The performance credentials of CEAT radial tyres are to be tested in the most gruelling conditions the race track by four of the country’s leading competition drivers. The tyre maker has announced that Nishan Wasalathanthri, W.A.G. Rangana, Kamil Hussein and Lt. Colonel Duminda Jayasinghe have been selected as the founder members of the CEAT Racing [...]

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Defending Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the European Grand Prix yesterday to extend his lead in the overall standings with his sixth win in eight races. His 16th career victory made him the first man to finish first or second in the opening eight races of a season in the history of the [...]

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Formula One great Stirling Moss announced his retirement from motor racing at the age of 81 on Thursday. The Briton, widely regarded as the greatest driver never to have won the Formula One championship, made his decision in the Le Mans pitlane where he had been due to race his own restored 1961 Porsche RS61 [...]

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Former champions Williams hope to build a long-term partnership outside of Formula One with Indian-owned sportscar maker Jaguar, team chairman Adam Parr said on Tuesday. Williams, struggling on the race track with their worst start to a season, announced a partnership last week with Tata Motors' Jaguar to develop a limited edition hybrid 320kph supercar [...]

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Felipe Massa will be staying at Ferrari next year, the Formula One team's president Luca di Montezemolo said on Friday. Asked in an interview with CNN television whether Brazilian Massa's future was secure at Ferrari, Montezemolo did not hesitate. “Yes. He has a contract with us for this year and for next year, so absolutely [...]

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Sri Lanka's champion international racing driver Dilantha Malagamuwa continued to win global fame for his motherland, when he triumphed in both rounds of the Malaysia GT championship which was the support event for Malaysia F1 on the April 8, 9 and 10. Malagamuwa who is now based in Malaysia, roared to victory on his stunning [...]

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Red Bull's  gave notice that he would not relinquish his Formula One world title easily with a dominant pole-to-flag victory at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. German Vettel blasted off the grid in bright Melbourne sunshine and never looked troubled over the 58 laps as he notched up his 11th career victory and [...]

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Polish church leaders are hoping that a drop of blood belonging to the late Pope John Paul II will put fellow-Pole, Formula One star Robert Kubica, on the road to recovery, a senior clergyman said Friday. In serious condition after a Sunday horror crash in Italy, Kubica is to receive a reliquary containing a drop [...]

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This year's inaugural Korean Formula One Grand Prix, up in the air only weeks before the race due to construction delays, has won an award for best promoter of the season. Red Bull's 23-year-old German Sebastian Vettel also finally got his hands on the championship winner's trophy at the same International Automobile Federation (FIA) awards [...]

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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel re-ignited his world championship hopes with an emphatic lights-to-flag victory in the Japanese Grand Prix. The German finished a second clear of team-mate Mark Webber, with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in third. McLaren team-mates Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton were fourth and fifth. Webber now has a 14-point championship lead, with Alonso [...]

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Fernando Alonso kept alive his challenge for the drivers’ world championship with a near-flawless drive to an emotional and exciting victory in yesterday’s Italian Grand Prix, his maiden race on home soil for Ferrari. The 29-year-old Spaniard, who had said he needed a victory to maintain his bid for a third world title in his [...]

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India’s Formula One racing team and drivers Thursday welcomed the country’s first opportunity to hold a Grand Prix, calling it an endorsement of its recent progress.The World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday formally approved India’s inclusion on the race calendar for 2011, although it has yet to give a green light to the [...]

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