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Following the denial statement of the Mexican telecommunication millionaire Carlos Slim, Honda Racing F1 is not listed in his interest. However, a possible buyer could be Vijay Mallya, an Indian businessman who has invested and bought the former Spyker team. Although Honda Racing F1 is priced at the moment with 1$ tag, the major costs [...]

Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman will not buy the Honda Racing F1 Team. There were rumours for the past few days, that a deal was so close to go through. However in a recent statement by the telecommunication millionaire, it was clearly denied that there was no negotiation between them.

It is not good news for racing fans. Following Honda’s official statement and withdraw from Formula One activities, here comes Audi and will no longer have a works team in the LeMans Series in 2009. Yet again, one of the reasons for the nine consecutive LMP1 championships winner, is the current economic conditions that Audi’s [...]

Honda and Andretti Green Promotions have teamed up to return Indy racing to the streets of Toronto, Canada after the event went down with the Champ Car series. The Honda Toronto Indy is scheduled for July 10-12 2009. Michael Andretti, now owner of the event, is a former 7-time winner pictured here in 2001.

Honda has given its Formula 1 team three months to find a new owner – or else the team will shut down. An announcement is expected from Japan in the course of the next few hours. The good news is that the team is already out there looking for backing and hopes to find sponsorship [...]

Multiple sources are now reporting that Honda Racing F1 is being put up for sale and that if the sale is not completed by Christmas the team will be closed down. There is no confirmation from any Honda company officials, but teams across Europe are reporting that they have received a rush of applications from [...]

Honda Racing F1 Team is giving away a signed pair of race boots used by Jenson Button at this month’s Race of Champions. This is your chance to enter into Jenson’s race boots literally. Jenson Button will be taking part in his second Race of Champions on Sunday 14, December and Honda Racing F1 Team [...]

The youngest Formula 1 World Champion in history, Lewis Hamilton has no shortage of talent behind the wheel. Now that the ‘silly season’ has arrived, however, he’s taken to a more conceptual field, and designed his own personal take on the ultimate F1 circuit. Though the track is thus far nothing more than a design, [...]

Got a few bucks, an old beater and some free time between Christmas and New Years? Why not drive it in a 24 hour enduro? The 24 Hours of LeMons is a weekend-long race for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for total of $500 or less. Each team may also face qualifying rounds such [...]

With the year slowly closing to an end, what better way to end the year then to compete in the 2006 Redline Time Attack finals.  This year’s closer was in Bakersfield, California at Buttonwillow Raceway, running configuration Clockwise #13 (CW13). These time attack events give an opportunity for tuner shops to build dedicated cars to [...]

AJ-Racing returned to defend their title of Limited FR Class at the annual SuperStreet Time Attack event held at Buttonwillow Raceway in Southern California November 8th, 2006. The limitation of the class being that the tires must have a treadwear rating of 100 and above.  The Time Attack event was designed to challenge tuners and [...]

While the Honda Cup season was concluding on the big track at Willow Springs this past weekend, the S2000 Challenge Series was wrapping up right next door on the Streets of Willow road course. The Stock, Modified, and Unlimited divisions had already been decided, but the Production Class was still up for grabs between the [...]

This past weekend was the final event for the 2006 Honda Cup season, two races on the high-speed circuit at Willow Springs International Raceway. With two races to go, the championship was still undecided with the top three drivers, Derek Stevens, Rylan Hazelton, and Richard Laifatt, all still in contention.   Saturday was an adventure… [...]

With only two more events on this year’s race calendar, the ’06 S2k Challenge series is nearly complete. The most competitive class this year has by far been the newly created Production Class. This class features cars that have been heavily modified for the track, but are still streetable in their current form. (In other [...]

With the season winding down towards the finish, Honda Cup has become a wild sprint to the finish.  When we last updated you on the standings, Derek Stevens in his megabucks Civic looked like a lock to win the ’06 championship with Rylan Hazelton and Richard Laifatt in their S2000s, fighting it out for second. [...]