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LONDON — The furor over the decision to run this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix has cast Formula One motor racing into a controversy that is making headlines around the world, some of them in countries where most people would scarcely know their Fangios and t Full Article at The New York Times

Video posted online by opposition activists in Bahrain showed a protest on Friday. Thousands of opposition protesters marched in Bahrain’s capital on Friday, to protest the kingdom’s decision to go ahead with the Formula One Grand Prix this weekend, desp Full Article at The New York Times

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Bahraini protesters run for cover from teargas fired by riot police during clashes in a Shiite suburb of the capital Manama, on April 20. MANAMA, Bahrain — The Sunni monarchy has been hoping that the Formula One Grand Full Article at The New York Times

MANAMA, Bahrain — Formula One completed its first day of practice on Friday. Nico Rosberg, the driver for the Mercedes team who won the race in China last Sunday, completed the fastest lap of the day as protesters gathered for further demonstrations arou Full Article at The New York Times

LONDON (AP) – Two Associated Press journalists are being prevented from covering the Bahrain Grand Prix because they have not received visas to enter the Gulf kingdom. Bahraini anti-government protesters chant slogans toward riot police in Manama Thursda Full Article at USA Today

(Reuters) - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has cast doubt on New Jersey hosting a grand prix in June 2013 despite a 10-year agreement announced last year. "Maybe the New York race will be 2013," he told the BBC on Tuesday. "It's a when - 2013 or 2 Full Article at The New York Times

SHANGHAI — Until today’s first practice sessions for the Chinese Grand Prix, the talk in Shanghai had not been about the race here at all, but about whether the Bahrain Grand Prix — the race scheduled after this one — would take place. Finally, after a d Full Article at The New York Times

PARIS (AP) – Formula One's governing body said the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead as planned despite ongoing political instability in the country and threats by some groups to disrupt the event. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone (C) speaks to the m Full Article at USA Today

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Next week's Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead unless local officials decide otherwise, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. "The race is on the calendar, it's scheduled. The only people that can do anything about it Full Article at The New York Times

Denmark’s prime minister pressed Bahrain to release a jailed rights activist on Tuesday, 62 days into his hunger strike, as the kingdom continued to dismiss claims that its crackdown on dissent made it unfit to host an international motor race scheduled Full Article at The New York Times

When it was inaugurated in 1999, the Malaysian Grand Prix had a custom-built circuit that was the biggest, most technologically advanced in Formula One history, and it would go on to be only the first step in an unprecedented expansion by the series arou Full Article at The New York Times

March 21, 2012, 9:02 am By THE NEW YORK TIMES In which we bring you motoring news from around the Web: • Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss, told Bloomberg that he would retain control of the series if CVC Capital, a private equity group and owner o Full Article at The New York Times

MELBOURNE — The Australian Grand Prix has a contract to stay put until 2015, but that has not stopped questions about its future in Melbourne. In the weeks preceding the Grand Prix, the first of the Formula One season, Bernie Ecclestone, the promoter of Full Article at The New York Times

LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One teams and sponsors have no concerns about racing in Bahrain this year and the grand prix is definitely on despite continuing unrest, the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. "Nobody is saying we're Full Article at The New York Times