Valentino Rossi decided he would throw a MotoGP party and what better way to do that then with a sportbike race with his friends. Rossi organized an event that occurred on Sunday in Cavallara to raise money and interest for the children’s hospital based in Pesaro Italy that helps kids dealing with leukaemia.
Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso, Marco Lelandri, Julian Simon and a host of other racers got out on the track and raced for the kids, with Dovizioso coming out the winner in the end, after a three race affair. Dovizioso was second in the first two races to 125 …read more

The 2010 Formula One season will field a new Manor GP team that’s presently getting prepared for their debut season in the fastest sport on two wheels. They’ll have to contend with trying to field a car that’s good enough to compete against veteran drivers and teams that know exactly what they’re going through at the moment and will have to deal with during their first year. Manor GP announced that Timo Glock would be the driver to lead their team through its first year on the Formula One circuit and he seems like the perfect fit for the blend …read more

The race for NASCAR’s dash for the line of the Sprint Cup Championship is coming down to the last corner with Jimmie Johnson 108 points ahead of Mark Martin and the pack a distant sight behind him. Mark Martin was looking like he might have a chance to grab his first Sprint Cup Series title, but now the 2009 Sprint Cup Series title is pulling away from him and Jimmie Johnson is about to bask in the glory and money of a Sprint Cup Series championship. The celebration party after the last race is going to be a would-love-to-be-there event …read more

The Nationwide Series has a new sponsor for Richard Childress Racing as Zaxby’s has signed on to give the team a boost and the team has also decided to put John Wes Towley behind the wheel of their Nationwide Series offering for the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. They’re putting their faith in a driver finishing up his first Nationwide Series season, as he took part in 23 of the 32 events and finished the year in 24th place in the race for the Nationwide Series title.
In other news, Braun racing has decided to expand their line up of Nationwide …read more

The 2009 MotoGP season is officially over and the riders and teams have learned their lessons and are now preparing for the 2010 MotoGP season. Valentino Rossi will be back for a try at his eighth MotoGP Premier Class Championship and Jorge, Pedrosa, Dovizioso and the boys will be back, along with a new entry, American rider Ben Spies, and maybe a surprise entry or two. Ben Spies is going to be a new and fast rider on the MotoGP scene and we can expect him to give his best at all times. His entry gives American fans another hero …read more

The 2009 Formula One World Champion, Jenson Button is hard at work preparing for the 2010 Formula One season. He knows that there will only be one thing harder than winning his first Formula One title and that will be to repeat in 2010. He’s not the only hungry driver on the track and his hunger might have lessened with his first championship. After all a let down is only human, so it will be interesting to see how much fire he has for the fight ahead of him in 2010.
Lewis Hamilton knows how hard it’s to repeat and you …read more

The Chase for NASCAR’s coveted Sprint Cup Series championship is starting to get up to speed, with Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon hot on the bumper of Jimmie Johnson’s leading No. 48. Behind them Kurt Busch is sitting pretty and waiting for his chance, while Tony Stewart is sitting in the pack, just looking for a place to make his move.
The racers did a bit of manoeuvring in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday on the pavement of Texas Motor Speedway. Mark Martin had the best result of the top three on the day and pulled to within 73 points of …read more

The 2009 Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week celebration in Las Vegas at the beginning of December is set to go, all they’re waiting for is the champion to rise above the crowd of racers at the top of the standings and take control in the last two races. Jimmie Johnson still has the lead by a slim 73 points over Mark Martin after 34 races and two competitions remaining before the champion will be crowned. Things are very close at this point and at least five racers and maybe as many as seven or eight, still have a chance at …read more

Texan Ben Spies started from ninth place on the race grid for Sunday’s Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana on the pavement of Ricardo Tormo Circuit near Valencia, Spain. Racing for Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team in his first MotoGP Premier Class race Ben did an excellent job with a seventh place finish, just ahead of Repsol Honda’s Andrea Dovizioso. His seventh place finish was something he raced for near the end of the race and he obviously wanted to beat Dovizioso and he did. His placing did knock Dovizioso back to eighth place and in combination with Colin …read more

Kyle Busch will go for the three in a row Sunday on the 1.5-mile surface of Texas Motor speedway in the Dickies 500 Sprint Cup Series event scheduled after he won his second race of the weekend in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race the O’Reilly Challenge. If he is able to accomplish the feat and win the Dickies 500 on Sunday from fifth on the grid, they’ll have to open up another page of NASCAR history because he would be the first driver to ever win all three races; the Camping World Truck, Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup Series race on …read more