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Vitantonio Liuzzi won the final race of the Speedcar season in Bahrain but the big winner was Gianni Morbidelli, who beat Johnny Herbert by the slenderest of margins to claim the championship and the $500,000 prize that goes with it.The grid saw the top eight from Saturday lining up in reverse with Thomas Biagi on pole ahead of Damien Pasini, Hasher Al Maktoum, Morbidelli, Christopher Zoechling, Liuzzi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Herbert. Having retired with a spectacular engine failure in the fi
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26.04.2009
Vitantonio Liuzzi won the final race of the Speedcar season in Bahrain but the big winner was Gianni Morbidelli, who beat Johnny Herbert by the slenderest of margins to claim the championship and the $500,000 prize that goes with it.The grid saw the top eight from Saturday lining up in reverse with Thomas Biagi on pole ahead of Damien Pasini, Hasher Al Maktoum, Morbidelli, Christoph
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25.04.2009
Johnny Herbert scored a dominant win in the penultimate round of the Speedcar Series on Saturday morning in Bahrain. Championship leader Gianni Morbidelli finished only fifth, but with only the Sunday morning event still to come the Italian now heads Herbert by a reduced margin of just 51 points to 50. Heinz-Harald Frentzen finished second, and on 44 points he is also still in contention.
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24.04.2009
It was an exciting final qualifying session for the season, as Johnny Herbert stormed to the top of the times with only three minutes remaining. Despite a successful outcome, the F1 ace fought hard to get to the top spot with old rival and friend Jean Alesi dominating most of the 45 minute qualifying. New drivers Azzam, Cioci and Giudici started the session by taking advantage of se
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23.04.2009
Speedcar Series' second season will come to an end in Bahrain this weekend on 25-26 April, 2009. Featuring at the F1 Grand Prix at the Sakhir International Circuit, the Series will have 16 drivers from eight teams lining the starting grid for the qualifying session tomorrow.Three new teams will participate in the upcoming race weekend including Scuderia Giudici, Team Manue and West
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22.04.2009
Drivers' Championship Standings in Round 4, Race 8Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 TOTAL 1 Gianni Morbidelli 6 - 5 8&nb
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22.04.2009
The fifth and final Speedcar Series race weekend is expected to be the most heated this season with 5 drivers in contention for the 500,000 US dollars and Season 2 Championship title. The fifth round will be run as a support event to the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix on 25-26 April, 2009. Speedcar Series' second season has proved to be unpredictable thus far with the Drivers' Champions
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07.04.2009
Speedcar Series will feature as a support event to the Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix on April 24-26, 2009. This will be the Series' fifth and final round of the season in which five drivers at the top of the Drivers' Championship table are in the running for the Season 2 title and 500,000 US dollars in prize money. Gianni Morbidelli currently leads the Drivers' Championship Sta
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01.03.2009
Vanessa Buzzo, Durango Speedcar sport director, was hoping for a podium finish here in Dubai for today race 2, but things did not go in the desired way. This is her comment just few seconds after the finish line cr
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28.02.2009
Former grand prix winner Jean Alesi charged his way through the pack to win Saturday's Speedcar Series race at Dubai Autodrome, to add to his victory from the previous day.
Alesi, who started seventh on the reversed grid, pulled off some trademark stunning passing manoeuvres as he ca
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27.02.2009
David Terrien crossed the finish line of the first Dubai Speedcar race at the fourth place. The French driver, eighth in qualifying this morning, made a good race recovering four positions. Hamad Al Fardan on the contrary, due to some problems suffered managing the t
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27.02.2009
Pos Team R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 TOTAL 1 UP Team 14 - 4&
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27.02.2009
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 TOTAL 1 Gianni Morbidelli
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27.02.2009
Pos Driver Team Laps Time / Gap 1 J. Alesi HPR &nbs
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27.02.2009
Jean Alesi held off a charging Christopher Zoechling to win a close finish in the opening Speedcar Series race at Dubai Autodrome on Friday aft
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26.02.2009
The Speedcar Series race weekend on February 27-28, 2009 will have 15 drivers representing eight teams at the Dubai Autodrome. The fourth round of the Series will feature three Arab drivers in the line up including Sheikh Ha
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26.02.2009
For this weekend Speedcar event at the Durango cars wheel there will be not Jacques Villeneuve and Christopher Zoechling. Zoechling substitution was scheduled because his contract was expiring but Villeneuve will not be present because of a food intoxication. We wish him a very prompt healing. They will be substituted by the very fast David Terrien from
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23.02.2009
Speedcar Series will run the fourth round of the season at the Dubai Autodrome on February 27-28, 2009. MotoGP rider Marco Melandri will return for the race weekend to try and repeat his surprising performance in Qatar with
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14.02.2009
MotoGP star Marco Melandri came within four laps of a shock Speedcar Series victory under the lights at Losail in Qatar on Saturday night, but a mechanical failure took him out, handing the victory to Vitantonio Liuzzi, who
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13.02.2009
Gianni Morbidelli won the first-ever Speedcar Series night race at Losail in Qatar on Friday night, heading home fellow Italian ex-Formula 1 racer Vitantonio Liuzzi.The rolling start was a bit chaotic, with poleman Heinz-Harald Frentzen rushing off into the lead as fellow front-row man Jacques Villeneuve didn't make the best of starts, allowing Jean Alesi to grab second on the run t
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12.02.2009
Vitantonio Liuzzi set the quickest time at practice this evening at the Losail International Circuit for the first ever Speedcar Series night event this weekend. He was followed very closely by Jean Alesi and Gianni Morbidel
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11.02.2009
Speedcar Series is at Losail International Circuit for its first night race this weekend on 12-14 February, 2009. Running its third round of the season, this will also be the first time that Speedcar Series has raced in Qata
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10.02.2009
MotoGP star Marco Melandri will be making his Speedcar Series debut at the Losail International Circuit on February 12-14, 2009. The World Champion of the 2002 MotoGP (250 cc) will team up with Heinz Harald Frentzen driving for Team Lavaggi.. The Italian biker will for the first time be racing a car on a permanent circuit having appeared in a touring c
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29.01.2009
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28.01.2009
The Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) will host Speedcar Series' first night race at the Losail International Circuit on 12-14 February, 2009. The agreement, signed between the two parties, covers the Grand Racing
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24.01.2009
Johnny Herbert won the second Speedcar Series race held in Bahrain this afternoon. It was a win that came down to the wire with Gianni Morbidelli in second spot and a surprise podium for new driver Thomas Biagi in third. The reverse grid
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23.01.2009
Jean Alesi won the first Speedcar Series race of the weekend at the Bahrain International Circuit. The Frenchman who started second on the grid was joined on the podium by Heinz Harald Frentzen in second position and Joh
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23.01.2009
Jacques Villeneuve took the start from the tenth place of the starting grid, because of an electric problem which slowed him during qualifying, and finished in the same position because of an hard contact with a competitor. Ch
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22.01.2009
Heinz Harald Frentzen topped the hour long Speedcar Series practice session this afternoon at the Bahrain International Circuit ahead of two races to follow this weekend on Friday and Saturday. The German d
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21.01.2009
The Speedcar Series Season opened in Dubai last month. Vitantonio Liuzzi swept the Qualifying session and Race 1. He was joined on the podium by Heinz Harald Frentzen in second place and Gianni Morbidelli in third. Liuzzi's team mate, UAE's Sheikh Hasher Al Maktoum finished 5th in the first race bringing the UP Team to the top of the points scale. Season 1 Champion Briton Johnn
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26.12.2008
22/01 BRN Bahrain26/02 UAE Dubai03/04 MAL Sepang*24/04 BRN Bahrain* Sous réserve de l'homologation du circuit / Subject to the homologation of the circuit.- FIA - December 2008 -
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05.12.2008
The Race 1 preliminary classification is as follows:
Pos Driver Teams Laps Time/Gap
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05.12.2008
Ex-Formula 1 racer Vitantonio Liuzzi won the opening round of the second Speedcar season after a dramatic encounter at the Dubai Autodrome.
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05.12.2008
Results with an opposite sense for Durango in Speedcar.
Christ
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04.12.2008
Durango made a very positive debut in Speedcar Series today.
Jacques Villeneuve finished the practice session at P6, because of a problem with the throttle which distur
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04.12.2008
The opening race to Speedcar Series Season 2 begins tomorrow at the Dubai Autodrome. 14 drivers will take to the grid representing seven professional teams at the 2-day race weekend.
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03.12.2008
Speedcar Series' second season begins this weekend at the Dubai Autodrome with 14 cars on the grid. The Speedcars will be run by 7 teams from six countries across Europe, the Middle East and United States.
Two of the current seven teams participated in Speedcar Series last season. They are German Phoenix Racing who also race in DTM,
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01.12.2008
Besides the GP2 Series, this week Durango will enter the Speedcar Series as well.
The scuderia from Ve
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25.11.2008
Formula One Force India driver Vitantonio Liuzzi clocked the quickest lap at the Speedcar Series test that ended today at the Dubai Autodrome. He was among five other drivers that took the wheel at the final test before the start of Season 2 on 5-6 December, 2008. Liuzzi did not drive yesterday but managed to clock the fastest lap at this afternoon's session, quicker
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24.11.2008
Jacques Villeneuve set the pace on the first day of the Speedcar Series test session at the Dubai Autodrome. This 2-day test is the final one before the start of Season 2 on 5-6 December, 2008.
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11.11.2008
L-R: James Grunwell (THA), Johnny Herbert (GBR), Chris Buncombe (GBR) and Sakon Yamamoto (JPN). Speedcar Series Testing, Dubai, UAE, 10 November 2008 (photo Agnes Carlier)
19-year-old British
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11.11.2008
Jean Alesi set the fastest lap time for the second day in a row at the Speedcar Series test session that wrapped up today at the Dubai Autodrome.
Canadian Paul Tracy, former Indycar champion, began the morning with the quickest lap. That was before German driver Uwe Alzen and Alesi's nemesis from Season 1 pushed the Frenchman in a battle to set the pace. They wer
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10.11.2008
Speedcar Series today conducted the first of a 2 day test session at the Dubai Autodrome. Eight teams and 14 drivers attended the event.
Teams from various parts of the globe turned out to test the 6.2 litre V8 Speedcars including David Price Racing from the UK; Malaysian team Meritus Racing, Christian Jones Racing from Australia and German Phoenix Racing that also ran i
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29.10.2008
For Season 2, Speedcar Series is making the prize money more attractive to teams and drivers alike. The 3 million dollar prize pot includes 500,000 US dollars to the winning championship driver and an additional 500,000 US dollars to the winning championship team.
Drivers will also win pre-determined amounts of money for ea
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20.10.2008
Speedcar Series announced today the appointment of Claudio Berro as Operations Director before the onset of Season 2 this December.
With 25 years of experience in the world of motorsport, Berro brings with him invaluable experience having served as Sporting Director of Peugeot-Italy, Team Manager and Press Officer of Ferrari F1 and then General Manager of Maserati and Fia
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20.10.2008
Speedcar Series has just spent 3 days testing new modifications made to their custom built cars. The brand new engines, suspension and composite panelled bodies were put through a gruelling routine at the Dubai Autodrome from 14-16 October, 2008.
Three Speedcars were set up for the test this week and among the host of teams and drivers in attendance were former F1 stars J
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01.10.2008
After a successful first season, Speedcar Series is unveiling new and exciting changes ahead of Season 2 scheduled to flag off in December this year.
Former F1 drivers will be back behind the wheel this season along with a host of other new teams and drivers battling it out for a substantial prize pot of 3 million US dollars.
The provisional calendar for th
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26.06.2008
Spécial bilan saison 2007/2008
Nico parmi l’élite !
A mi-chemin entre la fin de l’édition 2007/2008 de la Speedcar Series et l
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17.06.2008
Speedcar Series has just completed a day and a half of rigorous testing on new components for the stockcars this afternoon at the Dubai Autodrome ahead of the second season commencing in October this year.
The stockcar tested on the track has been set up with new and improved prototypes of the suspension, Brembo braking sys
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26.04.2008
Nicolas Navarro, pilote Speedcar Series #71
Dubaï, 7ème et 8ème manches de la Speedcar Series, 11 et 12 avril 2008
La première saison de Speedcar Series s’est achevée à Dubaï, là où elle avait été lancée à la fin du mois de janvier. Auteur d’une impressionnante pole position, Nicola
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13.04.2008
Speedcar Series' inaugural season came to a close last night with an awards gala celebrated at the One and Only Royal Mirage in Jumeirah, Dubai. Attended by drivers, teams, staff and socialites the gala recognised achievements by contributors and pilots across the season
A spectacular video with the highlights of the season started the evening off and was well received, j
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