Brits on Pole

Glasgow Rangers’ Superleague Formula car will be fielding a substitute behind the wheel at the Nurburgring after first-choice driver Ryan Dalziel was handed the chance to make a one-race return to American sports cars.

Spurs and Liverpool are tied in second place of the new Superleague Formula championship following the first two races of the season at Donington Park.

Lanarkshire’s Ryan Dalziel says he’s delighted and excited to have landed the chance to drive for Glasgow Rangers in Superleague Formula.

With less than three weeks to go before the inaugural race of the football-themed Superleague Formula racing series, new teams are still being added and drivers are being chosen.

Ryan Dalziel’s a Scottish racing driver whose open-wheel racing career we were following while he was driving for the Pacific Coast Motorsport team in the now-defunct Champ Car series. Now he’s switched to the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series we’ll probably be writing about him a bit less - but if you want to keep in touch with his career, you can do so via his newly-revamped website.

Seven British drivers lined up for the start of the American open wheel season last year, the final campaign to see the sport split between IndyCar and Champ Car. Now, with the first unified season on the horizon, we look at their prospects for 2008.

Justin Wilson is one of five Champ Car drivers to take part in the first major motorsport event of the year in the US - the 2008 Daytona 24-hour challenge. He will be joined by Scots racer Ryan Dalziel in the Daytona Prototype class when the event gets underway on January 26.

With the title safely in the pocket of the departing Sebastien Bourdais, most of the attention at the season-ending Champ Car Mexican Grand Prix will be on whether Justin Wilson or Robert Doornbos can secure the runner-up spot.

Champ Car has added an extra European race for its newly-released 2008 schedule - but anyone hoping to see the likes of Justin Wilson and Katherine Legge race before their home fans is in for a disappointment.

Scottish rookie Ryan Dalziel brought his Pacific Coast Motorsports car home for a rare top 10 finish in the Champ Car Grand Prix of Holland - but was far from satisfied.