{"id":31687,"date":"2014-07-07T19:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/newsfeed-5\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T21:45:34","slug":"newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/may-2008\/28\/newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A1GP<\/strong> Duncan Tappy, the reigning Formula Renault UK Champion, has been signed by Team Great Britain as the rookie test driver for practice sessions. <\/p>\n<p><strong>NASCAR<\/strong> The Auto Club 500 at Fontana was delayed until Monday following heavy rain and was eventually won by Carl Edwards. n Edwards and his team were docked 100 points and 10 win bonus points after his Roush-run Ford was found to be running without a lid for the oil tank box in the UAW Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. <\/p>\n<p><strong>MotoGP<\/strong> Valentino Rossi has set up his own company, VR\/46 Srl, to look after his sponsorship, public image and contracts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>BTCC<\/strong> Stephen Jelley, who finished third in the 2007 British F3 Championship, is to race a BMW 320si with Team RAC. n Matt Allison has moved to Robertshaw Racing and will drive a Chevrolet Lacetti after finishing 12th last year in a SEAT. n Three former England footballers \u2013 John Barnes, Luther Blissett and Les Ferdinand \u2013 have started up a new outfit, Team 48, and will field two 2007 Alfa Romeo 156s throughout 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALMS<\/strong> Alex Wurz, who has been confirmed as a Peugeot driver at this year\u2019s Le Mans 24 Hours, has expressed interest in entering the series on a full-time basis. <\/p>\n<p>The Aston Martin-powered LMP1 Lolas set the fastest times on the final day of testing at Paul Ricard in the absence of Audi. <\/p>\n<p><strong>IRL<\/strong> Ed Carpenter and A\u2009J\u2009Foyt\u2009IV will stay with Vision Racing for the 2008 season. n Sarah Fisher, having lost her drive with Dreyer &#038; Reinbold, has started her own team, Sarah Fisher Racing, for a crack at the Indy 500. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Le Mans<\/strong> Eurosport has signed a three-year deal with the ACO to cover the 24 Hours live. <\/p>\n<p><strong>DTM<\/strong> Mercedes has announced its driver line-up for 2008 and has confirmed it will be running nine cars, five of which will be 2007-spec models driven by six-time GP winner Ralf Schumacher, Maro Engel, Gary Paffett, Susie Stoddart and Mathias Lauda. The new C-Class will be driven by Paul di Resta, Bernd Schneider, Bruno Spengler and Jamie Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,50143,180],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121626],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/31687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/31687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245989,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/31687\/revisions\/245989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31687"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=31687"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=31687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}