Ayrton Senna won the Monaco Grand Prix for the sixth time, breaking the race record he shared with Graham Hill (May 18 1969). It was Senna's fifth successive success in the event; he remains the only ...

Jackie Stewart acquired his third title after a hard battle with Lotus and decided to quit while he was at the top. Once again the season was blighted, with the deaths of François Cevert and newcomer ...

Nam Phan has stepped up on less than a month's notice to fight Tiequan Zhang at UFC 144. Zhang had been set to fight Leonard Garcia on February 26, but an undisclosed injury took Garcia out of the ...

Stephen Hendry scored a maximum 147 in the last frame of the final to beat defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-8 and regain the Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge. It was Hendry's fourth maximum ...

Hansie Cronje led from the front as South Africa lifted the Wills International Cup with a four-wicket win over the West Indies in the final at Dhaka on Sunday 1st November 1998. Cronje took two ...

The tale of the bobsled team from Jamaica who triumphed against the odds to compete at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics is embedded in pop culture more than a quarter of a century on. The story has ...

Formula One (the formula in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must comply and was originally and briefly known as Formula A) can trace its roots back to the earliest ...

Usain Bolt's triple Olympic triumph in Beijing was fuelled by 1,000 McDonalds chicken McNuggets, according to his new autobiography. The 100m and 200m world record holder, who repeated his sprint ...

From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

Sport and controversy go together hand in hand. But rarely can an attempt to abuse the system have involved such serious stakes, namely the personal safety of a driver. Given that and the high-profile ...

Many a Formula One season had come down to a dramatic climax at the final race of the season, most of which took place at Mexico City, Watkins Glen, or even the odd one at Fuji. In 1981, the names of ...