The penultimate round of the 2009 British Superbike Championship takes
place at Silverstone in Northamptonshire this weekend. A string of 19
race wins and 10 podiums for the Airwaves Yamaha team has ensured its
riders cannot be beaten to the series crown.
Jason Bowles returns to All-American Speedway on
Saturday (September 26) poised to capture the NASCAR Camping World West Series
title in the season-finale. The California standout enters the Toyota/Copart
150 presented by Golden State Steel & Stair leading the championship fight
by 78 points, and only needing a top-16 finish to secure the championship
crown.
Northamptonshire’s Rockingham
Motor Speedway provided the venue for this year’s annual Renault Sport
duathlon which raised an impressive £650 for two charities.
The money raised is to be
split equally between Barnardo’s and brain
injury charity Headway in support of former Formula Renault UK driver Henry
Surtees.
Entrants
from all over the country converged on the Lake District last weekend for
Motorsport Endeavour's first ever Endeavour Rally of the Lakes.
The
event, over 2 days, consisted of over 150 miles of driving and navigation
exercises for the 2 person crews, with one person per crew being disabled
either physically or medically. The event took the form of a touring assembly
where road regulations were closely monitored, but chose roads that were
unfamiliar to the majority and very different to those experienced at home.
Hitech-run FC Porto took victory in the second of three Superleague Formula races at Estoril on Sunday while second and ninth place for Liverpool FC extends its lead at the top of the tables. New signing Alvaro Parente, making a one-off appearance for the squad in the FC Porto car, recovered from being forced out of the opening race with a convincing victory in the second.
Northamptonshire’s Rockingham Motor Speedway saw Apotex Scorpio Motorsport’s Kieren Clark (Royston) crowned the 2009 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championship winner during two dramatic rounds (10 and 11) on September 5th/6th. Twenty-year-old Clark, who has dominated the one-make single-seater series since the season got underway in May, wrapped up the title with two rounds still left to run and handing his team its second consecutive driver title
EmiliodeVillota.com Motorsport’s Will Bratt heads into his busiest fortnight of the year in just a few days time when the fourth event of the 2009 PartyPokerRacing.it Euroseries 3000 Championship kicks off two crucial back-to-back weekends of race action.
The Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia, Spain, hosts the only triple-header event of the campaign this coming weekend, 12th/13th September, with the seventh and eighth rounds of the championship also joined by an additional race – the latter arranged by officials to compensate drivers and teams for the cancelled Donington Park rounds earlier in the year.
Manxman David Knight was in top form over the weekend at the French Enduro Championship where he came away with a successful overall win in Le Puy En Velay.
Hillspeed’s Ahmad Al Harthy made a welcome return to the Protyre Formula Renault BARC podium at Rockingham International Super Sports Car Circuit on Sunday, 6th September, to boost his hopes of ending the season as category Vice-Champion with just two races left to run.
Kieren Clark was crowned 2009 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Champion this weekend at an action-packed Rockingham, with the Loughborough based Apotex Scorpio Motorsport team.
Ilkley's Chris Holmes smashed the Oulton Park Formula Four lap record on his way to a dominate pair of wins in the latest round of the 2009 F4 Championship.
The 22 year old racing driver took a convincing pole position for the first race of the double header event, and used it to good advantage. Chris made a flying start from which he never looked back, eking out a formidable lead. On his way to the race one win Chris set the fastest lap, breaking the Formula Four lap record for the Cheshire circuit.
Dinnington-based Manor Motorsport didn’t have the happiest of homecomings at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit in Kent over the weekend, 5th/6th September, although the team does still retain fourth place in the entrant standings following rounds 13 and 14 of the 2009 Formula 3 Euroseries
Following a protest lodged by SEAT Sport, the WTCC Stewards at Oschersleben investigated a collision between Augusto Farfus and Yvan Muller during the first race.
Having heard the parties and examined the data loggers of both cars, the Stewards decided to impose a reprimand to the Brazilian driver of BMW Team Germany.
BMW cars made the most out of their home race meeting, as Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus shared victories in today's races.
The
Briton won the first one from SEAT Sport's Gabriele Tarquini and
Rickard Rydell, ending a 15-month drought. Later Priaulx claimed
another podium result, finishing second between Farfus and Tarquini.
Round eleven of the Hannspree
World Superbike Championship proved to be one to forget for the Kawasaki
Superbike Racing Team as they came away from the Nurburgring in Germany with
just three points after a difficult weekend.
06/09/2009
- Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Superleague Formula
by Sonangol league table in Estoril, Portugal thanks to Adrian Valles’
second and ninth place finishes in the day’s two races. Having
qualified for the Super Final after scoring the third highest points
total of the weekend, the Spaniard then won himself and the team
€30,000 for finishing third.
06/09/2009 - Sebastien
Bourdais netted Spanish club Sevilla a €100,000 prize by sensationally
winning the Superleague Formula by Sonangol ‘Super Final’ on his
championship debut at Estoril.
Lada
Sport can reflect on its growing stature in the FIA World Touring Car
Championship following a greatly increased team performance in the
ninth event of the season at Oberschleben in Germany. The Russian team,
which fielded a three-car team of its new Priora racing cars for the
first time this weekend, has grown in strength in its first season as a
manufacturer in the WTCC.
THE HiQ
MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to Rockingham for the penultimate
round on Sunday, September 20 with the title race still firmly in the balance.
Racing
Silverline drivers Mat Jackson and Jason Plato shared the wins as RML’s
Chevrolets dominated the three races at Silverstone last Sunday (August 31) but
it is still Colin Turkington leading the pack for Team RAC.
BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen have been named as winners of
Rally Australia following a post-event hearing that imposed a one
minute penalty on the Citroen C4 cars that filled three of the top four
places.
annual Renault Sport
duathlon which raised an impressive £650 for two charities.
Motorsport Endeavour's first ever Endeavour Rally of the Lakes.