krisiloff, has announced that he will compete in the CART Toyota Atlantic Championship Series, beginning at the Molson Indy Toronto this weekend.

The King's Lynn Silver Machine Knights have swooped to sign rising young Norwegian star Bjorn G Hansen, and the 21-year old rider, who rode in last year's World Under-21 Championship Final at Peterborough, is set to make his debut in the club's Elite League match against Wolverhampton tomorrow.

Colin McRae could be on his way back to the Prodrive-run Subaru team, if media speculation is to be believed.

Carlin Motorsport driver Alan van der Merwe showed great form all through the Brands Hatch weekend to net two fourth place finishes and 20 points toward his championship assault.

Terra Nigra's bright yellow hybrid-T rose was baptised in Holland by the 500cc world champion of 2001 and six-times MotoGP race winner Valentino Rossi, as the Italian attended a party at Honda Netherlands in the VIP Village after Saturday's Gauloises Dutch TT in Assen.

Breath-taking and highly dramatic was the verdict on the duel between points leader Laurent Aiello (Abt-Audi TT-R) and reigning champion Bernd Schneider (Mercedes-Benz CLK-DTM) during the fifth round of the DTM at the Norisring in Nuremberg.

Skoda Motorsport's crew Roman Kresta/Jan Tomanek, in a factory Octavia WRC, have exploited to its maximum one of the rare starts apart from their world rally programme and the opportunity to cheer their local fans.

What a race, in more ways than one. Sam Hornish Jr. earned his third victory of the Indy Racing League season by passing Gil de Ferran with two laps remaining to win the SunTrust Indy Challenge on June 29 at Richmond International Raceway.

Valentino Rossi (Repsol Honda Team RCV211V) waited until the 16th lap of the 19-lap Dutch TT to take the lead and from that point on his supremacy was never in question, setting the fastest lap of the race and the new record with a time of 2m 00.973s.

When Roger Penske signalled his intent to join the IRL in 2002 some observers mentioned that they might have cleaned up at Indy in '01 but wait till they get to Richmond where the IRL will show its true colours.

Despite not making the Indy Racing League's inaugural trip to the Richmond International Raceway last year the Marlboro Team Penske steamroller continued on a cloudy Friday night in Virginia as Gil de Ferran and Helio Castroneves claimed a crucial front row clean sweep for the SunTrust Indy Chall

Valentino Rossi's unstoppable march towards a second MotoGP World title took another step in Saturday's Dutch TT at Assen but the Italian star had some of his glory taken away following a truly heroic ride by Alex Barros on a two-stroke Honda.

Fifty eight year old Walter Villa died in Italy last from from a heart attack. Villa won three 250 and one 350cc World title for the Harley Davidson team. The American company bought the Italian Aermacchi team and re-badged their machines as Harleys.

Team Suzuki's Akira Ryo got into the points at the seventh round of the MotoGP championship at Assen today, finishing 15th. Ryo has scored in every MotoGP race he has entered this year on the awesome new Suzuki GSV-R race bike.