Mihai Dumitru
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Schumacher hands A1GP trophy
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / One day after the A1GP season finale in Brands Hatch, 7-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher presented the winning trophy to his countrymen who brought the title to Germany this year. The A1 Team Germany franchise owned by Schumacher�...
Werner, Biela to fill in for Prémat, Kristensen
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Driving a 470hp vehicle in a 20-car field is not something Audi Motorsport would take risks with. German Marco Werner will substitute for injured Alexandre Prémat in Sunday's second race of the 2007 DTM season in Oschersleben, while ret...
Ammermüller nursing broken wrist
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Michael Ammermüller's poor results in the GP2 season opening event in Bahrain puzzled many experts who expected the 21-year old German to fight for the title this year. The ART Grand Prix driver underwent surgery on April 20 and the X-ray...
Jacque to miss home race
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Kawasaki's Olivier Jacque looks set to skip his home Grand Prix at Le Mans in two weeks time following a heavy crash in Friday afternoon's second free practice session in Shanghai. The 33-year old French rider went down hard in the final ...
Mercedes duo shines in Oschersleben
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Despite the fact that he drives last year's car, former DTM champion Gary Paffett clinched his tenth win in the series, ahead of fellow Briton Paul di Resta in a two-year old AMG Mercedes C-Class. It was a tough day for the 2007-spec cars, as ...
Loeb snatches victory in Argentina
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / It's no longer a surprise when tarmac specialist Sébastien Loeb wins on gravel, but this weekend's Rally Argentina was an event like no other. Organizers had to cancel 122km worth of special stages (one third of the rally), while d...
Michael out, Mikhail in
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Russian teenage racer Mikhail Aleshin will substitute for injured Michael Ammermüller in this weekend's GP2 race meeting in Barcelona, team ART Grand Prix announced. Ammermüller's left wrist fracture, caused by a track incident ...
Villagra to boost Munchi's
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / P-WRC winner Federico Villagra is to step up to a World Rally Car, replacing underperforming fellow Argentinean Juan Pablo Raies at Munchi's Ford W.R.T. Raies' co-driver Jorge Pérez Companc will partner Villagra for the rest of the...
Pons closes deal with SWRT
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Halfway through the 2007 season, Subaru signed Spaniard Xavier Pons to drive a third car on the remaining rounds on the World Rally Championship schedule. The two-year deal will get underway starting with Rally Finland in early August.The wealthy r...
Castroneves on Indy 500 pole
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Team Penske's double Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves covered his four qualifying laps with an average speed of 225.817mph (363.4kph) around the century old 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Fellow Brazilian Tony Kanaan (Andretti Green Ra...
Grönholm inherits Rally d'Italia win
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / BP Ford driver Marcus Grönholm claimed victory in this weekend's Rally d'Italia Sardegna to open up a 7-point lead in the drivers' standings over Citroën's Sébastien Loeb, who came with no points from Italy. Tea...
Alonso wins team-mate battle in Monaco
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / McLaren-Mercedes' Fernando Alonso won Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix as both 'Silver Arrows' were dominant throughout the weekend. The breakaway McLaren duo lapped the entire field with the sole exception of third place finisher Fel...
SEAT Sport confirms Tiago Monteiro
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Spanish team SEAT Sport strengthened its driver line-up in the World Touring Car Championship by signing Portugal's Formula 1 hero Tiago Monteiro to drive the fifth SEAT León WTCC in 2007. The 30 year old former Formula 1 driver will be...
Schneider does everything right to win at Brands
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / A perfect pit strategy, brilliant overtaking manoeuvres and lots of DTM experience, that's what brought five-time champion Bernd Schneider (AMG Mercedes C-Class 2007) his first win of the season. The Red Bull pair of Martin Tomczyk and Mattias...
Carl Edwards wins Eldora charity race
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Former dirt racer Carl Edwards beat other 22 NASCAR active drivers to win the third annual Nextel Prelude to the Dream exhibition race at the Eldora Speedway. Edwards edged Kyle Busch by 0.305 seconds at the finish line of the 30-lap charity race o...
BMW race engineer denied US visa
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / The U.S. Department of State certainly experienced a sudden drop of popularity among Team BMW F1 fans, as the Washington-based foreign affairs agency failed to grant on time the U.S. visa to Iranian-born race engineer Mehdi (‘Mehmi’) Ah...
Van der Zande to make race debut in Mexico
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / 21-year old Dutch driver Renger van der Zande is set to make his competitive debut in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport series, in this weekend's race meeting in Mexico, Team Netherlands' boss and seat holder Jan Lammers announced. "W...
Only one driver to test for DAMS
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / French outfit DAMS is going to rely exclusively on Nicolas Lapierre in this week's two-day GP2 testing session on the Paul Ricard race track is southern France, due to the fact that their second driver, Kazuki Nakajima, will focus on his Formu...
Ekström tackles on ice
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / DTM racer Mattias Ekström never says no to an unusual activity. The 28-year old Swede, who occasionally competes in the snowy Rally Sweden in the WRC, was invited on ice by the hockey pros of ERC Ingolstadt to a trial practice at the Saturn Ar...
Räikkönen storms into pole
22 Nov 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Finland's Kimi Räikkönen completed a perfect start for Ferrari by clinching the pole-position for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso joined him on the front row of the g...