Mumbai: Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton will be here to enthrall motorsport fans on September 16 as he will drive his racecar around Marine Drive. The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver will drive his MP4-27 through the famous south Mumbai road. The 2008 World Champion said: "I always love coming to India and I am really excited to be coming to Mumbai this time." "I am simply overwhelmed by the incredible...
06:42 PM, Sep 05, 2012
London: McLaren's Jenson Button has criticised team mate Lewis Hamilton for revealing confidential car data on Twitter before Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix in a gaffe that may have helped Formula One rivals. Button won the race at Spa but British newspapers on Tuesday reported his dismay at the incident. "We work so hard to improve the car and keep things like that secret and private. I didn't want to see...
03:24 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Spa, Belgium: Jenson Button coasted to his second victory of the season at the crash-marred Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, with Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton forced out after a spectacular pileup at the start. It was Button's first victory at Spa and the 14th of the British driver's career " and probably one of the easiest as he led from start to finish, oblivious to...
07:18 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Belgium: Formula One title contender Mark Webber will have a five-place penalty on the starting grid for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix after an unscheduled gearbox change, his Red Bull team said. The Australian is second overall in the championship and 40 points behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso with nine races remaining. The penalty will be a boost for his Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel, the reigning champion who won from...
04:54 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Belgium: Red Bull team boss Christian Horner lent support to Jenson Button on Friday by refusing to dismiss the Briton's Formula One title chances even with an 88 point gap between him and Ferrari's leader Fernando Alonso. Button is 41 points adrift of his McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton with nine races remaining and has faced questions at the Belgium Grand Prix about the possibility of playing a supporting role....
12:12 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Belgium: Force India Formula One driver Paul Di Resta is hoping to appoint a new manager in the next few weeks while lawyers deal with the fall-out of his split from Lewis Hamilton's father Anthony. The Scot, managed by Hamilton senior until his home race at Silverstone in early July, told reporters at the Belgian Grand Prix that he would not let the off-track issues become a distraction. "I have...
07:36 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium: Ferrari's Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso lapped more than 29 seconds off the pace in a rain-lashed and meaningless first practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday. Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi ended up with his name on top of the timing screens after a fastest lap of two minutes 11.389 seconds but the Japanese was among a small minority to get into double figures with his...
06:20 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Ferrai's Felipe Massa is back to training earlier than expected. It's summer break for Formula One and most drivers are busy mellowing out, recharging their batteries. But that's not the case with the Brazilian who got back behind the wheel at his local circuit of Interlagos for the fourth round of Brazil's Copa Fiat series. He did two practice sessions and was very impressive, setting times of 1m 51.411s and...
03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A slew of programmes highlighting the cultural heritage of the State awaits festival-goers at the Tourism Week of Kerala to be held during Onam. The week-long Onam celebrations being planned by the Tourism Department and the District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) will start on August 28 and conclude on September 3. The programmes of DTPC will be held at six venues and that of Tourism Department at 26 venues....
04:06 PM, Aug 13, 2012
With the London Olympics hogging the limelight all over the world, the Formula One fraternity has decided to take a month-long break with the next race - the Belgian Gran Prix - to take place on September 2. An agreement was reached between the 12 teams to send their staff for vacation. Once the Hungarian Grand Prix got over, McLaren initiated the shut down. Red Bull too closed its door...
12:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Red Bull's Mark Webber described the controversies involving his team as a 'tactic' deployed by rival teams and predicted that there would more such stories in the near future. "Its a pretty boring tactic from them, isn't it?" he said. Quite predictable. In their little bubble, if they want that, thats great," Webber said. In the past week, Helmut Marko " a former F1 driver and now the adviser with...
11:46 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Realistic about her chances in the Olympics, Indian triple-jumper Mayookha said she is targetting a top-six finish in London by improving her personal best effort. Very few Indians have made it to the final round in Olympics track and field events and Mayookha said that it would be an achievement if she made the grade in London. "I don't want to promise big things. I want to qualify...
02:00 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Hockenheim: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were optimistic they could challenge the leaders in Sunday's German Grand Prix despite more tyre-related frustration in qualifying. Despite car upgrades, the pair struggled in the wet conditions that have plagued their performances in qualifying for two Grands Prix in a row now, at Silverstone in Britain and Hockenheim. If the forecast dry weather turns out correct on Sunday, they said they could...
10:36 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Silverstone: Ma Qing Hua has become the first Chinese-born driver to test in Formula One, completing 82 laps of the British Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone for HRT. The 24-year-old Ma was on the track on Thursday on the first of two days of a young-driver test on the site of Mark Webber's F1 win on Sunday. "It was a fantastic feeling to drive a Formula One car for the...
02:58 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Singapore: Singapore Grand Prix organisers have refuted comments by the sport's supremo Bernie Ecclestone that the city-state had essentially agreed to extend its hosting rights for a further five years. Ecclestone had been quoted to say that "all obstacles preventing the deal from going through have been resolved" and that a new five-year agreement was ready to be signed. However, Singapore GP said that while it has received a formal...
02:15 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Mark Webber has reaffirmed that his decision to ignore the lure of driving for Ferrari and sticking with Red Bull was the right thing to do. The 35-year-old Australian had this week signed a one-year extension to his Formula One contract with Red Bull and says he has no regrets. "Although I did have talks with Ferrari, staying with Red Bull was the right thing to do," Webber wrote in...
01:02 PM, Jul 13, 2012
London: Mark Webber ended speculation about a move to Ferrari on Tuesday by signing an extension to his Red Bull contract that keeps him alongside Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel for a fifth season. Red Bull's announcement means the 35-year-old, who is currently second in the championship standings behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, can look forward to a seventh year with the Milton Keynes-based team. "There were discussions with Ferrari,...
04:09 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Silverstone: Red Bull driver Mark Webber won the British Grand Prix on Sunday, overtaking Fernando Alonso late in the race to cut his rival's lead in the Formula One championship. In dry conditions after two days of rain caused chaos on and off the Silverstone track, Webber pursued pole-sitter Alonso from the start and finally passed the Ferrari driver on lap 48 of 52. "Fernando Alonso had very good pace,...
07:49 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Silverstone: Formula One leader Fernando Alonso put Ferrari on pole for the first time in 31 races after mastering the rain-soaked track in a disrupted qualifying session on Saturday for the British Grand Prix. The reigning Silverstone champion was just 0.047 seconds faster than Red Bull driver Mark Webber, who will start Sunday's race alongside him on the front row and is his closest competitor in the championship. "To complete...
09:03 PM, Jul 07, 2012
