Brazilian Rubens Barrichello will drive for Williams next season after switching from this year's constructors' champions Brawn GP.
Tiger Woods claims he escaped a fine for his outspoken comments about a tournament official after his four-shot win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday.
Padraig Harrington has retained his lead at the halfway stage of the Bridgestone International after carding a second successive sub-par round for the first time in four months in Akron, Ohio.
Padraig Harrington returned to top form ahead of his defense of the PGA Championship with a six-under-par 64 to lead the Bridgestone International.
Formula One is about putting on a 90-minute show every other weekend at locations the world over.
Formula One will be in the dark this weekend when the first night race in the sport's history takes place on the streets of Singapore.
While a Formula One driver can point to any number of reasons for not going as fast as they needed to, these days they cannot blame their tires.
1. It will be 500 miles, flat out. With chassis, engine and tire reliability at an all-time high, all 33 drivers will have to run as hard as they can on every green-flag lap to have any chance of a top-five finish. Indianapolis is no longer an endurance test, it's a sprint.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen are getting on "fantastically," according to Martin Whitmarsh, the team's CEO.
On a cold and snowy day in Indianapolis, the long, bitter and divisive IndyCar "Cold War" has come to an end, ironically with the stroke of a pen in Chicago and not the "World Capital of Auto Racing" in Indianapolis.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello will drive for Williams next season after switching from this year's constructors' champions Brawn GP.
Tiger Woods claims he escaped a fine for his outspoken comments about a tournament official after his four-shot win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday.
Padraig Harrington has retained his lead at the halfway stage of the Bridgestone International after carding a second successive sub-par round for the first time in four months in Akron, Ohio.
Padraig Harrington returned to top form ahead of his defense of the PGA Championship with a six-under-par 64 to lead the Bridgestone International.
Formula One is about putting on a 90-minute show every other weekend at locations the world over.
Formula One will be in the dark this weekend when the first night race in the sport's history takes place on the streets of Singapore.
While a Formula One driver can point to any number of reasons for not going as fast as they needed to, these days they cannot blame their tires.
1. It will be 500 miles, flat out. With chassis, engine and tire reliability at an all-time high, all 33 drivers will have to run as hard as they can on every green-flag lap to have any chance of a top-five finish. Indianapolis is no longer an endurance test, it's a sprint.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen are getting on "fantastically," according to Martin Whitmarsh, the team's CEO.
On a cold and snowy day in Indianapolis, the long, bitter and divisive IndyCar "Cold War" has come to an end, ironically with the stroke of a pen in Chicago and not the "World Capital of Auto Racing" in Indianapolis.
Best Super Bowl XLII moment? My vote goes to Eli Manning, standing atop the Lombardi podium and sporting a grossly oversized championship T-shirt over his uniform, defiant in his doofy-ness to the last second. Of course, the commercials offered a few highlights, too -- though not as many as we always seem to expect. My favorites, in no particular order:
It's been the kind of year when the total number of recalls almost seemed to match auto industry production figures.
Former Bachelor contestant Jen Schefft is sending good wishes to former fiancé, Andrew Firestone, who announced his engagement this week.
Tiger Woods has decided to miss next week's Barclays Classic outside New York, the first of four big-money playoff events that will crown the inaugural FedExCup champion.
With only two par fives and numerous doglegs reigning in the boom-boom generation, Southern Hills isn't considered a candidate for Tiger Woods' personal ranking of the "Top 100 Courses I Can Play."
TULSA, Okla. -- Phil Mickelson was just off the course Tuesday when he was asked if Southern Hills, site of the 89th PGA Championship this week, reminded him of Colonial Country Club, the cozy little track in Ft. Worth, Texas, that also features more doglegs than the Westminster Kennel Club.
(AP) -- After just four holes, there was no longer any question who would win, only by how many.
TULSA, Okla. -- It seemed like 2000 again in Akron, Ohio, on Sunday, when Tiger Woods won the Bridgestone Invitational by eight strokes, lapping the field at Firestone Country Club. It was the sixth time he's won on Firestone's South Course.
AKRON, Ohio -- The Presidents Cup logo hasn't appeared on the side of a milk carton yet under the headline, "Missing!" But it's close. In what constitutes a great piece of trivia, the Presidents Cup is going to be held -- shhhh! -- next month in Montreal.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- The ninth hole is where all the action is at Firestone Country Club.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Tiger Woods looked as unbeatable as everSunday at Firestone.
Talking about climate change at a Formula One race might at first glance seem like praising celibacy in a brothel.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered a recall of 450,000 light truck tires that could have an increased risk of tread separation.
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of sponsorship in Formula 1. Before 1968 cars were decorated with colour schemes representing national flags with only discreet hood badges identifying the manufacturers (though Honda and Lotus blazed a trail by painting their names on their cars in 1966).
The winds of change have swept across Formula One at hurricane strength for the 2007 season, which opens this weekend in Australia. Fernando Alonso, the winner of the past two world championships with Renault, has switched to McLaren-Mercedes. Kimi Raikkonen has moved into the retired Michael Schumacher's Ferrari. And a slew of technical restrictions has been instituted in hopes of placing an increased emphasis on teams and drivers.
Who says car technology doesn't benefit the wider world? A disabled dolphin is able to swim normally and jump again after engineers at Japanese tire firm Bridgestone created a prosthetic tail fin for it.
You may be shocked to learn that The International, a first-class stop with one of the loveliest courses on Tour in Castle Pines, is dead. Tournament founder Jack Vickers and PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem joined forces Thursday in Denver to make the announcement.
Ferrari's Michael Schumacher moved closer to a record eighth Formula One crown on Saturday after eclipsing Renault rival Fernando Alonso in Japanese Grand Prix qualifying.
Some 15,000 members of the United Steelworkers went on strike at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants in the United States and Canada Thursday after the union rejected the company's latest contract proposal.
Tiger Woods shot his lowest opening 36-hole total for six years and continued to dominate the WGC American Express Championship, by going five strokes ahead.
Bridgestone ranks no. 245 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $24.4 billion in revenues, up 9.4% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 250 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1.6 billion, up 55.1% from a year earlier.
Firestone specialist Tiger Woods won his fourth consecutive PGA Tour title with a gripping fourth hole playoff victory over fellow American Stewart Cink at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday.
Lee Westwood's late bid for an automatic Ryder Cup place was thwarted on Sunday when he withdrew from the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational because of fever.
Firestone specialist Tiger Woods took charge in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational second round on Friday, despite running up a remarkable bogey-five on his final hole.
Proposed federal rules designed to make car roofs stronger in case of a vehicle rollover, already under attack as too lax by safety advocates, are now being criticized by automakers as too tough, according to a published report.
Japanese shares gained ground Monday as clothing chain operator Fast Retailing and tire-maker Bridgestone scored large gains. Morning blackouts in Tokyo followed by a shutdown of the benchmark Nikkei stock index failed to dampen sentiment.
Michael Schumacher blasted the Formula One title race wide open on Sunday with a commanding victory in his home German Grand Prix as Ferrari scored a one-two triumph.
Firestone announced a renewed recall effort Friday for its radial tires, mainly spares, still remaining on the Ford Explorer and similar SUVs from the 1990s.
Japanese company Bridgestone will exclusively supply tyres for the Formula One world championship from 2008 to 2010.
Formula One's governing body has invited tire makers to tender for the right to become the sport's sole supplier for three years from 2008.
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The U.S. PGA Tour have announced a 48-tournament schedule for the 2006 season, offering a total prize fund in excess of $255m.
Japanese stocks ended higher Wednesday, taking a cue from advances on Wall Street, but couldn't hold the key 12,000 level. Regional bourses closed mixed.
Seven teams using Michelin tyres who failed to start this month's U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis were found guilty by the FIA on two of five charges at a hearing in Paris on Wednesday.
Michelin have been ordered to appear before a hearing of Formula One's ruling body to explain their part in the deeply damaging U.S. Grand Prix tire fiasco.
World champion Michael Schumacher hopes to challenge at the front of the grid for the first time this season at this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, where Ferrari will introduce their new F2005 car.
Tyre manufacturers Bridgestone have taken the blame for Ferrari's poor start to the Formula One season.
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Federal auto safety regulators proposed new rules Wednesday requiring automakers to include a system to gauge tire pressure on all new cars.
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