2002

The two Team PSP Proton Impians will be numbered 15 and 20 this season, following a request from new team principal David Wong.

Hank Parker Jr. will likely reach two career milestones at Darlington Raceway this weekend. First, Parker needs to win just $7,162 in Saturday's DarlingtonRaceway.com 200 to reach the $2 million mark in career NBS winnings.

Alex Yoong's father Hanifah Yoong, has defended his son from those attacking the Malaysian's right to be in F1. Hanifah said: "Alex is well prepared for his first ever home grand prix and his mental strength will see him through."

Mildenhall's team building plans are under way for the new Conference League season ahead as promoter Tony Mole confirmed the return of two of last year's heat leaders to the team.

Phoenix Finance, the group that bought the assets to Prost Grand Prix will not race this year, F1's ruling body, the FIA has said.

Following a six-month recovery period, Steve Park will return to the No. 1 Pennzoil Chevrolet Monte Carlo at the Carolina 400 at Darlington Raceway on March 17th. Park suffered a concussion in a NASCAR Busch Series race accident last September 1st at the very same racetrack.

Hut Stricklin, driver of the No. 23 Hills Bros. Coffee Dodge, finished second at Darlington on September 1, 1996. His current crew chief, Philippe Lopez, was his crew chief that season and both are looking for a strong run together this weekend.

PDM Racing is looking to build on the momentum generated by an eleventh place finish in the Indy Racing League's first race in 2002. PDM Racing driver, Tyce Carlson successfully battled fellow IRL stars last Saturday, March 2 in Homestead, Florida.

BTCC Touring Class graduate Barwell Motorsport has secured the services of ex-World Superbike star and 2001 Peugeot BTCC driver, Aaron Slight, to fill its remaining Vauxhall Astra seat for 2002.

Not since 1993 has an Earnhardt stood alongside a #3 Chevrolet in Lowe's Motor Speedway's victory lane, but Dale Earnhardt Jr will be looking to change that when he drives the Nilla Wafers/Nutter Butter car in the Carquest Auto Parts 300 on 25 May.

Albion KTM's Matt Winstanley's British Motocross Championship campaign got off to a great start on Sunday, despite being forced to retire from his third race after a heavy crash.

Wimbledon Speedway are close to finalising their 2002 line up after capturing four new riders, with the final team member set to be unveiled next week.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has announced that the name of the Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) factory team, that will participate in MotoGP class of FIM 2002 Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix, will be "REPSOL Honda."

Team Telef?nica MoviStar Suzuki riders Sete Gibernau and Kenny Roberts and factory colleague Akira Ryo met the new four-stroke opposition for the first time at the Catalunyan GP circuit this weekend - and their brand new GSV R motorcycle showed a fine turn of speed at only its fourth test outside

Reigning European 250 champion David Garcia joined Proton Team KR this year, as tester and back-up rider.

There was further disappointment for Skoda Motorsport during the final day of the Rally of Corsica, with the most experienced driver on the team, Kenneth Eriksson retiring at the start of stage 14.

It was a victory for Mother Nature during final qualifying as rain prohibited most cars from leaving pit lane but the grandstands were still booming as Adrian Fernandez not only cemented an emotional pole position but also slithered his way around the 2.1-mile track faster than anyone else to inc

The 2002 Elite League season gets underway in a matter of days. Can the basically unchanged Oxford defend their title successfully or it be snatched away by an (on paper at least) good looking Wolverhampton septet.

In the best race of the season thus far Tony Stewart opened his 2002 victory account as he led 143 of 325 laps to win the MBNA American 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Peugeot 206 WRCs have scored an amazing clean sweep of the podium positions on the Tour de Corse, the third round of the FIA World Rally Championship which finished in Corsica this afternoon.

The penultimate stage of the Rallye de France - Tour de Corse [SS15] has been stopped and cancelled after Colin McRae's Ford Focus RS WRC went off the road. McRae is believed to have been 5 kilometres into the stage, which is 24.21 kilometres in length when the incident occurred.

As it has so in recent years, the Premier League has a very open look about it with a number of teams in with realistic title chances.

Marlboro Yamaha Team riders Carlos Checa and Max Biaggi commenced their final European pre-season test at Catalunya yesterday, continuing development of the new chassis they evaluated for the first time at Mugello, Italy, last week.

After yesterday's rain and fog, clear blue skies returned over the Mediterranean island of Corsica as the 43 remaining competitors began the third and final leg of the Tour de Corse, third round of the FIA World Rally Championship.