2002

Following the retirement of more than a third of the field yesterday, just 29 of the original 48 starters left the Nairobi parc ferme today to begin the second leg of the 2002 Safari Rally.

The Citroen Xsara WRCs of Thomas R?dstr?m/Denis Giraudet and S?bastien Loeb/Daniel Elena returned to Nairobi tonight in fourth and fifth positions respectively, after the French cars demonstrated high performance by setting two fastest times during the day.

Markko Martin's hopes of a possible podium finish were hit by the assessment of a massive time penalty when his Ford Focus WRC refused to refire at the final service halt.

Despite being diagnosed with a slight fracture in his left thumb after a worrying crash in free practice yesterday, Valentino Rossi defied pain and apprehension to take his seventh pole position of the season.

Marlboro Yamaha rider Carlos Checa came within nine-hundredths of a second of scoring his first pole position on his YZR-M1 at Donington this afternoon, heading the times in the dying moments of the session before Valentino Rossi stole his thunder.

Peugeot suffered mixed fortunes as the eighth round of the FIA World Rally Championship - the Safari Rally - continued into a second gruelling day in Kenya.

After agreeing to sponsor the #26 Travis Carter/Carl Haas owned Ford in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series for the rest of the 2002 season, Discover Card tightened their links with Haas by signing on as an associate sponsor of the Newman-Haas CART FedEx team.

Although Valentino Rossi managed to return to the fray at Donington Park this afternoon, Spain's Pere Riba ensured that there were still two names to add to that of Loris Capirossi on the MotoGP injury list.

Stage times and overall standings after SS5. Top ten stage times for SS5:

Carlos Checa is the latest motorcycling star to settle down in Britain, joining MotoGP series leader Valentino Rossi and 250 championship leader Marco Melandri as UK residents.

As he was last weekend in Toronto, Team Rahal's Jimmy Vasser was the fastest of the five Ford powered CART FedEx contenders on the opening day of practice and qualifying at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport.

The first day's track action at the stunning Laguna Seca Raceway in California was a dramatic, yet successful affair for Neil Hodgson and James Toseland.

Emil Lindqvist is on his way back to Newport as a replacement for Ashley Jones.

Ford driver Colin McRae has taken over the lead of the Safari Rally, as he and navigator Nicky Grist grabbed top spot from Tommi M?kinen when the Finn hit problems in this morning's opening stage, and consolidated their advantage ever since.

The world's leading MotoGP riders joined forces with British motorcycle fans on Thursday to raise ?100,000 for the charity Riders for Health.

Team Telef?nica MoviStar Suzuki riders Kenny Roberts Jr and Sete Gibernau claimed second and twelfth places in today's first qualifying runs for Sunday's British GP.

Lap records tumbled during the opening day of qualifying for the British Grand Prix, but the achievement was overshadowed by falls of a different kind involving the pre-race MotoGP favourites.

Eric Bostrom has once again been drafted into the Kawasaki Racing Team, this time for round nine of the World Superbike Championship at Laguna Seca Raceway, USA. The 26-year-old Californian will substitute for the still injured Hitoyasu Izutsu aboard the factory Kawasaki ZX-7RR.

Shortly after returning from its momentous showing in the 2002 Le Mans 24-hour race, the DEWALT/RSS Morgan Aero 8 will take part in the Hillclimb competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, piloted by Le Mans drivers, Richard Stanton and Steve Hyde, who are joined for this special occasion by

Al Unser Jr's open-wheel career is in limbo today after a shocking internet column from Robin Miller, one of CART's most respected journalists, publicly revealed the personal problems that the double CART Champion has been struggling with for several years and that culminated with his arrest in I

The Repsol Honda attack has been halved with just one day of the British Grand Prix meeting over, after Tohru Ukawa was ruled out of action following a heavy crash in Friday free practice.

The Safari Rally is the eighth round out of 14 in the 2002 FIA World Rally Championship, and the fifth round out of eight in the 2002 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship.

The Safari Rally is the eighth round out of 14 in the 2002 FIA World Rally Championship, and the fifth round out of eight in the 2002 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship.

The now traditional 'Day of Champions' prelude to the Cinzano British Grand Prix took place at the Donington Park circuit yesterday, and crowds packed the Derbyshire racetrack in their thousands, despite heavy downpours late in the afternoon.