It might have been his first victory in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, but Pirtek Racing star Andrew Jordan made it look like he had been in the habit of winning for years when he took the chequered flag by nigh-on eight seconds at Croft...
Jason Plato has reduced the gap separating him from the lead in the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) to just 20 points following victory in race two at Rockingham - a success that marked the 2001 title-winner's 50th career success in the hotly-fought tin-top series.
In 1997, Damon Hill looked set for an entirely unheralded victory for Arrows in the Hungarian Grand Prix, having endured up until that point a desultory season as reigning F1 World Champion.
Mark Webber has transformed himself from a 'nearly man' to a 'really man' in becoming only the third Australian ever to win in the top flight by storming to a dominant triumph in the 2009 German Grand Prix at the N?rburgring - half a century on from Sir Jack Brabham's famous Monaco Grand Prix glo
David Brabham has admitted that his first outright win at the Le Mans 24 Hours was taking time to sink in, but here are his first thoughts on exactly how it felt to have finally tasted success while on loan to the factory Peugeot squad.
It may have taken them 75 races to get there, but when they finally did so they did it in style, as Sebastian Vettel led team-mate Mark Webber home in a resounding Red Bull Racing one-two triumph in a water-logged Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today.
Contrary to earlier reports, it seems Honda will not now give IndyCar's first lady Danica Patrick a try-out in one of its RA108 Formula 1 cars following the end of the 2008 world championship campaign.
15-year-old Scott Redding has taken a stunning debut grand prix victory in Sunday's 125cc British GP at Donington Park - making him the youngest ever winner of a motorcycle grand prix and the first British rider to win at home since Ian McConnachie in the 80cc race at Silverstone in 1986!
Slicks were the tyres of choice for the damp track conditions - the lengthy Shanghai circuit drying steadily after heavy morning rain - and Rossi earned his breakthrough victory after a tense race-long battle with Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa.
In a performance reminiscent of that which delivered him his breakthrough Formula 1 victory in Montreal last year, Lewis Hamilton got his 2008 title bid off to the perfect start by triumphing in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne - never putting a foot wrong as the heat and lack of traction c
It was a combination of experience and no experience that won Saturday afternoon's Food World 300 ARCA race at Talladega Superspeedway for youngster Paul Menard and team boss Andy Petree.