Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team pulled out of the second pre-season test in Barcelona today.

Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle have put Roush Fenway Racing on the front row for the Daytona 500.Edwards won the pole for next Sunday's season-opening race with a lap of 194.738 mph (313.4km/h) in his No. 99 Ford.Biffle qualified...

Michael Schumacher tried out his 2012 Mercedes for the first time yesterday, setting the sixth fastest time in a Formula One testing session, well behind leader Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull.Vettel, the two-time defending F1 champion,...

After a year of spats, finger pointing, legal wrangles, he-said-she-said, hissy fits, name calling and more Machiavellian machinations than the man himself could have written, the V8 SuperTourers hit the grid last weekend.There's...

It is New Zealand's only extreme enduro - an event to test every nerve, sinew, nut and bolt - and it's true that not everybody can cope with, let alone finish, the No Way In Hell enduro.But then Hokianga's Mitchell Nield is one...

Dario Franchitti and the rest of the IndyCar drivers and teams are still in the homework phase a month from the season opener, getting a handle on new cars that are deemed safer and swifter."Right now, it's not so much an itch to...

What 18 months ago was an idea came to fruition at the weekend when the new V8 SuperTourers category hit the Hampton Downs racetrack in anger for the first time.The schism in New Zealand V8 racing has polarised various factions,...

Greg Murphy has claimed the first round of the new V8 supertourers as organisers celebrate a successful start to the new series.

Greg Murphy put his name in the history books today when he won the first-ever V8 SuperTourers race at Hampton Downs.In a thrilling race to kick the series off, around 6000 race fans watched Murphy reel in a fast-starting Andy Booth...

It was a maiden day at Hampton Downs today as the circuit hosted the first ever V8 super tourer race with Greg Murphy gave the event it all and claimed the historic victory.

New Zealand motorsport fans get their first chance to see the all-new V8SuperTourers in action at the country's newest circuit, Hampton Downs, this weekend.All 16 cars tested successfully recently and the line-up of drivers is impressive.There...

As the Toyota Racing Series finished last weekend, there was one international driver who was keen to wing their way home.Italian touring car driver Michela Cerruti was the only woman in the field, and had never driven a wings and...

Triple world champion Jason Crump, from Australia, will be among the stars who light up Western Springs on a historical night next month.The speedway legend is part of a dynasty. His late grandfather, Neil Street, and father, Phil...

The memory of V8 Supercars driver Jason Richards will forever be associated with one of Porsche's most famous race cars, thanks to a touching gesture by Porsche museum director Klaus Bischof.The 1987 Le Mans-winning 962 was the...

The Bahrain Grand Prix is still on for April, despite opposition protests marking the one-year anniversary of a civil uprising against the minority rule in the Gulf kingdom.