2003

Full qualifying times from the Croft circuit for tomorrow's first race in the British Touring Car Championship.

Anthony Reid led the MG qualifying charge under beautiful sunshine at Croft today in a busy qualifying session at the northern-most circuit in the BTCC calendar.

A.J. Allmendinger strengthened his grip on the 2003 CART Toyota Atlantic Championship again in provisional qualifying at Toronto's Exhibition Place by establishing a new track record of 1:05.447secs.

The BMW WilliamsF1 team rounded out a successful four days of split venue testing in Spain and France, working on developments for Silverstone and the two other grands prix that fall under the summer testing ban.

Weymouth Wildcats celebrated their imminent return to the big time by lifting the Paul Gladwin Memorial Trophy at Somerset Rebels' Oak Tree Arena last night.

In warm and breezy conditions in the British Midlands, WCM rider Chris Burns enjoyed his first ever Saturday qualifying session of the season. The 23 year old from Newcastle was delighted with how he qualified for his home GP after clocking up only 240 km in total on the ROC two-stroke Yamaha.

Jeremy McWilliams and the Oxfordshire-based Proton KR team are considering their options for tomorrow's 30 lap MotoGP race after riding both the new four-stroke and old 500cc two-stroke machines in qualifying.

Donington fan Loris Capirossi rose to the top of this morning's final free practice, eclipsing his Friday qualifying time to hold off the ever present Sete Gibernau, whilst Friday pace setters Valentino Rossi and Troy Bayliss were left outside the top five.

Despite being kept apart from the World Superbike Championship regulars during Friday morning practice at Laguna Seca, wild-card Yoshimura Suzuki rider Mat Mladin outran all challengers as he claimed provisional pole for round eight of the 2003 World Championship.

A heavy rain shower shortly after the first practice session of the Molson Indy Toronto weekend finished meant that the 1.755-mile Exhibition Place circuit was completely awash by the time second practice began.

McLaren became the third different team to head the four day Barcelona group test, as Alex Wurz gave the Woking team something to cheer with fastest time in the final session of the week.

It was a decision that was made some time ago but in the midst of Paul Tracy and Patrick Carpentier both making a run at the 2003 Champ Car World Series the fact that loyal team sponsors Player's would be leaving the sport at the end of the season was almost forgotten about.

Full 125, 250 and MotoGP first qualifying times from the British Grand Prix, at Donington, round eight of the 2003 championship.

Cristiano da Matta appears poised to become the first driver retained by the Toyota F1 team, having made a positive start to his Formula One career this season.

Donington ace Valentino Rossi found himself under pressure from former WSBK champ Troy Bayliss in this morning's free practice - the Australian closing to within 0.03secs of the Italian ahead of this afternoon's first qualifying session despite a small fall.

Round five of the 2003 Speedway GP series takes place in Krsko, Slovenia tomorrow [Saturday] with the world title race looking more open at this stage than some might have thought.

Danish driver Jesper Carlsen is set to pick up the pieces of a fragmented Formula Three career at Oulton Park this weekend, having signed to drive for newcomers Team SYR at this weekend's British Championship round.

Yesterday's announcement that the World Superbike Championship would align itself more closely to production machinery, and the rules of various national series, has angered the six principal manufacturers involved - all of whom have served notice to quit the formula should the new rules go ahead

Starting the year with a grid half full on unsponsored cars, Chris Pook and the rest of the CART Series have been working hard to try and entice some of America's major brand names back into the sport to try and replace companies like Marlboro, Target, KOOL, Texaco/Havoline and now Player's.

The Grand Prix Permanent Bureau met at the FIM Headquarters in Mies yesterday and announced that for the 2004 season the regulations will remain unchanged.

Former British Champion Jay Vincent has grabbed a last minute wild-card entry of the 250cc race at Donington on Sunday.

Cleanevent USA, an event and venue cleaning management services provider, has signed a three-year naming rights sponsorship of the IRL Infiniti Pro Series event at Nashville Superspeedway. The Cleanevent 100 is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. (EDT) Friday, July 18th at Nashville Superspeedway.

GA Motorsport has announced that it will be running Carl Breeze for the remainder of the 2003 British Touring Car Championship season, after the Norfolk based racer parted company with Team Halfords.

Ferrari regained the upper hand on the third day of action at the latest Formula One group test, with Rubens Barrichello taking the lone F2003-GA to the top of the timesheets at the Circuit de Catalunya.