2003

Beginning with the first race of the season at Glen Helen Raceway on May 11, AMA Motocross fans will be able to hear the action from every lap of the 2003 AMA Chevy Trucks U.S. Motocross Championship thanks to an all-new audio webcast, presented by Racer X .

One of France's most famous sporting names, Luc Alphand, will be taking on a new challenge at this year's 24 Heures du Mans as he takes to the wheel of the Solution F Ferrari 550 Maranello to challenge for GTS class honours.

The DTM has started the season with a record audience for its opening round at the Hockenheimring Baden-W?rttemberg, April 27. An average of 2.11 million viewers [aged 14 and above] with a peak audience of 2.38 million watched the ZDF-coverage from 13.45 untill 15.15 hours.

Drivers: Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari), David Coulthard (McLaren), Ralph Firman (Jordan), Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) and Justin Wilson (Minardi). Press conference.

MG's British Touring Car Championship effort of Anthony Reid, Colin Turkington and Warren Hughes head this weekend to a track where the MG has excelled in the past, Brands Hatch.

In an effort to regain their place on the MotoGP grid, the Harris WCM team has announced they have begun work on the latest version of their engine, with the new castings now complete (pictured) and ready for machining.

Last year at Rockingham, Harrogate born Darren Manning was the new kid on the Champ Car block thanks to his one-off deal with Team St George/Dale Coyne Racing.

JML Team Panoz has arrived in Le Mans for this weekend's Preliminary Practice day with it sights firmly set on continuing the team's strong form from the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Ferrari's chief designer, the South African born, 59-year-old Rory Byrne, probably will not know what happened in the race debut of his latest creation, the Ferrari 2003GA, at the Spanish GP, May 4th, until after you do.

Team Bentley returns to Le Mans this weekend to start the final phase of its three year campaign to win the famed 24-hour race once more, some 73 years after its last historic victory.

Francois-Xavier Demaison, Operations Manager and Marcus Gronholm's engineer, had hardly finished celebrating his driver's win in New Zealand than it was time to begin final preparations for the following round in Argentina. Here he talks about next weekend's event and more...

Subaru Rally Team Australia have today expressed their "deepest sadness" following the news, their driver Possum Bourne, has lost his battle to live. A tribute to the three times Asia Pacific champion and seven times Australian champion, on rally.subaru.com.au read:

Interpublic, the parent group of ailing motorsports promoter Octagon has agreed to return its interest in the World Superbike Championship and its supporting classes to the Flammini brothers, who ran it by themselves until four years ago.

For only the second time in the last decade of AMA Supercross racing, the championship will be decided in the final round.

Jardine Lloyd Thompson [JLT] has entered a two-car team in the next round of the World Rally Championship, Rally Argentina, which runs from May 7-10.

In a joint statement, Mr Carmelo Ezpeleta, of Dorna Sports, and Mr Webster Mfebe, of the Executive Council for Sport in the Free State, have announced that they have signed a letter of intent for the extension of MotoGP at Phakisa, for at least another three years.

Alex Wurz's probable return to grand prix racing took another step towards reality last night, when sources at current employer McLaren confirmed that the Woking team had been approached by rivals Jaguar.

Round five of the FIA Formula One World Championship takes place at the Circuit de Catalunya this weekend [2-4 May] and the Bridgestone Motorsport team is expecting to build on its Imola results when Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello took hard fought firs

Martin Kendrick, team principal of FIA F3000 Championship newcomers Brand Motorsports, has today announced that the team will not participate in the remainder of the season, claiming that the motorsport environment was not right for the team to continue operating in.

"Dai-chan rode with me today," were the words of Sete Gibernau after holding off Valentino Rossi for his first MotoGP victory, at the Africa's Grand Prix.

Peter Clifford, Director of Racing at the World Championship Motorsports (WCM) team has released the following detailed statement in which he strongly contests the basis for his team's disqualification from the Africa's Grand Prix.

The Formula One world and its followers are looking forward to this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, the second European event of the season, with an equal blend of fervour and curiosity, but tyre supplier Michelin knows that the debut of Ferrari's new F2003-GA will up the ante for its teams.

"There are a lot of good times ahead of us and I just can't wait to continue moving forward and producing more results like this. And then, of course, going through a bit more hardship to understand what it takes to build better cars and to have a better idea of race track ethics.

Having succumbed to Bridgestone-shod drivers in each of the past two grands prix, Michelin's F1 project manager, Pascal Vasselon knows that the introduction of Ferrari's new F2003-GA chassis in Barcelona this weekend will make it even more tricky to return to the winning ways of rounds one and tw