Formula One

Befitting his position , Mr. Elkann did not travel unaccompanied. A security detail trailed the 8V in a Lancia Thema sedan with blacked-out windows, Mr. Garrett said. Also spotted by Mr. Garrett in the Mille Miglia motorcade were Jochen Mass, the... Full Article at The New York Times

Sauber has designated Kaltenborn, an Austrian national, to succeed him as team principal when he does retire, although he has not set a date for his departure. "When BMW pulled out of Formula One in 2009, Monisha Kaltenborn was instrumental in the... Full Article at The New York Times

One Car, giving them hands-on experience with the engineering process. During the two days of competition, more than 40 students on nine teams, from six U.S. states travelled to the famed Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Brooklyn, Michigan for... Full Article at PR Newswire

Spain (AP) — Pastor Maldonado held off Fernando Alonso to win the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, giving Williams its first Formula One victory in eight years. The celebration quickly gave way to concern when a fire in the team garage left 31 people injured. Full Article at The New York Times

Maldonado held off Fernando Alonso to win the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, giving the Williams team its first Formula One victory in eight years. Maldonado started from the pole and withstood the challenge by Alonso’s Ferrari to take the 66-lap race... Full Article at The New York Times

Pastor Maldonado took his first Formula One victory , in his 24th race in the series. That he did it for the Williams team, which had not won a race since 2004 at the Brazilian Grand Prix, made the victory a fan-pleasing conclusion to a highly... Full Article at The New York Times

Fernando Alonso to lock down the Spanish Grand Prix. Pole-sitter Maldonado secured his first career Formula One victory after fighting off a challenge by Spain's Alonso, who trailed by less than 1 second in the later stages of the race. But he held on... Full Article at United Press International

(Reuters) - A fire broke out in the Williams garage after the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, cutting short celebrations of the team's first victory in Formula One since 2004. Team boss Frank Williams, who is in a wheelchair, was taken to safety as acrid... Full Article at The New York Times

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren lost his Spanish Grand Prix pole position for breaking Formula One rules, giving Pastor Maldonado first place on the starting grid for Sunday’s race near Barcelona. Hamilton was forced to stop after crossing the line during... Full Article at The New York Times

Last month, as my colleagues Souad Mekhennet and Rick Gladstone reported, thousands of opposition protesters marched in Manama to protest the kingdom’s decision to proceed with the Formula One Grand Prix despite a crackdown on dissent in the country... Full Article at The New York Times

June 17, 2007. (UPI PHOTO/ Tom Russo) License photo BARCELONA, Spain, May 12 (UPI) -- Lewis Hamilton of McLaren won the pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix during Saturday's qualifying. Hamilton was clocked at 1 minute, 21.707 seconds on the... Full Article at United Press International

Formula One is always great and it’s always great to see the motor homes in Barcelona,” he said. “It’s always good to be back in Europe for Formula One.” But the sense of belonging, of comfort and place that pervades this weekend in Spain raises deeper... Full Article at The New York Times

March, when the McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button won the Australian Grand Prix, it reaffirmed beauty’s place in Formula One racecar design. The victory lap, however, may be shorter than anticipated. The team principal, Martin Whitmarsh, indicated... Full Article at The New York Times

With Firestone tires under his car, he won the Indy 500, Daytona 500, three of his Champ Car National Championships, the Dirt Track Championship, three Sebring endurance races and several Formula One victories. Firestone Complete Auto Care also... Full Article at PR Newswire

But the fun part for me was when he got right to the point about why Mercedes has remained in Formula One as a sponsor — and let’s not forget, team owner — paying into a sport that so many other manufacturers pulled out after the start of the financial... Full Article at The New York Times

The claims that Bahrain lacked sufficient security for the race did not match reality, Vettel said. "I was not the only winner of the race. Bahrain also won in triumphing over the unrealistic claims," Vettel told Germany's RTL channel. After the race,... Full Article at PR Newswire

This system is more conventional than the Formula One -based HY-KERS version shown two years ago, which included a flywheel-based energy recapture and storage system derived from Ferrari’s Formula One race program. On the V-12-based unit, the electric... Full Article at The New York Times

Ahmed Al-Mahri works in a bank, Hasan Emad in a real estate business, Yacoub Al-Slaise is a university lecturer in information technology. Two of these men are Sunnis, the other a Shiite. They said they were so close that they were like brothers. We... Full Article at The New York Times

Jonathan Miller, of Channel Four News, and his crew were denied journalism visas by Bahrain, Channel Four News reported , but the group continued to film protests without official accreditation. The 14-month-old uprising in Bahrain had heated up before... Full Article at The Washington Post