retirement

Former MotoGP race winner and Moto2 champion Toni Elias announced his surprise retirement from racing following a fifth place in Sunday’s Road America Superbike race.

IndyCar series champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan announced that he will retire after this year's race at Indianapolis.

Sebastian Vettel took a big step closer to his decision to retire after a nightmare F1 Austrian Grand Prix, his father revealed.

Lewis Hamilton insists Sebastian Vettel’s shock decision to retire from F1 at the end of the season hasn’t made him rethink his own future.

Valentino Rossi will decide on his 2022 MotoGP future during this year's summer break, 'everything depends on the results'

Marco Melandri has revealed the 2019 World Superbike Championship season will be his last in international motorsport after announcing his retirement.

Valentino Rossi has claimed that “the MotoGP world without me would be like a World Cup without Italy”.

Dario Franchitti used the final IndyCar Series test of 2013 to hold his first media session since announcing he would be unable to continue his racing career.

Mark Webber prepares to bow out of F1 content to have added to the sporting legacy of his native Australia.

In the first of four articles, Mark Webber looks at the reasons why he has decided to call time on his F1 career....

FIA president Jean Todt reckons that Michael Schumacher will find another category with which to replace the thrill of F1.

Michael Schumacher admits he may have been optimistic in believing he could win an eighth world title on his comeback to F1.

Rubens Barrichello may have found himself eased into retirement after the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix. Zoltan Karpathy looks back over his storied career.

The Australian has been a stalwart of the WSBK grid since 1994, but will now hang up his leathers after Portimao.

James Toseland has endured a torrid 2011 campaign since injuring his wrist, prompting him to call time on a hugely successful motorcycling career

Jenson Button has made time to talk over his Monaco retirement with the man responsible for error that cooked his engine.

Red Bull Racing can sense 'a great opportunity' in Formula 1 in 2009 with the raft of technical and aerodynamic changes sweeping the top flight - and that could even stretch as far as winning its first race, reckons David Coulthard.

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'.

Kimi Raikkonen has come in for a scathing attack from the Italian media following another lacklustre performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend - being described variously as 'a pale imitation of the driver of the past' and 'not the driver Ferrari needs'.

More than a year-and-a-half on from his retirement from Formula 1, Michael Schumacher - the most successful driver in the sport's history - has revealed that he walked away to save his team-mate and friend Felipe Massa's career.

Aware that they will probably be the only two British drivers carrying the baton in Formula One next season, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton paid tribute to veteran colleague David Coulthard as the Scot discussed his decision to retire at the end of the year.

The statistics speak for themselves: 236 Formula 1 races, 13 grand prix victories, 12 pole positions, 18 fastest laps and 533 points. Not only is David Coulthard one of the most experienced Formula 1 drivers of all time, he is also one of the most successful

I would like to announce today my decision to retire from racing in Formula 1 at the end of this season. I will remain actively involved in the sport as a consultant to Red Bull Racing, focusing on testing and development of the cars.

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has led the tributes to David Coulthard, who has announced his retirement from Formula 1 after 14 years of competition.