Italian racing car constructor Dallara has inaugurated its first simulator which was developed in collaboration with Ferrari and will allow to train drivers and engineers and improve the performance of both race and road going cars

Starting with the 2011 MotoGP season the AMG logo will be featured on the bodywork of the Ducati Corse bikes and on its riders' leathers as the partnership announced on the 18th of November quickly becomes even more high-profile

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: The Scorpion brand is showing a mix of road and competition cars in Bologna ranging from the new Abarth Punto Evo and Abarth 500 C to the Formula Abarth single-seater and the Abarth 500 Trofeo 

Vallelunga was the scene of an F1 test for the top three in the Italian F3 Championship organised by Scuderia Ferrari along with the ACI-CSAI and under the supervision of the head of the Ferrari Driver Academy, Luca Baldisserri

Ferrari makes a different contribution to the 35th edition of the Bologna Motor Show with a stand devoted entirely to its racing activities, led out by the debut of the new 458 Challenge racer, plus an intense track programme

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari's Bologna display is headlined by the world debut of the 458 Challenge as well as featuring the successful F430 GT and the F60, the single-seater used during the 2009 F1 season 

ItaliaspeedTV: The final day parade in Valencia got underway with Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, driving a 1954 375 Indianapolis and 1957 500 TRC respectively, led out a 1961 California driven by Luca di Montezemolo

Yesterday saw the last day of the Finali Mondiali Ferrari which for the past eighteen years has given fans from all over the world the opportunity to see gathered together those involved in all Ferrari’s racing and sporting activities

The third and penultimate day of the Ferrari Finali Mondiali 2010 at the Valencia circuit in Spain saw titles decided being decided in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo and qualifying sessions for the brand new Ferrari Historic Race series

Finali Mondiali Ferrari, the event that traditionally brings the Prancing Horse’s season to an end kicked off yesterday with a parade of road and racing cars through the streets of Valencia while today the track action winds up in earnest

Following appearances at the 2007 and 2008 editions, Abarth will be back at the Bologna Motor Show for the third time since its rebirth this week showing its current range with a strong motor sports flavour as befits the Scorpion brand

Abarth has announced its 2011 race and rally programme and although its name is set to be seen on stateside tracks next year the news that Scorpion fans want to hear, that of the S2000 rally programme, isn't mentioned

A new era opened yesterday at 12:23 pm when Valentino Rosso roared onto the Valencia circuit riding a Ducati Desmosedici GP11 as he embarks on a bold mission to become the first rider ever to lift the MotoGP title with three factories

Valentino Rossi finished on the podium in yesterday's MotoGP season closing round in Valencia on his 117th and final appearance for Yamaha the race bringing to a close a wonderful seven-year partnership with his YZR-M1

Valentino Rossi has struggled in all four sessions in Valencia but the nine-time champion made a drastic improvement in the final stages of the last session to qualify fourth for his final Fiat Yamaha Team appearance tomorrow

Fiat Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi put in a superb team performance yesterday at the Grand Prix of Portugal on the Estoril circuit, taking first and second respectively to deliver the third consecutive triple crown

Having wrapped up the Riders' and Teams' titles already this season, the victorious Fiat Yamaha Team returns to European shores this weekend for the penultimate round of the MotoGP season at Estoril in Portugal

Valentino Rossi rode a strong race at Philip Island this afternoon from eighth on the grid to clinch a podium finish while the Italian revealed that Yamaha's management have now cleared him for his first Ducati test at Valencia next month

Fresh from his return to winning ways with victory #46 at Sepang last Sunday afternoon, Valentino Rossi, and his newly crowned team mate Jorge Lorenzo, now travel to Australia for the next MotoGP round at Phillip Island this weekend

Valentino Rossi resumed 'normal service' this afternoon in Sepang as he notched up victory number '46' for Yamaha while his Spanish team mate Jorge Lorenzo's third place gave him enough points to seal the MotoGP title

Eight days after its team leader Max Biagi wrapped up the World Superbike riders' title, at Magny-Cours on Sunday the Aprilia factory outfit collected the remaining points required to seal its ascent to the top with the manufacturers' title

Yesterday was emotionally charged day for Ducati Corse at Magny-Cours as the Italian factory team signed off from the World Superbike Championship after more than two decades of unrivalled success with a podium for Fabrizio

Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo put on a brilliant show for the Japanese fans at Motegi today, fighting it out for the final podium position in a battle that went down to the wire with the Italian prevailing over his team-mate to take third

It's only three days since the penultimate round of the WSBK wrapped up on Ducati’s home turf at Imola, and now the team travels straight to Magny-Cours for the closing round of the series and its final race before quitting

Thanks to a battling fifth place finish earned in race two at Imola last weekend Max Biaggi has become the first Italian to win the WSBK title while also confirming Aprilia's rise to dominance in only its second year in the series

The inaugural Aragon Grand Prix was a disappointing affair for the Fiat Yamaha Team today, with Lorenzo losing out in a last lap battle and finishing off the podium for the first time this season and Rossi coming home in sixth

The Fiat Yamaha Team heads to 'Motorland' Aragon this weekend for the last European stop before the triple-leg overseas tour later this month with Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi ready to get to grips with the new track

Scuderia Ferrari's Felipe Massa was the star turn during the Ferrari Racing Days event at the Hungaroring over the weekend, the Brazilian driver wowing the crowd by demonstrating a California road car and an F1 single-seater

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Felipe Massa on-track demonstrating last year's F60 grand prix single seater, meeting the fans and in action at the wheel of the California during Ferrari Racing Days at the Hungaroring

The Fiat Yamaha Team gained their first double podium since the round at Laguna Seca when Jorge Lorenzo finished second and Valentino Rossi third behind the Honda of Dani Pedrosa at Misano on Sunday afternoon

Front row starting Jorge Lorenzo finished third at Indianapolis yesterday while his recovering Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi came up from seventh to fourth place in a punishingly hot race won by Dani Pedrosa

Ducati has announced it has renewed its contract with Nicky Hayden that will see the American rider stay with the Italian factory's MotoGP effort for a further two years with the American set to partner new signing Valentino Rossi

Jorge Lorenzo took his eleventh straight front row of the season in Indianapolis on Saturday to extend his spotless 2010 qualifying record, but it was a difficult day for his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi who slid out

Ducati, having participated with a factory team in every edition of the World Superbike Championship since it began in 1988, winning 16 manufacturers'- and 13 riders’-world titles has announced that it will quit the series

This week has seen the MotoGP paddock land on US soil for the second time this season for the Indianapolis Grand Prix with the Fiat Yamaha Team looking to repeat the success it has already enjoyed in the States

Although Alfa Romeo has to date created more than 70 models it all came down to a battle between just two cars: the Giulia GTAm and 8C Competizione, in a UK poll of fans’ favourites initiated to celebrate the centenary

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: New world records were set for prices paid as significant historic Italian racing cars from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Maserati dominated the big-sellers during Gooding & Co.'s Pebble Beach Auction

Gooding & Co. set new world records in Monterey for Alfa Romeo and Ferrari cars with an Alfa 8C 2300 Monza fetching $6,710,000 and a Ferrari 250 GT LWD California Spider Competizione topping the bill at $7,260,000

Barely had the Fiat Yamaha Team confirmed that Valentino Rossi would end his association at the end of the season than Ducati confirmed the news that had been widely expected: the Italian will ride in red next year

At the end of the Czech Grand Prix this afternoon Yamaha and Valentino Rossi announced that the Italian star will quit the team after seven seasons at the end of the year leaving the way free for the Italian to join Ducati Corse

Jorge Lorenzo took a seventh MotoGP win of the season in Brno this afternoon with a performance that saw him lead from the first lap to the chequered flag while Valentino Rossi ran into problems from the start and finished fifth

An extraordinary qualifying session in Brno left Jorge Lorenzo third and Valentino Rossi fifth with the Fiat Yamaha riders luckily unhurt despite both crashing out within moments of one another on their final flying laps

After a well-earned two-week summer break the championship-leading Fiat Yamaha Team will reform at Brno in the Czech Republic this weekend as the second half of the 18-race MotoGP season gets underway

Now in its third year of running, the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power, set in the grounds of Cholmondeley Castle in the UK, has come of age, and this edition saw a cluster of historical Italian winners take centre stage

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: From the Maserati 8CM and Ferrari 500 to the Lancia Delta Integrale and Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera, Italian cars were the stars of the 3rd Cholmondeley Pageant of Power

Alfa Romeo, which this year celebrates its centenary, will be showcased as a featured marque at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance next month and seven cars from the official museum in Milan will be making the trip

Gooding & Company has announced an exceptional historic racing car that will be offered at next month's Pebble Beach Auctions: a Sport Nazionale and Sport Internazionale winning 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza

Jorge Lorenzo took a brilliant sixth victory of the season at Laguna Seca yesterday while his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi made a triumphant return to the podium just seven weeks after breaking his right leg

A sun-soaked Laguna Seca welcomed the MotoGP paddock yesterday with the Fiat Yamaha Teams' Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, riding with a special "Fiat 500" livery, making a very solid start to on track proceedings

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Presentation of the Fiat Yamaha Team's special new "Fiat 500" livery in the pitlane at Laguna Seca yesterday as well as Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo in track action during Friday's practice sessions

For the Laguna Seca MotoGP weekend which gets underway today in California Fiat Automobiles and the Fiat Yamaha Team have revealed a new livery to celebrate the introduction in the U.S. later this year of the Fiat 500

With Jorge Lorenzo leading the championship and Valentino Rossi back after six weeks out through injury the Fiat Yamaha Team is in high spirits and looking forward to Laguna Seca this weekend a favourite race for all involved

The new track use only Ferrari 599XX and Marc Gené demonstrating last year's F60 single-seater were amongst the highlights as the second Ferrari Racing Days of the year took place at the Valencia circuit in Spain over the weekend

The Sachsenring provided a thrilling afternoon's racing, with Jorge Lorenzo finishing second and his resurgent Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi rounding off a remarkable return from injury to finish fourth by a mere whisker

Jorge Lorenzo extended his pole position run to four consecutive races at the Sachsenring while Valentino Rossi continued to impress on his return from injury by qualifying fifth, just 0.578 seconds off his Fiat Yamaha team-mate

Valentino Rossi made an unexpectedly strong return to MotoGP action at the Sachsenring this afternoon after his six-week injury break, finishing the sessions in seventh place, just 0.020 off his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo

The Fiat Yamaha Team will be reunited at the Sachsenring this weekend, when runaway MotoGP World Championship-leader Jorge Lorenzo will be joined by Valentino Rossi after the latter's six-week absence with a broken leg

Fiat Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi yesterday rode a motorcycle for the first time since breaking his right leg at Mugello on 5th June; the Italian completing a total of 26 laps at Misano on a YZF-R1 World Super Bike machine

Alfa Romeo has swept the show at the Festival of Speed, Europe’s leading festival of everything automotive, stylish and high speed, this weekend as it rolls out a glittering array of it history on the occasion of its 100th birthday

Following the Ducati Multistrada’s successful market introduction it has now also won its very first international competition with a convincing victory and third place finish in the 1200cc class at the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb

Jorge Lorenzo put in another textbook performance at Assen yesterday, leaving his rivals trailing as the Fiat Yamaha Team rider led from the front to win the 80th Dutch TT and take his fourth MotoGP victory of the season

Another superb qualifying session from Jorge Lorenzo today means that the Fiat Yamaha Team rider will launch his Assen TT assault from pole position tomorrow as the Spaniard bids to take his first premier-class win in Holland

Yamaha has unexpectedly announced that Wataru Yoshikawa, their Japanese test rider, will join the Fiat Yamaha Team from the Barcelona round of the MotoGP World Championship in the place of the injured Valentino Rossi

Having barely had time to catch their collective breath after Jorge Lorenzo's brilliant MotoGP win at Silverstone in the UK on Sunday, the Fiat Yamaha Team arrived at Assen in the Netherlands yesterday to set-up for the Dutch TT

Jorge Lorenzo ran away with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this afternoon, the only representative of the Fiat Yamaha Team in action, storming home to win by 6.743 seconds to take his first UK win in the premier class

A somewhat depleted Fiat Yamaha Team lands on British shores this week as Silverstone is next up and with championship leader Jorge Lorenzo the team's sole representative following Valentino Rossi's injury at Mugello

The Ferrari Driver Academy has taken on a prospective new talent, this time coming from Canada: at just eleven years of age, Lance Stroll, born on 29 October 1998 in Montreal is the youngest driver to enter the Maranello program

Jorge Lorenzo gave the Fiat Yamaha Team a reason to smile in Mugello yesterday as he brought his M1 home in second position, extending his MotoGP World Championship lead after two wins and two seconds so far this season

Valentino Rossi underwent a successful operation at the Centro Traumatologico Ortopedico in Florence, Italy this afternoon to repair his fractured right tibia; the injury was sustained when he crashed in practice at Mugello this morning

At Mugello this afternoon Jorge Lorenzo qualified in second place for the third race in a row while Valentino Rossi will miss out on his home race after crashing in practice this morning and suffering a compound fracture of the lower right tibia

Gooding & Company has announced the consignment of two stunning cars for its annual Pebble Beach Auctions: a winning 1956 Maserati 200 SI and an award-winning 1951 Ferrari 340 America from the estate of devoted enthusiast

One of the most exciting new racing programmes got underway as the Fiat-focused "Racing Festival" kicked off at the Autódromo de Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro with thrills and spills featuring in Trofeo Linea and Fórmula Future Fiat 

The Fiat Yamaha Team heads to its home track of Mugello this weekend and the outfit arrives in Tuscany flying high at the top of the MotoGP World Championship, with Jorge Lorenzo just ahead of Valentino Rossi on points

Ferrari continues to have a great attraction in Japan, where over the weekend just gone the annual Ferrari Festival 2010: Fuji drew 600 owners' as it took place at its usual home at the grand prix circuit in the shadow of Mount Fuji

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari Festival 2010: Fuji

Jorge Lorenzo stormed clear of Valentino Rossi to take his second win in a row in Le Mans this afternoon, making it three victories from three races for the Fiat Yamaha Team this year while the Italian made it a 1-2 for the team

Reigning World Champion Valentino Rossi took the 59th pole position of his career and his first of the season today with an authoritative performance in Le Mans while his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo was second quickest

Today is an important day in the history of Scuderia Ferrari as exactly sixty years ago in Monte Carlo, the Prancing Horse cars were making their debut in the Formula 1 World Championship in round two, the Monaco Grand Prix

With a win and a podium each, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi will take to Le Mans today with high hopes of continuing their victorious start to the season: the Fiat Yamaha pair lie first and second in the championship

ItaliaspeedTV: In a ceremony recently held at the Monza circuit Iveco officials handed over the keys of five vehicles, four Stralis tractor units and one ECODaily, which it is supplying to the Fiat Yamaha Team

Sixty years ago tomorrow Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish in the first ever Formula One World Championship race, which was held at Silverstone, as Giuseppe Farina led out team mates Luigi Fagioli and Reg Parnell

After three days of competition and 1,180 kilometres of driving, the 130 modern and classic cars entered in the Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia officially ended their race along the route of the Mille Miglia, just a stone’s throw from Maranello

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: 1000 Miglia Ferrari Tribute

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: 1000 Miglia

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (VI)

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (V)

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (IV)

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (III)

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (II)

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari & Mille Miglia: This year 130 Maranello sports cars are following the legendary race in a convoy, starting as a tribute to what Enzo Ferrari once called the most wonderful race in the world (I)

The Fiat Yamaha Team's Jorge Lorenzo produced one of the rides of his life to take a superb win in Spain yesterday, the grandeur of a full-to-bursting Jerez providing a fitting amphitheatre for his first MotoGP win on home soil

A rare 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 Birdcage has set a new world record for the classic Italian car maker’s unique racing sports car, selling for 2,464,000 euros at the Sporting Classics of Monaco sale held by RM Auctions at the weekend

Jorge Lorenzo put his Fiat Yamaha Team M1 on to the second spot on the MotoGP grid in Jerez this afternoon after an exceedingly close qualifying session which saw the first ten bike riders all within a second of one another

One of the most valuable lots set to go under the hammer today at Coys Legende et Passion in Monaco will be a Touring bodied 1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500S that was delivered from new to famous pre-war privateer racer Count Trossi

This year's Mille Miglia coincides with the Alfa Romeo's centenary and the official "Automobilismo Storico Alfa Romeo" team has made five remarkable museum cars available while a further three private entries will run under its banner

MotoGP finally resumes action after the Icelandic Volcano forced the postponement of the Japan GP and while it has been a frustrating time as the ash cloud has billowed over Europe it will be an excited Fiat Yamaha Team that lands in Spain

The Ferrari 599XX, a track-only 'laboratory' car, has just become the first ever production-derived sports car to break the 7-minute barrier on the classic 20.832 km Nordschleife circuit, lapping the legendary track in 6 min 58.16 sec

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari 599 XX sets a lap of 6:58.16 on the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Iveco has strengthened its association with the MotoGP World Championship after being named official commercial vehicle supplier and under the two-year agreement Iveco will supply 15 Stralis tractor units and four EcoDaily vans

RM Auctions Classics of Monaco will be headlined by the very rare occasion of one of the Tipo 61 "Birdcage" racers coming under the hammer, with the auction house expecting this historic machine to fetch around 2.5 million euros

In a ceremony at Monza Iveco has delivered new vehicles to the Fiat Yamaha Team, which have been specially prepared with the colours of the nine times World Champion Valentino Rossi and his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo

The MotoGP season got off to a flying start under the floodlights last night with a gripping Qatar Grand Prix and a perfect 1-2 opening result for the Fiat Yamaha Team as the indomitable Valentino Rossi took his 104th career victory

The first MotoGP qualifying session of 2010 saw Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo in strong form, taking the second and third on the grid behind Casey Stoner to set up an exact rematch of last year's Qatar race

Ferrari has recently issued an Attestation for vehicles of historic interest by the Ferrari Classiche department to the famous 250 GT Berlinetta passo corto, chassis 2819, which was more simply known by its nickname, the "Breadvan"

Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo are fresh from the recent pre-season test and both last year's World Champion and the runner-up are aiming to kick off their 2010 campaigns with a successful opening weekend

Ferrari has held a test day at Fiorano for the young pilots of the Ferrari Driver Academy: Jules Bianchi, Mirko Bortolotti and Daniel Zampieri, who went onto Maranello's private track behind the wheel of an F2008 from the F1 Clienti department

Ferrari is satisfied with the one-two win at the first race of the season but says it is also clear that the championship will be long and difficult, while away from the F10s in the grand prix historic Scuderia cars also shone on track

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: In Bahrain there were also four historic Ferraris…and a half: as together with a 375 F1, a 500 F2, a 158 F1 and a 312 T4 there was also the chassis from a 125 GPC reinterpreted as a Thinwall Special

The undisputed star of Gooding's Amelia Island Auction will be the stunning bodywaork recreation of the Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS Aerodinamica by Touring, built on an original chassis in the final project carried out by Carlo Anderloni

The weather forecast spoke about rain over the previous days but there was lots of sun in São Paulo on the occasion of a special event organised by Ferrari's new sponsor, Santander, that focused around Felipe Massa on the Interlagos circuit

Juan Manuel Fangio II, nephew of five-time F1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, will take to the track at the wheel of a Maserati 250F as the championship kicks off its 60th anniversary year at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend

The newly-formed Ferrari Driver Academy is taking its first steps and widening its programme as three more young driver are taking part in the project and joining Jules Bianchi: Mirko Bortolotti, Daniel Zampieri and Raffaele Marciello

Motorbike fans attending this weekend’s opening round of the Superbike World Championship at Philip Island will have an opportunity to see the latest and most powerful Alfa Romeo Mito, the 170 bhp 1.4 litre turbocharged Quadrifoglio Verde

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: World Superbike Championship Rd 1, Philip Island - Alfa Romeo MiTo 1.4 TBi MultiAir Quadrifoglio Verde 170 bhp [Safety Car]

Next month's Bahrain Grand Prix will mark the beginning of the 60th anniversary of Formula 1 and three evocative Italian winners from that first decade - the Alfa Romeo 158, Ferrari 500 F2 and Maserati 250F - will be honoured at the race

"It felt very special – the more I drove it, the better it got and the more the memories came flooding back," said Chris Amon as he reflected on being reunited with a great love of his life, a 57-year-old Maserati 250F grand Prix single seater

One of the most legendary names in motor racing sponsorship history, Alitalia, synonymous with the golden era of Lancia in rallying, will reappear this year adorning the fairings of the factory Aprilias contesting the Superbike World Championship

Following the experience gained over the last two years, Iveco has taken a further step into the world of the MotoGP World Championship and into the Fiat Yamaha Team in particular with increased visibility through the supply of its trucks and vans

Chris Amon’s Maserati 250F, the car that launched the Kiwi driver’s legendary career, is ready for next weekend’s reunion with its most famous driver since its total rebuild by the Southward Collection and a successful track shakedown test

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat Yamaha Team 2010 official launch and new livery presentation at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia ahead of a two-day MotoGP test (I): Fiat Automobiles CEO Lorenzo Sistino

Fiat Automobiles is joining forces once again with the official Yamaha team for the 2010 season of the MotoGP World Championship, coming after the last two seasons, 2008 and 2009, saw the Fiat Yamaha Team taking a clean sweep of titles

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat Yamaha Team 2010 official launch and new livery presentation at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia ahead of a two-day MotoGP test (I): Jorge Lorenzo interview

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat Yamaha Team 2010 official launch and new livery presentation at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia ahead of a two-day MotoGP test (I): Valentino Rossi interview

Lambretta, best known for its small and distinctly shaped scooters, is set to return to world championship motorbike racing more than half a century after the the famous Italian brand name last competed in racing with a factory team

Legendary New Zealand racing driver Chris Amon will be reunited with the Maserati 250F that kick-started his career when he demonstrates the fully restored car at the New Zealand Grand Prix at the Manfield race track on 13-14 February

On the glittering occasion of Capacete de Ouro 2009, Brazil's annual motor sports awards, Fiat Automóveis, which also sponsored this edition, presented in detail its two exciting new junior racing series: Trofeo Linea and Formula Future Fiat

The skippers of Wild Oats XI and ICAP Leopard have revealed how Alfa Romeo and its skipper, Neville Crichton, beat them in the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, to take his 144th win in the second super maxi to carry the Alfa Romeo name