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Bahrain Grand Prix called off for now

21 Feb 2010

Officials at the Sakhir International Circuit have announced that the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix has been cancelled as a result of the current political unrest in the country. With the statement having come from the country’s Royal family, the final pre-season Formula 1 test session has also been called off. The 2011 season will now begin two weeks later, in Australia on 27 March.....................Read More>>>

Massa finish Barcelona on top - Barcelona day four

21 Feb 2010

Ferrari signed off from the test at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya with a flourish on Monday. Felipe Massa’s best lap, a 1m 22.625s, was the fastest time of the four-day session at the Spanish circuit and almost four seconds quicker than the Brazilian’s quickest lap on Sunday.

Massa covered 121 laps as he worked through a comparison of the Pirelli tyres whilst running different fuel loads and car set-ups......................Read More>>>

Rosberg puts Mercedes on top - Barcelona Day three

20 Feb 2010

Nico Rosberg put Mercedes GP top of the timesheets in Spain on Sunday, as testing continued at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. With the track wet in the morning and dry in the afternoon, Rosberg finished three-tenths up on Renault’s Vitaly Petrov, with Lewis Hamilton third for McLaren.
Rosberg continued his familiarisation with Mercedes’ KERS system in conjunction with set-up comparisons over longer runs to further.....................Read More>>>

Vettel stays on top in Barcelona Day two

19 Feb 2010

After setting the quickest time as testing continued in Spain on Friday, World Champion Sebastian Vettel retained the top spot as weekend running began. Behind the Red Bull driver, Spaniards Jaime Alguersuari and Fernando Alonso again made the top three.
Although the sun failed to shine in quite the same fashion as on Friday, thousands of fans flocked.....................Read More>>>

Barcelna Day one - Vettel Fastest in wet dry day

18 Feb 2010

A late run from reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel was enough to prevent local hero Fernando Alonso topping the times in Friday’s opening day of testing at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. Vettel lapped his Red Bull just under a second quicker than Alonso’s Ferrari.

With the day starting on a damp track and drying by mid morning, there was a wide spread of times amongst the 13 drivers present. Third fastest.....................Read More>>>

Rossi wins 2011 Laureus Award

08 Feb 2011

The nine-time World Champion collected the ‘Comeback of the Year’ Award at the ceremony, which took place in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

Valentino Rossi’s incredible recovery from injury in 2010 was recognised by the Laureus Academy on Monday, as the Italian MotoGP rider was honoured with the 2011 Laureus World Sports Award ‘Comeback of the Year’ prize.........Read More>>>

Simoncelli end Sepang test on top

03 Feb 2011

The San Carlo Honda Gresini rider finished Thursday at the Sepang Test with the fastest time of the entire three days.

Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo were second and third fastest respectively, with Valentino Rossi tenth........Read More>>>

Pedrosa Fastest in Sepang Day 2

02 Feb 2011

The Repsol Honda rider was fastest on Wednesday in Malaysia

, with Casey Stoner 0.664s further back in second and Ben Spies third.

Jorge Lorenzo timed in seventh quickest, with Valentino Rossi 13th.......Read More>>>

Moto GP testing gets underway in Sepang

01 Feb 2011

Casey Stoner’s progress on the Repsol Honda RC212V continued at a rapid rate on Tuesday when the Australian rider topped the opening day timesheet at the official MotoGP Test at Sepang. Posting a best lap of 2’01.574 – the only sub-2’02” effort – at the very end of the day Stoner was 0.403s faster than World Champion Jorge Lorenzo......Read More>>>

FIM 2011 Provisional MotoGP entry list released

24 Jan 2011

The FIM has announced the provisional grid for the 2011 MotoGP World Championship.

The FIM has announced the provisional entry list for the 2011 MotoGP World Championship, which gets underway on March 20th with the opening round in Qatar......Read More>>>

Petter Solberg was cought speeding by the police

14 Feb 2010

Petter Solberg's driving ban won't affect his participation on the remaining rounds of this season's World Rally Championship, the Norwegian has said in a statement.

Solberg has had his driving licence suspended in Sweden after he was clocked travelling at 112kph in an 80kph limit on the road section heading to the fifth stage of the country’s WRC round on Friday...........Read More>>>

Hirvonen takes deserved win in Sweden

13 Feb 2010

Mikko Hirvonen has got his 2011 World Rally Championship campaign off to a dream start with his second successive victory on Rally Sweden as the new World Rally Car era began in Scandinavia.

Hirvonen headed an all-Ford Fiesta RS WRC podium after five drivers had started the final day of the Karlstad-based snow rally covered by a little more than 15 seconds..........Read More>>>

Hirvonen Steps into the lead - Rally Sweden Day 2

12 Feb 2010

The Finn, in a works Ford Fiesta RS WRC, was 14.8s adrift of Mads Ostberg at the start of day two but gradually chipped away at the Norwegian’s overnight advantage to the extent he is now 0.3s up on the M-Sport Stobart driver after posting a faster time on stage 11.

“We had some problems with the [low] sun at the start and it hasn’t been easy this morning but there is still a long way to go,” said Hirvonen.........Read More>>>

Mad OSTBERG leads rally sweden first day

11 Feb 2010

M-Sport Stobart Ford’s Mads Østberg is currently leading Rally Sweden after a fairytale start at the 2011 FIA World Rally Championship season-opener.

The 23-year-old Norwegian driving in conjunction with Adapta Motorsport had completed just one short test in the all-new Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Car prior to Sweden. However, Østberg and Swedish co-driver Jonas Andersson posted two fastest stage times.........Read More>>>

Block stoked by first run in Monster Fiesta

08 Feb 2010

Block will run a revised livery on his Fiesta RS WRC this season, which will be launched by video before Rally Sweden gets underway in Karlstad on Thursday evening. The new identity was blurred out in footage of Block’s initial testing.

“It’s not that much different from some of the other cars but it is slightly different and we want to wait so you see it when we want you to see it,” said Block.

Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino are due to contest nine of this season’s 13 rounds having decided to skip the.........Read More>>>