Week 21, 20 - 26 May 2006
Smell Of Bernd Rubber
The DTM, the German touring car championship, heads to the state-of-the-art Oschersleben circuit near Leipzig for its third round. The circuit was finished in the late 1990s and in addition to the high-speed pit straight, the spectator areas are raised to provide exceptional viewing. The first two rounds went to DTM veteran Bernd Schneider, while Le Mans record holder Tom Kristensen was second in both races, and so trails Schneider by just four points heading for the third round. Motors TV will be at Oschersleben, showing both the shoot-out style qualifying and the race itself live.
2006 DTM, Round 3, Oschersleben, Qualifying
Saturday 20 May 12.30 – LIVE
2006 DTM, Round 3, Oschersleben
Sunday 21 May 12.45 – LIVE
Stuck In The Mid With You
The competitors in the American Le Mans Series will barely have had time to catch their breath from the evening race on the man-made street circuit at Houston before they head for the Mid-Ohio circuit at Lexington, a regular for the ALMS circus. Mid-Ohio has recently undergone a facelift, with a new track surface and reshaped gravel traps, so regulars there may find the levels of grip they are used to have changed, as many of the patches of concrete that littered the track have now gone. The teams again take to the track for 2 hours and 45 minutes and Motors TV will be showing the full race live and direct.
2006 ALMS, Round 3, Mid-Ohio
Sunday 21 May 17.00 – LIVE
To Infineon, And Beyond…
The sizzling action of the American AMA Superbike Championship heads for the Infineon Raceway at Sonoma, northern California for its fourth round. Matt Mladin is the undisputed king of Infineon, having taken a record-breaking sixth win there in 2005. He also set the lap record for good measure. Mladin is currently second in the championship, to team-mate Ben Spies, who took a clean sweep of race wins at the second round of the series, at the Barber Motorsport Park and followed this up with a similar feat, at the California Speedway, a week later. Motors TV will be showing highlights of both races that make up the fourth round.
2006 AMA Superbike, Round 4, Sonoma
Monday 22 May 21.00
The Full Monte
The latest edition of Inside Grand Prix travels to perhaps the most famous, but certainly the most glamorous, race in the Formula One calendar, the Monaco Grand Prix. Using the streets of the principality to form the course, the narrow circuit with slow corners means that overtaking can be tricky and usually only attempted by the very brave. Inside Grand Prix looks at the particular nuances of this fantastic race, including a full analysis of the circuit from a driver’s perspective and a close look at the technical aspects of getting the cars to perform.
Inside Grand Prix, Round 7, Monaco
Tuesday 23 May, 19.30
Champs Of The World
Just as the ALMS field rushes from one racetrack to the next, so does the Champ Car World Series. The Champ Cars head much further afield though, to Monterrey in Mexico. The Monterrey circuit features two straights where the cars will hit almost 180mph before heading down through the gears, into a hairpin following each. Local hero Bruno Junqueira won in 2005 but reigning champion Sebastien Bourdais started from pole and also holds the lap record on the circuit, so the smart money will be on him. Motors TV will have all the highlights of the third round of the 2006 series.
2006 Champ Car World Series, Round 3, Monterrey
Wednesday 24 May 19.00
