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Champion Button relishes prospect of 'new age' F1

The Yas Marina circuit in the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. Newly-crowned Formula One drivers' world champion Jenson Button led the praise for the spectacular new Yas Marina circuit here and said he was aiming to finish the season with another win.
AFP - Friday, October 30

ABU DHABI (AFP) - - Newly-crowned Formula One drivers' world champion Jenson Button led the praise Thursday for the spectacular new Yas Marina circuit here and said he was aiming to finish the season with another win. More »

  • Ecclestone seeking Silverstone deal

    Reuters - Wednesday, October 28

    LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has declared an end to Donington Park's ambitious plans to host the British Grand Prix and offered Silverstone the chance to keep the race on the calendar.

  • Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi, seen here in 2008, will once again step in for the injured Timo Glock in the Toyota team at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

    Kobayashi gets Toyota F1 drive at Abu Dhabi

    AFP - Wednesday, October 28

    PARIS (AFP) - - Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi will once again step in for the injured Timo Glock in the Toyota team at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday.

  • Bikers race during the British Grand Prix at Donington Park, July 2009. Damon Hill believes it is still possible that a deal can be agreed with Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone to preserve the future of the British Grand Prix.

    Hill still hopes British GP can be saved

    AFP - Wednesday, October 28

    LONDON (AFP) - - Damon Hill believes it is still possible that a deal can be agreed with Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone to preserve the future of the British Grand Prix.

  • Kobayashi to replace injured Glock in last F1 race

    AP - Wednesday, October 28

    FRANKFURT - Toyota driver Timo Glock has been ruled out of the final Formula One race of the season because of injury and will be replaced by Kamui Kobayashi.

  • Abu Dhabi track will demand respect, says Coulthard

    Reuters - Tuesday, October 27

    LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One's newest circuit in Abu Dhabi could prove trickier this weekend than any other track introduced in recent years, according to former racer David Coulthard.

  • Brawn 99 percent sure Button will stay

    Reuters - Monday, October 26

    LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Jenson Button is 99 percent certain to stay with the Brawn team next season, team principal and owner Ross Brawn said on Sunday after reports linking the Briton with rivals McLaren.

  • French driver Sebastien Loeb (right) and his co-driver Daniel Elena during the second stage of the Rally of Great Britain on October 23. The victory meant Loeb -- who was driving a Citroen C4 -- clinched his sixth consecutive World Rally title.

    Loeb wins GB Rally and sixth world title

    AFP - Monday, October 26

    CARDIFF (AFP) - - Sebastien Loeb of France in a Citroen C4 won the Rally of Great Britain here on Sunday to clinch the World Rally championship for the sixth straight year.

  • Frenchman Todt elected FIA president

    AFP - Saturday, October 24

    PARIS (AFP) - - Ex-Ferrari boss Jean Todt promised "constructive change" after he won Friday's election to the most powerful post in motorsport as president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

  • Bikers race during the British Grand Prix at Donington Park in Leicestershire, July 2009. Donington Park's bid to stage the British Grand Prix from 2010 is set to fail after the venue's fund-raising attempts fell through.

    Donington Park's British Grand Prix bid set to fail

    AFP - Saturday, October 24

    LONDON (AFP) - - Donington Park's bid to stage the British Grand Prix from 2010 is set to fail after the venue's fund-raising attempts fell through.

  • Todt, Vatanen arrive for FIA election

    Reuters - Saturday, October 24

    PARIS (Reuters) - Jean Todt joined his former champion Michael Schumacher on Friday for a vote that could see the ex-Ferrari team boss elected to replace Max Mosley as head of Formula One's governing body.

  • Jean Todt and Ari Vatanen, seen here, bring their battle to succeed Max Mosley as world motorsport's most powerful man to a conclusion on Friday.

    Bitter race to succeed Mosley reaches end

    AFP - Friday, October 23

    PARIS (AFP) - - Jean Todt and Ari Vatanen bring their battle to succeed Max Mosley as world motorsport's most powerful man to a conclusion on Friday.

  • Sex and scandal fused under Mosley's F1 reign

    AP - Thursday, October 22

    MADRID - Sex and scandal are never far from Formula One's headlines, and outgoing FIA president Max Mosley's 16-year reign only seemed to pull them closer together.

  • Monaco F1 date change approved, Canada uncertain

    Reuters - Thursday, October 22

    LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body approved a proposal to switch the date of next year's Monaco Grand Prix to May 16 Wednesday but left a question mark over the Canadian and British races.

  • FIA moves Monaco GP forward by a week

    AP - Thursday, October 22

    PARIS - Motor racing's governing body has moved the Monaco Grand Prix forward by a week to allay the Formula One teams' concerns about travel arrangements.

  • Jenson Button celebrates with Brawn GP teammates his F-1 World Champion title after the Brazil's F1 GP, on October 18, at Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo. Button believes his attempt to become the first British driver to retain the F1 drivers' world title will be one of the most difficult in the history of the sport.

    Button ready for gruelling F1 title defence

    AFP - Wednesday, October 21

    LONDON (AFP) - - Jenson Button believes his attempt to become the first British driver to retain the Formula One drivers' world title will be one of the most difficult in the history of the sport.

  • A candidate promises to put F1 on different track

    AP - Wednesday, October 21

    Ari Vatanen promises to bring changes to Formula One, an organization he believes has lost its way.

  • Former world rally champion Ari Vatanen, seen here in 2007, has dropped a request to a top French court that could have disrupted elections for the president of the International Automobile Association (FIA).

    Former rally champion withdraws French court request

    AFP - Wednesday, October 21

    PARIS (AFP) - - Former world rally champion Ari Vatanen has dropped a request to a top French court that could have disrupted elections for the president of the International Automobile Association (FIA).

  • Former Renault chief Flavio Briatore's, seen here, legal action challenging the life ban he received from the FIA for his role in the Nelson Piquet junior crashgate affair will be heard on November 24.

    Paris court to hear Briatore's FIA case

    AFP - Wednesday, October 21

    PARIS (AFP) - - Former Renault chief Flavio Briatore's legal action challenging the life ban he received from the FIA for his role in the Nelson Piquet junior crashgate affair will be heard on November 24.

  • Formula One World Champion Jenson Button poses for photographers during a promotional photocall at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, south-east England. Button hopes to stay with his Brawn GP team next season, and is relishing the prospect of going head-to-head with Lewis Hamilton again.

    Button wants to stay with Brawn F1 team

    AFP - Wednesday, October 21

    LONDON (AFP) - - Newly-crowned Formula One world champion Jenson Button hopes to stay with his Brawn GP team next season, and is relishing the prospect of going head-to-head with Lewis Hamilton again, he said Tuesday.

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