Monaco: Mercedes are talking to Williams about a Formula One engine supply from 2014, the German company's motorsport head Toto Wolff said on Saturday. Mercedes are already contracted to supply their own works outfit, Force India and McLaren next year but the latter team have announced they will be reviving their partnership with Honda in 2015.
"It's clear that we are losing an engine customer in 2015 and for Mercedes it is important to have a regular business case so it is important to have at least three customers from 2015 onwards," Wolff told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix.
"That is why we are having certain discussions with teams and Williams is one of them.
"It would be for 2014. Nobody would sign a one-year deal with anybody," added the Austrian, whose team swept the front row for Sunday's race with Nico Rosberg on pole....
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12:10 AM, May 26, 2013
England: Former top-ranked Lee Westwood moved into second place on Saturday at the BMW PGA Championship, where the Englishman is looking to end a 20-year drought. Westwood is one shot behind Spain's Alejandro Canizares, who birdied his closing two holes in a 68 at Wentworth for an overall 9-under 207. Westwood posted a third-round 67 - including an eagle on the par-5 fourth - for 208. If Westwood wins, he...
11:34 PM, May 25, 2013
Virginia Water: Sergio Garcia spoke of his unending gratitude to the Wentworth galleries after soaring into title contention at the PGA Championship with a sizzling four-under-par 68 in Saturday's third round. The 33-year-old Spaniard was embroiled in a racism row with Tiger Woods earlier this week and had to issue an unreserved apology after making a "fried chicken" jibe at the world number one. Garcia was almost lost for words...
10:08 PM, May 25, 2013
Virginia Water: Francesco Molinari flourished while five of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead after the PGA Championship second round on Friday. Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Paul Lawrie all missed the halfway cut after struggling in cold, dank conditions at the European Tour's flagship event. A miserable Wentworth course...
10:06 AM, May 25, 2013
Virginia Water: Luke Donald, the PGA Championship winner in 2011 and 2012, is almost certain to miss the cut after returning a level-par 72 for a six-over total of 150 at Wentworth on Friday. The real damage was done in Thursday's opening round when the world number six collapsed to a six-over 78 in cold, damp conditions at the European Tour's flagship event. The weather was no better for the...
09:29 PM, May 24, 2013
Monaco: Alain Prost, four times world champion and 'Professor' of Formula One, says radical new engine rules for 2014 will reward drivers who can add brainpower to the horsepower at their disposal. The little Frenchman, now an ambassador for Renault F1, earned his nickname in the turbo era of the 1980s for his analytical skill, strategic acumen and knack of preserving the tyres and brakes. The regulations will undergo the...
09:18 PM, May 24, 2013
Pune: The third Hockey India (HI) Senior Men's National Championship will be held at the Shiv Chhattrapati sports complex here and Major Dhyan Chand Hockey stadium, Pimpri from May 28 to June 10. Speaking to reporters here Friday, organising secretary and also the Joint Secretary of HI Manoj Bhore said the championship, supported by the Maharashtra Olympic Association and the Department of Youth Services, will see 38 teams in action...
06:16 PM, May 24, 2013
London: Indian golfer SSP Chowrasia endured a topsy-turvy start, carding a one-under 71 on the opening day to be tied 23rd in the BMW PGA Championship here. The two-time winner on the Asian and European Tours, Chowrasia had an eventful round with five birdies and four bogeys. India's other two challengers in the event, Gaganjeet Bhullar (74) and Jeev Milkha Singh (78) had a rough time in the first round....
04:05 PM, May 24, 2013
Hull: India's top ranked female player Dipika Pallikal put up a spirited display before going down 1-3 to second seed Laura Massaro of England in the pre-quarters of the Allam British Open Squash Championships, here. With the ouster of the Chennai girl, the Indian challenge came to an end in the women's event of the World Platinum Series currently underway at the KC Stadium. The Indian men's challenge had ended...
04:01 PM, May 24, 2013
Virginia Water: World number two Rory McIlroy was blown off course by unseasonally cold weather at Wentworth on Thursday, bogeying five of the last six holes to sink to a two-over 74 in the PGA Championship first round. The 24-year-old Northern Irishman made an encouraging start to the European Tour's flagship event and was three-under after 12 holes but a series of late blunders meant he walked off the 18th...
10:55 PM, May 23, 2013
England: Sergio Garcia was so upset by the furore caused by his "fried chicken" jibe at Tiger Woods that he contemplated pulling out of this week's PGA Championship at Wentworth, the Spaniard said on Wednesday. World number 14 Garcia added that his comment, made at the European Tour's Player of the Year awards on Tuesday, was "stupid and out of place" and he regretted it the moment he said it....
09:45 PM, May 22, 2013
Guntur: Kerala's KT Neena qualified for World Youth Championships after winning gold in 5000m race with a new meet mark of 25 min 13.95 sec on the third and final day of the 10th National Youth Athletics Championships here. The World Youth Championships will be held in Ukraine in July. Neena's team-mates AM Binsy and S Akshaya completed the other two places on the podium as Kerala pipped overnight leaders...
08:54 PM, May 20, 2013
Kavarna, Bulgaria: Britain's Graeme McDowell and South African Branden Grace set up a mouth-watering showdown in the semi-finals of the World Match Play Championship by winning on Saturday. World number eight McDowell, the highest-ranked player in the field, avenged his defeat in last year's final by easing past holder Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium 2 & 1. Colsaerts was already trailing when his drive at the 10th hole found a hazard...
09:22 AM, May 19, 2013
Kavarna, Bulgaria: Ian Poulter was eliminated from the World Match Play Championship after losing another round-robin match on Friday. Poulter lost to Thomas Aiken, 1 up, at the Thracian Cliffs course when he bogeyed the last hole after missing the fairway. "I have no excuses," Poulter said. "There is no excuse for that display of golf over the last two days. It's disgusting, disgraceful and there's no explanation. I should...
12:23 PM, May 18, 2013
Paris: Sharath Kamal took a game off World No.5 Timo Boll before going down 1-4 in the men's singles second round at the World Table Tennis Championships here, ending the Indian challenge in the mega event. Germany's Timo Boll got the better of Sharath 9-11, 12-10, 11-1, 11-5, 11-2 in a round of 64 match Thursday night. The two paddlers play for the same club in Germany, Borussia Dusseldorf. Sharath,...
08:32 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Achantha Sharath Kamal advanced to the second round of men's singles while all his Indian team-mates bowed out of individual events at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris on Wednesday. Sharath Kamal registered a 11-7 11-5 8-11 11-8 5-11 11-9 win over Spain's Carlos Machado in his first singles encounter and will now take on world number five Timo Boll of Germany in the second round. Anthony...
10:22 PM, May 15, 2013
Paris: Top seed and defending champion Ding Ning of China breezed past Dederko Zhenhua of Australia 4-0 to reach the second round of the World Table Tennis Championships here Wednesday. Ding, also the London Olympics silver medallist, beat the 220th-ranked Dederko 11-6, 11-2, 11-5, 11-3, reports Xinhua. Third seed Li Xiaoxia, who beat her teammate Ding to win the gold in London, also advanced with a victory over Ruta Paskauskiene...
08:44 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: India's Mouma Das, K Shamini and Madhurika Patkar have entered the main draw of the women`s singles event while Soumyajit Ghosh too made the cut in the men's competition at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris. In the second preliminary round, Das got the better of Rheann Chung of Trinidad and Tobago 4-1 to secure her place in the main draw. K Shamini defeated Sovenia`s Manca Fajmut...
03:01 PM, May 15, 2013
London: Formula One world champions Red Bull could benefit from changes to be introduced at next month's Canadian Grand Prix that will make tyres tougher and longer lasting, supplier Pirelli recognised on Tuesday. The Italian company's motorsport director Paul Hembery hoped that would not be the case, however. "There have been concerns from some of the teams that the changes will favour one team or another, but we don't think...
08:21 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Indian paddlers got off to a good start with Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty winning their respective first rounds matches of the men's preliminary qualification event at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris. Indian women paddlers too had an easy qualification group and they progressed to the preliminary round of the singles event. Mouma Das, K Shamini, Madhurika Patkar and Neha Aggrawal won their respective...
04:16 PM, May 14, 2013
