
Monza: Sebastian Vettel wiped away tears of delight on an emotional return to the Italian Grand Prix podium on Sunday as a sea of fans, most of them in Ferrari red, flooded the Monza pit straight. They would have cheered louder had Ferrari's Fernando Alonso repeated last year's win on home soil instead of finishing third, but many also have a lingering affection for Red Bull's German champion. They may...

07:20 PM, Sep 12, 2011

Monza: McLaren accused Michael Schumacher of using tough tactics to prevent Lewis Hamilton getting past for much of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix. Hamilton, embroiled in countless controversies already this Formula One season, refused to be drawn into a slanging match after complaining about his Mercedes rival over the radio during the race. "He had a fair amount of provocation and frustration in that race and I think someone drove him...

02:18 PM, Sep 12, 2011

Monza: Brazilian Bruno Senna joined his late uncle Ayrton as a Formula One points scorer after finishing ninth in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. The last time the Senna name appeared with points against it was at the 1993 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide won by the great triple world champion, his 41st and last victory before his death at Imola on May 1, 1994. Bruno, in his second...

03:10 AM, Sep 12, 2011

Monza: Force India's Paul di Resta drove an excellent race to finish eighth in the Formula One Italian Grand Prix here Sunday while his teammate Adrian Sutil retired after nine laps. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel claimed victory from pole position. McLaren's Jenson Button finished a good 9.5 seconds behind Vettel for second place while Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third in a race that saw nine retirements. Most of the retirements...

09:44 PM, Sep 11, 2011

Monza: Sebastian Vettel won the Italian Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday, fighting off an audacious challenge from defending champion Fernando Alonso. Vettel's eighth victory of the year gives the Red Bull driver an opportunity to clinch his second Formula One title in the next race in Singapore later this month. The key points in the race came early on, with Alonso making a risky move to take the...

07:31 PM, Sep 11, 2011

Monza: Team Lotus have extended Jarno Trulli's contract for a further year to the end of 2012, the Formula One team said at his home Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. "We are all delighted that we have been able to reach an agreement to keep Jarno on board for at least one more year with our team," said team owner Tony Fernandes in a statement. "He has shown in qualifying...

03:04 PM, Sep 11, 2011

Monza: Paul di Resta was pipped by Renault's Bruno Senna in the dying minutes of the Q2 session as none of the Force India cars made it to the top-10 in the qualifying session of the Italian Grand Prix here on Saturday. Resta (1:24.163) was in contention for Q3 till the last minute but Senna (1:24.157) pushed him to 11th by just six thousands of a second in his last...

08:26 PM, Sep 10, 2011

Monza, Italy: Racing on a track that has been a challenge for Red Bull in the past, Sebastian Vettel secured the pole position on Saturday for the Italian Grand Prix with relative ease. Extending Red Bull's perfect streak of poles in all 13 races this season, Vettel clocked 1 minute, 22.275 seconds around the high-speed Monza circuit. Lewis Hamilton qualified second in 1:22.725 " nearly half a second behind "...

07:42 PM, Sep 10, 2011

Monza: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton sounded confident after putting controversy behind him and lapping fastest in the Italian Grand Prix practice on Friday. The 2008 Formula One champion, who faced strong criticism after crashing out of the previous race in Belgium, roared around the fastest track on the calendar with a best time of one minute 23.865 seconds in the morning session. Red Bull's reigning champion Sebastian Vettel, who has a...

12:24 AM, Sep 10, 2011

Monza, Italy: Red Bull's Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel tried to play down his chances of winning the Italian Grand Prix on Thursday but McLaren rival Jenson Button was having none of that. "I think we know that it is not one of the circuits that we really prefer from a layout point of view," Vettel told reporters at Monza. "A lot of straights, no real high-speed corners," added the...

09:39 AM, Sep 09, 2011

Monza: Ferrari are laying the foundations for a new era of Schumacher-like dominance with Fernando Alonso and aim to be winning regularly again within a year, according to team boss Stefano Domenicali. Speaking to Reuters before the Italian Grand Prix, a race that Alonso won from pole position last year and one that holds a special importance in the heart of all Ferrari fans, Domenicali made it clear that the...

09:06 AM, Sep 09, 2011

Monza, Italy: Red Bull will need to be quicker than ever at Monza this weekend if Formula One's runaway leader Sebastian Vettel is to get on the podium at Ferrari's home circuit. The champion, winner of seven of the 12 races to date this season, has little to worry about given that he is 92 points clear at the top after leading Australian team mate and closest rival Mark Webber...

10:51 AM, Sep 08, 2011

Monza: After gathering 20 points from the last three races, Force India is targeting elusive double points finish in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix. Only once Force India has managed a double points finish and that too at the inaugural race of the 2011 season in Australia. Vijay Mallya, Chairman and Team Principal was happy with the way team made a hat-trick of points - Nurburgring, Budapest and Spa-Francorchamps - and...

05:02 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Monza, Italy: Fernando Alonso recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix for home team Ferrari on Sunday and revive his Formula One title chances. The Spaniard lost pole position to McLaren's Jenson Button at the first corner but re-took the lead after the pit stops to hold on for a 2.9-second victory. Felipe Massa of Ferrari was third and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel came fourth. Red...

07:11 PM, Sep 12, 2010