PERTH NATIVE DANIEL RICCIARDO, the young driver TMR has followed with keen interest in 2009, has become the first Australian to claim the British Formula 3 Championship in 20 years after clinching the title at Algarve in Portugal.

Ricciardo secured the championship with two races remaining after a characteristically strong weekend, finishing third in the first [...]

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RED BULL’S MARK WEBBER has revealed he is set to again undergo surgery when the Formula One season goes on break following the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Webber, who has performed remarkably this season despite suffering from discomfort as a result of a broken leg and shoulder he suffered in November last year, had two screws removed [...]

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RED BULL’S SEBASTIAN VETTEL says the home advantage of racing in Germany will provide a boost to his hopes of closing the gap on championship leader Jenson Button.

Vettel and teammate Mark Webber appeared to have reached a new plane of performance with Red Bull at Silverstone, easily out-pacing the rival Brawn machines around the British [...]

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Sebastian Vettel battles the wet conditions at the 2009 China F1 GP.

Australian Mark Webber secured the best result of his Formula One career after finishing second to Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

Starting from third on the grid, Webber was trapped behind the Renault of Fernando Alonso during the [...]

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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will start from pole for the Chinese Grand Prix after setting a stunning time on his only flying lap of the final qualifying session.

Channelling the likes of Ayrton Senna, Vettel waited in his pit garage until the last possible moment, placing himself under enormous pressure in the process. He then embarked [...]

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The barnstorming success of the ‘Diffuser Three’ at Albert Park has prompted Red Bull to consider redesigning the rear of the team’s cars to incorporate the controversial device.

Red Bull were among the three F1 teams – Ferrari and Renault being the others - to protest against its use.

The trio claimed the design was not in [...]

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Hyundai is set to join the drifting fraternity. Pro drifter and racing driver Rhys Millen and his Rhys Millen Racing outfit are locked in to steer a ballistic Genesis Coupe in the 2009 Formula Drift Professional Drifting Championship.

With the Lambda V6 enlarged from its normal 3.8 litre capacity to 4.1 litres and a dollop of [...]

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The 2009 Dakar rally (which, ironically, no longer finishes in the West African city of Dakar, but on a different continent altogether) is set to begin January 3, and rally teams across the world are busy working away on this year’s field of contenders.

Volkswagen has had a long involvement in past Dakar Rallies, and there’s [...]

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Viperformance/Metrakit Australia is set to launch Spain’s new 2009 Metrakit XL80R Road Racer at Phillip Island’s MotoGP on 3, 4 and 5 October.

The track-bred mini-rocket will be displayed at the Metrakit stand in the support paddock. Trackside fans will get a good look at the Metrakit XL80R’s style and performance when it laps the circuit [...]

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