Mihai Dumitru
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Big shoes to fill for Vietoris
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Team Germany is only inches away from clinching the 2006-07 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport title thanks to stellar drives from Nico Hülkenberg who won 8 races in his rookie season, making him the most successful driver in the sport's short ...
Paffett returns to DTM
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / 2005 DTM champion Gary Paffett confirmed that he will compete again this year in the German touring car series, in addition to his Formula 1 commitments with McLaren-Mercedes. The 26-year old Briton will drive last year's Mercedes C-Class for ...
Risatti's hopes shattered
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Argentinean driver Ricardo Risatti announced that he will not drive in this year's GP2 series, as his talks with BCN Competición are officially stalled, due to funding issues. 20-year old Risatti, who is the reigning Spanish Formula 3 ...
More wheelspin from 2008
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / The World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) met yesterday, agreeing to ban traction control in Formula 1 from 2008. The FIA proposal has been backed by all 11 teams currently competing in Formula 1.The revised technical regulation now state: "No car ...
Chinese secures BCN deal
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Dutch-based Chinese driver Ho-Pin Tung secured the last GP2 seat available. The 2006 German Formula 3 champion has been signed by Spanish outfit BCN Competición for the 2007 season.Team manager Enrique Scalabroni commented: "I think for...
Hodgson lands Ducati test deal
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Out-of-a-ride former World Superbike champion Neil Hodgson was signed by the works Ducati MotoGP team to test their new 800cc bike. The Briton will take over his duties very soon, due to the fact that regular test rider Shinichi Itoh is sidelined d...
Sheikh buys his way into GP2
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / In the dawn of the GP2 season opening round in Sakhir, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, bought 30% of the reigning champion team ART Grand Prix. The remaining 70% of the shares are equally split between founder Fréd&...
Indy 500 set to fill the grid
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Twenty-five drivers have been named to the 38 entries filed this year for the 33 spots available for the 2007 Indianapolis 500-Mile race, overcoming fears that the traditional 33-car grid won't be filled for the first time since 1928. The othe...
Carroll completes DTM lineup
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Team Kolles T.M.E finally signed 24-year old Adam Carroll to fill up the last seat available in this year's DTM series. The blond Ulsterman raced in the GP2 for the past two years and tested for BAR-Honda in 2005, but his opportunities of purs...
The WTCC goes green
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / The World Touring Car Championship is heading to an exclusive biofuel series from 2009. The first step is the introduction of bioethanol fuel (made from the fermentation of farming crops such as sugar beet and wheat) in 2008. The FIA World Motor Sp...
Spyker targets eBay bidders
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / In a desperate attempt to build up a decent budget for 2007, cash-strapped Formula 1 team Spyker-Ferrari decided to sell remaining advertising space on its cars via online auction and shopping website eBay. Prices vary from 500,000 euros (for a log...
Filippi grabs Bahrain pole
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Underrated Italian driver Luca Filippi stunned the GP2 field by grabbing his first career pole-position ahead of Saturday's season-opener in Bahrain. The 21-year old Super Nova racer clocked a time of 1:40.873 to be marginally quicker than ser...
Massa rocks Bahrain qualifying
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Brazilian Felipe Massa won the qualifying duel at Sakhir to start from pole-position in tomorrow's Bahrain Grand Prix, ahead of ever-surprising British rookie Lewis Hamilton, who will enjoy his first front row start in his career. All cars and...
Burton wins troubled race
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Richard Childress Racing driver Jeff Burton survived a crash-packed Samsung 500 race on Sunday to earn his 19th NASCAR Nextel Cup win on the high-banked Texas Motor Speedway. Burton managed a winning pass on Matt Kenseth in the closing stages of th...
Maiden wins for Filippi and Lapierre
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Italian Luca Filippi drove a conservative race to win for pole Saturday's main race in Bahrain, while series veteran Nicolas Lapierre of France took full advantage of his front row start in the sprint race prior to the Formula 1 event booking ...
Reuter inks TV deal
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Retired DTM and endurance racer Manuel Reuter joined the new commentators team of German broadcasting company ARD. 46-year old driver from Mainz, Germany, contested 203 DTM and ITC races with Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Opel, winning the ITC title (DTM...
Petter Solberg to the Dead Sea
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / One week after competing in next month's Rally Argentina, 2003 World rally champion driver Petter Solberg of Norway and his Welsh co-driver Phil Mills will travel to the Middle East to take part in the reconnaissance (recce) for the 24th editi...
DTM show in Düsseldorf
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / The 2007 DTM season goes underway in Hockenheim on Sunday, but the German Touring Car series' teams and drivers showed the fans a glimpse of what they will see this year. Their cars roared on a temporary street course in downtown Düsseldo...
Red Bull Audi flying high
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Swedish driver Mattias Ekström clinched his 10th career win in the DTM, while Red Bull Audi team-mate Martin Tomczyk took second. The race in Hockenheim was shortened due to a dramatic multiple car pile-up on lap 1 that caused the event to be ...
James Hunt's son makes Formula Ford debut
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / Freddy Hunt, the 19-year old son on the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion driver James Hunt, stepped into the British Formula Ford championship this weekend at Donnington Park. The teenager only landed the race seat with top Formula Ford team Joe Tandy...