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Zanardi eyes Daytona 24 Hours bid
January 31st, 2012
Alex Zanardi says he is keen to contest next year’s Daytona 24 Hours. The idea of the Italian competing in the round-the-clock race was first mooted in 2006, with Zanardi proposing the idea to leading Grand-Am team boss Chip Ganassi, with whom Zanardi won two Champ Car crowns in 1997 and ’98. Zanardi said the Daytona plan was resurrected when he attended the team’s 22nd birthday celebrations in Minneapolis
Lotus reshuffles management team
January 31st, 2012
Lotus has boosted its management structure with the appointment of Thomas Mayer as its new chief operating officer. Mayer will take the position previously held by Patrick Louis, who steps up to the role of chief executive officer
Rossi: New Ducati a big improvement
January 31st, 2012
Valentino Rossi believes Ducati has taken a big step forward with its 2012 bike after an encouraging first day of testing at Sepang. Following Ducati’s tough 2011 season, team boss Vito Guareschi had said that he would be satisfied just to get the GP12 within a second of the pace in the Malaysian tests this week, but Rossi was 0.7 seconds off pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo’s Yamaha on day one – and felt significant improvements had been made to the bike
Williams announces FW34 unveiling
January 31st, 2012
Williams has announced that it will unveil its 2012 Formula 1 car – the FW34 – shortly before the start of pre-season testing at Jerez on 7 February. The team will not hold a formal launch event, instead taking the wraps off the car in a pitlane photocall just before the winter running commences
WRC Academy to continue for 2012
January 31st, 2012
The FIA has confirmed the World Rally Championship Academy Cup will go ahead as planned this season – with M-Sport offering a full 2013 WRC season as a prize to the winner. There had been concerns for the WRC’s support series following the loss of promoter North One Sport earlier this month, but the governing body has confirmed a six-round Academy will begin on the Rally of Portugal in March.
Sutil ‘will take time’ after sentencing
January 31st, 2012
Adrian Sutil says he will take time to reflect and consider his next career move after receiving a suspended sentence for assaulting Lotus team co-owner Eric Lux. Sutil was given an 18-month suspended sentence and a 200,000 euro fine – which will be given to charity – for injuring Lux in an incident in a Shanghai nightclub following last year’s Chinese Grand Prix. The 29-year-old German does not currently have a Formula 1 seat for 2012, having been replaced at Force India by Nico Hulkenberg and seen Bruno Senna taking the last major vacancy at Williams.
Lotus to badge LMP2 programme
January 31st, 2012
Lotus has confirmed that it will back Colin Kolles’ team’s World Endurance Championship LMP2 programme, as revealed by last week’s AUTOSPORT magazine . The Kolles-run Kodewa squad will campaign two Lola B12/80s under the Lotus title, with Lotus-badged V8s from Engine Developments, which is also building the sportscar-maker’s IndyCar engine. Lotus’s motorsport director Claudio Berro said the partnership was an ideal way for the group to take a step up the endurance racing ladder after returning to the GT class with the Evora last year.
Lorenzo ecstatic with start to testing
January 31st, 2012
Jorge Lorenzo was delighted to commence his 2012 MotoGP campaign with the fastest time on the opening day of pre-season testing at Sepang – particularly as it marked the first time he had been on track since suffering a severe hand injury at Philip Island last October. The Yamaha number one was quickest by 0.3 seconds over Honda’s Dani Pedrosa in Malaysia today, while Pedrosa’s reigning champion team-mate Casey Stoner was sidelined with back pain after injuring himself as he warmed up to go out. Lorenzo needed reconstructive surgery on a finger after his crash in Australia, and had sat out the last three grands prix of 2011 plus post-season testing, so to be quickest on his comeback today was particularly satisfying.
Argentina off WTCC calendar
January 31st, 2012
The World Touring Car Championship has amended its 2012 calendar, dropping Argentina’s provisional round, scheduled for July 8, and replacing it with an event in Europe on April 29.
Stoner hopes to make up for lost time
January 31st, 2012
Casey Stoner is optimistic that having to sit out the first day of Sepang testing with back pain will not prove too costly. The reigning MotoGP champion missed all of today’s session in Malaysia – the opening day of 2012 pre-season preparations – having pulled back muscles while warming up.
Toro Rosso reveal set for 6 February
January 31st, 2012
Scuderia Toro Rosso will unveil its new 2012 car on February 6, the evening before its first test at Jerez in Spain next week. The STR7 is set to run for the first time on February 7, but the team has announced that it will pull the covers off the car in the Jerez pitlane on the day before. Daniel Ricciardo is set to give the new car its debut test outing, with the team also confirming on Monday that oil giant CEPSA will continue its sponsorship deal into this season
Sutil given suspended sentence
January 31st, 2012
Adrian Sutil has been given an 18-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of bodily harm against Lotus team co-owner Eric Lux.
McLaren set for new car legality fight
January 31st, 2012
McLaren is bracing itself for a battle over the legality of its new MP4-27, AUTOSPORT can reveal. According to McLaren Applied Technologies managing director Geoff McGrath, the new car, which is launched tomorrow, will feature obvious design innovations which could potentially attract protests from rivals. These are the result of the team’s aim to be less conservative in the interpretation of the Formula 1 regulations than it has been in previous years
Lorenzo fastest as Stoner misses test
January 31st, 2012
Jorge Lorenzo marked his return to the track after last year’s injury with the fastest time in the first pre-season MotoGP test at Sepang, while reigning champion Casey Stoner sat out the session with back pain. Stoner aggravated an old back injury while warming up before going out this morning
Barrichello keen on IndyCar move
January 31st, 2012
Rubens Barrichello is considering racing in the IndyCar Series following his maiden test run with KV Racing on Monday. The Formula 1 veteran completed 94 laps of the Sebring short course on the first day of a test, and he said that he now has to seriously consider if he wants to be on the grid for the IndyCar season opener in St Petersburg on March 25. “If you go purely from joy, it wouldn’t be a problem,” said the 39-year-old
Dalziel: Second hard to take
January 30th, 2012
Ryan Dalziel said it was “hard to take” finishing in second position at the Daytona 24 Hours after being on course to win for so much of the race. The 29-year-old Briton, who was bidding to add to his victory at the 2010 event, put his Starworks Riley-Ford on pole position and led large parts of the race with help from his co-drivers Allan McNish, Lucas Luhr, Enzo Potolicchio and Alex Popow. But a major trip through the dirt for Luhr dropped the car off the lead lap during the second half of the event and left the team relying on clever strategy around the caution periods to get back into a threatening position.
Rankings: Daytona win boosts Wilson
January 30th, 2012
Justin Wilson made a glorious comeback from injury with a share of victory in the Daytona 24 Hours, and in the process ended a four-month slide down the Castrol EDGE Rankings. The Briton had not raced since suffering a compression fracture of his fifth vertebrae when he ran wide and over off-field bumps during an IndyCar practice session at Mid-Ohio last August. His injury resulted in a four month lay-off, half of which he spent wearing a back brace and being banned from exercise
Frijns graduates to FR3.5 with Fortec
January 30th, 2012
Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup champion Robin Frijns will graduate to Formula Renault 3.5 with Fortec Motorsport. The Dutchman earned a 500,000 Euro scholarship for his 2011 championship success. Frijns tested with Fortec’s outgoing FR3.5 car at Motorland Aragon during the final test of 2011
McLaren dismisses PURE rumours
January 30th, 2012
McLaren has dismissed speculation that it is considering a tie-up with Craig Pollock’s PURE engine company in the future. The Woking-based team has been the subject of rumours for months that it could opt to change engine partners when Formula 1 switches to V6-turbo power-units from 2014. Although the team said last November that it was fully focused on ensuring future success with Mercedes-Benz, amid rumours linking it with Honda at the time, that has not stopped a number of reports in recent days suggesting that Pure is now being considered.
Barrichello makes IndyCar test debut
January 30th, 2012
Rubens Barrichello got his first taste of an Indycar at Sebring on Monday as the Brazilian began his two-day test programme with KV Racing. The F1 veteran, whose last hope of racing in Formula 1 this year was dashed when Williams opted to sign Bruno Senna instead, took up the invite to try out an Indycar after conversations with close friend Tony Kanaan. Barrichello has no commitments beyond this week’s outing, but told a Brazilian newspaper over the weekend that a switch to the category could be a possibility.



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