REGIONAL Championships are important to former triple national champion, Niall Maguire, who is the top seed for Sunday’s Ennis-based Auburn Lodge Clare Rally, the fifth round of the Top Part West Coast Championship.

The future of the Grand Prix circuit came under renewed threat tonight amid concern that races in Europe could be boycotted unless teams are exempted from new European Union arrest warrants.

Malaysia's state-of-the-art Sepang circuit has been added to the World Superbike Championship calendar for 2003.

Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has recorded the fastest time in first practice for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola.