Several of the women in the Canadian Women’s Cup series have done well racing south of the border. This year it was Natalie Catherine Provost’s turn in recent Championship Cup Series (CCS) action at Homestead (near Miami), with two thirds and a fifth in three races, in all cases with more than 40 entries.

Canadian racing superstar Miguel DuHamel (we’ll still call him Canadian even though he lives in Lost Wages and rides for American Honda) did a car race last year at Mosport in a “NASCAR North” stock car, and apparently liked it.

It's a long wait between fall and spring for fans of motorcycle racing, but there's good news for cold days – because when the lake freezes, the bikes come out, studded tires and all.

Kawasaki U.S. has announced that 20-year-old Welsh sensation Chaz Davies will join Daytona 200 winner Steve Rapp on the Attack Kawasaki team for the 2008 AMA Superbike Championship Series, riding ZX-6Rs in both the Supersport and Formula Xtreme classes.

The first race of the 2008 Moto GP season will be run under floodlights.

Following a successful test at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, Dorna Sports announced that the season opener there will be run at night.

Repsol Honda and the Spanish corporate hope for the future, Dani Pedrosa, took victory in the last Moto GP of 2007 at Valencia, in front of the usual hysterically supportive home-town crowd.

Casey Stoner and his Marlboro Ducati, who clinched the title three races ago, took a hard-fought second, while John Hopkins got his fourth podium of the year in his last race for Rizla Suzuki (he’s signed with Kawasaki for 2008).

Max Biaggi has signed to race a Ducati in WSB next year with Team Ducati-GMB, according to his website. He says the team has guaranteed he'll have “high-level technicians,” and he hopes to start testing early in December.

Biaggi is a four-time Grand Prix champion and has won 42 Grand Prix races.