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The "unflappable" Sébastien Loeb has overtaken Walter Rohrl as the best ever rally driver, according to the boss of M-Sport, Malcolm Wilson, as the World Rally Championship (WRC) gears up for the Rallye de France, probably Loeb's last ever WRC appearance.

It's a special relationship that bonds Loeb and Wilson, himself a former rally driver and two-time British champion, as the 57-year-old heads a rival team. Wilson's M-Sport is Ford's official partner in the WRC since 1997.

"I feel privileged that I've been here to see all of his nine championship wins," he admits in an interview with WRC.com, before adding "and sad too, because he's probably cost me seven out of the nine."

But Wilson doesn't seem to hold a grudge against the Frenchman: "He's my all time number one. It used to be Walter Rohrl, but then, sadly, his achievement was way surpassed.

The legendary Walter Rohrl (photo: WRC.com)

"To win nine consecutive championships is incredible."

Loeb is better than anyone else in the eye of Wilson because of the way he deals with pressure, and because of the way he deals with all types of surfaces.

"I think he's the complete all-rounder. He's won on every surface possible and has always had the speed," Wilson analyzes.

"But for me, the most important thing is the way that he's managed his rallies and, in fact, his whole career. He's totally unflappable and pressure just doesn't seem to faze him."

Sébastien Loeb is now looking for new challenges (Photo: V-Images.com/Eric Fabre)

From Grand-Am.com

Max Angelelli and Jordan Taylor ended the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series season with an exclamation point, winning Saturday's GRAND-AM Championship Weekend Presented by BMW at Lime Rock Park by 13 points to clinch the Daytona Prototype (DP) championship with their third consecutive victory.

At the Kansas Speedway race in August, Taylor held off Scott Pruett throughout the final half-hour to win the race in the No. 10 Velocity Worldwide Corvette DP to take the lead in the standings. In the most recent race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Taylor led the final 29 laps to extend that lead.

Saturday, the 22-year-old Floridian led the final 69 laps, winning by five seconds over Gustavo Yacaman with Pruett taking third.

DP winners (photo: Grand-Am.com)

Pruett and Memo Rojas of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sebates' No. 01 Telcel/TELMEX BMW/Riley finished the season 14 points ahead of GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing's Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney, drivers of the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP to round out the top three in points.

Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates won its seventh DP team championship in 10 years and fourth in a row, finishing six points ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing.

In GT, Alessandro Balzan and Scuderia Corsa did exactly what they needed to do to win a championship of their own, taking advantage of a second-lap crash by Magnus Racing's John Potter and Andy Lally.

GT champions (photo: Grand-Am.com)

Eric Curran and substitute co-driver Lawson Aschenbach were GT winners in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering/Team Fox Corvette, beating Balzan - and co-driver Leh Keen - by four seconds in Scuderia Corsa's No. 63 Ferrari 458.

Aschenbach took over for usual co-driver Boris Said, who missed the race due to travel difficulties. It was the second victory for Marsh Racing of Old Lyme, Conn., which will move to the Prototype ranks in 2014 in a Corvette DP.

After fixing their car, Magnus Racing and Lally and Potter went back out to finish 13th in class (106 laps down), and claim second in the team and driver points, respectively.

John Edwards and co-driver Robin Liddell entered the event third in points in the No. 57 Stevenson Auto Group Camaro GT.R and had a fourth-place run to finish third in both the Rolex Series GT team and driver standings.

Jim Norman won the first GX championship, taking his ninth consecutive second-place finish in the No. 38 BGB Motorsports Calcium Pro Porsche Cayman co-driven by Spencer Pumpelly, behind Tom Long and Sylvain Tremblay, who took their fourth GX victory in the No. 70 Mazdaspeed/ SpeedSource Mazda 6. SpeedSource.

Race results - Grand-Am (Lime Rock)
1 - Angelelli-Taylor (Corvette DP/Dallara) - Taylor - 173 laps
2 - Wilson-Yacaman (Riley-Ford) - Shank - 173
3 - Pruett-Rojas (Riley-BMW) - Ganassi - 173
4 - Cameron-Nonnamaker (Riley-BMW) - Sahlen - 173
5 - Di Guida-Bourdais (Corvette DP/Coyote) - 8Star - 173
6 - Negri-Pew (Riley-Ford) - Shank - 173
7 - Dalziel-Popow (Riley-Ford) - Starworks - 173
8 - Frisselle-Frisselle (Corvette DP/Coyote) - ActionEx - 173
9 - Taylor-Westbrook (Corvette DP) - SpiritOfDaytona - 171
10 - Potolicchio-Valiante-Sarrazin (Corvette DP/Coyote) - 8Star - 170
11 - Nonnamaker-Nonnamaker (Riley-BMW) - Sahlen - 167
12 - Fogarty-Gurney (Corvette DP/Riley) - Stallings - 163
13 - Curran-Aschenbach-Said (Corvette Z06) - Marsh - 162
14 - Balzan-Keen (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Corsa - 162
15 - Van Overbeek-Westphal (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Corsa - 162
16 - Edwards-Liddell (Chevy Camaro) - Stevenson - 161
17 - KimberSmith-Marsal (BMW M3) - Turner - 161
18 - Hedlund-Kaffer (Riley-BMW) - Starworks - 160
19 - Garcia-Magnussen (Chevy Camaro) - Stevenson - 160
20 - Tagliani-Segal (Ferrari GTS3 458) - AIM - 159
21 - Greenberg-Lietz (Porsche 997) - Muehlner - 156
22 - Long-Tremblay (Mazda 6) - Speedsource - 154
23 - Pumpelly-Norman (Porsche Cayman) - BGB - 152
24 - Lindsey-Long (Porsche 997) - Park Place - 151
25 - Miller-Nunez (Mazda 6) - Speedsource - 133
26 - Faulkner-Stanaway (Aston Martin Vantage) - TRG - 106
27 - Carter-Lux (Audi R8) - Fall-Line - 105
28 - Lally-Potter (Porsche 997) - Magnus - 83
29 - Barbosa-Fittipaldi (Corvette DP/Coyote) - ActionEx - 67
30 - Auberlen-Della Lana (BMW M3) - Turner - 50
31 - Dollahite-Dollahite (Lotus Evora) - SDR - 2
32 - Doyle-Marcelli (Porsche 997) - Muehlner - 1

Winner of the first round at Le Castellet, championship leader Kevin Magnussen was excluded after his car failed a post-race check. Victory went to Antonio Felix Da Costa.

The win, that would have been the third of the season for Mangussen, would have allowed the Dane to pull away in the championship race, at the penultimate round in France. But the championship leader, who started from pole position, was disqualified because of... the paint used on his DRS' flap.

That gave victory to Antonio Felix Da Costa, as Stoffel Vandoorne moved up to second, and remains in contention for championship battle. Andre Neagrao took the last podium spot.

Team DAMS will appeal, so the results of race 1 remain provisional.

Augusto Farfus (BMW) took his second win in-a-row at Zandvoort, for the penultimate round of the DTM season. Mike Rockenfeller (Audi) finished second, which was enough to secure the championship win before Hockenheim.

Both title contenders dominated the race in Zandvoort, as Farfus and Rockenfeller pulled away in front after pole sitter Marco Wittmann had a poor start and could not retain first position. The Brazilian driver was able to maintain his lead until the checkered flag, to take his second win in-a-row, his third one this season.

Mike Rockenfeller, Augusto Farfus, Timo Schedier (Photo: DTM.com)

But Mike Rockenfeller is now out of reach in championship classification, as the Audi driver secured a second place which gave him the title before the last round in Hockenheim. Timo Scheider (Audi) was third, which was a small consolation for the 2008-2009 champion, who had a very tough season.

The Canadian drivers had another race to forget in Zandvoort. Bruno Spengler (BMW) who started from 16th position, was on course to score points thanks to a good strategy, but only until a late incident with Pascal Wherlein's Mercedes damaged one of his wheel, forcing him to slow down in the last laps, and dropping him down to 20th.

Robert Wickens (Mercedes) could not secure better than 16th position.

The last round of the championship will be presented on october 20th in Hockenheim.

Zandvoort (Photo: DTM.com)

Race results - DTM (Zandvoort)
1 - Augusto Farfus (BMW M3) - RBM - 44 laps in 1.13'26"294
2 - Mike Rockenfeller (Audi RS5) - Phoenix - 1"603
3 - Timo Scheider (Audi RS5) - Abt - 2"149
4 - Mattias Ekstroem (Audi RS5) - Abt - 3"383
5 - Marco Wittmann (BMW M3) - MTEK - 3"652
6 - Adrien Tambay (Audi RS5) - Abt - 3"834
7 - Joey Hand (BMW M3) - RBM - 4"444
8 - Filipe Albuquerque (Audi RS5) - Rosberg - 5"060
9 - Gary Paffett (Mercedes AMG-C Coupé) - HWA - 6"795
10 - Miguel Molina (Audi RS5) - Phoenix - 7"023
11 - Martin Tomczyk (BMW M3) - RMG - 7"397
12 - Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes AMG-C Coupé) - Mucke - 7"415
13 - Jamie Green (Audi RS5) - Abt - 8"068
14 - Edoardo Mortara (Audi RS5) - Rosberg - 9"992
15 - Christian Vietoris (Mercedes AMG-C Coupé) - HWA - 10"596
16 - Robert Wickens (Mercedes AMG-C Coupé) - HWA - 11"117
17 - Daniel Juncadella (Mercedes AMG-C Coupé) - Mucke - 11"558
18 - Timo Glock (BMW M3) - MTEK - 12"043
19 - Andy Priaulx (BMW M3) - RMG - 12"890
20 - Bruno Spengler (BMW M3) - Schnitzer - 21"301

Fastest lap: 1'32"396 (Marco Wittmann)

Retirements
Lap 37 - Dirk Werner
Lap 1 - Roberto Merhi

Championship
1.Rockenfeller 142; 2.Farfus 116; 3.Vietoris 71; 4.Wickens 70; 5.Spengler, Paffett 67.

From GMM

Former F1 team owner and boss Gian Carlo Minardi has raised doubts about the legitimacy of Sebastian Vettel's dominance in Singapore last weekend.

The 66-year-old, who sold his team before the 2001 season, was trackside at the Marina Bay circuit where Vettel commandingly won.

Vettel in Singapore (Photo: WRi2)

Minardi, whose Faenza based team was subsequently sold to Red Bull and became Toro Rosso, admits he has been troubled by Vettel's often multiple-second advantage over his rivals under the Singapore floodlights.

"It's not my intention to devalue Sebastian Vettel, who always manages his Red Bull in the best way," he told his website.

"I just want to tell what I personally saw and heard during the three day event," Minardi explained.

He said he is concerned that, while only just ahead of the likes of Lotus' Romain Grosjean and Mercedes' Nico Rosberg in the pre-race sessions, the reason for Vettel's subsequent dominance at key moments on Sunday is "not clear".

Referring to the stretch leading into the first chicane, Minardi said Vettel was able to negotiate it "without making any corrections, unlike all his rivals and also his teammate" Mark Webber.

"His laptime was also remarkable in T3, which is the track's sector with the highest concentration of corners," he added.

"On the same stretch, Sebastian was able to speed up 50 metres before any other driver, Webber included."

But the handling of the Red Bull was not the only thing troubling Minardi.

In the Red Bull garage (Photo: WRi2)

"The thing that surprised me the most was the engine's sound," he said.

"It sounded like none of the other Renault engines on track, including Mark's.  It sounded similar to the engines in past seasons when traction control went into action.

"Furthermore, that sound was only heard when Vettel chalked up his excellent performances," added Minardi.  "For example, after the safety car went in.  In those moments it was more powerful (sounding) than any other engines -- Renault and the other brands.

"I would like to have some answers," he continued.  "I don't want to blame anyone, I just want to get to the bottom of it."

We spent the preview day of the

Editors note: Day 1 is all over but the shouting; for the live stream from Day 2, go here. For a look at the

PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is holding talks with Dongfeng to deepen their partnership, CEO Philippe Varin said after the French automaker's 4th Chinese factory opened.

GM's partnership with PSA would survive even if China's Dongfeng Motor takes a stake in the French automaker, GM Vice Chairman Steve Girsky said.

PSA dealers in China are giving away French wine and perfume to persuade customers that a country that produces such fine luxuries must also make good cars. China is key for PSA as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Europe's weak car market.

General Motors will wait until its next round of labor talks in 2015 before negotiating with the UAW about the automaker's U.S. blue-collar pension obligation, GM's vice chairman said on Friday.

Once again, Audi is standing up for its lights. This year, the German luxury brand was thwarted in its attempt to win quick regulatory approval in the United States for its auto-dimming Matrix Beam headlights.

Ford began mailing checks to customers this month to compensate them for the company's lowering of the estimated fuel economy for the C-Max Hybrid.

From Grand-Am.com

Team Sahlen and Dane Cameron scored their second DP TOTAL Pole Award of the season at Lime Rock Park, but it was a spin that may affect the DP championship race that highlighted Saturday morning's qualifying session for the GRAND-AM Championship Weekend Presented by BMW.

Championship hopeful Chip Ganassi Racing was slated to start seventh after Memo Rojas in the No. 01 Telcel/TELMEX BMW/Riley brought out the final black flag period at the end of the session by spinning in Turn 3. Rojas was second at the time of his spin, but was penalized his fastest lap.

An engine change after qualifying, however, moves the No. 01 to the back of the DP grid.

 Meanwhile, points leaders Jordan Taylor and Max Angelelli in the No. 10 Velocity Worldwide Corvette DP for Wayne Taylor Racing will roll off fifth.

Dane Cameron, BMW/Riley No. 42 (Photo: Grand-Am.com)

Cameron ran a lap of 48.795 (108.749 mph) for the pole in the No. 42 Sahlen's BMW/Riley, followed by Christian Fittipaldi, 49.204, for Action Express Racing and Jon Fogarty, 49.229, in the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP. Fittipaldi sits fourth in driver points while Fogarty and co-driver Alex Gurney are third.

Lawson Aschenbach earned the GT pole filling in for Boris Said in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Corvette for Marsh Racing with a lap of 53.404 (99.363 mph). Leh Keen was second in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 co-driven by championship hopeful Alessandro Balzan.

GT points leaders John Potter and Andy Lally will start 11th in the No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche GT3.

Tom Long led the GX field with a lap of 56.916 (93.232 mph) in the No. 70 Mazdaspeed/Speedsource Mazda 6, his sixth of the season. Points leader Jim Norman will start fourth.

Qualifying results - Grand-Am (Lime Rock Park)
1.Cameron-Nonnamaker (Riley-BMW) - Sahlen - 48"795
2.Barbosa-Fittipaldi (Corvette DP/Coyote) - ActionEx - 49"204
3.Fogarty-Gurney (Corvette DP/Riley) - Stallings - 49"229
4.Wilson-Yacaman (Riley-Ford) - Shank - 49"360
5.Angelelli-Taylor (Corvette DP/Dallara) - Taylor - 49"397
6.Frisselle-Frisselle (Corvette DP/Coyote) - ActionEx - 49"466
7.Dalziel-Popow (Riley-BMW) - Starworks - 49"686
8.Potolicchio-Valiante-Sarrazin (Corvette DP/Coyote) - 8Star - 49
9.Negri-Pew (Riley-Ford) - Shank - 50"961
10.Hedlund-Kaffer (Riley-BMW) - Starworks - 52"256
(...)

From press release

A premier for Marco Wittmann: in his debut season in the DTM, the 23-year old BMW driver claimed pole position for the first time in his career.

In the final qualifying heat, he set the fastest lap time at Circuit Park Zandvoort in 1:30.894 minutes. Fellow BMW driver Augusto Farfus, who, next to points' leader Mike Rockenfeller (Audi) is the only driver still in with a chance to win the 2013 DTM champion's title, ended up in second place with a lap time of 1:30.979 minutes.

Marco Wittman, BMW M3 DTM (Photo: DTM.com)

Rockenfeller was around three tenths of a second slower than Farfus and will be starting third into the ninth DTM round of the year. Gary Paffett was the best-placed Mercedes-Benz driver in twelfth.

29-year old Rockenfeller, is the leader in the drivers' standings of the most popular international touring car series with 124 points and a margin of 33 points from Farfus (91 points). His rival, 30-year old Brazilian Farfus, was happy with second place.

Augusto Farfus, BMW M3 DTM (Photo: DTM.com)

In order to keep his chances of winning the title alive and to postpone the decision to the season finale at Hockenheim (October 18 till 20), the BMW driver has to score at least eight points more than Rockenfeller at Zandvoort. For the Audi driver, however, victory or second place would be enough to secure the title early.

Mike Rockenfeller, Audi RS 5 (Photo: DTM.com)

Timo Scheider (Audi) was fourth ahead of Joey Hand (BMW) and Filipe Albuquerque (Audi).

That was a disappointing qualifying session for the Canadian drivers, with Bruno Spengler (BMW) only 16th, while Robert Wickens could not do better than 21st on the grid for tomorrow's race.

Qualifying results - DTM (Zandvoort)
1.Marco Wittmann (BMW M3) - MTEK - 1'30"894 - Show down
2.Augusto Farfus (BMW M3) - RBM - 1'30"979 - Show dowm
3.Mike Rockenfeller (Audi RS5) - Phoenix - 1'31"325
4.Timo Scheider (Audi RS5) - Abt - 1'32"524
5.Joey Hand (BMW M3) - RBM - 1'31"439 - Q3
6.Felipe Albuquerque (Audi RS5) - Rosberg - 1'31"443 - Q3
7.Edoardo Mortara (Audi RS5) - Rosberg - 1'31"460 - Q3
8.Timo Glock (BMW M3) - MTEK - 1'31"614 - Q3
9.Adrien Tambay (Audi RS5) - Abt - 1'31"621 - Q3
10.Miguel Molina (Audi RS5) - Phoenix - 1'32"106 - Q3
11.Mattias Ekstrom (Audi RS5) - Abt - 1'31"382 - Q2
12.Gary Paffett (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - HWA - 1'31"414 - Q2
13.Dirk Werner (BMW M3) - Schnitzer - 1'31"442 - Q2
14.Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - Mucke - 1'31"445 - Q2
15.Andy Priaulx - (BMW M3) - RMG - 1'31"539 - Q2
16.Christian Vietoris (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - HWA - 1'32"055 - Q1
17.Jamie Green (Audi RS5) - Abt - 1'32"062 - Q1
18.Bruno Spengler (BMW M3) - Schnitzer - 1'31"546 - Q2
19.Martin Tomczyk (BMW M3) - RMG - 1'32"088 - Q1
20.Daniel Juncadella (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - Mucke - 1'32"145 - Q1
21.Robert Wickens (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - HWA - 1'32"241 - Q1
22.Roberto Merhi (Mercedes AMG-C Coupè) - HWA - 1'32"357 - Q1

On September 28th, 2008, SpaceX (founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk) managed to put a satellite into orbit using the Falcon 1 launch vehicle.

It was the fourth try for SpaceX after three failed attempts -- March 2006, March 2007, and August 2008.

Man, that Musk guy can do just about anything!

Source: Futura-Sciences.com

Dale Earnhardt Jr. showed that his Chase hopes aren't going down without a fight as he put his Chevrolet on the pole at the Dover International Raceway.

It was his first pole at the one-mile oval, second this year, moreover he set a new record at the track known as the Monster Mile at 161.849mph (or 22.243) eclipsing the nine-year old record set by Jeremy Mayfield at 161.522mph. It was the 17th time this season that a qualifying record was beaten.

Even though NASCAR's most popular driver had a good day; Matt Kenseth the series points leader, and winner of the previous two Chase races, put his Toyota alongside Earnhardt's Chevy SS a mere .006 seconds slower at 161.805mph.

Rival Chase drivers Ryan Newman (161.740 mph) and Carl Edwards (161.609 mph) qualified third and fourth, respectively, while Aric Almirola (who drives for Richard Petty Motorsports) equaled Edwards at 161.609 mph, to earn the fifth starting spot.

With NASCAR single car qualifying, Earnhardt nervously awaited the remaining 17 drivers to take his provisional pole, but, that didn't happen.

"I was expecting to put a good lap down," Earnhardt said.

Photo: facebook.com/DaleJr

"I thought we'd be competitive enough to get inside the top 10 pretty easily... I made a couple of small errors out in the car, but you never drive every lap perfectly. You always kind of wish you could have done things a little differently. I think the car had maybe another half a tenth (of a second) or a tenth in it.

"I watched the lap tracker on a couple of guys. The 99 (Edwards), they were a tenth-and-a-half better than us by the time they got into Turn 3 or the middle of 3 and 4. So, yeah, I thought there was a good amount of time left out there for a lot of guys, myself included."

When Kenseth heard he had fallen .006 off the pole-winning lap, he radioed, "My bad," to his team, but changing conditions had more to do with Kenseth's second-place effort.

"I feel bad we missed the pole by just that little bit," Kenseth said. "(Crew chief) Jason (Ratcliff) and I both had a feeling it was going to go like that when we saw the sun pop out before we left (on the qualifying run). It just got too free and lost too much time...

"I felt like from the seat I got everything it had in it... Gosh, we just missed it by a little bit -- just too loose, just couldn't stay in the gas."

Earnhardt who is 11th in the standings 62 points behind Kenseth added "he's having a great year, but hopefully we can beat him. We want to get up there and regain our ground and get back into this thing if we can."

Kyle Busch, second in the standings to his teammate, Kenseth will start 14th while five-time champ, Jimmie Johnson, who is third in the standings qualified 8th.

From Sauber F1 Team

Between the Singapore and Korean Grands Prix the Sauber F1 Team headed to Russia for a first taste of the Sochi International Street Circuit, which will be hosting the 2014 Russian Grand Prix.

Sergey Sirotkin, who is set to make his race debut next year, drove a Formula One car for the very first time during the show run, which was part of the 12th International Investment Forum.

Blasting the C31 along the 700 meters of tarmac that are already finished, Sirotkin was able to get a taste of what lies ahead of him next year.

Sergey Siroktin, Sauber C31 (Photo: Sauber)

“These were my first metres in a Formula One car, which obviously is something very special, even though it was only a short part of the Sochi track.”

“We are proud to be part of this historic event - a Russian driver drives a Formula One car for the first time at the track in Sochi,” added team principal Monisha Kaltenborn.

“The show run marks an important milestone in the lead up to the inaugural Russian Formula One Grand Prix, which our team is looking forward to.”

From press release

Formula Race Promotions today confirmed that the Atlantic Championship Series will race in 2014, as the Series will expand to include five full-event weekends with two races each, comprising a 10-round Championship calendar presented by Hoosier Racing Tire.

Formula Race Promotions operated the Atlantic campaign in 2012, running an exhibition season with three race weekends and six rounds.

A hiatus year was taken in 2013 to formulate an expanded operation, and a schedule including top race tracks in the country is nearing completion with dates at Watkins Glen, Road Atlanta, Virginia International Raceway and more already booked.

“The enthusiasm I experienced last weekend from the Atlantic entrants at the 50th Anniversary SCCA Runoffs at Road America convinced me that the time is right to present the racers, teams and fans an expanded season for this iconic class of spectacular cars in 2014,” said Series Managing Director Michael Rand.

Photo: atlanticchampionshipseries.com

“An exciting season of one double-race weekend per month starting in April and winding up on Labor Day weekend at great race tracks holds great promise for all.”

While other forms of the pro class have focused on a spec chassis, Formula Race Promotions will, like in 2012, allow all Atlantic cars a level playing field.

Fans can look forward to seeing and hearing the likes of Swift 014/Toyotas going up against the current generation Swift 016/Mazdas, and the occasional Ralt RT40 or RT41 challenging at the front of the field.

In 2012, David Grant cruised to the title for Polestar Racing Group, winning four of six races in his Swift 014. Grant moved laterally in 2013, racing in the F2000 Series, and even making a pair of F1600 starts, with two second place finishes.

The Atlantic cars will join the F2000 and F1600 Series on all their race weekends in 2014.

Similar to the business model behind F2000 and F1600, Atlantic drivers and teams can expect hefty amounts of track time, reasonable entry and registration costs, a controlled spec tire from Hoosier, and a dedicated and hard-working Series staff at every event.

The full F2000, F1600 and Atlantic schedule will be released shortly.

Mazda Canada is recalling 25,155 Mazda6 sedans from 2009-2013 due to a door locking problem.

In some cases, door latch screws could loosen over time, causing the door(s) to fail to latch when closed and illuminating the door ajar warning light. If the car is driven in this condition, the door(s) could open, increasing the risk of an accident.

Mazda dealers will therefore inspect and re-tighten or replace the latch screws.

Photo: Sébastien D'Amour