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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AFP) 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 ...

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 ...

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Amir Khan has moved a step closer to a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr after the Briton collected the majority of votes from a fans' poll. Mayweather Jr at the beginning of February invited supporters ...

John Surtees, driving a V-12 Ferrari, won a sensational Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, the rain-soaked afternoon marred by a multi-car collision early on. In practice, Jim Clark had a lucky ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...