Fiat is well on course to win a track title this weekend as Jonathan Start, carrying a 41 point advantage, is looking to wrap up the World Challenge Touring Car B-spec series title at California's Sonoma road course in his Fiat 500

There are less than two weeks to go until the F1 World Championship gets back on track, but Felipe Massa could not resist the temptation of getting back behind the wheel, trying out the Fiat Linea 'one make' racer in Brazil

The Fiat 500 has got off to a flying start in the first World Challenge race "B-spec" cars with Jonathon Start taking two wins out of the three races to go into an immediate championship lead while Fiat sits astride the manufacturers' standings

A "barn find" 1980 ex-Jon Dooley Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti, which he raced with success in the early 1980’s, including third overall in the 1981 British Saloon Car Championship, is going under the hammer at Silverstone Auctions' Spring Sale

ItaliaspeedTV: Promotional trailer for Abarth's new racing initiative, "Make it your race", a brand new talent show and the first ever dedicated to aspiring drivers which will see entrants from six countries going head to head to find a winner (IV)

ItaliaspeedTV: Promotional trailer for Abarth's new racing initiative, "Make it your race", a brand new talent show and the first ever dedicated to aspiring drivers which will see entrants from six countries going head to head to find a winner (III)

ItaliaspeedTV: Promotional trailer for Abarth's new racing initiative, "Make it your race", a brand new talent show and the first ever dedicated to aspiring drivers which will see entrants from six countries going head to head to find a winner (II)

The success of the enrolment stage of Abarth's new "Make it your race 2012" initiative is going well beyond its expectations as over 20,000 entries have been received since March 1st from the six countries involved in the project

ItaliaspeedTV: Promotional trailer for Abarth's new racing initiative, "Make it your race", a brand new talent show and the first ever dedicated to aspiring drivers which will see entrants from six countries going head to head to find a winner (I)

Entries for Abarth's Make it your race 2012 continue to roll in, so that the first international talent show for aspiring drivers aged from 18 to 40 is already set to a success: they opened on 1 March online and to date number over 17,500 entries

Heading into its fourth season on track, and set to be unwrapped in Geneva, Abarth's 500 one-make racer is getting all-round upgrades including an extra 5 hp, an uprated Sadev sequential transmission and a weight reduction of 30 kg

Abarth has announced its 2012 racing programmes which, notably, see the début of a new car on the track, the Abarth Punto Competizione, which has been developed to compete in Abarth's first single-make Trofeo in South America

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: This year's Giro d'Italia Automobilistico saw a factory supported Abarth 500 Assetto Corse racer piloted by Michele Tassone, Arturo Merzario, Jimmy Ghione and Fabio Grimaldi finishing in an impressive 5th overall (II)