Rain disrupted the final qualifying session of the season. After Julien Jousse (Tech 1 Racing), Robert Wickens (Carlin Motorsport) and Marco Bonanomi (Red Devil Team Comtec) crashed out, as well as increasingly difficult conditions, the SuperPole was interrupted the Race

Repsol Honda RC212V rider Dani Pedrosa stormed to a brilliant pole position at Sepang this afternoon, triumphing at the end of a complex session which started out on a soaking wet track. This is his first pole with Bridgestone tyres,

First pole for the Repsol Honda Team rider on Bridgestone tyres. His teammate Nicky Hayden rounds off a great team performance with fourth position For the MotoGP riders pouring rain in the morning, and a big dose of excitement in

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix from pole position - his second successive pole and his seventh of the season. In the closing moments of a tense final session, Lewis nailed a 1m36.303 lap

At the end of an exciting qualifying session, the Bull Racing driver Nicolas Prost gets the pole position on the Spanish Jerez track, sixth event of the F.3000 Championship, ahead of his main rival for the European title Fabio Onidi

Yuki Takahashi, on the second row at Malaysian Grand Prix The second day of practice and qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix has been affected by heavy rain in the morning which forced most of the riders to stay in

Red Bull F1 driver David Coulthard lashed out, blaming his poor qualifying on a move by Nick Heidfeld. The Scot was furious at the German saying, "I'm extremely disappointed with what Nick Heidfeld did at the end of Q1 on

Lewis Hamilton says the current waves of criticism do not affect him -- because he is used to it. "It's been a similar thing my whole career," he told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung newspaper, connecting his unpopularity among his peers

Amid the widespread scrutiny of Lewis Hamilton, his mentor and team boss Ron Dennis has leapt to the Shanghai pole sitter's defence. All and sundry in the paddock of the Chinese grand prix and beyond, the 23-year-old Briton's rivals, foes

Bernie Ecclestone phoned Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay this week, indicating the Canadian grand prix might not be dead in the water. The F1 chief executive scrapped Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's scheduled 2009 race, as it appears the dispute was over several

Rubens Barrichello has flatly denied reports he is set to test an Indy car following next month's Brazilian grand prix. The 36-year-old Brazilian is openly fighting for his Honda seat and for his future in formula one, as the Japanese

Former team owner Eddie Jordan has questioned Lewis Hamilton's brash approach, arguing that isolating himself from the F1 community is not a good idea. "He's alienated the drivers against himself .. and I think it's a political game as much

iSport drivers Giedo van der Garde and Harman Al Fardan finished 10th and 15th as the GP2 Asia Series began on a fairly chaotic note at the Shanghai International Circuit, China. The 34-lap race was twice interrupted by the Safety

Colin Edwards and James Toseland both led an eventful and exciting Malaysian MotoGP qualifying session in Sepang today before the Tech 3 Yamaha pairing had to settle for fifth and 12th on the grid respectively. Edwards and Toseland topped the

A disappointing start to the second GP2 Asia Championship for Trust Team Arden at the Shanghai circuit this afternoon. Both Luiz Razia and Mika Maki were forced to retire following two separate incidents early in the race. Luiz Razia touched

AS Roma rookie Franck Perera stormed to pole position in an all-Italian qualifying shootout at the Estoril Superleague Formula event in Portugual today. The 24-year-old rookie only drove the car for the first time this morning and became the second

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V) made sure he was always going to be among the front-runners at this hugely significant Grand Prix. The Spanish star sped to a pole time of 2m 01.548s at the end of a spectacular qualifying