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F1 Sport newsPLEASE CLICK HERE TO FIND THE ALBUM OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2016 FIA SPORT CONFERENCE.FIA Women in Motorsport Commission President Michèle Mouton yesterday said that the Commission has helped make female participation in motor sport "stronger" and "more influential" but that there is more work to do through a series of new and continuing initiatives."We started eight years ago and since then we have organised many educational, sporting and promotional programmes. We now have women in ... ...Read moreWTCC The World Touring Car Championship returns to the Portuguese Vila Real circuit for the third time this weekend, with the race marking the half-way point of the 2017 championship season, with just ten rounds on the shortened calendar this year. Extra spice is being added to the race which, despite delivering a fantastic home victory ...Read moreF1 Gerhard Berger's nephew is set to take a big leap forward in his ambitions to race in F1. ...Read moreWEC 
If last year's Le Mans felt like an overly-long FIA World Endurance Championship round, with three LMP1s split by a minute before Toyota's now-legendary final-lap implosion, last weekend's 85th running was pleasingly old-school. It was a race of gruelling attrition, albeit to a degree few experts were predicting. An LMP2 car on the podium had been widely tipped, but nobody would have ...Read moreF1 Toto Wolff concedes that Valtteri Bottas' contract situation is "uncomfortable" for the driver as he was handed just a one-year deal. ...Read moreWEC With great team spirit and an almost superhuman effort, Porsche won the 2017 Le Mans 24-hour race. Earl Bamber (NZ), Timo Bernhard (DE) and Brendon Hartley (NZ) caught up brilliantly and secured the 19th overall win for Porsche on June 18. A comparable effort dates back exactly 40 years ago, when Jacky Ickx (BE), Jürgen ...Read moreVDEV
Eric Van de Vyver, director of V de V Sports, has to react to the false statement released today by Creventics, organizer of the 24H Series, who brags about inaugurating a form of competition imagined more than 15 years ago by his team, and gave birth to the V de V Endurance Series. "The 24H ...Read moreWEC Rusinov will be forced to serve the penalty at the next WEC round at the Nurburgring, after his second-hour collision at Le Mans with the GTE-Am Proton Porsche 911 of Khalid Al Qubaisi that forced them both out of the race with accident damage."We were preparing to Le Mans the whole year - I definitely didn't want to end my race after an hour," Rusinov - who had started the race from ...Read moreF1 Monisha Kaltenborn has reportedly left her post as Sauber F1 team principal and CEO on the eve of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. ...Read moreMOTOGP Movistar Yamaha's Maverick Vinales says he can ill-afford any less than a top-three result at Assen this weekend as the MotoGP title battle heats up. ...Read moreF1 Fernando Alonso's career path has been called into question since his return to McLaren, however, it seems he made an even bigger mistake when he turned down Brawn GP for 2009. ...Read moreMOTOGP In 2017, Guintoli's main campaign is British Superbike, as the Frenchman left WSBK after seven years.However, he also stood in for the injured Alex Rins in Suzuki's MotoGP department at Le Mans, Mugello and Barcelona respectively.Guintoli will be joined by Suzuki MotoGP test rider Takuya Tsuda and Joshua Brookes, who also made the move from WSBK to BSBK for 2017, in the Suzuka ...Read moreWRC Rally GB organisers have bowed to pressure from World Rally Championship teams and will issue a revised itinerary for the October 27-29 event ...Read moreWORLDSSP300 Italian WorldSSP300 rider keeps a cool head at home ...Read moreBSB
MCE British Superbike rivals Josh Brookes and Sylvain Guintoli will team up for the 2017 Suzuka 8 hour race this July, with the pair announced alongside Suzuki MotoGP test rider Takuya Tsuda at the ...Read moreMOTOGP Cal Crutchlow secures two-year deal with HRC, to stay at LCR Honda, becomes first RCV rider in place for 2019. ...Read moreWEC For the first time since 1999, Toyota fielded three entries at La Sarthe in 2017 in a bid to finally claim the prize that has eluded it, adding an additional TS050 Hybrid to its usual two FIA World Endurance Championship cars.However, the #9 machine driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Jose Maria Lopez and Yuji Kunimoto failed to finish after being eliminated in a crash with Simon Trummer's ...Read moreCIKFIA Sport newsPLEASE CLICK HERE TO FIND THE ALBUM OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2016 FIA SPORT CONFERENCE.The first interactive session of the 2017 FIA Sport Conference brought delegates together with the directors of the FIA Sporting Departments. Heads of the CIK-FIA, Circuit, Historic, Hill-Climb, Off-Road and Rally disciplines presented innovative ways in which ASNs can create a clear and coherent pathway from grassroots level to the top of the various pyramids.The presentation on the Cross Car concept ... ...Read moreMXGB The Phoenix Tools Honda team have been having a pretty good year in the Maxxis British Championship with Gert Krestinov and Carlton Husband both competing in the MX1 class. It has now been confirmed that both riders have signed to stay with the team for the 2018 season. Team owner, Barry Moore posted the following ...Read moreWEC Toyota general manager Hisatake Murata has suggested the team's third Le Mans 24 Hours entry may have been a "waste" ...Read more
