A prize draw for the ticket holders
To coincide with this weekend’s opening round of the 2006 FIA Formula One World Championship, Silverstone has announced that all fans purchasing a ticket for the British Grand

Alonso wins, Fisichella unlucky
Fernando Alonso took his first victory of the 2006 season yesterday in Bahrain. A great result by the World Champion while his team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella had a difficult weekend.
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Third phase fuel burn to continue
FIA President Max Mosley has ruled out modifying F1`s new `knockout` qualifying to make the top ten pole-run less complicated.
Although the 2006 system basically won a thumbs-up

Sakhir, Schumacher, Michelin & Hockenheim
A crowd of 40,000 watched Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher battle it out for Bahrain GP victory on Sunday. It`s a 6,000 increase over last year, bringing the three-day

2006 package not far off the 2005 pace
Despite adopting an all new 2.4 litre V8 formula this year, speeds at Sakhir were less than a second slower than last year reflecting the return of tyre changes and ongoing

Ron Dennis has denied claims that Bahrain winner Fernando Alonso only decided to switch to McLaren Mercedes for 2007 to make more money.
With Alonso currently earning about $7.2 million a year at Renault, is was earlier

Coulthard lands a penalty for Malaysia
David Coulthard will start Sunday`s Malaysian Grand Prix from near the back of the grid after his Ferrari V8 blew on the slowing down lap in Bahrain.
"Even if I get pole

A blunder in the pit lane
Felipe Massa`s troubled Ferrari debut has sparked off a flurry of investigations at the team.
The Brazilian, who had started from a career-best second on the grid, nearly took out race

Schumacher caught out by the 110% rule
The FIA`s new `110 percent` qualifying rule may have cost Michael Schumacher victory in Bahrain.
Ferrari`s veteran driver had expected an extra 2.75 kilos of fuel to be

TF106 completely off the pace
Toyota treated the Bahrain Grand Prix as an emergency `test session`, with Formula One`s biggest-budget team in crisis with its new 2006 TF106 package.
Ralf Schumacher and Jarno

A clutch problem for the Honda racer
Honda`s pre-season promise faded in a fit of bad reliability when the flag dropped in Bahrain.
New signing Rubens Barrichello, who struggled all weekend alongside Jenson Button,

A catalogue of woes for Fisichella
In a mid-race outburst, Renault`s luckless Giancarlo Fisichella cursed into his radio as his `06 opener in Bahrain went from bad to worse.
With the team seeming to change everything

An impressive debut for Rosberg
F1`s `big three` drivers might have hogged the podium, but a 20-year-old debutant arguably had the best day in Bahrain on Sunday.
Nico Rosberg, son of 1982 world champion-turned-spectator

Heading to Sepang for round two
According to a weekend weather forecast, Malaysia could turn on a hot, humid and potentially rainy round two of the 2006 F1 season.
With the Bahraini chequer now showing, the circus

Hoping for a deal in the coming weeks
Peace is edging nearer, but Bernie Ecclestone and F1`s warring GPMA carmakers emerged from a fruitless meeting on Saturday evening in Bahrain.

"We all hoped that the

Laguna Seca - A1GP - Feature Race
A1 Team Mexico became only the third team to win a double header over an A1 Grand Prix of Nations weekend when Salvador Duran took victory in the Feature race at the Mazda Raceway

No changes to the engine equivalency rules
Although a storm of controversy whistled through the Bahrain paddock, F1`s governing body has vowed to stick with the current restrictions for V10 engines.
Tonio Liuzzi

Laguna Seca - A1GP - Sprint Race
A1 Team France have been crowned World Champions, winners of the first World Cup of Motorsport after finishing second in an exciting A1 Grand Prix of Nations Sprint race at the Mazda

At the wheel of BSA`s Peugeot 307
Alexandre Bengue will make his return to the World Championship in Spain, the next event on the WRC calendar. After Rally Catalunya, Alex will be at the start of the Tour de Corse,

Malaysian GP - BMW Sauber - Preview
An important `home` race for BMW Sauber After the initial stocktaking at the season opener in Bahrain, there’s no opportunity for the Formula One teams to catch their breath.

The

Marc Coma repeats victory in the motorbike class and Nani Roma takes his first win in cars. The Raid has left Argentina today to enter Chile.
The special raced today was the shortest of the Patagonia Atacama Raid with

Alonso, Schumacher and Raikkonen take questions
Race winner Fernando Alonso, runner up Michael Schumacher and third placed man Kimi Raikkonen take questions on their race day in Bahrain

Q: (Livio Oricchio

With Alonso, Schumacher and Raikkonen
A close race between Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher saw the Renault driver take top honours today in Bahrain while Kimi Raikkonen battled his way from last on the grid

Bahrain GP - Michelin - Race
Fernando Alonso’s Formula One title defence began perfectly in the opening round of the 2006 world championship, the Bahraini Grand Prix at Sakhir.
The Renault/Michelin driver made

Alonso surprised to see Raikkonen on the podium
Kimi Raikkonen may not have won Sunday`s Bahrain Grand Prix but he certainly proved he will be a major threat to the title contenders in this year`s drivers` world