2003

Thomas Ingenlath has been the chief designer for Skoda Auto since March 2000. Here he explains the design process behind the transformation of the Fabia RS road car into the Fabia WRC World Rally car... Q: How long did it take you to design the ?koda Fabia WRC?

The Exchange and Mart UK F1 Drivers' Challenge is back for 2004 with another competition offering contestants the chance to follow in the footsteps of 2003 winner, Mark Johnston.

Mike Skinner has been named to drive the #01 US Army Pontiac for MB2 Motorsports for the next four races, beginning with this weekend's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis.

The first Dean Bencsics Memorial Meeting was a huge success at Paris, Ontario. It attracted both the largest rider turnout (24) and the biggest crowd of the season who were thoroughly entertained with 35 heats of exciting action.

Richard Hall has been named as reserve for the Hull Vikings Speedway Team in their Premier League match against the Isle of Wight tonight. Richard is 18 and comes from Northallerton, North Yorkshire. He has ridden for the Vikings on a couple of other occasions both home and away.

Hard on the news that Hull Vikings reserve Barrie Evans has been selected for the Young England team comes word of another Hull rider on international duty.

The MJ Church Kawasaki motocross team headed to Northern Ireland for round seven of the British Championships on Saturday, hoping for a great days racing and some results to match. They were to be disappointed.

NASCAR Silicon Motor Speedway's state-of-the-art racing simulators are being installed at a new NASCAR SpeedPark location in St. Louis that will greet NASCAR racing fans in November, it was announced by William R. Donaldson, Chairman and CEO of Interactive Motorsports and Entertainment Corp.

West McLaren-Mercedes 'third driver' Alex Wurz describes a lap of Hockenheim - site of this weekend's German Grand Prix:

The Champ Car series heads to Elkhart Lake this weekend to race at a venue christened by the first Mexican success in CART racing and with the country's senior statesman eager to add his name to the list of victors.

Mildenhall Fen Tigers hope to get back to winning ways this weekend when they take on Trelawny at West Row in the CL Trophy.

Cornelius Horan, the man who invaded the track during the early stages of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, has been denied bail by the courts despite his case being adjourned to await psychiatric reports.

Whilst Bridgestone Motorsport has its feet planted firmly on the ground, the success of its teams at the British Grand Prix after a week of testing has left Bridgestone eager to move on to round twelve of the world championship.

One characteristic Robert Doornbos possesses in great amounts is understanding, and he aims to use that to great effect as he plots a quiet path to success in next weekend's Marlboro Masters at Zandvoort.

Kawasaki's Australian slidemaster, Garry McCoy, overcame two scary off-track excursions to come within a whisker of scoring points in yesterday's fiercely contested German Grand Prix at Sachsenring.

This one looked like "win or bust" as far as a continued title challenge for Sheffield went and the Tigers rose to the occasion magnificently, first holding and then losing a four point lead before prevailing with a very important away win.

Canada has long been one of the strongholds of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford, with crowds in excess of 160,000 coming out for a three-day weekend every time the CART Champ Car World Series contenders turn a wheel 'north of the border.'

"That was a real battle. I've still got the old donuts on the side of the RAC Walker Racing car from hitting Adrian (Fernandez), unfortunately. I damage my front wing in that incident and I had to keep going with a broken wing until my final pit stop window opened up with 30 laps to go.

Even though his former Sauber team-mate is currently Michael Schumacher's closest world title rival, Nick Heidfeld still feels that he should have had a shot at the second McLaren seat instead of Kimi Raikkonen.

"What I've done is been able to concentrate on what I have to do, the job in front of me. And my concentration is not what happened on Friday or what's going to happen in the future, because it's out of my control.

Kenny Roberts made his GP return from injury at the Sachsenring on Sunday, but a distant fifteenth placed finish gave him little joy... although Olivier Jacque made him smile with his post race antics.

After finally ending Ricky Carmichael's historic AMA Motocross win streak last time out at Unadilla, Kevin Windham (pictured) started working on one of his own on Sunday at Washougal, sweeping both races for his second overall in a row.

Stoke have been rocked by the news that Robbie Kessler will miss the rest of the season. The German international has been out for several weeks after breaking his arm riding in Sweden, and has had an unsuccessful operation in Germany.

In something of a sad reflection of their 2003 season, the WCM team saw the chequered flag for the very first time this year in Germany yesterday when sole remaining rider David de Gea finished 20th and last on his ten year old two-stroke Yamaha.