Motor Sport

Ferrari considers F1 protest

Ferrari are considering whether to lodge a protest that could lead to the result of the Formula One world championship being overturned.

Motor racing

Webber's title help

Laine Clark Well out of championship contention, Mark Webber may yet influence Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel's formula one title tilt at this weekend's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.

F1

Hamilton grabs pole for Brazilian GP

Lewis Hamilton will start his 110th and final race for McLaren from pole position in Sunday's showdown Brazilian Grand Prix after he and teammate Jenson Button upstaged the title fighters by locking...

Motor Sport

This time, Schumacher's final lap is final

Sao Paulo One man will linger, take it all in and make a quiet, dignified exit from the Brazilian GP.

Motorsport

Vettel claims third F1 title as Button wins Brazilian GP

Sebastian Vettel became the youngest triple champion in Formula One history on Sunday when he finished sixth behind the victorious Jenson Button in a tumultuous Brazilian Grand Prix.

Motorsport

Ferrari bitter over Vettel's sweet success

Ferrari gatecrashed Sebastian Vettel's triple world title party by insisting that Spaniard Fernando Alonso should have been crowned champion in an acrimonious, season-finale parting shot.

Formula One

From race winner to hero: Maldonado rescues cousin as 16 hurt in Williams team garage fire

A total of 16 people were injured, one with severe burns, when a fire erupted in the Williams team garage in the aftermath of Pastor Maldonado's victory in the Spanish Grand Prix.

Motor sport

Flames tame Maldonado's first win as fire injures 31

Gordon Howard Pastor Maldonado emerged from the emotional chaos of his maiden victory and the Williams team's blazing return to glory in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix by declaring his next ambition: to mount a...

Hamilton fears cuts will hurt chances

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton believes cost-cutting changes will make it "very tough" for him to repeat his victory next year.

Massa shrugs off defeat to Hamilton

Ferrari's Felipe Massa, who was pipped to the Formula One title by Lewis Hamilton, said he very quickly got over any disappointment.

Ecclestone expects F1 gold in 2009

Stuart Condie Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is confident his proposal for the world drivers' championship to be decided by gold medals will be implemented next season.

Ecclestone wants gold medals for winners

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is proposing that race winners receive gold medals instead of championship points.

Hamilton rejects F1 racism is a joke

Lewis Hamilton has rejected F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's assertion that racist abuse directed at the driver had probably started as a joke.

Hamilton gets royal seal of approval

New world Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has received the royal seal of approval.

Hamilton's father decries racist abuse

The father of new Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton says racial abuse of his son had led him to consider withdrawing him from the sport.

Lewis Hamilton not interested in records

Robert Grant Lewis Hamilton claims to have no interest in matching Schumacher's record of seven Formula One crowns - but even if he did new rules make the task unlikely.

Ferrari boss pays tribute to Hamilton

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has paid tribute to Lewis Hamilton after the British star denied Brazilian Felipe Massa the Formula One world title.

Massa wins but Hamilton takes the glory

Briton Lewis Hamilton became the youngest man to win the Formula One drivers' world championship when he finished fifth in the rain-hit Brazilian Grand Prix.

Massa takes pole for Brazilian GP

Ferrari's Felipe Massa took pole position for Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit.