I and other racing fans were full of praise for ITV’s expanded motor sports coverage earlier this year as they took over from Eurosport in broadcasting GP2, bringing the F1 feeder category to a potentially much wider audience.
It has also expanded its British Touring Car Championship coverage and is showing the FIA GT series as [...]
There was no repeat of last year’s cynical race-fixing by Audi - the team simply crushed rivals Mercedes at Zandvoort.
Mathias Ekstrom led an Audi 1-2-3-4 followed by Timo Scheider, Tom Kristensen and Martin Tomcyk in a processional race.
A disqualification and a start line crash opened the way for Renger van der Zande to score his second victory of 2008.
After Nico Hülkenberg was disqualified from the first race van der Zande found himself third on the grid for the second race behind Niall Breen and Robert Wickens.
As the race got underway Breen made [...]
A pit lane error handed the Ganassi team a lucky one-two at Nashville. Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon failed to make it into the pits during a late yellow flag period but when rain fell on the track it handed the pair a fortunate one-two.
Helio Castroneves took third ahead of Tony Kanaan and Danica Patrick [...]
Nico Hülkenberg finished first on the road in the F3 Euroseries feature race at Zandvoort. With championship rival Edoardo Mortara spinning out. Hülkenberg was poised to take the lead in the title race.
But Hülkenberg was sensationally stripped of his win after stewards found his car 3kg under the 540kg minimum weight limit - a surprising [...]
Here are some more pictures from the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed. These are some of the sports car that were driving up the hill including the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours winning Aston Martin DBR9.
Previous Le Mans winner Bentley was also there with the Speed 8 that triumphed in 2003. Other cars featured are [...]
Here’s a selection of pictures of some of the cars present at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrating the 50th anniversary of the British Touring Car Championship.
Ryan Hunter-Reay scored a surprise maiden win at Watkins Glen in a surprising conclusion to the race at the New York circuit.
Ryan Briscoe and Scott Dixon led much of the race but Darren Manning and Hunter-Reay used an alternate pit strategy to hit the front. That paid off after a spate of full-course yellows hit [...]
It’s a shame that Bruno Senna’s every move in motor racing evokes parallels with his uncle. But his victory at a soaking wet Silverstone in today’s GP2 race brought back strong memories of Ayrton Senna’s ttriumph in similar conditions at the same track 20 years earlier.
Luca Filippi started from pole position courtesy of his eighth [...]
Another victory for Giorgio Pantano sees the experienced Italian driver stretch his CP2 championship lead even further.
He hit the front in an exciting feature race at Silverstone after passing Romain Grosjean and leader Lucas di Grassi.
Series returnee di Grassi acquired the lead when pole sitter Bruno Senna went off at Stowe on lap four. Senna [...]
