Topic: Oceania
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 Sebastien Vettel but leads by virtue of ...
F1 drivers talk up their countries' WCup chances, with Brazil and Spain paddock favoritesMark Webber has high hopes for Australia and Michael Schumacher believes in Germany's World Cup chances, two sentiments Rubens Barrichello finds amusing. "I feel sorry for you guys," said ...
New Zealand-based businessman Victor Cattermole said Monday his Endeavor Plan group were still interested in buying English Premier League crisis club Portsmouth.But Cattermole told Sky Sports on Monday that Pompey's debt situation is "probably not as bad compared with a lot of ...
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 Red Bull driver Mark Webber. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition
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 ...
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 Sunday was also a ...
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 Sunday's German Grand Prix.Webber, in his 130th F1 race after eight years ...
New Zealand's Wade Cunningham continues dominant Indy run with 2nd Freedom 100 winNew 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 ...
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 of ...
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 body rejected a Ferrari-led ...