Behind Clive's list over at F1 Insight , but well ahead of the annual Autocourse list, here is the annual Motor Sports Ramblings top 10 drivers list. It's only a personal view, and I think a case could be made for any of my top 3 drivers as the being the driver of the year. Nonetheless, after much indecision, I have arrived at my list. 10. Rubens Barrichello Youre in your sixteenth season of Formula 1. Youve spent six years in a championship winning team, playing second-fiddle to the greatest driver of his generation. Now you find yourself in your third year with Honda, a team which, over the last couple of years, seems to determined to take great leaps backwards. It would be easy for you to become entirely demoralised, to cruise-and-collect on your way to retirement.  read more »

By now I suspect that everybodys painfully aware that Chip Ganassis two Tarz-cheyIndy Car drivers Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon have secured the first two grid positions for this years Indianapolis 500, with Dixon becoming the very first Kiwi to ever claim the Pole Position at the Speedway But were you aware that once, long ago, in what Im sure feels like a different lifetime Their Team Boss, a.k.a. The Cheepster actually was an aspiring Champ Car racing driver? (Otay, I suppose some of you Die Hard Indy Car fanatics out there did indeed) But quick! How many Indianapolis 500 races did Cheep contest?  read more »

Aw shucks, I just realized that its Saint Patricks Day, you know when youre supposed to pinch somebody when theyre NOT wearing green, OUCH! Mary Ellen So with that in mind, I thought Id pay homage to those plucky Irishmen whove boldly sat behind the wheel of a Formula 1 rocket ship and see just whos Kissed the Blarney stone and whos found the luck O the Irish or the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, eh?  read more »

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Formula BMW Americas announced today that Canadian Alexander Ellis, 17, of St. Catherines, Ontario; Cuban-American Roberto Garcia, 17, of Houston, Texas, and Dominican Daniel Vela, 14, of Miami, Florida, have been named as the first three recipients of a 2009 Formula BMW Americas Junior Scholarship. A fourth Formula BMW Junior scholarship will be awarded to the winner of this season?s Rookie Champion.

The Formula BMW Americas Junior scholarship awards $80,000 and automatic enrollment in ...

THE MODERATOR: We'll get started with our post race press conference, our story of the day, fourth-place finisher, Paul Tracy. Paul, I am sure you're happy with today?  read more »

Quote: Originally Posted by P.W. Champ Car and the IRL should have both been unified as seperate divisions of a singular series. Champ Car would keep it's season, it's cars and teams etc., the IRL would keep it's season, it's cars and teams etc. Something like 10 races would be run as division/series events (normal IRL or Champ Car races) and there woud then be division championships and the overall championship.  read more »

  2008 Stars of Karting ICC National Champion
(Photo: M. Vincec)
Mike Vincec's 2008 season started with one goal in mind - to win the Snap-on Stars of Karting East Division Championship. After coming close the previous season, the Cameron Motorsports driver knew he had a shot this year. The seventeen-year-old Canadian made good on that goal a few months ago and then went on to add the West Division title as well. In the meantime, Vincec would also compete in the FIA European Karting ...

The Canadian Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2009 Formula 1 calendar, leaving North America without a race and more importantly making RD1 very very angry. The FIA announced the World Motor Sport Council’s decision to drop Canada for the first time since 1987. This leaves 2009 with 18 race AND a summer break [...]

 
The 2008 ASN Canada FIA National Championship took place this past weekend at the Karting Grand-Mere facility in Northern Quebec. Over 200 karters were on hand in to fight it out for eight national titles over the three day event. Five of the classes crowned the Canadian Rotax Max Challenge champions while the Formula Senior/ICC, Canada Senior and Canada Junior divisions made up the rest of the class lineup. Olivier Sirois was the big winner, taking the highly contested Rotax Max ...