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Carrera Cup Secures Complispace Partnership

As Australia’s leading corporate governance tool, CompliSpace knows excellence.

And that is why the Porsche Carrera Cup is thrilled CompliSpace will join the category as sponsor of the championship’s next round at Barbagallo Raceway.

Perth's Aaron Caratti The One To Beat At Barbagallo Raceway

Given Aaron Caratti’s performance in the third round of Carrera Cup Australia, he would be the favourite no matter where Round Four of the championship was being held.

But considering the event is at Perth’s Barbagallo Raceway – Caratti’s home track – he is going to prove hard to beat when the championship heads there for the BigPond 400 this weekend.

N.Technology Ready to Start 2008 Campaign


Oschersleben saw the final testing for N.Technology before their Honda debut in the WTCC

N.Technology's preparations for the team's first outing in the 2008 FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) at Valencia on 17-18 May 2008 made good progress following today's WTCC official testing session at a dry and sunny Oschersleben , Germany , where the team recorded the third fastest time of the day.

New Title Sponsor and Manager for RBImmo Saleen


RBImmo sees new investment and a new manager for their FIA GT campaign

Austrian team RBImmo / B Racing has announced a new title sponsor, iPOS, and a new manager - Rob Schirle, a well-known figure in the FIA GT paddock, and a race winner with Russian Age Racing in 2005.

Spa: Pescarolo Looking to Gain Momentum Coming into Le Mans


After a podium in Monza, Pescarolo are looking to consolidate their position in the Championship

Third test in the Le Mans Series 2008 Championship, but the final meeting before the 24 Hours of Le Mans, this race on the legendary circuit of Ardennes will, for some, be the confirmation of what everyone has been observing since the start of the season, but for others the final opportunity to turn the tables before the arrival of Le Mans. For Peugeot, it will mean maintaining dominance over Audi, and for the German manufacturer it will be vital to show that the king of Endurance has not yet lost his crown!

Spa: Back to a Historic Track for Audi


Audi are looking to take another Spa win, the very track that saw the R8's 50th win

Ingolstadt -- On the Whitsun weekend, the Audi R10 TDI will make its racing debut at Spa-Francorchamps, on one of the world's most demanding race tracks. For Audi, the race in the Belgian Ardennes is more than just the third round of the Le Mans Series: with every racing kilometre, valuable know-how is being collected, which is fed into the next generation of Audi TDI engines. The same applies to the diesel fuel used in the V12 TDI engine of the Audi R10 TDI: Shell V-Power Diesel is a extremely clean diesel fuel delivering a very high performance, which is subjected to continuous development by means of motorsport.

Spa: Peugeot Training for Le Mans


Peugeot hope to keep their 100% Le Mans Series record in Spa

The third round of the 2008 Le Mans Series calendar is the 1,000km de Spa- Francorchamps which stands out as Team Peugeot Total's final opportunity to prepare competitively for the season's highlight, the Le Mans 24 Hours. Following its wins at Barcelona and Monza, the team has no intention of taking its eye off the ball and has enlisted the services of Jacques Villeneuve and Alexander Wurz for the Belgian event which will give them race practice and strengthen the bonds between its crews.

Spa: Final Countdown to Le Mans as Spa Prepares for 1000kms


The Charouz Aston Martin will hope to regain their Spanish form in Spa

The 7.004km Belgian circuit of Spa Francorchamps, nestled in the heart of the Ardennes region of Belgium, has a long association with endurance racing having run its first 24 hour race in 1924, one year after the inaugural Le Mans 24 hours, and ran its first 1000km race in 1966.

VIDEO: Le Mans - 1988 End of Race Highlights

In the lead up to the 2008, 24 Hours of Le Mans, we will be bringing you some videos from previous years.