Monthly Archives: August 2008

Aberdeen’s Ryan Sharp, driving his JetAlliance Aston Martin DBR9, was denied pole position for the sixth round of the FIA GT World Championship in Bucharest by the Corvette of Marcel Fassler and Jean-Denis Deletraz. The Scot though, partnered by Austria’s former F1 racer Karl Wendlinger, outpaced the Vitaphone Maserati of third-placed Michael…

Rangers’ bid to win the inaugural Superleague Formula Championship struggled to get off the starting line when the team’s 750bhp, V12 race car failed to turn a wheel in anger in the season’s first official test at Donington Park.

Just days after the British Touring Car Championship visited Knockhill, one of Scotland’s most up-and-coming racing drivers, Edinburgh’s Oly Mortimer, has received a career-saving opportunity.

Wishaw racing ace Ryan Dalziel jets into the UK today from his adopted home in Orlando to test the Rangers car in the new Superleague Formula at Donington Park. The 26-year-old will start the new season as one of the favourites to lift the inaugural title.

Dumfries racer Allan McNish steered his diesel-engined Audi home to fourth place in the penultimate round of the Le Mans Series at the Nürburgring.

Seat duo Jason Plato and Darren Turner dominated the British Touring Car Championship triple-header at Knockhill winning all three rounds. But while Turner was pleased to win the day’s final race, former champ Plato was left incensed.

Seven days after clinching his best finish in the Nascar Nationwide Series with a fifth place at Watkins Glen, Bathgate’s Dario Franchitti was the top rookie finisher in the latest round at the Michigan International Speedway. But the 35-year-old Scot, who finished 13th, immediately behind Watkins winner Marcos Ambrose, admitted he was…

Seven days after Britain’s fastest men on two wheels hurtled round Knockhill’s sinuous 1.3-mile track, today  the quickest tintop drivers are in Fife to do battle in the British Touring Car Championship tripleheader. And while expectations were high that Dalgety Bay’s Gordon Shedden — a winner last time out at Oulton Park…

Fifer Gordon Shedden aims to carry his race-winning form form Oulton Park into this weekend’s British Touring Car Championship triple-header at Knockhill. The 29-year-old brought to an end his miserable run of fortune when he led from start-to-finish in the final race at the Cheshire circuit and now the Team Halfords leader…