Event Notes: De Silvestro, Gracie To Form All-Female Team At Bathurst 1000 Race

Swiss driver Simona De Silvestro will team up with Australian Renee Gracie in an all-female team for this year's Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercars endurance race. De Silvestro, "considered one of the world's leading female drivers, will join Gracie in the first all-women pairing to tackle Mount Panorama" since Melinda Price and Kerryn Brewer in '98. De Silvestro is "also set to race in the electric-car Formula E world championship later this year" (AAP, 8/19). ... Int'l Paralympic Committee Snowboard announced that its '15-16 calendar will feature seven World Cups and the addition of Asian and North American Cups for the first time. The calendar also features three Europa Cups, two new World Cup venues in Les Angles, France, and Trentino, Italy, and the new discipline of giant slalom (IPC).