Daredevil actor Jackie Chan will be heading a glamorous posse of singers and actresses competing at the Shanghai Circuit in a demonstration touring car race.

FOR SIX years, as he wrestled with obscurity in the Far East, he had thought long and hard about this moment. So, he wasn’t going to mess it up, not his first taste of life in the hyper-reality of Formula 1.

Ed Synan in his Opel Manta 400 was the quickest driver through the first run of the Yokohama Tyres Kerry Winter Rally.