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Pastor Maldonado, the new GP2 champion, had hoped to secure the Sauber race seat alongside Kamui Kobayashi for 2011. Full story...

Twenty-five-year-old Dutch GP2 driver Giedo van der Garde is hoping to make his formula one race debut in 2011. Full story...

Hispania Racing Team on Tuesday did not reveal the identity of its race drivers for this weekend's Japanese grand prix. Full story...

The race for the top-selling luxury marque in the United States took a turn in September as Mercedes-Benz used a 22 percent monthly gain to overtake Lexus after nine months. Full story...

American driver Graham Rahal was pleased to announce that he has already found the budget required to run a full season of IZOD IndyCar Series in 2011. Full story...

Competing in his fifth race this season, Brandon Wagner held off Canadian James Hinchcliffe for his first victory and first for Davey Hamilton Racing in the Firestone Indy Lighst series in Miami. Frenchman JK Vernay wrapped up the title by taking the start of the race. Full story...

After a cool 100km ride from my friend's medieval domain (Honest!), I joined the huge crowd coming to see the last event of the 2010 World Superbike Championship season, with two Superbike, and single Supersport, Superstock 1000 and Superstock 600 races on the day's program. Full story...

The race for the top-selling luxury marque in the United States took a turn in September as Mercedes-Benz used a 22 percent monthly gain to overtake Lexus after nine months. Full story...

Sebastien Loeb capped the perfect day with an eighth fastest time on the final stage of the Rallye de France - but the recently crowned seven-time champion wasn't remotely worried about how long it had taken him to race around his town for the second time. Full story...

Formula one will not cost Rome anything, the promoter of a potential street race in the Italian capital has insisted. Full story...

Joey Logano had a little help from a rival to take the Nationwide Series race win away from teammate, Kyle Busch at Kansas Speedway. Brad Keselowski gave Logano the push he needed to take the win and finished second as Busch settled for third. Full story...

Ganassi's Dario Franchitti won his third IndyCar championship in four years starting the race in 8th position only in the season' finale at Homestead Miami Speedway. Series leader Will Power (Penske) was forced to abandon the race after damaging his suspension. Full story...

Connor de Phillippi took and uncontested first victory of the season in the season finale of the Star Mazda series, winning by 4.5 seconds over second place finisher Anders Krohn and new champion Conor Daly. Full story...

As you can well imagine, the teams were busy on this day of final practice and qualifying. We have been lucky enough to film the morning preparation for final practice of the Troy Corser BMW S 1000 RR Superbike. We also spoke with Serafino Foti, the Team Manager and only English and French speaker on the BMW Italia World Superstock 1000 team. They have dominated the 2010 season, winning all nine races so far this year and looking for the season sweep in tomorrow's race. Full story...

Peugeotand#8217;s two diesel-powered 908 HDi LMP1 prototypes kept up the pace at Road Atlanta with the fastest two times in Friday morningand#8217;s official practice session for Saturdayand#8217;s Petit Le Mans endurance race. Full story...

Red Bull's two drivers will take different approaches to the last four races of 2010, team consultant Helmut Marko has revealed. Full story...

Auburn Hills, Mich. - Racers rejoice. Mopar® is dropping a V-10 into the iconic Dodge Challenger. The new race-only V-10 powered rear-wheel drive 2011 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak features an 8.4-liter 512 cubic-inch engine with a 2-speed automatic transmission. Mopar will showcase its new drag car this evening at the Dodge Viper Owner's Invitational in Salt Lake City. Full story...

We take on Britcar 24-hour race at Silverstone in a near-standard Mazda MX-5.

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The DTM series will contest 11 rounds in six countries, next year. Full story...

With just 3 or 4 races to go in 2010, there are no more signs that Red Bull is set to throw its full weight behind championship leader Mark Webber's title tilt. Full story...