Jenson Button clinched the 2009 Formula 1 world championship by coming through to fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Mark Webber took a comfortable victory for Red Bull.
Sebastian Vettel made it up to fourth from 15th on the grid, but that …Â Details
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Saturday night’s NASCAR Banking 500 was appropriately named. After winning the race as his two closest pursuers fell by the wayside, Jimmie Johnson can all but take his fourth consecutive Cup title to the bank.
Johnson, who started from the pole and led all three practice sessions for the fifth race in the Chase, pulled away during a 17-lap run to the finish and beat runner-up Matt Kenseth to the finish line by 2.303 seconds.
In winning his sixth race of the year and the …Â Details
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Former Renault boss Flavio Briatore will begin his fight against a lifetime ban from motor racing on Monday when he takes the matter to the French courts.
Briatore is set to lodge papers at the Tribunal de Grand Instance in Paris to try and cancel the lifetime ban that was handed to him by the FIA as the result of his involvement in Renault’s race-fixing controversy at …Â Details
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“Now it’s my turn,†said professional racer Bob Faieta, who was my mentor around the Road America racetrack for the media launch of the 2010 Porsche Panamera.
Faieta was among several past and present Porsche racers, including Hurley Haywood and Patrick Long, who pushed or reined in journalists on a day of hard driving. Porsche always holds new-vehicle introductions at racetracks so journalists can drive these cars at the high speeds for which they are engineered. And this car’s personality comes alive when it is pushed. …Â Details
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