Around the tracks 22 July 2010

WARREN Luff led a runaway win by the Ralliart Mitsubishi team in the first Australian 6-Hour enduro at Eastern Creek in Sydney last weekend. Luff put his Lancer Evo X on pole position and then he and Stuart Kostera romped away to win by more than two laps from Ralliart teammates Inky Tulloch and Steve Jones, with Peter Conroy and Mark Bram third in another Evo X.

WILL Power stretched his lead in the IndyCar World Series with another win last weekend, this time on the Toronto street course in Canada. His fourth victory of the year came in a race of carnage, as he led home his closest championship challenger, Dario Franchitti, with Ryan Hunter-Reay third.

THREE teams from the Fujitsu V8 Supercar championship will step up to the "main game'' with wildcard entries for the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance events this year. Matthew White Motorsport, Greg Murphy Racing and Sieders Racing Team have been granted the wildcard starts.

LE MANS winner Vern Schuppan lived a dream when he returned to the French track to race a 1960s Porsche 917 in this year's Classic race meeting. Schuppan won for Porsche in 1983 driving a 956, but stepped back into the 917 -- star of the Steve McQueen movie Le Mans - to share with another former race winner, Richard Attwood. The pair were third in their category across the Classic weekend.

AN INJURED left arm has forced three-time world champion Jason Crump out of the Australian team for the speedway world cup in Europe from July 24-31. Crump is having surgery on his biceps and plans to return at the Scandinavian Grand Prix on August 18 as he continues his world title defence.

TWO more drivers have been confirmed for next year's Formula One season. Scuderia Toro Rosso has re-signed youngsters Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari for another year.

AMBITIOUS youngsters should make a case to CAMS soon for next year's Rising Star Program. Applications have opened and, with graduates including John Martin, James Davison and Tim Blanchard, the program is going well. Applications close on Friday, October 29. Nomination forms are at www.amsf.org.au