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Around the tracks March 27 2009

A weekly wrap of motorsport from around the world.

DAVID Russell is the early leader of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar series after a win and a second on the streets of Adelaide. Russell followed James Moffat home on Friday afternoon on the Clipsal 500 undercard but dominated with his Falcon on Saturday after Moffat Jnr got too greedy on the opening lap, although he did still take second for the weekend with Jonathon Webb in third.

MARCOS Ambrose has made another big breakthrough with tenth place on one of the toughest tracks in Nascar racing, the high-banked one-mile oval at Briston. He qualified 13th in his Toyota Camry and advanced as Kyle Bush went on to win. The result means he is now 24th in the Sprint Cup pointscore, well inside the top-35 cutoff to avoid having to pre-qualify for races.

Defending champion Gavin Bullas made a winning start to the Biante Masters series in Adelaide. He drove his Mustang to victories in all three races to take maximum points ahead of Steve Mason, Rod Wilson and Drew Marget.

ANOTHER British raider is out to dominate Formula 3 racing in Australia. Joey Foster is the latest and swept the F3 supports at the Clipsal 500, although he was helped when Tim Macrow crashed and handed the minor places for the weekend to Mathew Radisich adn Mathew Sofi.

NEW rules for the World Rally Championship will outlaw turbochers from 2011 as the series switches to cheaper Super 2000 regulations. The rules, already used in Australia, still allow four-wheel drive cars but turbos have been banned to cut costs and the cars will instead used 2-litre naturally-aspirated engines restricted to 8500 revs.

KART start David Sera continued his winning run in the USA last weekend with victory in the Formula Kart contest in Florida last weekend. Driving his Australian-made Arrow chassis, the 20-year-old recovered from engine problems and now returns home to prepare for the 47th National Sprint Kart Championships in Townsville over Easter.

AUDI beat Peugeot again as the two Euro brands renewed their Le Mans sports car rivalry at Sebring in the USA. Audi took victory in the 24-hour French classic last year and, despite Peugeot's best efforts last weekend, repeated the dose with the all-new R15 diesel in Florida as the best of the French contenders came home second.