The former Formula One driver will be joined in the car by Jan Seyffarth who has been competing in the German GT series for his family-run team. ...
02:48 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The FIA World Motor Sport Council nominated Chandhok to be part of the newly created Drivers' Commission, which will be headed by two-time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Deducting points from teams whose fans or players are guilty of racism is a better way of tackling the problem, the FIFA president said. ...
08:36 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Greater Noida: After the glittering second edition of the Indian Grand Prix this season, the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) is all set to host the largest motorsport festival of its kind in the country - the SIDVIN Festival of Speed. The grand racing spectacle, including the finale of the JK Racing Asia Series, will be held at the BIC in Greater Noida from November 30 to December 2. A total...
05:51 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Sao Paulo: Sahara Force India drivers Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg had good outings as they finished sixth and seventh respectively in the third free practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix, here on Saturday. Great Britain's Di Resta took 1:13.486 to complete 21 laps while Hulkenberg of Germany needed 1:13.602 to finish 22 laps at the Interlagos Racing Circuit. Hulkenberg should have fond memories of this circuit as it...
10:23 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: Embattled Force India team boss Vijay Mallya made his Indian Grand Prix entrance in combative mood on Saturday, lashing local media for their coverage of his business troubles and grounded Kingfisher airline. The liquor and aviation tycoon, no longer a billionaire according to the latest Forbes list, flew in from London on his private Airbus after suggestions that he might stay away to avoid having it impounded. "Was...
01:33 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya will be attending the Indian Grand Prix event at Greater Noida later this week. Mallya will be returning at a time when the airline is in the middle of a crisis. The employees of Kingfisher Airlines wanted to speak directly to Mallya on their issues, but they were not given permission to do so. They are seeking four months' pay by October...
11:07 AM, Oct 24, 2012
Rome: Mahindra Racing on Sunday created history by winning the constructors title in the 125GP class at the Italian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the Vallelunga Circuit. The team of 17 year old Miroslav Popov and the Austrian teenager Lukas Trautmann finished first and second in the 16-lap final race of the season. Popov started the race from pole position after the outstanding performance displayed in qualifying while Trautmann moved...
07:57 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Bahrain: Indias Karun Chandhok and his JRM Racing qualified sixth for the inaugural Six Hours of Bahrain, the sixth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship to be run here Sunday. Chandhok, driving the HPD ARX 03a for the 20-minute session, recorded a best time of one minute, 48.784 seconds on his third lap around the 5.4 Kms Bahrain International Circuit. The JRM team that also includes David Brabham and...
03:52 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New York: Kids burned more calories while playing dance and boxing video games than they did during a sedentary car racing game, in a new UK study. Researchers said it's not surprising children would get their body working harder while playing a game on Kinect for the Xbox 360 that requires being off the couch and jumping around. But it's still not clear whether that translates to real weight and...
06:21 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Silverstone: Indian racer Karun Chandhok, in his JRM Racing, finished seventh overall in the 6 Hours of Silverstone in the fourth round of the World Endurance Championship. Just months after entering the championship in the tight LMP1 class, JRM showed solid improvement by finishing fourth in the privateer class here on Sunday. Scottish Peter Dumbreck was pitched into a spin at the first corner. He rejoined the race but had...
03:07 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Chennai: Indian tyre major MRF today launched Formula 2000, a racing car for the MRF Challenge 2012, a series which will be held as a support race for the Formula One Indian Grand Prix in October this year. Launching the red coloured car, MRF brand Ambassador and India's first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan drove the car around the Express Avenue Mall here this evening. "This is first of its kind...
11:25 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Weymouth: Tamara Echegoyen, Angela Pumariega and Sofia Toro of Spain won the Olympic gold medal in women's match racing on Saturday, thanks in part to a boat-handling error by Australia that swept its skipper into the water. With the best-of-5 match tied at 1, the boats were sailing nearly side-by-side downwind in the third race in big waves on Weymouth Bay when the Australian crew lost control and its boat...
09:58 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government can consider opening a motor racing track in the state if it helped pull in tourists, Tourism Minister A P Anil Kumar said ahead of his meeting with F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan here on Thursday. "We are meeting later in the day and if he suggests that a racetrack in our state will boost tourism activities, we will definitely look into it," Kumar told IANS. "We...
01:57 PM, Apr 26, 2012
London: Marussia were given the all-clear to start the Formula One season after their new car passed the final mandatory crash test on Tuesday. The Russian-licensed team, who gave the MR01 its track debut in a filming day at Silverstone on Monday, said in a statement they had cleared the last hurdle. "The component in question actually passed an 'unobserved' crash test but has been performing inconsistently in the observed...
10:28 AM, Mar 07, 2012
London: Marussia gave their new Formula One car its track debut at Silverstone on Monday despite it still having to overcome a final crash test hurdle before the opening race of the season in Australia next week. The Russian-licensed former Virgin Racing team said in a statement that the Cosworth-powered MR01 had been rolled out for the first of two limited-mileage promotional events on demonstration tyres. The season starts in...
08:13 PM, Mar 05, 2012
London: Marussia will miss Formula One's final pre-season test in Barcelona this week because their new car has failed a mandatory crash test, the Russian-licensed team said on Monday. Marussia, formerly Virgin Racing, said the MR01 car had failed the final test after passing 17 previous ones. Under new rules introduced this season, cars must have passed all 18 tests before they are allowed to run in the pre-season sessions....
11:28 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Austrian Lucas Auer is the winner of the 2011 JK Racing Asia Series. Auer started the first two races in fourth and finished both on the podium in second, leaving him to start from second for the last two races. Overall, he completed the season with 292 points in 18 rounds. Post the win, Auer said that "It feels great, I cannot believe it right now. After the qualifying we...
04:57 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Team TVS Racing's Aravind K P became the first Indian rider to win a motocross championship overseas. He won the 2011 Sri Lanka Association of Racing Drivers and Riders (SLARDAR) Championship with a total of 73 points. Aravind had to fend off 22 riders including teammates HK Pradeep, Santosh CS and Tomoya Suzuki, the 2010 UAM Asian champion from Japan, before clinching the title. Post receiving the championship trophy, Aravind...
02:01 PM, Dec 02, 2011
