McLaren’s Jenson Button survived a first-corner collision and successfully gambled on a bold tire strategy to win a thrilling Formula One Australian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Button was the first driver prepared to change from intermediate tires to slicks on a drying track, and drove the final 52 laps on a wearing set of soft tires to claim back-to-back race wins in Melbourne.
The 2009 world champion tangled with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso at the first corner, and … Details
2008 – Jeff Gordon drives a Williams-BMW FW24, the car that Juan Pablo Montoya drove during the 2002 Formula 1 World Championship. Montoya drives Jeff Gordon’s #24 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Winston Cup car. This is a 2002 chassis. This took place in the Grand Prix Road Course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Formula One cars could be racing with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline if Bernie Ecclestone gets his way.
The F1 boss wants to help set up a New York Grand Prix in 2012.
“(It would be) in front of Manhattan in New Jersey, with the skyscrapers in the background,†Ecclestone said in Thursday’s Gazzetta dello Sport. “Fifteen minutes from the center of New York to the circuit would be marvelous.â€
There hasn’t been a grand prix in the United States since 2007, when … Details
Alex Zanardi is aiming for a hand cycling medal in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London after winning Sunday’s Rome marathon.
The former Champ Car and F1 star won yesterday’s event in 1h15m53sec, two minutes clear of his nearest rival, and boosted by the result he believes he can challenge for a medal in two years time … Details