Written by Scott CourseyThe Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team will aim to open the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship season in style when it travels to Sweden next week with a former world champion in its ranks.Regular drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg will be joined by double WRC title-winners Marcus Grönholm and Timo Rautiainen, who won the...
Raikkonen and Ogier all set for Rally Sweden
Written by Chris HarroldFor its second consecutive season in the FIA World Rally Championship, the Citroën Junior Team will enter two Citroën C4 WRCs for Sébastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia and Kimi Räikkönen / Kaj Lindström. The season’s opening round is held over the snowy stages of Rally Sweden, which takes place around Karlstad from February 11-14.After...
Ferrari and Massa Top Timesheets Again!
Valencia 02.02.2010Day two of testing in Cheste, Spain sees Ferrari and Felipe leading the way again after day 2. After a series of long runs and short stints with both heavy and lighter fuel loads and scrubbed tires, the Brazilian set the fastest time of the day during the morning session with a time of 1m11.722s.Well over half a second faster than...
Ferrari’s Alonso Fires Off Warning Shot to Rivals
With only a few laps under his belt in a Ferrari, former two time F1 Champion Fernando Alonso has not only clocked the fastest time of this morning’s session, but fastest of all thus far with a 1.11.470. While none of us know what configuration and setup or fuel load Alonso may have been running when he set that time, it must have struck fear into...
Barry plans practice rally
Written by Scott CourseyDaniel Barry is planning to enter a rally in the United Kingdom or Ireland in order to stay match fit ahead of his next appearance in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.Barry, who finished 21st overall on his debut in the series on Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo last month, isn’t due to contest an IRC event until the Geko Ypres...
Stoner slashes anti-spin with big bang
Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Images of Casey Stoner wrestling a bucking and weaving Ducati could be a thing of the past after the former MotoGP world champion revealed that his new ‘big bang’ powered Desmosedici GP10 is almost too tame. The Australian was second...
Stuttgart stay in German title race with win at Schalke
BERLIN (AFP) – Stuttgart remained in the Bundesliga title race on Wednesday after Romanian striker Ciprian Marica scored the winner in a 2-1 win at Schalke to stay two points behind leaders Wolfsburg with two games left.Stuttgart are fourth in the table, but only two points separate the top four teams with Wolfburg, Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin...