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Team of the moment Brawn GP look forward to this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang…

Ross Brawn, Team Principal

A dream start to the season in Australia. Can you follow up that level of performance in Malaysia?

“The Australian Grand Prix weekend was a fantastic experience for our team and the one-two result for Jenson and Rubens went beyond our hopes and expectations for our very first race. We know that our competitors will not stand still however and that the challenge will become ever more difficult from here. We can rise to that challenge and we have a very good and stable car which should go well around the Sepang circuit….  Details

Building on its partnership with Penske Racing while extending its Verizon Championship Racing program, Verizon Wireless today announced that it will serve as primary sponsor of the Penske Racing Daytona Prototype in the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

Beginning with the Bosch Engineering 250 race at Virginia International Raceway, April 24-25, and for the remaining events on the 2009 Grand-Am Series schedule, the Penske Racing entry will carry the Verizon Wireless black and red color scheme and iconic “V” design. The car will be co-driven by championship racers Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas, who earned back-to-back American Le Mans Series sports car titles for Penske Racing in 2007 and 2008…. Details

Racer Productions announces the involvement of the South Carolina Army National Guard for the 2009 Grand National Cross Country Series at the Pirelli Big Buck GNCC in Union, South Carolina as well as several activities and special guests who will appear at the event.

Saturday’s guest starters are Union City County Council members, Mayor Harold Thompson and Union County Sheriff David Taylor. Saturday’s trophy presenter is Miss Teen South Carolina along with Miss Union and Miss Teen Union. Eddie Harris, Command Sergeant General of the South Carolina Army National Guard will serve as Sunday’s Guest Starter. Major Harris will make an exciting entrance at the race, arriving by helicopter. Miss South Carolina, Anna Perry, will be on hand to present trophies on Sunday…. Details

Subaru announced they will return to the WRC as early as 2010. Company bosses are said to be very ecstatic about the latest ideas for the future of WRC. The new S2000 rules are cheap, if not inexpensive and we will have rule stability with this move for at least one and a half years. For Subaru it also is an excellent change to position the brand all new in the difficult economic times.

The new Subaru rally car will be the Justy S2000. Even though it looks unlikely at this moment that Prodrive would be involved in the project, the car could be ready already for the 2010 season. Some components could be taken straight from… Details