Davide Rigon netted Belgian club RSC Anderlecht a home victory in the Super Final at round 6 of Superleague Formula by Sonangol at Zolder.The Italian drabbed the £100,000 prize from the five lap dash for the cash, completing a fine weekend which also saw him take second and ninth place finishes in the two 45 minutes feature races to boost his championships hopes. Rigon’s Super Final triumph was sealed in the first corner on the opening lap as he dived down the inside of pole sitter Chris van der Drift (Olympiacos) and then held the New Zealander at bay for the remainde...

The Atech Reid team scored two more victories in the latest rounds of the Superleague Formula by Sonangol at the Nurburgring this weekend with Yelmer Buurman (AC Milan) and Alvaro Parente (FC Porto) taking lights to flag wins.The remaining pair of Liverpool FC's James Walker and Sporting Club de Portugal's Borja Garcia also showed strong pace throughout the weekend. Walker narrowly missed out on fourth place, taking sixth at the flag in the opening race while Garcia once again showed fine form to take a stirring seventh place in race two.Saturday's qualifying session had Walker and Parente ...

Dolby, racing for the Tottenham Hotspur/Alan Docking Racing team, claimed fifth and third place finishes in the championship's fourth round at Jarama, Spain. Dolby qualified midway down the gird in eighth for race one, but on a circuit famed for its lack of overtaking opportunities with the start pivotal, the Melton man slipstreamed three cars on the drag down to the first corner, jumping up to fifth. The championship leader took fourth spot two laps later with a sumptuous move which began down the start/finish straight and ended a couple of corners later. Using one of his eight push-to-...

The football themed motorsport series returns to action at the Madrid venue with more wheel to wheel racing on track between some of the world’s most revered football clubs and some fantastic entertainment off it, including concerts by 1980’s legends Simple Minds and Spanish rockers Pignoise. Tottenham Hotspur head to Jarama leading the Superleague Formula table by 54 points from AC Milan, with Belgian giants RSC Anderlecht in third. Each clubs’ driver, Craig Dolby, Yelmer Buurman and Davide Rigon respectively, is expected to be a front runner again this weekend. Howeve...

James Walker has taken a leap up the Superleague Formula rankings after three strong races at Magny Cours. In the weekend's first race, Walker started ninth on the grid but rose to finish in sixth place. Race two at the French track saw Walker move through the field again, coming eighth after starting 13th. The Jersey driver rounded his weekend off by finishing fifth in the final race, giving him an overall ranking position of 10th in the championship. Walker said: "Overall it has been a good weekend and we need to make sure we score points at every event now." The Jersey-born dri...

AC Milan and Yelmer Buurman scored a Superleague Formula by Sonangol double by adding Super Final victory and a cheque for EUR100,000 to their earlier race 1 triumph at a sun drenched Magny-Cours on Sunday. The Dutch driver started the weekend ending, five lap dash for the cash from second on the grid, but nailed his start to blast past pole sitter Craig Dolby (Tottenham Hotspur) to take the win for the Italian giants. Dolby made a poor getaway and was down to fourth by the end of the opening lap as RSC Anderlecht’s Davide Rigon and FC Basel’s Max Wissel followed Buurman throu...

Superleague Formula’s global expansion continues to gather pace ahead of the new season with a raft of new countries being targeted for 2011.  The football-themed championship, which kicks off its 12-round 2010 campaign at Silverstone on April 3/4, has entered into negotiations with several nations regarding the hosting of races next year as Superleague Formula bids to become a truly global single seater series. It’s no secret that Asian states began viewing motorsport as a key promotional tool during the last decade, with the likes of Formula 1 and GP2 both staging ra...

Superleague Formula have doubled the number of rounds on their calendar for the forthcoming season.Ahead of its third year, 12 races will feature on the increasingly popular football-themed championship. Britain, Germany and Spain will each feature two rounds, whilst the series also welcomes six new circuits.One of those is Silverstone, which will play host to the season opener on April 3-4 before moving on to Assen in Holland in mid-May, and former Formula One venue Magny-Cours a week later. The season will end in late November at a track yet to be confirmed, with Superleague hoping to exp...

Newly-crowned Superleague Formula champion Adrian Valles plans to emulate his Liverpool team's success in European and domestic football by winning multiple titles in the high-powered single-seater series.Valles wrapped up the title for Liverpool at Jarama in Spain this weekend, and hopes it is the first of many with the Premier League club, whose training ground he visited last week to meet star players Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard, as well as manager Rafa Benitez."To win this title is fantastic, but what makes it even better is that I'm doing it for Liverpool Football Club,&quo...

LIVERPOOL and Spurs will go head to head for the title on Sunday. But it will not be for Premier League glory — the two clubs are going wheel to wheel in the decider of the Superleague Formula motor racing championship. The formula sees 17 top clubs running evenly-matched 190mph F1-style cars. This season the two English clubs have risen to the top of the table, ahead of teams such as Italian giants AC Milan and Corinthians of Brazil. On Sunday at Jarama in Spain, Liverpool's Spanish driver Adrian Valles and Tottenham's Craig Dolby will battle it out in the final two races of the seas...