Rossi turns down Alesi Le Mans offer

Getting an invitation from former F1 driver Jean Alesi must be quite an honor and that is exactly what MotoGP rider and world champion Valentino Rossi has received. Alesi has offered Rossi a ride to compete with him at this years 24 Hours of Le Mans in June but the schedule may not work [...]

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JIM RUSSELL’S FUTURE DRIVER SEARCH 2010 NEARS CLIMAX

Six drivers go in to the fourth and final day of Future Driver Search 2010 program at the Infineon Raceway on Tuesday (22 Dec). It all comes down to this.

Bastien Graber (18), from Niddatal, GERMANY
James Kovacic (16), from Forresters Beach nr Gosford, AUSTRALIA
Felipe Polehtto [nee Poletto Bastos] (20), from Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Gary Carlton [...]

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Raikkonen, Loeb and Coulthard in 24 Hours of Le Mans?

Quoting autohebdo.fr and motorsportblog.it, Autoblog decided to run a story that suggest Peugeot will field a Red Bull driver line up of Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastien Loeb and David Coulthard for the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
With three official challengers and a fourth private car entered for the race, rumors suggest that this additional car [...]

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Rossi to drive at 24 Hours of Le Mans?

F1B friend and legendary owner of Motomatters.com, David Emmett, gave us a tip today about the possibility of Valentino Rossi competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. You may recall that Rossi drove a rally in Italy last week and finished in second place. While it may not have been a proper [...]

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Ecclestone to save F1 in 48 hours

Bernie Ecclestone has come under fire recently following is time interview in which he waxed poetic about Hitler, dictators and the failure of democracy. This didn’t set well with the owners of F1’s commercial rights—CVC Partners.
It seems that the CVC board redressed Bernie over the issue and things have since been sorted. This [...]

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