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Formula One sells itself as the most glamorous sport on the planet.
The British Formula One Grand Prix will be switched from Silverstone to Donington Park from 2010.
Australia will retain its Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne until 2015, after agreeing to a later start for the benefit of worldwide television audiences.
Formula One boss Max Mosley needs to go and an executive from outside the sport appointed to lead it into the future, racing legend Jackie Stewart says.
From the tight twists of Monaco and the Hungaroring to the fast, flowing curves of Interlagos and Spa, Formula One is contested on circuits of every type.
Formula One's governing body has issued its clearest threat to Bernie Ecclestone's grip on the sport by suggesting a host of changes.
Formula One is moving from one battle to the next as all out war beckons over how the sport's monetary spoils are divided.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has issued his clearest warning yet that the teams could form a breakaway competition in the wake of the Max Mosley sex scandal.
Canadian Grand Prix winner Robert Kubica remains remarkably humble after his first Formula One win, saying BMW Sauber need to find more pace to keep up with Ferrari and McLaren at the French Grand Prix.
Max Mosley kept his position as the head of world motor sport Tuesday after winning a vote of confidence called over allegations about his sex life.
Formula One sells itself as the most glamorous sport on the planet.
The British Formula One Grand Prix will be switched from Silverstone to Donington Park from 2010.
Australia will retain its Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne until 2015, after agreeing to a later start for the benefit of worldwide television audiences.
Formula One boss Max Mosley needs to go and an executive from outside the sport appointed to lead it into the future, racing legend Jackie Stewart says.
From the tight twists of Monaco and the Hungaroring to the fast, flowing curves of Interlagos and Spa, Formula One is contested on circuits of every type.
Formula One's governing body has issued its clearest threat to Bernie Ecclestone's grip on the sport by suggesting a host of changes.
Formula One is moving from one battle to the next as all out war beckons over how the sport's monetary spoils are divided.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has issued his clearest warning yet that the teams could form a breakaway competition in the wake of the Max Mosley sex scandal.
Canadian Grand Prix winner Robert Kubica remains remarkably humble after his first Formula One win, saying BMW Sauber need to find more pace to keep up with Ferrari and McLaren at the French Grand Prix.
Max Mosley kept his position as the head of world motor sport Tuesday after winning a vote of confidence called over allegations about his sex life.
It is a saga that has rumbled on for years -- but there finally could be light at the end of the tunnel for the British Grand Prix.
I was certain Danica Patrick was going to win the Indianapolis 500 Sunday. Just positive. After all, this 2008 is a year, when, surely, women have been more prominent in sports than ever before -- and in every way: good, bad and sad.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has written to motor sport officials to reject claims by Max Mosley about his intentions, and turned the knife by suggesting the FIA needs a "credible and respected president."
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has reacted angrily to comments from embattled FIA president Max Mosley, suggesting he is ready to fight over the sport's future.
Max Mosley's ongoing battle to retain his job after allegations about his sex life is likely to do the one thing that has never happened -- overshadow the glitz and glamour of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Wanted: someone with a minimum of several hundred million dollars and the stomach for a fight. No reward guaranteed.
The French Grand Prix will be held for the last time at Magny-Cours this year but Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone wants it to return to a new Paris circuit in 2010.
The money involved is mind boggling, even by Formula One's heady standards.
McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has endorsed plans to extend Formula One's season to 20 races, but believes the sport should stop there.
Max Mosley says he will remain president of auto racing's governing body despite calls for him to resign because of his role in a sex scandal.
Kimi Raikkonen has entered a jetboat race dressed as a gorilla under the name of deceased Formula One legend James Hunt, Felipe Massa goes shopping for watches and Lewis Hamilton loves listening to Chaka Demus & Pliers.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has a lot to thank Lewis Hamilton for.
Australian Grand Prix chiefs have ruled out the prospect of a floodlit race in Melbourne, despite a veiled warning from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone that they could lose their place on the calendar.
The Australian Grand Prix will start later in 2009 in a bid to avoid losing its place in the Formula One calendar.
2007 was clearly one of the most exciting years in recent Formula 1 history. But will renewed public enthusiasm for the sport continue through 2008?
Not long after Lewis Hamilton enjoyed his second grand prix victory, at Indianapolis, it was announced that Formula One was ending its relationship with the circuit. There will be no United States grand prix in the 2008 season.
Lewis Hamilton's shock retirement from the Chinese Grand Prix has set up a grandstand finale to a thrilling and controversial 2007 season. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone could not have wished for a better conclusion to a year filled with surprise, intrigue, espionage and infighting -- for the third time this decade, the driver's championship goes down to the wire.
Before Formula 1, the young Bernie Ecclestone carved out a lucrative career in the motor trade. And its clear that the lessons he learned early in his career have remained with him. In the intervening years, Britain's third-richest man -- and the overall boss of Formula 1 (despite having sold most of his stake to CVC Capital Partners) -- has amassed a collection of automobiles to delight and amaze.
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya said on Monday he was determined to bring a Formula One race to his country after confirming he had bought a 50 percent stake in the Spyker team.
Formula One bosses Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone are poised to take over English Championship club QPR.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt intends to take a leaf out of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone's book and stay in the sport long after others are picking up their pensions.
This year's Formula 1 season is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in recent history. With seven races remaining, the drivers' championship is still wide open.
Turkey might be the youngest circuit on the F1 race calendar, but it has rapidly become one of the most-loved, with Bernie Ecclestone even describing it as "the best race track in the world."
France kept its place on the 2008 Formula One calendar on Friday with Singapore and Valencia appearing for the first time and Australia again the season-opener on March 16.
Formula One is set to stage a grand prix in 2009, the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) announced on Thursday.
As the only street-circuit in the Formula 1 calendar, Monaco is a unique proposition (though two new street circuits may be joining the calendar for 2008 -- Singapore and Valencia). And it creates a unique problem: how to prepare for a race weekend held on a track formed from urban streets that are usually humming with taxis, scooters and flamboyant automobiles?
Australia is in danger of losing its grand prix unless it moves the event to the evening, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone told an Australian newspaper on Sunday.
Singapore has won a five-year deal to host a Formula One race on a street circuit starting next year, and hopes to break new ground by staging the first Grand Prix night race, a government minister said on Friday.
Valencia has reached an agreement to host a grand prix from 2008 on a circuit around the Spanish city's new America's Cup port, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone announced on Thursday.
Malaysian Grand Prix stewards have rejected Spyker's protest against rivals Toro Rosso, after deciding they were unable to rule on the matter.
Abu Dhabi will host a Formula One Grand Prix from 2009 in a calendar that could be extended to 20 races, F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said on Saturday.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the United States Grand Prix appears as if it may continue to call the Indianapolis Motor Speedway home after the one-year current extension to its contract expires after the race this June.
Fast cars, big bucks, and outrageous comments. Those are the associations usually made with Bernie Ecclestone. But there's more to the Formula One maestro than that -- he's a real family man. And he prides himself on fair play and says his word is always good.
The Formula One calendar will be trimmed to 17 grands prix next year with Germany and Italy each losing one of their two races, the governing body has announced.
A total of 22 two teams have applied to race in the 12-team 2008 Formula One championship, the sport's governing body has said.
Major F1 manufacturers are close to striking a deal with series supremo Bernie Ecclestone that will remove the threat of a rival circuit, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Michael Schumacher's manager Willi Weber has linked the seven-time Formula One world champion with Toyota should he choose to quit Ferrari at the end of the season.
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Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is expecting to seal a deal next week to secure the future of the Belgian GP after a promoter ran into financial difficulty.
Luxembourg have declined to help fund next year's Formula One grand prix at Belgium's famous circuit in Spa - a race hit by financial problems.
Title challengers McLaren looked ominously quick when the wail of Formula One engines echoed around Istanbul's new circuit for the first time.
Bernie Ecclestone is considering quitting as F1's commercial supremo for a new job with the sport's governing body, said FIA president Max Mosley.
Bernie Ecclestone has been asked to relinquish his hold on Formula One's commercial empire in a move which could unite the sport.
Formula One teams and carmakers planning their own series from 2008 will decide on Thursday whether or not to return to the negotiating table with the sport's governing body.
India's Narain Karthikeyan is set to become the first driver from the sub-continent to secure a drive in the Formula One - the pinnacle of motorsport.
The British Grand Prix will be at Silverstone for the next five years after a deal was signed on Thursday between Formula One and the circuit's owners.
Silverstone's owners have been given 48 hours to agree a contract for next year's British Grand Prix, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said.
A deal has been agreed to ensure next year's British and French Formula One Grands Prix are staged, according to Minardi boss Paul Stoddart.
GPWC Holdings, which groups the major Formula One carmakers, has appointed consultants to prepare the ground for the introduction of a rival grand prix series in 2008.
Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone is to sue Jackie Stewart, president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, for libel in the ongoing row about the future of the British Grand Prix.
The British Grand Prix now looks sure to be removed from the Formula One calendar next year, says the F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone is to be included on Formula One's draft 2005 calendar when it is published on Wednesday, according to sources close to the negotiations.
The British Grand Prix is to be dropped from the 2005 Formula One calendar, former champion Jackie Stewart has revealed.
Formula One's governing body and team bosses have scrapped plans to change the qualifying procedures after next Sunday's French Grand Prix.
Formula One team chiefs have unveiled proposals for a new qualifying format that they hope will be introduced in time for the British Grand Prix in July.
The short-term future of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone has been assured after the circuit's owners secured a deal to stage the race in 2005 and 2006.
Formula One team chiefs agreed in principle to changes designed to make the sport more exciting after a meeting with FIA president Max Mosley in Monaco.
Formula One's governing body has unveiled a blueprint to cut the cost of competing in the sport and to put drivers back in the spotlight.
Talks to save Imola's F1 future will be re-opened only if the Italian government provides funding to upgrade the San Marino Grand Prix venue, Italy's motorsport head said on Friday.
If last year was anything to go by, we should be on the eve of one of the most exciting Formula One seasons in a very long time.
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says motor racing's premier series is heading for hard times without tobacco sponsorship.
Imola, the Formula One circuit which has featured some of the sport's most exciting and tragic moments, will be axed next year, F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said.
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