No one has gone on holiday early in the BTCC

Stephen Jelley has achieved the first HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship pole position of his career for the first of tomorrow’s final three rounds of 2008 at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.

Scheider missed pole by 0.031 of a second

Ingolstadt/Barcelona – At the DTM’s ninth round at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona (Spain) leader of the standings Timo Scheider will again start from the first row of the grid. In the most gripping qualifying session the season has seen so far the Audi "factory” driver was merely 31 thousandths of a second short of reaching the pole position.

The is life in the old dog yet, as Schneider claims his 25 pole, over 16 years since his first DTM pole

Bernd Schneider (Genuine Parts AMG Mercedes C-Class) will start tomorrow’s ninth round of the 2008 DTM at Barcelona from pole position. On his final run of an exciting qualifying, Bernd set a time of 1m07.248. Paul Di Resta (AMG Mercedes C-Class), third of the overall ranking, qualified third fastest with a 1m07.305, and Jamie Green (Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class), second overall tied on points with Di Resta, was fifth with a 1m07.384. Three Mercedes-Benz C-Class cars were among the top five within 0.136sec.

The WTCC marks the first event on the upgraded Imola facilities

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Muller was less then a tenth off Rydell and pole

Rickard Rydell claimed pole position in his SEAT León Tdi during a highly competitive qualifying session at Imola.

Rickard Rydell claimed pole position in his SEAT León Tdi during a highly competitive qualifying session at Imola. He emerged ahead of team mate Yvan Muller in the final minutes, beating five other drivers who provisionally held pole during the session. Rydell’s time of 1:54.761 was two tenths faster than Gabriele Tarquini’s time from this morning’s final practice session.

The Sarafree Ferrari scored a front row position

Marcel Fässler, fastest in free practice on Friday, kept the advantage in qualifying 1, with his Trottet Ferrari, setting the pole in 1'39"400, but his advantage over opponents reduced to 186 hundredths of a second, with Montermini (Playteam Ferrari) in second position. Andrea Belicchi (Autorlando) was an excellent third and the first Porsche, followed by five other Ferraris (among which the fifth fastest time of GPC's Frassineti was worth of note) and the Drivex Porsche of Chacón.

From pole to victory for the Fassler and Moser

Trottet Racing brilliantly took its third victory of the season in the Pro-Am race of the Magny-Cours GT Open, when Marcel Fässler and Henri Moser drove an impeccable flag-to-flag race ahead of the pack. Championship leaders Andrea Montermini and Michele Maceratesi finished second in their Playteam Ferrari after charging back successfully from a spin in lap one. Third position was for Damien Pasini and Alessandro Bonetti finished third in their Advanced Engineering Ferrari, after a strong battle with various cars.

Michael Shank Racing took the last win of the Grand Am season

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Ganassi took a third Championship - with a little help?

TOOELE, Utah (Sept. 20, 2008) - Raphael Matos bookended the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season. After winning the GT class in the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona back in January, Matos made his return to the series by winning in his first Daytona Prototype start.