2009

By the age of 16, Tayler Malsam had played football and baseball and found neither appealing.

Andreas Mikkelsen will compete on the Barum Rally Zlin later this month in an Opel Corsa OPC Super 2000, as MSD and Hankook step up their programme in preparation for a full assault on the Intercontinental Rally Challenge in 2010.

Cal Crutchlow is confident he will be riding for a factory-backed World Superbike Championship team in 2010, but admits he is not ruling out the possibility of defecting to the newly formed Moto2 series.

IndyCar Series officials have announced that a push to pass system will be introduced from this weekend's race at Kentucky.

The tense 2009 MotoGP World Championship battle looks to be having a highly positive effect on the sport's viewing figures, with last weekend's British Grand Prix enjoying particularly strong numbers.

During a meeting at last weekend's British Grand Prix at Donington Park, the Grand Prix Commission clarified the rules regarding rookie riders and engine limits, amongst other decisions.

Team Vodafone is to make the switch from Ford to Holden for the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship season.

Khalid Al Qassimi will be back behind the wheel of the 'third' BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Focus RS WRC car this week in Finland and having finished a career best sixth on the Acropolis last month, he will be going all out to replicate that achievement.

Gordon Shedden is to make a return to the HiQ British Touring Car Championship after being signed by Cartridge World Carbon Zero Racing to take over from Dan Eaves.

The British round of the MotoGP World Championship will take place at Silverstone for the first time since 1986 next season, on a revised track layout 'very different to the bike circuit of even twelve months ago'.

Kimi Raikkonen will make his debut in the World Rally Championship this week, when he takes in the Neste Oil Rally Finland, one of the fastest and oldest events on the WRC schedule.

Felipe Massa is continuing to improve in hospital after doctors confirmed that the Ferrari driver is now out of his induced coma and communicating with his family.

Leon Haslam and John Hopkins leave the tenth round of the World Superbike Championship at Brno feeling unsatisfied after a troublesome day concluded what has been a difficult weekend as a whole for the Stiggy Honda team.

Following a drought of 49 races that stretches back to his Suzuki days, Max Biaggi can call himself a winner once again after claiming a superb maiden World Superbike victory as an Aprilia rider at Brno.

Ruben Xaus has become the latest World Superbike rider to be sidelined with injury after breaking his leg in an accident on the opening lap of race one at Brno.

Will Power justified Roger Penske's decision, not only to sign him as stand-in for Helio Castroneves at the start of the year, but also to increase his schedule in the #12 by claiming a maiden IndyCar Series win on the runways of Edmonton airport.

Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes), Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), Mark Webber (Red Bull) TV unilateral Q: Lewis, from the desperation of the first races of this season, tell us what it means to be a winner again.

James Toseland banished his 2008 British GP nightmare with a joint-career-best sixth at Donington Park on Sunday.

Ducati Marlboro riders Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden were the only riders to gamble on wet tyres at the start of the British Grand Prix, a decision that badly backfired.

Jorge Lorenzo paid a high price for braking a few centimetres off line in Sunday's British Grand Prix at Donington Park - the young title contender crashing out of the race lead after straying onto a white line (see pictures below).

Just hours after the finish of the Hungarian Grand Prix, it has been announced that Renault has been suspended from the European Grand Prix in Valencia - next on the 2009 F1 calendar following the traditional summer break - for the mistake that saw Fernando Alonso's wheel detach itself from the S

CLICK HERE for the 2009 MotoGP World Championship standings after round ten, Sunday's British Grand Prix at Donington Park...

Andrea Dovizioso has taken his first MotoGP victory in the last British round to be held at Donington Park, before a 2010 switch to Silverstone, after a dramatic race in unpredictable weather that saw title leaders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo both crash from the lead and two satellite rider

Ross Brawn has acknowledged that safety in motorsport needs to be urgently looked into in the wake of three disturbing incidents in the space of the last seven days - one of which claimed the life of Henry Surtees - but he warned against over-reacting and 'making the situation worse'.