Poland's Robert Kubica took his and BMW Sauber's first Grand Prix victory to wrest the Formula One championship lead from McLaren's Lewis Hamilton on a miserable afternoon for the Briton.
Rediff readers debate the controversies surrounding Formula One.
Vijay Mallya's die-hard optimism finally gave away and the Force India owner could not hide his disappointment after Adrian Sutil's fairytale race in the Monaco Grand Prix came to a heart-breaking end in Monaco on Sunday. Sutil was running fourth and with seven minutes to go looked certain to pocket four championship points when Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen rammed into the back of the VJM01 car he was driving, putting paid to his hopes of a dream-come-true finish.
Lewis Hamilton celebrated his 50th Formula One victory on Sunday with a pole-to-flag U.S. Grand Prix drive that kept his title hopes alive and trimmed Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg's lead to 26 points with three races remaining. Rosberg, who had been chasing his 10th triumph of the season, finished second on a sunny Texan afternoon with a big crowd but little drama -- even if Hamilton spent much of it worrying about reliability. The straightforward victory was Hamilton's fourth in Texas in five seasons and ended a barren stretch for the triple world champion dating back to his last win in Germany in July.
Ferrari's new champion Kimi Raikkonen was fourth on the timesheets.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton ended Ferrari's domination of French Grand Prix practice with the fastest time in Saturday's final session.
Lewis Hamilton said he had let down McLaren after a starting grid error cost him and his team the Formula One championship lead in Bahrain on Sunday. The Briton finished 13th at Sakhir and was overtaken in the standings by Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Ferrari have by far the best record at a circuit named after their late great Gilles Villeneuve, with 10 wins there since 1978.
Brazilian Felipe Massa secured pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix on an all-Ferrari front row.
The German's future remains uncertain even if he has said repeatedly that he expects to be in Formula One next season.
Driver line-ups and race numbers for the 2006 season after the governing International\nAutomobile Federation issued the official entry list.
Felipe Massa took pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton taking second place.
Lewis Hamilton won in Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and took championship lead.
The 22-year-old McLaren driver needed to win or finish ahead of team mate Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen at the Chinese Grand Prix to win the world title but his race ended when he slid off the asphalt and into the gravel when approaching the pit lane.
Fernando Alonso believes this year's world title race ended when stewards decided not to punish McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton.
The 22-year-old Briton will line up alongside Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the front row for Sunday's race.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt has ruled out any prospect of Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso moving to the team from McLaren next year.
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets in 1:22.276 ahead of Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen in 1:22.319, on the first day of Formula One's final pre-season test in Barcelona.
Nico Rosberg won a dramatic Australian Grand Prix on Sunday after a bungled tyre strategy dashed Sebastian Vettel's chances of a season-opening triumph and Fernando Alonso survived a spectacular crash that left his McLaren wrecked.
Team by team analysis of Sunday's US Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.
Ferrari's 2008 cars lapped quicker than the new McLarens in Formula One's first official test of the year in Jerez.
Lewis Hamilton celebrated his 23rd birthday on Monday by showing off the car that McLaren hope will take him to the Formula One title as the youngest champion this season.
Formula One champions Ferrari will reveal their 2008 cars in a low-key presentation in Maranello on Sunday.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton led the Hungarian Grand Prix from start to finish on Sunday to stretch his championship lead over unhappy team mate Fernando Alonso to seven points.
Valtteri Bottas seized his first pole position of the Formula One season in Austria on Saturday with Mercedes team mate and world championship leader Lewis Hamilton having to settle for second.
The 22-year-old rookie sensation pipped Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in the dying seconds with a stunning lap.
Formula One sensation Lewis Hamilton collected an armful of trophies at an awards ceremony on Sunday and heard Ayrton Senna's sister compare him to the late Brazilian great. 'He reminds me of Ayrton as a pilot (driver) and also as a good man,' Viviane Senna told the audience at the Autosport Awards attended by many of the luminaries of motor sport. 'We can see this in his eyes and his face.'
Brazilian Felipe Massa put Ferrari on pole position for the French Grand Prix on Saturday.
Charles Leclerc put Ferrari on pole position for their home Italian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday in a qualifying session that ended in farce and with drivers under investigation.
Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel limbered up for a Japanese Grand Prix that could bring him a fourth successive title on Sunday with the fastest time in Friday practice.
Sebastian Vettel trimmed Lewis Hamilton's Formula One lead to 17 points with eight races remaining.
A gearbox glitch cost Lewis Hamilton a place in the history books as Formula One's youngest world champion, McLaren team boss Ron Dennis said.
Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen fight for the Formula One title in Brazil on Sunday in what promises to be one of the sport's great showdowns.
Lewis Hamilton kept championship leader Sebastian Vettel off the top of the timesheets in both Friday practice sessions for the Korean Formula One Grand Prix while Kimi Raikkonen slammed his Lotus into a tyre wall.
Force India's Sergio Perez has said he is yet to decide if he will drive for the Formula One team next season.
Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen fight for the Formula One title in Brazil on Sunday in what promises to be one of the sport's great showdowns.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen set the pace in Japanese Grand Prix free practice on Friday as Formula One's title contenders got to grips with the Fuji circuit for the first time.
'I don't think the departure of Schumacher or (technical director Ross) Brawn will change much,' said the Toyota driver.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa took pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix with a scorching last lap in Saturday's qualifying.
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