Ricciardo gives Australia two men on F1 grid

2011-07-01T20:30:26Z

Australia will have two drivers waltzing onto the grid at next weekend's British Grand Prix for the first time in more than three decades following Friday's announcement that Daniel Ricciardo will make his debut with the Hispania team at Silverstone.

Ricciardo was given a perfect 22nd birthday present when it was confirmed that he had been recruited to replace strugglin...

Four-time winners set pace at rainy Indy

2011-05-15T18:30:26Z

Four-time winners A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears were named to the front row of the all-time Indianapolis 500 "Greatest 33" centennial lineup announced Sunday.

Rain washed out the entire practice session for cars preparing for next weekend's time trials for the May 29...

Vettel taking nothing for granted at Chinese GP

2011-04-14T15:30:19Z

Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel said Thursday that his dominant start to the Formula One season would not last forever.

The 23-year-old German won the opening two races in Australia and Malaysia and has ...

Schumacher says too early 'to write us off'

2011-04-05T09:30:42Z

Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher Tuesday urged his fans not to write off his Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team following a disastrous season-opening race in Australia.

"There is absolutely no doubt we want to do better than in the opening race, which was a disappointment for all of us. We clearly see that as a challenge and it is much too early to write us of...

Aussie GP chief plays down absence of F1's Ecclestone

2011-03-22T10:30:33Z

Organisers of this week's Australian Grand Prix Tuesday played down Bernie Ecclestone's decision to skip the race and instead travel to New York for talks with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The Formula One suprem...

Rosberg tops F1 time-sheet on last day of testing

2011-03-12T19:30:31Z

Germany's Nico Rosberg of Mercedes set the fastest lap time on a curtailed fifth and final day of pre-season testing at the Jerez circuit here on Saturday.

His best time of 1min 43.814sec was over half a second quicker than his nearest rival, Williams' new Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado.

Michael Schumacher set the fastest time on the fourth and final day of pre-season testing here on Friday.

Schumacher, preparing for his second season with Mercedes since coming out of retirement, clocked 1min 21.268sec, with another former champion, Fernando Alonso, in second in his Ferrari.

Schumacher'...

Characteristics of the F1 camel

2010-11-04T14:27:38Z

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Castroneves wins Indy Japan 300

2010-09-21T13:22:41Z

Pole-sitter Helio Castroneves of Brazil retook the lead on the 118th lap and held on to win the Indy Japan 300 at the Twin Ring Motegi Sunday to ensure the championship goes down to the wire.

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2010-11-03T08:22:53Z

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2010-11-03T08:22:40Z

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Kart racing

2010-10-11T18:23:37Z

History
Kart racing in the streets of Berlin in 1963
Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956. Karting has rapidly spread to other countries, and currently has a large following in Europe.
The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. (1958). McCulloch was the first company, in 1959, to produce engines for kart...

F1 driver Webber grabs third successive pole

2010-05-29T05:15:45Z

Australia's Formula One world championship leader Mark Webber took his third successive pole position here on Saturday at the Turkish Grand Prix.

The 33-year-old Red Bull driver - who is equal on points with team-mate F1 drivers talk up their countries' WCup chances, with Brazil and Spain paddock favorites

Mark Webber has high hopes for Australia and Michael Schumacher believes in Ge...

Cattermole still pondering Pompey purchase

2010-03-01T06:16:59Z

New Zealand-based businessman Victor Cattermole said Monday his Endeavor Plan group were still interested in buying English Premier League crisis club Portsmouth.

The bottom team in English football's top flight went into administration last week with estimated debts of over 60 million pounds (9...

Jenson Button wins F1 world title

2010-04-16T09:46:53Z

Britain's Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula One world championship here on Sunday.

The Brawn GP driver finished fifth at the Brazilian Grand Prix which was won by Australia's

Aussie F1 great Brabham fighting kidney illness

2010-04-16T11:08:56Z

Australia's three-time Formula One world champion Sir Jack Brabham is having dialysis treatment after kidney failure, reports said on Monday.

Brabham, 83, who was knighted for his services to motor sport in 1979, said he now spent three days a week in hospital having the treatment since his ki...

Webber waltzes to maiden Formula One victory

2010-04-16T11:23:08Z

Mark Webber secured his maiden Formula One victory and Australia's first since 1981 when he led team-mate Sebastian Vettel home in a triumphant one-two for the Red Bull team in Sun...

Aussies acclaim Webber's F1 breakthrough win

2010-04-16T11:22:39Z

Australia's racing fraternity and media hailed Mark Webber after he won the German Grand Prix, becoming the first Aussie to win an F1 GP since Alan Jones in Las Vegas in 1981.

The 32-year-old Red Bull driver's victory on S...

New Zealand's Cunningham wins 2nd race at Indy

2010-04-16T12:10:12Z

New Zealand's Wade Cunningham continues dominant Indy run with 2nd Freedom 100 win

New Zealand's Wade Cunningham has won the Firestone Freedom 100 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his second career victory in the race.

Cunningham held off American J.R. Hildbebrand by 0.1 seconds to win for the second time since 2006.

Button wins Bahrain Grand Prix

2010-04-16T13:35:38Z

Jenson Button in a Brawn won the Bahrain Grand Prix here on Sunday to increase his lead at the top of the drivers' championship.

The Briton captured his third win of the season after Australia and Malaysia ahead of the Red Bull

F1 team Brawn relieved at diffuser ruling

2010-04-16T15:33:43Z

Ross Brawn hailed Wednesday's FIA verdict confirming the legality of the diffuser used on the car which has helped lift Jenson Button to the top of the driver's championship.

The Brawn GP team principal, speaking after Formula One's ruling bo...

Brawn's Button expects tough fight in China

2010-04-16T15:35:28Z

Jenson Button is expecting a tough fight at this week's Chinese Grand Prix after his dream start to the season, but boss Ross Brawn remains confident the team is in good shape.

Button has won back-to-back races, in Australia and Malaysia, after starting on pole in both Grand Pr...

Button storms to F1 pole position in Malaysia

2010-04-16T15:47:36Z

Jenson Button pushed his Brawn GP to a second successive pole position on Saturday, topping the times during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The Brit swept around the 5.5 kilometre (3.4 mile) Sepang circuit in one minute 35.181 seconds ahead of Toyota...

Rosberg fastest again

2010-10-21T10:36:29Z

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Lewis Hamilton - A Critic Pays Homage to a Great Run in Australia

2010-04-16T15:50:08Z

Lewis Hamilton - A Critic Pays Homage to a Great Run in Australia

By Lemmy Gibson

Lewis Hamilton inspires rabid criticism and blind support unlike most drivers in Formula One. I am an admitted critic. That being said, I believe his drive in the 2009 Australian Grand Prix was wor...

Brawn focus as McLaren, Ferrari play F1 catch up

2010-04-16T15:50:43Z

Whether Brawn GP can sustain its sensational start to the season will be the key focus of the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, along with the fate of heavyweights McLaren and Ferrari.

Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello handed the rookie team a 1-2 finish in Melbour...

Whitmarsh hopes for end to controversy

2010-10-21T10:36:22Z

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Toyota confident ahead of Malaysia grand prix

2010-04-16T15:52:08Z

Toyota's Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock are confident they can challenge for podium places at the Malaysian Grand Prix this week after their sterling efforts in Australia.

Germany's Glock finished fourth i...

F1 cars get a power boost, but at what risk?

2010-10-21T10:13:54Z

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Nico Rosberg calls for an end to 'dangerous' twilight races

2010-10-21T10:36:16Z

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Schumacher back for Ferrari in Melbourne

2010-04-16T16:18:41Z

Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher is expected to be back in a Formula One pit on race day for the first time since he retired in 2006 when the season begins this Sunday in Australia.

Schumacher's manager Willi Weber ...

We'll survive testing times insists McLaren F1 chief

2010-04-16T16:07:26Z

McLaren chairman Ron Dennis insists his team will be world title contenders this year despite struggling in testing.

Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were significantly off the pace in Jerez last week, while the latter was last of 10 in <...

How Kingston plans to hold a Grand Prix

2010-10-21T10:33:33Z

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No time to stop and reflect for the father-and-son team that rose to the top

2010-04-16T14:58:50Z

It was business as usual for Lewis Hamilton as he prepared to fly back to Europe from Brazil. The new world champion was unsure yesterday whether he would be heading direct to the UK or to his luxury flat in Switzerland but his mind was already on the next round of testing for McLaren whic...

Castroneves gets judge's OK for Australia race - report

2010-04-16T16:43:38Z

Helio Castroneves was given permission to race at an Indy-Car event later this month in Australia by a US judge Friday even though the Brazilian faces federal tax evasion charges, the Miami Herald reported.

Judge Willi...

Sport: State of Formula 1

2010-09-10T21:14:08Z

You need only two cars to make a motor race, says the old cliche. In 2006, two cars have indeed done most of the running, and we have the makings of a spectacular battle for the World Championship.

In the blue corner there’s Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard who so brilliantly won last year’s title, and who turns only 25 in July. And in the red corner there’s Dubai, dared to dream it and then made it a reality.

Sheikh Maktoum's A1 Grand Prix of Na- tions opened for business last September at Rockhampton, Australia. Floods that have cut air, rail and road links to an Australian coastal city are now threatening its sewage plant, and waters are still expected to rise another few feet before peaking Wednesday. (AP Photo/Janie Barrett, Pool)

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Australia Tennis Hopman Cup

2011-01-04T06:30:53Z

Serbian Novak Djokovic plays a backhand during his match against Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev on day two of the Hopman Cup team tennis tournament in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Wake)

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Hopman Cup

2011-01-03T11:30:50Z

FILE - In a Jan. 5, 2010 file photo, John Isner of the United States plays against Australia's Lleyton Hewitt during their men's singles match at the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia. Isner defeated Dr. Dennis Dutton poses at a computer in his office at the University of Canterbury. Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton died in New Zealand, Tuesday, Dec, 2010 at the age o...

New Zealand Earthquake

2010-12-26T01:30:09Z

Safety fences are erected around fallen bricks lay on Madras Street in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 following a series of aftershocks. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Simon Baker) NEW ZEALAND OUT,

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Ricciardo gives Australia two men on F1 grid

Four-time winners set pace at rainy Indy

Vettel taking nothing for granted at Chinese GP

Schumacher says too early 'to write us off'

Aussie GP chief plays down absence of F1's Ecclestone

Rosberg tops F1 time-sheet on last day of testing

Characteristics of the F1 camel

Castroneves wins Indy Japan 300

10 best places to have a mid-life crisis

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Kart racing

F1 driver Webber grabs third successive pole

Cattermole still pondering Pompey purchase

Jenson Button wins F1 world title

Aussie F1 great Brabham fighting kidney illness

Webber waltzes to maiden Formula One victory

Aussies acclaim Webber's F1 breakthrough win

New Zealand's Cunningham wins 2nd race at Indy

Button wins Bahrain Grand Prix

F1 team Brawn relieved at diffuser ruling

Brawn's Button expects tough fight in China

Button storms to F1 pole position in Malaysia

Rosberg fastest again

Lewis Hamilton - A Critic Pays Homage to a Great Run in Australia

Brawn focus as McLaren, Ferrari play F1 catch up

Whitmarsh hopes for end to controversy

Toyota confident ahead of Malaysia grand prix

F1 cars get a power boost, but at what risk?

Nico Rosberg calls for an end to 'dangerous' twilight races

Schumacher back for Ferrari in Melbourne

We'll survive testing times insists McLaren F1 chief

How Kingston plans to hold a Grand Prix

No time to stop and reflect for the father-and-son team that rose to the top

Castroneves gets judge's OK for Australia race - report

Sport: State of Formula 1

Australia Tennis Hopman Cup

Hopman Cup

New Zealand Earthquake