Casey Stoner holds off Dani Pedrosa for Aragon GP win
Casey Stoner holds off Dani Pedrosa for Aragon GP win Highlights – Stoner wins at Aragon Casey Stoner held off Dani Pedrosa to win his first race of the season at the Aragon MotoGP, but championship leader Jorge Lorenzo had to settle for fourth. The Australian Ducati rider got away smoothly from pole but was [...]
Red Bull dominate practice at Silverstone
September 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Qualifying
Webber set the fastest lap of the day in the afternoon session, completing the modified circuit in 1 minute, 31.234 seconds, while Vettel set the pace in the morning session by clocking 1:32.280 Following his spectacular accident in the European Grand Prix two weeks ago, Webber is using a chassis formerly used by Vettel. Vettel [...]
Meet the next Briton tipped to break into Formula One
Paul Di Resta was well familiar with Silverstone long before he drove a Force India in yesterday morning’s first free practice session. The 24-year-old from West Lothian used to watch his cousin Dario Franchitti, the IndyCar champion and twice winner of the Indianapolis 500, race there when he was a child. “But I think the [...]
Rossi sign for Ducati
Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has confirmed he will leave the Fiat Yamaha team to ride for Ducati for two years from 2011. Rossi will link up with the team from his native Italy as former world champion Casey Stoner of Australia leaves Ducati to join Honda. The 31-year-old Rossi finished fifth in Sunday’s [...]
Hayden to partner Rossi
Hayden was world champion in 2006 Former world champion Nicky Hayden has signed a two-year deal to stay with Ducati and partner Valentino Rossi. American Hayden who won the world title in 2006 with Honda, has raced for Ducati for two years and is sixth in the 2010 season’s standings. The 29-year-old said: “Next year [...]
Jacques Villeneuve may introduce 13th Team
Formula One may not have a new team on the grid for 2011 amid speculation that Bernie Ecclestone could veto all applications to take the place left vacant by the defunct USF1 team. Ecclestone is believed to be concerned at the performance of the new teams that joined the sport in 2010, and there are [...]
Schumacher earns Button wrath
Jenson Button was less than impressed with the forthright manner in which the German veteran overtook him going into the first corner after their pit stops. “When I rejoined the track, I didn’t know where Michael was on the outside of me,” the reigning world champion said. “Into Turn One, he turned in – and [...]
Formula One Driver Lewis Hamilton
Profile: Formula 1′s first black driver Lewis Hamilton is in pole position to be Britain’s biggest sports star. Sunday March 18, Albert Park, Melbourne, and on the opening day of the 2007 Grand Prix season Lewis Hamilton is preparing for his Formula 1 debut. Remarkably for a 22-year-old, Hamilton’s black-and-silver McLaren Mercedes sits on the [...]
Hamilton hangs on but blown radiator puts heat on down Button
Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix giving McLaren 2 consecutive 1-2 finishes, propelling them upwards in the constructor’s tally for the current Formula One season… The 2009 world champion lost a place to Tonio Liuzzi at the start, and was in trouble as the safety car deployed after Nico Hulkenberg’s first-lap accident slowed the [...]
Webber and Hamilton keen to talk Turkey
The winner of the Spanish and Monaco grands prix carried on where he left off by taking his third consecutive pole position and making it seven out of seven for the Milton Keynes-based team. But Hamilton came here believing that McLaren have the chance to take the fight to Red Bull and after his best [...]
