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Motorcycling: Bayliss at the double to extend lead in race for the title Troy Bayliss got back to winning ways as he took both races in yesterday's World Superbikes round at Brno. Ducati's championship leader had not won since April and had never triumphed at the Czech circuit, but he broke that duck with a 47th career victory in race one and then consolidated his place at the top of the standings in race two.
Hamilton hunts down rivals after chaos of Glock's shunt Lewis Hamilton drove to a sensational victory at the German Grand Prix here yesterday – but we can all thank Timo Glock for injecting desperately needed excitement into what at one stage threatened to be a McLaren-Mercedes walkover.
Hamilton leads by four after German success Lewis Hamilton made it back-to-back victories for the first time in 13 months by taking the chequered at the end of a remarkable German Grand Prix.
Ice-cold Hamilton cruises into pole position Thankfully, Lewis Hamilton would make a lousy poker player. You watch his face after a qualifying session and it is usually crystal-clear whether he is happy or dissatisfied. Two weeks ago at Silverstone, where he later admitted he had done a poor job, it was writ large in his expression. Here at Hockenheim, he could scarcely control the maximum-wattage beam beneath his red Vodafone cap as he continued his current momentum by taking his third pole position of the season.
Hamilton in pole position In-form Lewis Hamilton grabbed the ninth pole position of his Formula One career ahead of tomorrow's German Grand Prix.
Button looks to the future as Hamilton dominates practice Lewis Hamilton stole the headlines again here yesterday, setting the fastest times in both practice sessions in his McLaren Mercedes. But Jenson Button, once the darling of the British media, remained his usual upbeat self and continued to lift his sights to a 2009 horizon rather than crying over all the performance milk Honda have spilled this season.
Stoner back on Rossi's tail and looking to engineer late assault on title For three successive races in the MotoGP world championship, Valentino Rossi has been left behind by Casey Stoner's blaze-red Ducati. On the Laguna Seca track in California tomorrow, Rossi may suffer that fate again as he tries to hold on to his 20-point lead in the series.
Hamilton sets pace in Hockenheim Lewis Hamilton continued from where he left off at Silverstone by setting the fastest time in first practice for Sunday's German Grand Prix.
Vettel to replace Coulthard at Red Bull One of the first pieces in the 2009 Formula One jigsaw fell into place yesterday with the announcement in Hockenheim that Sebastian Vettel will transfer from energy drink magnate Dietrich Mateschitz's Toro Rosso team to his senior Red Bull Racing outfit. The 21 year-old German will replace David Coulthard, who announced at Silverstone that he will retire at the end of this season.
Motorcycling: Stoner reigns supreme in wet Germany to head off Rossi threat Casey Stoner, the 22-year-old Australian who critics used to claim would crumple under Valentino Rossi's psychological pressure, yesterday defeated the MotoGP legend by maintaining inch-perfect control of his 240-horsepower Ducati on a streaming wet track here in Germany.
'I'm not wet behind the ears': Hamilton back on track Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren's chief executive, said it was something nobody in the team would forget. He was not talking about Ayrton Senna's triumphal domination of the weather at Donington Park back in 1993, though he certainly could have been. Instead, he was assessing Lewis Hamilton's majestic victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone last week, which bore even the most forensic comparison with Senna's success.
Motorcycling: Crash can't stop Stoner underlining his early dominance The reigning world champion, Casey Stoner, missed the final seven minutes of practice at the German MotoGP yesterday after crashing his Marlboro Ducati. However, he still finished the session nearly half a second faster than any other rider on the 2.28-mile track.
Hamilton rain king of his generation, declares Stewart At Fuji, during last year's rain-soaked Japanese Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton went from being a boy to a man, a racer who could win grands prix in the dry and, now, in the wet.
Hamilton reigns in rain to seal 'best' win and regain title lead He came, he saw, and boy did he need to conquer. Even the most ardent of Lewis Hamilton's legion of fans knew he had a mountain to climb. In just under an hour and 40 minutes' work, he eradicated memories of his pit lane gaffe in Montreal, and his misfortune in Magny-Cours. In one mighty, sodden leap, he jumped right back into the lead of the world championship.
Englishman in his element finds clarity of focus to pass Silverstone's mental test This was the kind of non-event that suits the organisers down to the ground. True, they might sooner have done without the bit nearer the sky, but then it is beginning to look as though Lewis Hamilton will never be better than when it rains on his parade – as it did in Monaco last month, and in Japan last year. At the same time, nobody should be deceived that his protracted lap of honour here yesterday qualifies him merely as some kind of foul-weather friend, an Englishman quite literally in his element. Rather this was a defining moment in his emergence as a man for all seasons, one who can handle the pressures of his calling with the same flair as he embraces its privileges.
F1 authorities 'broke the rules' over McClaren's $100m fine The McLaren Formula One team starts today's British Grand Prix trailing its rival Ferrari in the standings, but it could be in for a timely boost as questions are raised about the validity of the $100m £50m fine slapped on it last year.
'The rear of the car just gave out on me' Lewis Hamilton came into his crucial home race 10 points adrift of the championship leader, Felipe Massa, and therefore needing to do everything he could in qualifying to give himself the best chance of clawing back some of the lost ground. But instead he ended up fourth on the grid instead of first, the position taken by his McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen.
Kovalainen leaps ahead of Hamilton to take first pole As far as most of the fans are concerned, the wrong McLaren will start the British Grand Prix from pole position. The sell-out audience came to see their hero, Lewis Hamilton, do the business but he was upstaged by his team-mate, Heikki Kovalainen.
Kovalainen takes pole at British GP Heikki Kovalainen secured the first pole position of his Formula One career to put McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the shade.
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