The Italian notched up the 85th win of his career, and seventh in all classes at the southern Spanish circuit.
A1 Team India stole the show at the final test session at Silverstone ahead the new A1GP World Cup.
The 21-year-old Australian upstaged former world champion Valentino Rossi to take the first win of his MotoGP career.
ULFA-Independent on Friday claimed responsibility for the blast near the gate of the army station in Assam's Jorhat district.
Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boiled beyond the circuit among protesters who say the ruling family that crushed Arab Spring demonstrations last year should not have hosted the race.
The Italian kept alive the defence of his MotoGP title with a battling victory in the German Grand Prix.
The Assam Police have issued notices to opposition parties 'ordering' them to 'withdraw' the hartal over the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and warned that 'legal action' will be taken against them if they fail to follow the diktat.
Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying turned sour for Sahara Force India drivers. Nothing worked for the team and drivers Adrian Sutil and Paul Di Resta had to settle for 11th and 18th positions in Budapest on Saturday.
Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo easily won the Italian MotoGP on Sunday, stretching his advantage at the top of the riders' championship with an assured performance.
The inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix could be at risk from a terrorist attack, the Foreign Office has warned.
Charles Leclerc claimed pole position for his home race
Renault's Fernando Alonso made his peace with future Ferrari team mate Felipe Massa on Friday before setting the pace in free practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. While the Spaniard lapped with a best time of one minute 12.314 seconds, Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was the fastest of the three championship contenders ahead of what could be a title-deciding race on Sunday.
"I'm just extremely grateful that I'm here, and tonight I'm going to call my family and all my loved ones. I passed two metres from that crane. If, I had been two metres to the left, I would have been dead."
Sahara Force India recorded its first double points finish of the season with Paul di Resta securing seventh place and Nico Hulkenberg ninth in the dramatic and rain-hit Malaysian Grand Prix, in Sepang.
National archery coach Limba Ram feels that the Asian Grand Prix beginning Tuesday in Bangkok will provide an ideal platform to test the Indian archers ahead of the all important Olympic qualifiers.
World champion Valentino Rossi won the Malaysian MotoGP on Sunday, putting himself in pole position for a fourth straight title.
A spectator at the Formula One Australian Grand Prix suffered a cut to his arm when struck by a piece of debris from Kevin Magnussen's car.
Force India test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will race for Team Italy in the Portugal leg of the A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport over the Easter weekend. A1 Team Italy pulled off a coup of sorts by signing Liuzzi, who is itching to get back to racing again.
The victory on a hot afternoon at Le Castellet was Verstappen's seventh of the season and 27th of his career.
World champion Valentino Rossi of Italy won the Czech MotoGP on Sunday for the second year in a row after his Yamaha team mate Jorge Lorenzo of Spain crashed out late in the race.
Honda Gresini have pulled out of the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix following the death of Italian MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli in Malaysia on Sunday.
MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi powered from fourth on the starting grid to take his first victory of the season in Spain on Sunday and open an 11-point lead at the top of the overall standings. Spain's Dani Pedrosa was second and Australian Casey Stoner third.
World champion Lewis Hamilton splashed through the puddles at a rain-soaked Sepang International Circuit to secure pole position for Mercedes in a hectic Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying session on Saturday.
Jenson Button made the best possible start to his quest for a third successive Formula One victory by setting the quickest lap time in Friday's two practice sessions for the Chinese Grand Prix. The Briton, who won the first two races of the season from pole position, again showed the pace of his Brawn GP car with a storming lap of one minute, 35.679 seconds late in the second session.
After Formula One's expected high profile entry into the country, Indian motorsport fans may get the opportunity to have a glimpse of A1GP race by 2009.
The Karnataka pacer made a record-breaking start to his international career, picking four wickets on ODI debut, as India defeated England by 66 runs to go one up in the three-match series.
The victory was a landmark 70th for the Briton, who is well on his way to a fifth title and is now 21 wins behind the all-time record of 91 held by seven times champion Michael Schumacher.
Lewis Hamilton will start Sunday's Belgian Formula One Grand Prix from near the back of the grid as the world championship leader takes a hefty grid penalty for exceeding his allowed allocation of engine components.
'We do believe that staging the event behind closed doors, which our fans can still watch on television, is preferable to not having a race at all.'
Perez, who vaulted to fourth in the overall standings after Sunday's race, is the first Mexican driver to win a race since Pedro Rodriguez took victory in the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix.
India's Karun Chandhok soaked tremendous pressure to score his first race win of the 2008 GP2 Series in Hockenheim on Sunday. Chandhok came under intense pressure from Andi Zuber of Piquet Sports for the last 20 laps of the race, but Karun kept his cool for a fantastic victory for the iSport International team.
Dani Pedrosa streaked away to win the Catalan Moto GP in Barcelona for his second victory of the season.
Max Verstappen fought back from a slow pitstop to win the US Grand Prix in Austin on Sunday as his Red Bull team clinched the Formula One constructors' title a day after the death of billionaire owner Dietrich Mateschitz.
The India F1 GP is upon us and Rediff.com's Raja Sen is at the Buddh International Circuit to get a pulse of the goings on the pit lanes and the paddock.
Vettel, now 17 points behind the Briton after starting eight ahead, led from pole position until rain caused chaos in the closing laps, with the German skidding into the barriers in front of his home fans.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa could hold the key to the Formula One championship in his home Brazilian Grand Prix on October 21, despite being out of the reckoning himself.
The Ducati rider's eighth victory of the season, his third consecutive win, gave him an 85-point lead over Italy's Valentino Rossi.
World champion Jorge Lorenzo won the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of championship leader Marc Marquez to ensure the MotoGP title race goes down to the final round of the season at Valencia next month.
The Old War Office (OWO) of Britain's World War II era prime minister Winston Churchill opened its doors as a brand-new luxury hotel in London with a glittering launch event, complete with surprise musical performances by musicians Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Andrea Bocelli. Princess Anne - the Princess Royal, the sister of King Charles III, officially unveiled the plaque for The OWO after a tour of the hotel with Hinduja Group co-chairman GP Hinduja on Tuesday evening. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also made a quick stopover, along with parliamentarians, entrepreneurs, hoteliers and stars of film and television.
