Byford to race AmD Golf in BTCC

Martin Byford will drive the AmD Milltek Volkswagen Golf for the rest of the British Touring Car Championship season. AmD started the year with Tom Onslow-Cole before he left to join Arena Motorsport. Team boss Shaun Hollamby then took over for a one-off return at the last round at Croft, but BTCC rookie Byford has now been confirmed in the seat

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/touring-cars/btcc/byford-to-race-amd-golf-in-btcc/

Maurício Gugelmin Dan Gurney Hubert Hahne Mike Hailwood Mika Häkkinen

Alonso takes commanding British GP win

Fernando Alonso ended Ferrari's victory drought by charging to his team's first victory of the year in the British Grand Prix. Championship leader Sebastian Vettel and poleman Mark Webber had to settle for the remaining podium spots in the two Red Bulls, with Vettel just holding on in a huge late battle between the pair.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/alonso-takes-commanding-british-gp-win/

Innes Ireland Eddie Irvine Chris Irwin Jean Pierre Jabouille Jimmy Jackson

Teams reach agreement on diffuser row

Formula 1's row over the off-throttle use of blown diffusers is now at an end, after Ferrari and Sauber agreed to join other teams in backing plans to ditch the ban on the concept. Although at a Sunday morning meeting the two outfits were alone in failing to support the offer from the FIA to revert engine mapping settings to how they were in Valencia, the two have now indicated that they will support the move

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/teams-reach-agreement-on-diffuser-row/

Gerino Gerini Peter Gethin Piercarlo Ghinzani Bruno Giacomelli Dick Gibson

Rosberg hopes Britain is turning point

Nico Rosberg believes the British Grand Prix could be the race that turns Mercedes' season around and sees it start to close on the top three teams again. The German was encouraged that even after a poor first lap that dropped him into the midfield, he was still able to come back through to sixth place. "I had a really good start but then I didn't do the best of jobs on the first lap so I fell back a bit.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/rosberg-hopes-britain-is-turning-point/

Bruce Johnstone Alan Jones Tom Jones Juan Jover Oswald Karch

Why Jessica Rides

Here?s the 13th portrait in Streetsblog?s weekly ?Why I Ride? series. Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov Jessica is the fitness editor for Prevention magazine. She’s lived in New York for ten years, but has only been commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan for the last couple of months. Not that she hasn’t been riding. She’s ticked up countless laps [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/07/08/why-jessica-rides/

Bobby Grim Romain Grosjean Olivier Grouillard Brian Gubby André Guelfi

Turkington lands drive for Donington

Colin Turkington will return to the World Touring Car Championship after securing a deal to race at Donington Park with Wiechers-Sport next week. The former BTCC champion and WTCC race winner, who competed in the WTCC last year, will join the German squad for the British round.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/touring-cars/wtcc/turkington-lands-drive-for-donington/

Miguel Ángel Guerra Roberto Guerrero Maurício Gugelmin Dan Gurney Hubert Hahne