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NBC NASCAR analyst and former driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr along with wife Amy and daughter Isla survived a small plane crash in Elizabethon, Tennessee.

David Coulthard has named Mika Hakkinen as his favourite team-mate from his 15 seasons in Formula 1 - even if he admits that the Finnish double world champion is 'such an unusual character'.

The Petronas Syntium team has expressed its shock at the death of former driver David Leslie in yesterday's aircraft accident in Kent.

David Leslie, who has died at the age of 54, was one of the stars of the British Touring Car Championship during the hugely popular Super Touring era of the 1990s.

Rusty Wallace has apologised to those who may have been upset by his comments about the airport that the ill-fated Hendrick Motorsports flight was bound for last Sunday but has refused to stand down from his belief that both the Blue Ridge Airport in Martinsville and the Talladega Airport are in