Der ADAC e.V. München hat vorsorglich und fristgerecht bedeutende internationale Motorsportveranstaltungen zum 31 Juli 2012 bei der internationalen Automobilbehörde FIA in Paris angemeldet. Dazu gehören ein DTM-Lauf, capsule das ADAC GT Masters, generic der ADAC Truck-Grand-Prix und das ADAC 24h-Rennen.

“Auch wenn die Situation am Nürburgring weiterhin ungeklärt ist, capsule haben wir im Sinne des Sports die Rennen mit internationalem Prädikat vorsorglich und fristgerecht bei der FIA angemeldet. So stellen wir zumindest formal sicher, dass auch 2013 Rennen von weltweiter Bedeutung in Deutschland stattfinden können. Ob diese allerdings am Nürburgring ausgetragen werden, ist weiterhin noch fraglich”, erklärt ADAC Sportpräsident Hermann Tomczyk. “Sollten Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck und Infrastrukturminister Roger Lewentz nicht schnell eine Lösung im Hinblick auf die bindende Bestätigung der Veranstaltungstermine 2013 und bezüglich des Abschlusses der Veranstaltungsverträge finden, dann könnten die Rennen auch auf anderen Rennstrecken ausgetragen werden.”

Durch die ungeklärte Situation am Nürburgring, Vertragsstreitigkeiten zwischen dem Land Rheinland-Pfalz und den bisherigen Pächtern des Nürburgrings sowie die Insolvenz der Nürburgring GmbH hat der ADAC weiterhin keinen Ansprechpartner, mit dem über Austragung von Rennen für das Jahr 2013 auf dem Nürburgring gesprochen werden kann. Daher hat die ADAC Zentrale in München die Anmeldung der internationalen Automobilprädikate übernommen. Ungeachtet dessen läuft die Zeit ab. Der ADAC in München, wie auch der ADAC Nordrhein und der ADAC Mittelrhein brauchen dringend einen kompetenten und entscheidungsbefugten Ansprechpartner, der dann für die notwendige Rechts- und Vertragssicherheit sorgen kann. 

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has revealed Barcelona and Valencia have agreed in principle to alternate their Grand Prix races so there is only one event in Spain each year from 2013.

The world economic crisis has bitten hard in Spain, where local administrations are under pressure to make deep budget cuts as part of a new central government austerity drive.

“Barcelona and Valencia have agreed that the best thing is to alternate and now we are trying to decide on the dates,” Ecclestone told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.

“It’s simply a way for us to try and help Valencia and if by alternating with Barcelona it helps them, then it’s a good solution.

“Obviously, the year Valencia does not host the event it would not have to pay anything.”

Local media reported Valencia had been the most reluctant to agree the changes and Vicente Aguilera, the president of Barcelona’s Montmelo circuit, said negotiations were ongoing.

“We are negotiating and we have a positive attitude,” he told sports daily Marca.

“In part because Bernie thinks it is a good idea, and also because we have to find something that is sustainable for the country.

“At this moment nothing is agreed. We are negotiating and there has to be a three-way agreement.”

Ecclestone assured that this year’s Spanish Grand Prix on May 13 in Barcelona and Valencia’s European Grand Prix on June 24th would go ahead as scheduled.

Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board has suggested total vigilance is needed in the sport as cricket attempts to rid itself of continuing corruption.

Clarke is under the impression players should make use of the system now in place to alert the game’s authorities to any attempts to fix any part of the game.

In the aftermath of jailing of three Pakistan Test players and after former Essex player Mervyn Westfield this week admitted accepting £6,000 to spot-fix a match between his county and Durham, Clarke believes efforts should be renewed.

Westfield is to be sentenced on February 10 and the ECB has opened what it calls a reporting window to allow players and officials to give information on past approaches without fear of punishment.

“For all of us in cricket we are now having to come to terms with anything being feasible. The need for being vigilant is total,” said Clarke on BBC Radio Five.

Clarke was adamant corruption should not be allowed in the sport.

He added: “It can’t be allowed to exist in our game. It is so important that this system of informing and saying what is going on, when it is not allowed and it is illegal, actually exists.”

Clarke admitted there might have been a perception that corruption did not exist in the County Championship game.

“I think that many players simply might not have thought seriously about something because they wouldn’t have regarded it as real.”

Clarke added that the ECB would not take any action against Westfield until after he had been sentenced by the judge sitting in his case at the Old Bailey.

The  spanning six games and four-continents featuring two squads of All-Star NBA players is delayed, with Sunday’s scheduled game in San Juan, Puerto Rico, postponed indefinitely.

The other five games on the tour, scheduled for London, Macau and Australia, already had been pushed back until late November. There was hope the game in San Juan could be salvaged and serve as proof to the other venues and investors that Atlanta businessman Cal Darden and his son, Cal Jr., were capable of pulling off the event.

Sources close to the organizers said that as of October 23, contracts had been signed with 18 of the league’s biggest names, including Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade.

Players were promised anywhere from six figures to $1 million to participate, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard.

Rose and Westbrook withdrew on Tuesday, Rose citing a conflict with the USO Tour he participated in along with his off-season training schedule.

James, Anthony and Paul later decided not to take part, sources with knowledge of the situation told Broussard. The players want to use the lockout to spend more time with their families, and Paul wanted to be available for labor meetings with the NBA’s owners, sources said.

Howard has also backed out, sources told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday.

By Thursday, sources said there were also questions about whether Durant and Bryant planned to participate.

It remained to be seen if the game in Puerto Rico and the rest of the tour would be resurrected in light of NBA commissioner David Stern canceling regular-season games through Nov. 30 after labor talks broke off Friday without a deal.

Tickets already had been selling briskly in Puerto Rico, sources close to the organizers said, but there were no provisions made for refunds if the event was canceled or postponed.

National Football League (NFL) owners have voiced their opposition to a bid by 10 of the league’s leading players for an order blocking a lockout during collective bargaining, saying the federal court lacks jurisdiction over the dispute.

According to the NFL, only the National Labor Relations Board has the authority to resolve the fight, with owners arguing: “The jurisdictional bar applies as long as this case ‘involves or grows out of’ a labor dispute, a test that is clearly satisfied here.”

Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees led the group that sued the league on March 11 after negotiations to craft a new contract collapsed and the National Football League Players Association said it no longer would function as a union.

Owners declared a lockout hours later, during which players won’t be paid, and teams can’t practice, sign new players or make trades, shutting down the most-watched and wealthiest U.S. sport at midnight.

Players’ attorney Jeffrey L. Kessler said today in a telephone interview: “There’s nothing unexpected in these papers.

“We obviously disagree,” added Kessler.

President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling’s world governing body, Pat McQuaid refused to comment on the recent decision to clear Alberto Contador, Spain’s three-time Tour de France champion of doping charges.

The case could well drag on four several months if taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and McQuaid stated: “I can’t – and don’t want to – give a personal opinion until the whole affair is finished, and it’s not finished yet.”

The Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) cleared Contador of doping allegations after the Spaniard tested positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol upon winning last year’s Tour de France.

Last month, the RFEC’s Disciplinary Committee proposed a one-year suspension but Contador has consistently maintained his innocence, claiming the substance was in some contaminated meat, and appealed, successfully, and the ban was lifted.

But the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) both have the right to appeal themselves against that decision, in which case the CAS will rule.

McQuaid added: “We still have to get the documents from the Spanish federation about their decision not to sanction Contador translated, and then we’ll discuss it with WADA.

“We’re yet to receive the full documentation, but once we get that we’ll have 30 days to decide whether we appeal or not.”

Andretti Sports Marketing has appointed veteran event management executive Tim Ramsberger as their Vice President and General Manager of it’s growing sports, entertainment and experiential marketing business.

Ramsberger brings a depth of experience to his new role including World Cup, Olympic, Disney and IndyCar event management tenure. Ramsberger most recently served as President of the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. His focus will be to further advance the sports, entertainment and experiential event marketing initiatives of Andretti Sports Marketing and it’s clients.

“We are thrilled to announce that Tim (Ramsberger) is joining our strong events team. Tim is a leader in the events business and we have worked with Tim over the years while admiring his promotions. He did a fantastic job at building the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and he brings world-class capabilities to our operations,” stated John Lopes, President of Andretti Sports Marketing.

“It’s a special opportunity to work with my long time friends at Andretti Sports Marketing. I am truly excited to be joining such a strong, professional and fast growing sports marketing, entertainment and experiential marketing business with great clients on both a national and international scale,” said Ramsberger. “What Michael (Andretti), John (Lopes) and Starke (Taylor) are developing is tremendous.”

Ramsberger’s focus will include furthering Andretti Sports Marketing’s Red Bull Global Rallycross event operations business as well as leading emerging event projects both in and out of sports.