Indian GP on track: Chandhok

September 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Defending champions Air India will head a 10-team field in the All-India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament, to be held here from Oct 1-11. However, the organisers, who briefed the media here Monday night, seemed piqued that national players would not be available as the tournament dates clash Indian teams tour of Canada for a Test series.

September 17th, 2009 SAfrica track body asks for gender test inquiryJOHANNESBURG — South Africa's national track body has called for a commission of inquiry into its handling of Caster Semenya's case. Athletics South Africa has been criticized for failing to protect the runner whose gender has been questioned.

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - Force India has said that they will give GP2 driver Karun Chandhok a chance to prove he can make the grade as a Formula One driver. The emerging team, which has a technical partnership with McLaren, will put Chandhok in the world champions' sophisticated F1 simulator to see if he can make the grade.

September 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - Farhan Vohra from Chennai has been nominated Observer Steward for the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix Sep 27. The 34-year-old Vohra is the Race Director for the ongoing JK Tyre National Road Racing Championship (JKNRRC) and also the Rotax Max Karting series.

September 4th, 2009 CHENNAI - For all the hype and expectations surrounding the Indian riders, the home entrants would have to perform out of their skins to make an impact in the fourth round of the Petronas Asian Road Racing Championship for two-wheelers to be run at the Madras Motor Racing Track in Sriperumdubur near here Sunday. From Indias perspective, the focus would be chiefly on the two Red Rooster Racing riders, Krishnan Rajini and Preetham Dev Moses, in the SuperSports 600cc class, especially since Blue Arrow Racing teams Dilip Rogger, undoubtedly Indias best rider, was pulled out late Thursday night as his Honda machine was not race ready.

September 4th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has insisted that the Indian Grand prix will go ahead as per the planned schedule of 2011, and said that the race in Greater Noida will happen. Ecclestone was reacting to Indian Sports Ministry's decision to reject a request by race promoters JPSK Sports to remit 22.5 million pounds in foreign currency to Ecclestone's British-based Formula One Administration (FOA).

September 3rd, 2009 CHENNAI - International racing returns to the city after a lapse of 13 years with the Madras Motor Sports Club (MMSC) hosting the fourth Petronas Asia Road Racing Championship for two wheelers this weekend at the refurbished MMRT track in Sriperumbudur, under the aegis of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI). The event, being held under the banner of Sidvin Festival of Speed, will comprise of three classes - the featured Supersports 600cc, the Underbone 115cc and the Honda-MRF UAM Nations Cup for the single-make Honda 125cc Stunner machines.

September 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Indian compound archers found the going tough in both the team and individual categories of the 45th World Archery Championship in South Koreas Ulsan Wednesday. The mens and womens teams failed to qualify for the championship round.

August 25th, 2009 Report: India's sports ministry against F1 raceNEW DELHI — India's sports ministry has rejected the idea of extending sports-linked customs duty exemptions that would have made it cheaper to import equipment being used for the construction of a Formula One race track. India wishes to join the F1 grand prix circuit in 2011 on a course being built on the outskirts of New Delhi.

August 23rd, 2009 VALENCIA - Indias Karun Chandhok put on a fighting display from the back of the grid to finish sixth at the European GP2 sprint race here Sunday. Chandhok fought his way through the field in an incident-packed race which caused the safety car to be deployed three times in the first eight laps.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian athletes kept up their fine performance as they won two more golds to take their tally to 10 medals at the Asian Youth Games in Singapore Friday. On the last day of the track and field competition, Ravi Kumar won the gold in the 800 metres while Namita Kabat was the champion in the women's event.

July 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - Vicky Chandhok Wednesday confirmed that he is in the running for the post of the president of the Paris-based Federation Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA), the worlds governing body for motor sport. Chandhok, the Chennai-based former president of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), told IANS: "The papers have to be filed by September as the FIA General Assembly is scheduled for October 23.

June 30th, 2009 Milwaukee Mile track faces uncertain futureMILWAUKEE — The historic Milwaukee Mile racetrack faces an uncertain future with its promoters behind on payments due to NASCAR and the Indy Racing League. While track promoters have paid prize money to teams, they have not fully paid sanctioning fees owed to NASCAR and the IRL, according to reports in the Charlotte Observer and Indianapolis Star.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh, whose nephew Upkar Singh was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Melbourne, appealed to the Indian government to ensure the safety of students in Australia. "I request the authorities to ensure that the guilty are brought to book and my nephew gets the justice he deserves.

May 24th, 2009 MONTE CARLO - Karun Chandhok lost out on a possible victory in the GP2 sprint race here Sunday as his Ocean Technology Racing team car encountered a driveshaft problem when he leading. Earlier, the Chennai-born Chandhok had finished seventh in the feature race that earned him a front row start for the reversed sprint race grid.