Archive for the 'Grand Prix' Category

Honda Previews Motegi MotoGP

HAYDEN HEADS TO HONDA’S HOME IN POSITIVE MOOD
With this season’s MotoGP World Championship showing every sign of reaching a conclusion at perhaps the very last round of the season, series points leader Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda RC211V) hits Motegi for round 15 of this 17 race series with a 21-point advantage over his nearest rival […]

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

In the lap of luxury with the Honda Civic hybrid

The Honda Civic petrol-electric hybrid is curvaceous and streamlined as well as being reliable and well engineered.
Inside, the chunky dashboard is perhaps a little bulky and crowded with buttons but the stereo controls built into the steering wheel are a nice modern touch.
There’s plenty of room in both the front and rear of the car […]

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Fortuna Honda Optimistic

The following release is from Fortuna Racing:
The first day of free practice for the Australian Grand Prix took place at Phillip Island in fresh spring temperatures with the thermometers registering 15ºC in the morning and 18°C in the afternoon. It was a good morning for Marco Melandri, who set the fourth fastest time (1’30”863). The […]

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

TEAM FFM HONDA GP 125

No break for the Team FFM Honda GP 125 since the Australian Grand Prix has started today on the circuit of Phillip Island. Mike di Meglio (Team FFM Honda GP 125 - Honda RS125 ‘Kit HRC’), realised good practice in cold weather conditions (14° in the morning) .6th position in free practice, Mike kept on […]

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

TEAM FFM HONDA GP 125

The Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang didn’t give a chance to the French young riders in 125cc.
The race was interrupted by red flag because of a crash and so a second start was given. Mike di Meglio (Team FFM Honda GP 125 - Honda RS125 ‘Kit HRC’), 17th before the stop of the race, crashed […]

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Ferrari Silicon Valley and R. Ferri Competizione Join Forces for Grand Prix of Mosport

Ferrari Silicon Valley/and R. Ferri Competizione continue their successful teaming as they head to Ontario, Canada for the Grand Prix of Mosport for Round 8 of the season.
Ferrari Ontario and Ferrari Silicon Valley, along with official corporate team member Advanced Micro Devices, have competed at Lime Rock Park and the Generac 500, where Toni Vilander […]

Friday, September 1st, 2006

2007 US Grand Prix ticket program starts August 30

The ticketing program for the 2007 United States Grand Prix will start Wednesday, Aug. 30 with the renewal period for existing USGP customers and the sale of three-day “Season Passes” for $60 to all customers.
All other reserved seats will go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 1.
The eighth United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis is scheduled for […]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Schumacher wins French Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher believes he can still make a race of it and catch F1 champion Fernando Alonso. Schumacher won the French Grand Prix for a record eighth time Sunday in a boost for resurgent Ferrari, finishing 10 seconds ahead of the world champion Alonso.
Felipe Massa, Schumacher’s Ferrari teammate, was third.
The victory helps Schumacher close the […]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Honda’s F1 Bonneville Speed Record

Last October, after Utah’s Bonneville salt flats did its best Dead Sea impersonation for about a month, Honda F1’s Bonneville 400 team was forced to cancel its speed record attempt. Now, they’re on their way back to Utah to try again. Driver Alan van der Merwes saw 256.765 mph (413.205 km/h) during shakedown tests in […]

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

FORD RALLIES WOMEN INTO RACING

Katherine Legge of Northhampton, England, was celebrating her sixth birthday when her father wheeled out a special gift — a go-kart. One ride was enough to hook the young girl.
“Racing is fun — the adrenalin, the competition. And the car doesn’t know if you’re male or female,” she says.
Decades later, Legge (pronounced “leg”) has progressed […]

Friday, July 14th, 2006