Whatever the colour of the car, from Fernando Alonso's red Ferrari to Michael Schumacher's silver Mercedes, Formula One is picking up speed towards a greener future.   While the lifting of a ban on 'team orders' made the headlines, the more momentous news emerging from a meeting of the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) in [...]

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McLaren are confident that significant improvements to their car will put them on a par with Red Bull and Ferrari at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. They hope upgrades including a new front wing will see them keep pace with their title rivals on the type of track they have struggled on thus far. “It’s [...]

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Spain’s Dani Pedrosa, riding a Honda, won the Indianapolis MotoGP on Sunday to claim his third victory of the season and close the gap on runaway championship leader Jorge Lorenzo to 68 points. Pedrosa started fifth on the grid but snatched the lead at the end of the seventh lap and was never headed as [...]

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McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a chaotic and thrilling Belgian Grand Prix to seize back the Formula One championship lead from Red Bull’s Mark Webber yesterday. Hamilton’s victory, despite a near-miss with the barriers in the challenging conditions ranging from dry to wet, lifted him three points clear of second-placed Webber at the top of the [...]

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Formula One signed up Swiss bank UBS as a global partner on Monday in a deal the sport will hope marks a turnaround after the exit of several other financial institutions due to the economic crisis. No financial details were given for a deal that will be presented formally at next month’s Singapore Grand Prix. [...]

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Sajaad Zuhair finished third for EZY Racing in the hotly contested Group SL-N Cars upto 1600CC category on Sunday at the Rotherham Circuit Meet in Kautkurunda. Sajaad who had a tough Saturday in qualifying had to fight against all odds to provide EZY Racing a second row start by qualifying 6th. Going into the first [...]

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Pictures by Pradeep Dilrukshana. Rizvi Farook, Ishraq Wahab and the winner Ashan Silva posing for a picture with Rohan de Silva. By M. Shamil Amit The first of the four round JK Tyre/Formula 1300cc Championship concluded at the Pannala motor racing track saw Ashan Silva proving too good for his opponents when he raced off [...]

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Michael Schumacher apologised to Rubens Barrichello on Monday after almost driving his former Ferrari team mate into a concrete wall in a 300kph duel at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The seven-times world champion said on his website (www.michael-schumacher.de) that he agreed with the stewards’ decision to hand him a 10-place penalty on the starting grid [...]

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Lewis Hamilton has warned his McLaren team that their Formula One title hopes are hanging by “a thin thread” after he failed to finish Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The 2008 world champion lost his overall lead in the championship to Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber while McLaren dropped to second place in the constructors’ standings [...]

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Ferrari will discover in September if they will face further sanctions for the use of illegal “team orders” in last month’s German Formula One Grand Prix after the case was referred to the World Motor Sport Council. “Following the receipt of a report sent by the (race) stewards to the (governing International Automobile Federation) FIA, [...]

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Australian Mark Webber took back the Formula One championship lead from Lewis Hamilton yesterday after grabbing victory in a Hungarian Grand Prix that Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel had been favourite to win. McLaren’s Hamilton retired with a suspected gearbox failure, only his second failure to score this season, and dropped to second place [...]

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The Pannala motor racing track will come alive after a lapse of years when the first of the four rounds Formula 1300cc Championship conducted by the Asian Motor Racing Club (AMRC) speeds off tomorrow.The racing meet sponsored by JK Tyre/Mclarens scheduled to be flagged off at 9.00 a.m. will see ten specially manufactured Formula McLarens [...]

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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has slammed those who criticised the scuderia’s team orders at last weekend’s German Grand Prix, accusing them of hypocrisy. Fernando Alonso won the race after Felipe Massa let him through following a coded message from race engineer Rob Smedley who told the Brazilian: “Ok, Fernando is faster than you. Can [...]

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Ferrari were fined $100,000 and risked further sanctions from Formula One’s governing body on Sunday after Fernando Alonso won a German Grand Prix clouded by their use of banned ‘team orders’. The Spaniard’s success, beating team mate Felipe Massa by 4.1 seconds in a one-two finish to reignite his championship challenge, was engulfed in controversy [...]

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Ferrari was fined $100,000 on Sunday for ordering Brazilian Felipe Massa to move aside and let team mate Fernando Alonso win the German Formula One Grand Prix. The Spaniard’s 23rd career win, and second of the season, reignited his championship challenge after two difficult races and engulfed the Italian team in controversy over the use [...]

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Formula One world champion Jenson Button has endorsed the idea of having a Russian Grand Prix after getting a feel of driving round the Kremlin on Sunday. “This is not a day of work, it’s a day of enjoyment,” the Briton told reporters after taking a few leisurely laps in his race car round the [...]

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Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won the European Grand Prix on Sunday while McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton doubled his championship lead by finishing runner-up for the third year in a row. Formula One world champion Jenson Button finished third for McLaren after an afternoon full of incident, controversy and uncertainty at a street circuit that has offered few [...]

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