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Murray Walker has claimed that the only reasons Honda should have for electing to promote Bruno Senna to Formula 1 in 2009 in place of Rubens Barrichello are financial ones, arguing the latter's experience would likely be of critical importance in the sport's brave new dawn.

Murray Walker has tipped Kimi Raikkonen to bounce back next year from his desultory campaign as defending world champion in Formula 1 - though he is less convinced that will be enough for the Finn to reclaim his crown.

In the wake of the controversial Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway at the weekend, it has been revealed that - not for the first time this season - race stewards went against the advice of FIA race director Charlie Whiting in meting out a post-race time penalty.

Formula 1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton admitted after his disastrous Japanese Grand Prix today that he had 'made a mistake and paid for it' - but he insisted he would be changing nothing in his seeming 'win-or-bust' approach to the final two races of the campaign.

Fans unable to make it to Brands Hatch for the final rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship won't miss out on any of the action after ITV4 confirmed that it will broadcast live coverage of all three BTCC races on Finals Day.

Lewis Hamilton has been warned to stop 'waging a war with the media' by former F1 driver turned ITV-F1 pundit Martin Brundle, who insists the young McLaren-Mercedes ace 'will lose horribly' should the stand-off continue.

Felipe Massa has emerged as the dark horse to claim the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship laurels - that is the view of expert ITV-F1 commentator Martin Brundle, as the Brazilian heads to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix this weekend leading the title chase for the first time in his

Martin Brundle's live grid walk on ITV's pre-F1 shows may have become one of the most popular and entertaining elements to the broadcaster's grand prix coverage, but the former McLaren and Benetton ace has dropped himself in hot water after referring to track workers as 'pikeys' in the bui

Having won the rights to broadcast Formula 1 from 2009, the BBC has revealed it is to keep production of its grand prix coverage 'in-house', with two names emerging as key players for the major presenting roles.

On his one-off return to racing last weekend, Martin Brundle showed he had lost none of his flair by registering a trio of top ten finishes in the Formula Palmer Audi Championship at Spa-Francorchamps - out-scoring his promising teenage son Alex along the way.

Martin Brundle is to return to the cockpit this weekend as he gets set to race competitively for the first time since his Le Mans 24 Hours appearance seven years ago - around the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.

Martin Brundle says he believes the new 2009 technical regulations in Formula 1 are 'a move in the right direction' for the sport, though he echoed leading drivers' fears over the inherent dangers of a ban on tyre-warmers with the top flight set to return to slick rubber next year.

The BBC's ?200 million contract to host Formula 1 for the next five years has come under fire from a Scottish MP who is demanding a government inquiry into the big money deal after he claims the Beeb would not pay a fraction of that total to broadcast Scotland international football matche

The HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship has confirmed a new three-year agreement has been reached with ITV which will include an unprecedented amount of live coverage of the 50th anniversary season.

After one of the closest title battles the series has ever seen, ITV has announced that it will show a review of the 2004 British Touring Car Championship season at the end of the month.

British broadcaster ITV has inked a deal to keep Formula One at the channel until 2010 it has emerged. ITV first took F1 in the UK in 1997 when it moved from its long term home in the UK of BBC

The FIA World Rally Championship will be broadcast on ITV during 2004 in the UK, following news that Channel 4's agreement has been cancelled by mutual consent.