No spectators, sponsors or VIP guests have been allowed to attend but Formula One has said it hoped that might change later in the year.
Former England captain Michael Atherton believes India is the 'pre-eminent' white-ball team and has a strong chance of holding all three ICC limited-overs titles after their T20 World Cup win.
Bernie Ecclestone's eye for a deal has made him a fortune and turned Formula One motor racing into a global money-spinner, but a bribery trial threatens to end his long reign as the head of the business.
Explore the enduring appeal of Akshaye Khanna, the actor who, despite a quiet persona and unconventional career choices, continues to captivate audiences and critics alike, recently gaining viral recognition for his role in Dhurandhar.
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A significant drop in Chinese viewers pushed down Formula One's global television audience last year, according to figures compiled by the sport's commercial rights holder.
He had hoped to secure a drive with Jordan this year, but that was not to be.
'The BJP is projected as a party that follows Hindu politics, talking about religion, gods and goddess all the time.'
'People of Tamil Nadu are not bothered about religion in politics.' 'That is why Tamil Nadu people do not encourage the BJP.'
'Atiqa's rise through the karting ranks has unfolded on grids where she is often one of the only girls competing against a bunch of "bullying" boys, and she doesn't shy away from bullying them back.'
The Formula One season in 2012 has been the sport's most divisive one. On one hand, there's constant overtaking and incredible unpredictability: for the first time in F1 history, seven different drivers won the first seven races.
the Belgian Grand Prix paddock digested news that 16-year-old Dutch driver Max Verstappen will become the sport's youngest ever starter when he makes his debut for Toro Rosso next year.
Formula One teams will no longer be allowed to run three cars at Grand Prix practice sessions from next season.
Protesters blocked several roads and police fired teargas at a school in Bahrain on Sunday, activists said, as the Gulf state staged a Formula One race promoted by the government as pure sport but seen by the opposition as a public relations stunt.
Germany's Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest double world champion at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday. The following are some key facts about the Red Bull driver.
The Formula One drivers' championship will be decided on Sunday with four still mathematically in the hunt. A look at how each can win.
A look at what is different for the coming season.
The TVS Ntorq 150 brings stronger performance, modern features and lightweight agility to India's growing performance scooter segment, discovers Rajesh Alva.
Christened AGNI, the car is both very light and fuel efficient. It has taken over 60 budding engineers more than a year to complete.
The Briton will be stand-in driver for Fernando Alonso at Monaco GP
Jazz City could have been enjoyable had it not been so densely over-plotted and unevenly executed, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Mocked, misjudged, written off, Lando Norris's carves own road to F1 Glory
Seventeen-year-old Anahat Singh, the youngest Asian to break into the world's top 20 squash rankings, discusses her ambitions to reach the top 10 and her approach to handling expectations and maintaining her game.
Kimi Raikkonen's Formula One comeback picked up speed on Monday when the Finn got back behind the wheel of a two-year-old Renault grand prix car at the Valencia circuit in eastern Spain.
The crash that left French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi in a critical condition with severe head injures was down to bad luck rather than poor judgement by Japanese Grand Prix race officials, a track spokesman said on Tuesday.
US media group News Corp and Italian financial holding Exor, which controls Ferrari through carmaker Fiat, are teaming up to explore options on how to run Formula One motor racing.
Formula One is facing fresh calls to consider closed cockpits after French driver Jules Bianchi's accident in Japan last weekend, though opinions are mixed about the potential benefits. Cockpit covers were tested by the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) after Brazilian Felipe Massa suffered severe head injuries when he was hit by a bouncing spring in Hungary in 2009. In 2012, tests were carried out using a forward roll hoop -- a metal structure placed right in front of the driver -- after other experiments with a jet fighter-style canopy and windshields. None were developed beyond the testing stage, but drivers and teams suggested at the Russian Grand Prix they could be revisited after Bianchi suffered a severe brain trauma when his Marussia crashed into a recovery tractor at Suzuka.
Sick and tired of driving on safe and boring layouts, Force India driver Adrian Sutil wants 2011 Indian Grand Prix to bring back the thrill that he finds missing in Formula One.
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said the World champions will stick to the same winning formula that delivered glory at the Qatar 2022 World Cup after on Friday finding out their group opponents for next year's global tournament.
Formula E founder Alejandro Agag reckons both his electric series and Formula One have a 50-50 chance of getting races run due to the coronavirus pandemic that has stalled both championships. The Spaniard, whose city-based series started last November and completed five races before the virus forced it off the streets, said it was unclear how much was going to be possible as restrictions eased.
Formula One's governing body has ditched a controversial rule that led to drivers being penalised for pitting during the early stages of the safety car being deployed in a race. The revised rule will now allow the pits to stay open, with new software regulating the speed of drivers returning to refuel.
Former Ferrari technical director and world championship-winning team principal Ross Brawn stepped back into the Formula One arena on Monday in the new role of managing director for motorsport.
Formula One's governing body hoped radical new rules would shake up the sport this year and, more emphatically than anyone could imagine, it has got what it wished for. The season-ending 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix, with the two Ferrari drivers standing on the podium and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton crowned world champion, looks like something from another era.
Once hailed, now failed: Formula One's KERS kinetic energy recovery system appears to be surging towards the scrapheap at the end of the season. The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), whose eight members include all the manufacturer-owned teams, have agreed to jettison the system for 2010 even if it remains in the regulations as an option at present.
Once hailed, now failed: Formula One's KERS kinetic energy recovery system appears to be surging towards the scrapheap at the end of the season.
Force India ruled Frenchman Jules Bianchi out of the reckoning for the last remaining race seat in Formula One on Wednesday, leaving the way open for Germany's Adrian Sutil to make a comeback.
Honda pulled out of Formula One with immediate effect on Friday, feeling the bite of the global recession in a major blow to a sport itself looking to cut costs to survive.
The 24-year-old German seemed destined for a musical career until he discovered go-karts as a teenager.
India has been made a conditional offer to stage a Formula One Grand Pix in 2009, Indian Olympic Association said.
As impressive as those results have been, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner took the opportunity after the race to issue a scary warning that his team is capable of winning every grand prix this season.
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