Imagine you opening your car door suddenly into the path of an oncoming motorcyclist; but the door clams up and a potential mishap is averted.
The Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams Formula One teams face an attempt to bar them from the Australian Grand Prix Thursday in a controversy that threatens to sour Sunday's season-opening race. The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said Red Bull, Renault and Ferrari have lodged protests on grounds the rivals' cars did not comply with technical regulations.
Shiv Kapur battled his way through the second nine and returned with a card of three-under 69 in good scoring conditions at the BMW International Open, while his colleague Jeev Milkha Singh, struggled to a 73 that had four bogeys and three birdies.
Formula One plunged into its biggest crisis in 60 years on Friday with eight of the 10 teams announcing plans to set up their own championship.
At Rs 81.2 lakh, the BMW 730Ld is the most sensible 7 Series around. Pity most of them will form part of expensive hotel and travel fleets than that of personal collections.
US-based Prakash Amritraj downed Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(3), 6-1 to sail into the singles second round of the Israel Open, while Rohan Bopanna and his American partner Travis Parrott beat Nicolas Almagro (Spain) and Sebastian Prieto (Argentina) 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 to move into the doubles second round at the BMW Open in Munchen, Germany.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica suffered minor injuries on Wednesday when he crashed his BMW sports car on the outskirts of his Caribbean homeland's capital, authorities said. Bolt, 22, lost control of the high-powered vehicle and plowed into a ditch on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton kept McLaren on top for a third straight practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix Saturday.
The introduction of the new energy recovery system KERS to Formula One this season has raised fears of a possible safety risk to drivers.
Danny Willett won the 80th Masters by three strokes on Sunday to become the first English winner at Augusta National Golf Club since 1996. Here are a few interesting little known facts about the rising golf star...
Now you can buy Jaguars and Land Rovers from dedicated showrooms in India. Indian owned or not, they represent some of the best sports cars and sports utility vehicles.
A three-judge bench of Justices B N Aggrawal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam passed the direction after senior counsel Altaf Ahmed appearing for Anand submitted that the alleged tapes showing the sting operation were doctored and edited to implicate him and Khan.
The two-acre office complex under construction on the outskirts of Delhi will be home to about eight hundred company executives. Special care is being given to air purification and the building will be equipped with a three-stage air filter system.
The rupee's slide against the dollar and euro has put pressure on international automobile companies as compressed margins may force them to revisit prices of imported models in the next few months.
Toro Rosso's stunning Italian Grand Prix victory was no fluke, former Minardi team owner Paul Stoddart said on Wednesday. Stoddart, who watched Sunday's race on television in Britain, was delighted for the Italy-based team that he saved from collapse in 2001 before selling out.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
World No 15 Marin Cilic is under the radar of the International Tennis Federation for failing a drug test during the BMW Open in Munich in April, it has been reported.
Formula One's governing body has moved to prevent the sport becoming a 'jockeys' championship' by increasing the minimum weight of cars by 15kg from next year. Taller drivers such as BMW-Sauber's Robert Kubica have been at a disadvantage this season because of the introduction of the new KERS system that provides a power boost at the push of a button.
The Ferrari driver finished ahead of F1 championship leader Lewis Hamilton and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica in that order in Sunday's race in Valencia.
Poland's Robert Kubica, still without a point after three races, hopes to boost his chances in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix by racing for the first time with the new KERS energy recovery system.
Is Apple going the Android way? Some of the features and enhancements in iOS 14 might make you think the smartphone giant is trying to introduce some android experiences into its ecosystem, says Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com.
Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton will start the Malaysian GP eighth and ninth after collecting five place penalties.
IT Department asks car dealers to furnish ledgers of all customers who have booked vehicles from November 1.
Lauding PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik for winning medals at the Rio Olympic Games, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, on Sunday, said it is the beginning of a wonderful journey for the duo.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton gave his Formula One title hopes a huge boost when he took pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday with his main rival Felipe Massa of Ferrari qualifying third.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton took pole position for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix after pipping BMW-Sauber's Robert Kubica with the last lap of qualifying on Saturday.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton wants Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix to be a re-run of last year's race but Robert Kubica is hoping for something very different. The two drivers left their mark on the 2007 race, with McLaren's Hamilton taking his breakthrough first Grand Prix win in Montreal while BMW Sauber's Kubica suffered the biggest crash of his career.
Poland's Robert Kubica believes he can still pull off a miraculous turnaround and win this year's Formula One world title for BMW-Sauber.
The Goa-based designer fields rapid-fire questions!
Tokyo has mostly delivered on that hope, despite some early teething problems.
Tiger Woods celebrated his sixth title of the season at the BMW Championship on Sunday and described the year as one of his most successful despite failing to win a major.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay a Delhi High Court order barring advocates R K Anand and I U Khan from practising for four months after they were "caught" in the BMW sting operation case.
Sanjeev Nanda on Friday received a five-year jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case. Businessman Rajeev Gupta received a one-year jail term for destruction of evidence, while his two employees got six months jail term each.
Rapid changes are taking place in the two-wheeler world.
Felipe Massa and Ferrari won the race and deservedly so but we were clapping for India. And it felt incredible.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday after World champion Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari suffered an early breakdown. The 23-year-old pipped Poland's Robert Kubica to line up a perfect start to his second season in Formula One. Finland's Heikki Kovalainen, in the second McLaren, qualified in third place with Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa alongside on the second row.
Fernando Alonso has played down his Renault team's chances of taking on Ferrari and McLaren in next month's Australian GP.
Magny-Cours marked the turning point of the Finn's season last year and he needs another French Grand Prix win on Sunday after slipping to fourth place overall.
Carmakers usually come up with such year-end announcements.
Poland's Robert Kubica, tipped as a future Ferrari driver, backed the Italian team's Felipe Massa on Thursday as his favourite for this year's Formula One title. Brazilian Massa has won four of the season's 12 races so far, the same number as McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, and is six points off his championship-leading rival.
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