Kimi Raikonen For Ferrari ?!

TEAMCAR - Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Jean Todd admited on Sunday that he hope Ki,i Raikonen to move to Ferrari team next year.

However, Kimi has nor reply to the report and he is now chasing by Ferrari and Renault Formula 1 team and Mclaren Mercedes is also eager to keep him to partner with Alonso next season.

Ferrari 1-2 In German GP

TEAMCAR - M.Schumacher and F. Massa finished first and second in Sunday German Grand Prix while pole position Raikonen manage to finished third.

Michael Schumacher and Ferrari dominated the German Grand Prix as Schumacher took his home race victory, his third successive win, and teammate Felipe Massa played his part perfectly to come home second. McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen gambled on a three-stop strategy to the leaders' two-stop and he took the final podium place in third.

Michael Schumacher has a very good chance to beat Fernando Alonso in the driver championship race this season. Alonso can only finished 5th in German GP and this let Schumacher cut his lead to only 11 points.

Raikkonen takes first pole of season at German GP

TEAMCAR - Kimi Raikkonen finally claimed his first pole position of the season at the German Grand Prix, the McLaren man's best time a 1:14.070. The Finn was just under one and a half tenths faster than Ferrari's Michael Schumacher, who will line up along side, and the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa was third. Reigning champion Fernando Alonso could only manage seventh.

Michael and Massa will line up second and third -- one has to imagine that Raikkonen is running quite light on fuel so it will be interesting to see how the strategies play out on Sunday. It was a poor day for Alonso -- not much of a 25th birthday present -- but if Raikkonen can take points off Michael it will be a slight compensation for Renault.

Despite Raikkonen being on pole Ferrari look to be the favourites in the race. No matter what happens on Sunday Alonso will still lead the standings going to Hungary, but by how much? Final top 10 classification: Raikkonen, M. Schumacher, Massa, Button, Fisichella, Barrichello, Alonso, R. Schumacher, de la Rosa, Coulthard.

Kubica fastest on German GP Friday

TEAMCAR - BMW Sauber third driver Robert Kubica topped the time sheet in the second free practice session for the German Grand Prix, and was the fastest man of the day.

Once again there was controversy, this time in regard to mass dampers. The FIA recently banned such devices but Renault submitted data that apparently showed the dampers improved mechanical, not aerodynamic, grip. Therefore stewards have now permitted use of mass dampers but reportedly Renault did not employ them today.

This was because the FIA is now appealing the decision of its own stewards. It's yet to be known when the hearing will take place but if the FIA's appeal is successful any team using mass dampers could be disqualified retrospectively. If it's not one thing it's another...

Jean Todd Stay With Ferrari

TEAMCAR - Jean Todd will stay with Ferrari next season and the result could be Michael Schumacher sign for another season with Ferrari.

To have M. Schumacher's service, Ferrari knows that they will need 60 years-old J. Todd to stay with them. Both of their contracts finished in this season end.

MotoGP - Will Rossi Catch Up?

TEAMCAR - What's the story with Valentino Rossi. Surely he can't really be struggling this much.

What is he doing? His qualifying performance is going backwards. Each race, at present, he is starting further and further back and then storming through the field to end up not quite winning. And not quite winning is probably enough for Rossi to make sure that he can come from behind at the end of the season and overhaul Nicky Heydon's championship lead to be World Champion again.

On Sunday, Rossi did something almost unheard of: he retired. Before that, he was doing his thing of scything through from almost the back to almost the front. Almost unheard of until the French GP in May this year.

In May, Rossi suffered a very rare engine failure with his Yamaha. He was miles in front at the time. Then on Sunday his bike packed up again, seemingly suffering heatstroke. But once again, he had come from the back almost to the front.

In Malaysia, everyone knows what to expect. The bikes will be set up and the tyre engineers will be ready for both heat and the possibility of heavy rain.

Rossi trails Hayden by enough points to make it difficult to catch up. But with five races to go, and Hayden's self-destructive tendencies, it's not over yet.

Rossi's not sandbagging: he's having his toughest season yet. But he's not giving up. He knows that all he has to do is win almost all the remaining races and that one DNF for Hayden will bring him back within easy reach if Rossi's at the pointy end. There's no betting against those things happening before the end of the season.

Hayden owns home Grand Prix in Laguna Seca

TEAMCAR - Nicky Hayden proved today that the Laguna Seca circuit is definetily his home track as he achieved victory today in the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, eleventh round of the of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix (MotoGP). Hayden`s teammate, Dani Pedrosa, and Marco Melandri completed the full Honda podium.

The Kentucky boy attacked polesitter Chris Vermeulen and when he jumped to the lead, the American never left it go.

Hayden repeated last year's result after 45:04.867 of competition to take the chequered flag 3.186 over Pedrosa for the 1-2 for Repsol Honda.

Spanish ace Pedrosa was able to notch a fantastic result in his first appereance on the challenging and tricky circuit in Monterey, California.

Fortuna Honda racer Melandri took advantage of Valentino Rossi`s problems -- who retire with a mechanic failure in his Yamaha -- to add another podium this season.

After this victory, Hayden leads the championship with 34 points over Pedrosa, who jumped back to second place, while Melandri is new third leaving Rossi in fourth.

Vermeulen claims the pole for U.S. Grand Prix

TEAMCAR - Aussie rookie Chris Vermeulen (pic-front) grabbed the pole position for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, eleventh round of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix (MotoGP) that is taking place at the Laguna Seca circuit in Monterey, California.

Home country racers Colin Edwards and Kenny Roberts Jr. completed the front row for tomorrow`s competition.

Vermeulen set 1.23:168 with the Rizla Suzuki to take his second pole position of the season after the one he achieved in Istanbul for the Turkish Grand Prix.

Two times winner this season Dani Pedrosa will open the second row, followed by John Hopkins and standings leader, Nicky Hayden, winner of this event in 2005.

Top ten places were filled by Casey Stoner in seventh, right in front of Shinya Nakano, Marco Melandri and current World Champion, Valentino Rossi, who ended far from the pole, at 0.879.

Msportbike.com Rempit Show 3

TEAMCAR - It is happy to announce the return of Msportbike.com Mat Rempit Show. The event will be held for the 3rd time at Sepang International Circuit this weekend on the 22nd July 2006. Event is scheduled to start at 8pm.

Our main target is provide the youngsters with a safe and controlled environment to showcase their skills and deter them from "performing" on the streets. Where best to hold such event such as this but at a world class facility like SIC. For this we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to SIC, specially it's GM, Datuk Ahmad Mustafa for supporting this community event and has granted us access to use it's facilities.

Our last event saw over 120 registered participants. Unfortunately, weather wasn't on our side thus the need to cancel 2 events (Sprint and Rolling Stoppie) out of the 5 scheduled event for obvious safety reasons. Also due to limited number of volunteers, we now have to limit the number of participant due to limited volunteer manpower. It is however a great sign that the Rempits are finding this event something they would take part in. It has grown 4 folds in participation since it's inaugural show late last year. This event will see a maximum number of 120 participants on a first come first registered basis.

Alex Yoong Podium Finished

TEAMCAR - Alex Yoong finished third in Nurbugring Le Mans for Racing for Holland team with Dome S101 Mugen Honda. This is the first podium finished for Alex Yoong and they qualified at 9th place before the race.

PREVIEW - ROUND 4 MALAYSIAN SUPER SERIES 2006

TEAMCAR - With a massive advantage of 47 points over his closest rival, veteran driver Jimmy Low will be determined to secure the Supersaloon overall title early with a round to spare at Round 4 of the Malaysian Super Series in Sepang this weekend.

Driving a fully modified Honda DC5 machine, Jimmy has been in awesome form throughout the season; winning all the previous three rounds to collect 115 points including two perfect scores of 40 points in Round 1 and Round 2.

In a newly-arranged schedule, Malaysian Super Series competitors for all the car categories would run the qualifying and races on Sunday (July 23) with their free practice session on Friday with the bikers, who would complete their races on Saturday.

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YAMAHA'S ROSSI STORM

TEAMCAR - Valentino Rossi of Yamaha Racing Team storming from the 11th place to the 1st place in MotoGP in Sachsenring, Germany. While Honda's Melandri finished 2nd and N. Hayden of United States finished at the 3rd position.

Rossi also becomes the first racer to accumulated 3000 points in MotoGP but he is still 26 points behind N. Hayden in the Championship.

Pedrosa can only finished 4th from pole in the race, he also lost he 2nd place in the Championship race to Rossi.

Schumi's Record 8th Win

TEAMCAR - Michael Schumacher records his 8th win in Magny Courts of Grand Prix de France 2006 with a lead from the start till the end of the race.

Fernando Alonso of Renault minimise the point that he lost to Schumacher by finished at the second place. They have a very good 2-stop pitting strategy and this allow Alonso to overtake Massa after he was pitting for the 3rd time.

Kimi Raikonen also lost his 4th place to Ralf Schumacher of Toyota due to Toyota was pitting twice for Ralf in the race.

Fisichella finished 6th after another disappointed race which let the Ferrari slowly catching up on Renault for the Contrustor Championship.

Driver's Championship TOP 5
1. F. Alonso 96
2. M. Schunacher 79
3. G. Fisichella 46
4. K. Raikonen 43
5. F. Massa 42

Honda dominate German MotoGP qualifying

TEAMCAR - Honda dominated qualifying for the German MotoGP race by claiming the first three places on the grid for tomorrow's race at the Sachsenring.

Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, winner of the previous round at Donington Park, set the quickest time with a lap of one minute 21.815 seconds as defending champion Valentino Rossi continued to struggle.

Spaniard Pedrosa led home the Honda-powered Team Roberts machine of Kenny Roberts Jr and his fellow American Nicky Hayden on the second Repsol Honda.

But Rossi, who is not a fan of the Sachsenring circuit, was well off the pace in 11th, with Britain's James Ellison in 18th on the Tech 3 Yamaha.

Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo took pole position for the 250cc race on the Fortuna Aprilia as Britain's Dan Linfoot was 23rd on the Teng Tools Winona Racing Honda.

The Czech Republic's Lukas Pesek will begin the 125cc race from pole position and Britain's Bradley Smith, who scored his first world championship points at Donington, was 14th-quickest.

FERRARI Do It Again

TEAMCAR - Michael Schumacher took his 68th pole position here in Magny-Cours this afternoon, underlying that his success in Indianapolis was not just due to any Michelin conservatism but also Bridgestone’s improved performance.

The former champion looked strong all day and lapped his Ferrari in 1m 15.493s to seal the issue just as arch-rival Fernando Alonso posted 1m 15.785s for Renault and Michelin. It was not quite the result that the partisan crowd had expected, and it will be fascinating to see on Sunday which of them has the greater fuel load.

Qualifying Results of French Grand Prix 2006

1. Michael Schumacher Ferrari

2. Felipe Massa Ferrari

3. Fernando Alonso Renault

4. Jarno Trulli Toyota

5.Ralf Schumacher Toyota

6.Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes

7.Giancarlo Fisichella-Renault

8.Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes

9.Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth

10. David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari

BATTLE BACK TO FORMULA 1

TEAMCAR - This is the first Formula 1 race after the FIFA World Cup 2006 but the only thing has not change is - it is still ITALY VS FRANCE.

The battle between Ferrari and Renault continues this week in French Grand Prix. Ferrari stoped Renault from winning last race in United States and Alonso promised to give his best effort to show Ferrari the way out of the Championship race.

WHO WILL WIN IN FRENCH GP THIS WEEKEND?

Pedro de La Rosa To Replace Montoya

TEAMCAR - America, watch out, Juan Pablo Montoya is returning to the States, only this time it's in a Nextel Cup Dodge.

McLaren F1 test driver Spanish De La Rosa will replace Montoya for the rest of this season Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Montoya will move to Nascar before the France Grand Prix to compete in the Busch Cup Series in United States. The move has bring to an end of partnership between Raikonen and Montoya even before Alonso move in as next season driver.

Montoya Shifts to NASCAR Next season

TEAMCAR - Montoya will moves to NASCAR Championship next year instead of continues his racing career in Formula 1.

BMW VERTICAL WINGS

TEAMCAR - It has been a while since some of the Formula 1 team complained about BMW modified wing that will give BMW advantage. FIA decided to stop BMW for using the modified wings but it won't stop them from having another bright idea-VERTICAL WING.

BMW tested their newest design vertical wing for the first time yesterday. The results of the testing have not been release by BMW but it is another good idea by them to make them to be more competitive.

Bridgestone confirmed as F1 Sole Supplier

TEAMCAR - To no-one's surprise, the FIA announced Wednesday that Bridgestone has been designated the sole official tyre supplier to the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Formula One world championships.

Bridgestone will also be the only tyre supplier in the 2007 F1 season, as MICHELIN has already announced its withdrawal. Michelin did not agree with the FIA F1 plan to have a single tyre supplier, as it 'went against the spirit of competition in Formula One'.

Malaysia to host Round Four of A1 GP

TEAMCAR - Malaysia will host Round 4 of the 13-leg A1 Grand Prix, also known as the World Cup of Motorsport, at the Sepang International Circuit on Nov 26.

The A1 GP, which is into its second edition, has seen an increase in the number of events from 11 to 13 this year with China playing host twice and New Zealand joining the fray as host of Round 6.

The races will be hosted in 12 countries in five continents making it a global event.
Meanwhile, Alex Yoong (pic), the principal driver for A1 Team Malaysia, said it was exciting to be racing in the second season of the A1 GP.

“The team is now busy preparing and it is good to know the venues of the races early so that we can plan our logistics for the race,” he said.

Last year, Malaysia finished fifth overall in the championship classification, 74 points behind France (172), Switzerland (121), Great Britain (97) and New Zealand (77).

MORE NEWS IN THE STAR

UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX

TEAMCAR - Michael Schumacher proved himself as Alonso main rival for 2007 formula 1 driver championship. He finished first in front of teamate Massa and Fisichella. This is also the 3rd wins for Schumacher this year.

Alonso was not been able to continue his 15 consecutive podium finished and he manage to finish in 5th place in an accident packed United States Grand Prix. Alonso is aiming for next race in France and he promise to give Schumacher a tough competition.

There are only 9 cars finished the race yesterday.

US GRAND PRIX Qualified

TEAMCAR - It is Ferrari duo for the front row for tomorrow United States Grand Prix in Indianapolis. Ferrari 248F1 is extremely fast today and Schumacher takes the pole while he is 1 second faster than Fisichella who grabs third place.

Alonso can only finished at 5th fastest but he point out that Renault is going to has a heavy fuel load for his car tommorow and his target for tomorrow race is stands on the podium.

Qualifying round TOP 10

1. M. Schumacher (FERRARI)
2. F. Massa (FERRARI)
3. G. Fisichella (RENAULT)
4. R. Barrichello (BAR HONDA)
5. F. Alonso (RENAULT)
6. J. Villeneuve (BMW)
7. Jenson Button (BAR HONDA)
8.R. Schumacher (TOYOTA)
9. K Raikonen ( McLaren MERCEDES)
10. N. Heidfeld (BMW)