2005

Subaru World Rally Team has announced the re-signing of Australia’s brightest rallying star, Chris Atkinson, for 2006. The 25 year-old will partner Petter Solberg in the 2006 FIA World Rally Championship, contesting all 16 rounds of the series with current co-driver Glenn Macneall.

Australian Subaru driver Chris Atkinson has capped off a superb debut year in the World Rally Championship with a fighting fourth place in a drama filled finale to the 2005 Championship at Telstra Rally Australia in Western Australia today.

Australian Chris Atkinson began the final round of the World Rally Championship, Telstra Rally Australia in Western Australia, in amazing fashion to lead the way before succumbing to a mechanical problem mid way through the day which dropped him just outside the top ten.

Subaru’s Chris Atkinson’s will enter this weekend’s Telstra Rally Australia, the final round of the World Rally Championship, full of confidence following an impressive performance during the final shakedown (practice) in Western Australian today.

Team Australia's Will Power finished 10th in the final Champ Car race of 2005 in Mexico City today, the second rookie after Andrew Ranger in 9th and only two spots behind team-mate Alex Tagliani who finished in 8th place.

Since joining the Subaru World Rally Team at the start of the year Australian Chris Atkinson has been on a meteoric rise to stardom in the World Rally Championship across the globe.

Australian Chris Atkinson has finished ninth at the Rally Catalunya in Spain to claim his fifth top ten result since joining the Subaru World Rally Team at the start of the year. In only his third tarmac event Atkinson exceeded even his own expectations with the improvement he showed over the weekend on the unfamiliar Spanish stages which are the closest that the World Rally Championship comes to resembling circuit racing.

Australian Chris Atkinson will this weekend head to Catalunya in Spain to contest Rallye de Catalunya, the penultimate round of the 2005 FIA World Rally Championship, with the Subaru World Rally Team.

Australian Chris Atkinson furthered his experience on the unfamiliar tarmac surface at Rallye de France in Corsica by showing some impressive improvement aboard his Subaru Impreza WRC over the three days of the event.

Three weeks after Subaru’s Chris Atkinson made rallying history by finishing on the podium in Rally Japan the young Australian will this weekend be turning his focus towards Rallye de France, Round 14 of the FIA World Rally Championship.

Team Australia has announced that it will campaign three cars in next week’s Lexmark Indy 300 on the streets of Queensland’s Gold Coast – the 12th round of the this year’s Champ Car World Series. The team’s third car will be driven by Toowoomba native Will Power, who has impressed many critics recently with his performances in European-based open-wheel racing.

Australian Barton Mawer has secured second place in the National Class Championship in the highly prestigious 2005 British Formula 3 International Series this weekend.

Australian Barton Mawer, enters the final round of the 2005 British Formula 3 International Series this weekend with the chance of taking home the National Class Championship.

The unique World Series by Renault Qualifying system certainly didn’t work in Will Power’s favour this weekend in Estoril, Portugal when his 7th and 4th fastest overall times put him 11th and 7th on the grid respectively providing a tough challenge for the Aussie in today’s races.

Australian Chris Atkinson has joined an elite club in the World Rally Championship (WRC) by finishing on the podium in third place during the Rally Japan, round 13 of the 2005 Championship, near Obihiro today.

Australian Chris Atkinson will be counting on his experience from the past two years in the Asia-Pacific Championship when he tackles Rally Japan, the thirteenth round of the 2005 FIA World Rally Championship, aboard his Subaru Impreza WRC later this week.

Australian Barton Mawer has returned to the top step on the podium in the 2005 British Formula 3 International Series and closed the gap between himself and the National Class leader this weekend at the Irish round of the championship held at Mondello Park, west of Dublin.

The 2005 Wales Rally GB, round 12 of the World Rally Championship came to a premature end in tragic circumstances on Special Stage 15 when Markko Martin's Peugeot was involved in an accident that fatally injured his British co-driver, Michael Park. The rally was stopped and the two remaining stages abandoned.

Following an impressive performance during his tarmac rallying debut last month Australian Chris Atkinson will return to more familiar terrain this weekend to compete in Wales Rally GB, round 12 of the World Rally Championship.

Disappointingly, todays races didn't result in any points for either of the two Carlin drivers after car trouble in wet qualifying yesterday forced lowly grid positions on Aussie Will Power and his Austrian teammate Andreas Zuber.