2003

Shinya Nakano gave the Spanish based D'Antin Yamaha outfit cause for celebration in one of their home GPs yesterday, when he rode a spirited race to finish fifth - after running with the race leaders for the full 25 lap distance.

Justin Wilson was cruelly denied his first Formula One top ten finish yesterday afternoon at the Canadian Grand Prix as gearbox failure forced his retirement while running tenth overall with just eight laps of the 70-lap race remaining.

Team Rahal's Argent Mortgage sponsored Toyota Atlantic Championship contender Danica Patrick was involved in a first lap scrum that left the #24 Argent car badly damaged and out of the running in Saturday's race at Laguna Seca.

Jurgen van den Goorbergh rode to an impressive second place at Silverstone, an excellent performance on his first visit to the fast English circuit. Jurgen started well but clashed fairings with eventual winner Chris Vermeulen on the opening lap, breaking his concentration momentarily.

Oxford's Nicki Pedersen has had a triumphant weekend to reaffirm himself as Oxford's top rider. On Saturday evening he became only the second Oxford rider to win the British Speedway Grand Prix at the splendid Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

A crash in the first moto didn't keep Ricky Carmichael from winning his fifth straight AMA Chevy Trucks 250 Motocross Championship race in front of 20,117 fans at Budds Creek Motocross Park.

Full 125, 250 and MotoGP race results from the Catalan Grand Prix, at Barcelona, round six of the 2003 championship. MotoGP:

Anthony Davidson's first Le Mans 24 Hours ended prematurely when he suffered a big accident at the Mulsanne corner during the darkness hours of the endurance classic.

JML Team Panoz may have held their positions of sixth and ninth through to the halfway point of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but Olivier Beretta was lucky to escape after suffering a major night-time incident at more than 300kph.

Anthony Davidson is currently en route to the Le Mans circuit medical centre following a heavy impact with the barriers at the end of the Mulsanne straight.

The ACEMCO Motorsport Ferrari 360 Modena has retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after ten-and-a-half hours and a spell at the front of the closely-contested.GT class.

Michael Schumacher:

Loris Capirossi took Ducati's first ever MotoGP victory today in a nail biting Catalan Grand Prix, which came to life when the tyres of then leaders Rossi, Capirossi, Biaggi and Gibernau began to slide in the scorching heat.

Unofficial results from the 71st running of the Le Mans 24 Hours.

If the race had been wet, he would likely have dominated it but, with dry weather gracing Montreal for the Canadian GP, paddock wisdom said that the Michelin runners - and particularly the Williams-BMWs - should have the upper hand. Michael Schumacher does not listen to wisdom...

Cornish Grand Prix rider Chris Harris returns to team action when he leads Trelawny in to Premier League action against Hull at the Clay Country Moto Parc on Tuesday evening (7.30 pm).

Leading MotoGP championship standings following today's Catalan Grand Prix, round six of the 2003 series. Riders' championship standings after round 6:

In his final race with Hooters sponsorship, Winston Cup veteran Brett Bodine suffered a broken collarbone and put himself out of action for Sunday's Sirius Satellite Radio 400 at the Michigan International Speedway in a hard double impact crash in Happy Hour.

The Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS of Luc Alphand Aventures/Solution F has enjoyed a solid start to its Le Mans campaign, and the Care Racing-owned car has run steadily in the top three for most of the opening quarter of the round-the-clock event.

Nicki Pedersen picked himself up out of the Millennium Stadium air fence after a semi-final wipe-out to dust himself down, make the final of the British Grand Prix in Cardiff this evening and then win it in fine style from a back to form Jason Crump.

With temperatures increasing during final qualifying for the Catalan Grand Prix, very few riders were expected to better their provisional times, but as the hour-long session came to a close Olivier Jacque produced a stunning lap to find a 1.011 second improvement over his provisional qualifying

Despite a very promising second qualifying session and a good warm up, the gorgeous, but very new Pagani Zonda GR retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after only 11 laps, the team's second early exit in two major 2003 endurances.

Nicki Pedersen picked himself up out of the Millennium Stadium air fence after a semi-final wipe-out to dust himself down, make the final of the British Grand Prix in Cardiff this evening and then win it in fine style from a back to form Jason Crump.

Jurgen van den Goorbergh scored his first World Supersport pole position today, and Yamaha's first of the year, on the Belgarda Yamaha R6 at Silverstone.