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Zinedine Zidane avoided lavishing individual praise on Gareth Bale after his hat-trick gave the Frenchman victory in his first match in charge of Real Madrid.

Blair Walsh missed a late chip-shot field goal as the Seattle Seahawks edged the Minnesota Vikings 10-9 to progress in the NFL play-offs.

UFC featherweight champ Conor McGregor may be one of the fastest rising superstars in MMA, but he’s still an underdog in his quest for UFC history, according to oddsmakers.

Milos Raonic got one back on Roger Federer to start the new season. After losing coach Ivan Ljubicic to the Federer camp leading into 2016, Raonic achieved something nobody else born in the 1990s has managed to do agains...

Maria Teresa de Filippis, first woman to race in F1, passed away aged 89 Switzerland, Saturday 9 January, 2015. The Grand Prix Drivers Club (GPDC), established in 1962 as CIAPGPF1 by nine former F1 drivers headed by Loui...

Pipo Derani topped the final day of the traditional 'Roar before the 24' Daytona 24 Hours test on Sunday

Daniel Ricciardo believes Red Bull Racing would have won some races in the latter part of 2015 had the team been running with Mercedes power rather than its Renault power unit. The Australian felt the team made a step up...

Towards the end of the 2015 Formula 1 season, Valtteri Bottas twice collided with his fellow Finn Kimi Raikkonen, with the Williams Martini Racing driver feeling the moves should act as a warning to those who doubt him d...

A new contract to secure the future of the historic Italian grand prix at Monza is now 'close' to being signed. That was the claim late on Friday of Angelo Sticchi Damiani, the chief of... More »

Our rallies editor DAVID EVANS wasn't looking forward to this year's Dakar, but the captivating first week of the event has changed his mind

Romain Grosjean says he was not ready to race in Formula 1 when he made his debut with Renault back in 2009. Grosjean was fighting for the GP2 title when Renault promoted him to a race seat, replacing Nelson Piquet ten r...

Kimi Raikkonen has admitted he is a fan of F1's older circuits, amid the new era of ultra-modern tracks penned mainly by Hermann Tilke. In recent years, many of the sport's European hosts... More »

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo claims that Red Bull could have won races in the 2015 Formula 1 season, it it was powered by Mercedes engines, following a woeful year with the ‘unreliable' and ‘unpredictable' Renault pow...

Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula One, has died at the age of 89. Formula One made the announcement on its website Saturday without providing a cause of death. De Filippis made three starts for...

©WRI2 Indy 500 winner and 2012 IndyCar champ Ryan Hunter-Reay believes the American series is as competitive as it has ever been, and its credentials should be considered a legitimate road to Grand Prix racing. While no...

Nico Rosberg is still in the game when it comes to winning world championships. That is the view of former two-time title winner Mika Hakkinen, who insisted the German driver cannot be written off... More »

Without the money to significantly develop its 2015 F1 contender, Sauber is hoping an evolution of the C34 will be strong enough to compete with its anticipated 2016 rivals. More »

© DR Believe it or not this little piece of machinery actually competed in the US Grand Prix at Sebring in 1959. And it was driven by a man born on this day in 1921, a true superstar of American racing's golden age: Rod...

©Instagram - Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton just said that Mercedes would remain dominant in 2016. That would be hardly surprising, but the real question which lingers is who of Hamilton or Rosberg will have the upper ha...

Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula One, has died at the age of 89. …

© WRI2 Max Verstappen thinks that his Toro Rosso bull will be energized this year by a full second a lap thanks to the team's switch from Renault to Ferrari power units. Despite the reliability and performance woes whic...

Daniel Ricciardo believes Red Bull's chassis was strong enough from last year's Hungarian Grand Prix onwards to challenge for wins if it had had Mercedes power