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.
Whilst seeking to diffuse the incendiary situation in his characteristically measured, professional manner, Ross Brawn nonetheless managed to deliver a withering put-down to Rubens Barrichello's assertion that Brawn GP cost him victory in the German Grand Prix - arguing that 'you can't win a race
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
He may have hit the 200 grand prix mark in the Melbourne curtain-raiser, but when the prickly question of retirement looms, Jarno Trulli is adamant that 'the fire still burns' and that he will not be satisfied until he has delivered Toyota its breakthrough F1 victory.
Valentino Rossi claimed his 99th grand prix victory by beating home hero, team-mate and #99 Jorge Lorenzo with a 'dream' last turn pass in Sunday's Grand Prix of Catalunya.
After waiting since 2006 for a last lap victory pass in MotoGP, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo exchanged positions four times during a heart-stopping final lap in Catalunya, which ended with Rossi diving inside Lorenzo for victory at the very final turn.
They had always described the programme as a three-year project, and Peugeot have proven to be every bit as good as their word in the 77th edition of the legendary le Mans 24 Hours this weekend - finally bringing to an end Audi's domination of the race dubbed the 'hardest in the world' with a com
Race results from the Grand Prix of Catalunya at Montmelo, round six of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Stunning last lap ends with Valentino Rossi diving inside Jorge Lorenzo at final turn! Rossi, Lorenzo and Casey Stoner are now tied for the world championship lead.
Alvaro Bautista has become the first double winner of the 2009 250cc season, with home victory at round six in Catalunya - a race that saw reigning world champion Marco Simoncelli crash out.
Andrea Iannone has won the 125cc Grand Prix of Catalunya after an incredible mistake by Julian Simon saw the Spaniard celebrate home 'victory' one lap early!
Jorge Lorenzo has become the first double winner of the 2009 MotoGP season with victory in the French Grand Prix at Le Mans - a race that began in the wet, finished in the dry and saw Marco Melandri take his Hayate-run Kawasaki to second position!
He tried hard to conceal his disappointment at the end of a race he knew had been taken away from him in Barcelona, but Rubens Barrichello's face revealed far more than his words at the end of the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, as rumours intensify within the Formula 1 paddock that he is alread
Reigning six time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has taken his first win of the 2009 season - and the 98th of his career - with a come-from-behind victory in front of over 123,000 fans in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez.
Toyota was left licking its wounds after a race it could - and perhaps should - have won in Sakhir today, with a crucial strategic error seeing the big-budget Japanese manufacturer once again come up short of registering its breakthrough Formula 1 victory.
Red Bull energy drinks magnate Dietrich Mateschitz has moved to ward off the attentions of Norbert Haug, who confessed that he may be keen to prise Sebastian Vettel away from the Milton Keynes-based squad in order to drive for McLaren-Mercedes one day.
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.
The honeymoon shows no signs of ending just yet for Formula 1 'new' boys Brawn GP, with Jenson Button allaying all fears about the performance of the BGP 001 in wet conditions with a masterful drive to triumph in the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang.
Formula 1's renaissance man Jenson Button has made it two from two in the second round of the 2009 world championship, after rising above the chaos and confusion with a flawless drive to triumph in the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang - as the weather did its worst to add yet more uncertainty to wh
Sebastian Vettel has apologised to Robert Kubica for having caused the collision between the pair in the closing stages of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this weekend - costing both a podium finish in the 2009 curtain-raiser and, BMW-Sauber contend, costing the latter a likely win.
Robert Kubica has admitted that he still cannot explain his sudden slump in form towards the end of the 2008 Formula 1 season - a drop-off so serious that it saw him fail to qualify inside the top ten for the final two races and almost indeed fall victim to the dreaded Q1, score no points in two
Fernando Alonso has redoubled his attack on former McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton as the 2008 Formula 1 world title fight closes in - by claiming that 'all the drivers want [Felipe] Massa to be champion'.
Though sixth place in the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway at the weekend marked his fifth points-scoring finish in as many outings, Sebastian Vettel revealed that it could have been better still but for losing out on the opening lap.