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Casey Stoner showed no sign of the illness that has derailed his season when he upstaged Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo to secure a hat-trick of home Australian Grand Prix wins.
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Australian Ryan Briscoe has edged New Zealand's Scott Dixon on the final lap to win the IndyCar Series race at Chicagoland Speedway by just 0.0077 seconds.
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Steven Jones and Ruari Souter-Dawson have taken back to back titles in the Modern Competition class of QUIT Targa West.
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Formula One racing could return to Montreal as early as next year
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The formula one racism scandal involving Lewis Hamilton has turned into a media slanging match between Britain and Spain, as both accuse the other side of wielding the more serious prejudices. English tabloid The Sun published photos of spectators at the Circuit de Catalunya wearing black makeup and wigs, while the Times accused the Spanish media of “overlooking” the vile incident.
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Two days ago we saw Ferrari launch its F2008, and yesterday McLaren Mercedes unveiled its MP4-23 at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart. Lewis Hamilton was on hand for the launch, and it being his birthday, called the MP4-23 the “coolest birthday present you can get.” The car certainly looks delicious, no doubt a reflection of the 14,000 man-hours spent engineering the vehicle and the additional 14,000 man-hours in manufacturing. Hamilton’s first test of the new car is set for Thursday, January 9th.
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The car that’s taking the world by storm – the Fiat 500 - is to be driven in the Celebrity Challenge race at the 2008 FORMULA 1™ ING Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
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Renault on Monday confirmed that Fernando Alonso will return to the team in 2008, with Brazilian rookie Nelson Piquet Jr as his teammate.
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On the verge of missing a flight, seven-time F1 Champion Michael Schumacher jumped behind the wheel of a taxi and arrived in time at the airport with his family, according to a report emanating from AFP.
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Heikki Kovalainen's career at the highest level of motor racing is not over, Renault boss Flavio Briatore suggested on Monday.
As the French team announced that the rookie Finn had not been included in the 2008 race or test line-up, Briatore played down the obvious conclusion that Kovalainen is therefore facing dark days.
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McLaren’s appeal over the ‘cool fuel’ issue was deemed inadmissible by the FIA court on Friday, thus confirming that Kimi Raikkonen is officially the 2007 world champion. The FIA’s four-man appeals panel met in London on Thursday and then reconvened in Paris on Friday to deliberate.
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Rock legends Kiss are to perform a special concert in Melbourne’s Albert Park after next season’s Australian Grand Prix. The band, who have recorded 32 albums, will perform immediately after the March race.
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More than a year after his retirement, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher stole the show on Tuesday, setting the pace, as F1's first post-season test kicked off in Barcelona.
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World champion Casey Stoner handed over his MotoGP bike to Formula One legend Michael Schumacher before showcasing the dominant form which won him the crown this season.
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Two new youngster's test F1 cars
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Michael Schumacher will test a Formula One car in earnest next week for the first time since his retirement at the end of last season. Schumacher will get behind the wheel of this year’s Ferrari F2007 as part of the team’s 2008 preparations.
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Renault are hammering out the terms of a new contract to offer their former driver Fernando Alonso, Spanish sports dailies reported on Saturday.
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PRESSURE is building on Melbourne over hosting the Formula One grand prix with the Victorian state government today reporting a loss of $34.6 million for this year's race.
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Honda announced on Monday that GP2 drivers Mike Conway, Luca Filippi and Andreas Zuber will drive at the team’s first winter test, which will be held in Spain next month. All three young hopefuls will get the chance to test the Japanese team’s race car at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from November 13-15.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Testosterone fuels that male bastion of motor racing, where girls are mainly on the track only to make the boys look better. But then there's Juliana Koh.
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