Motorsport Monday - March 15

By Catherine Pattison on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 | Latest News | Motorsport
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Brazil's Mario Moraes, right, leaves his car after crashing with US driver Marco Andretti at the start of the IndyCar race in Sao Paulo, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Photo by AP.

It certainly is an action-packed edtion this week, with IndyCar carnage, the F1 opener results and controversy surrounding the V8 Supercars' stewards' calls. 

Ferrari got the prancing horse marque back where it hasn't been in a while. A 1-2  Formula One finish in Bahrain was a dream result for the Italian team. Check out how the other drivers fared.

Schumacher makes a few excuses about placing sixth and gives an insight into which teams are stronger than Mercedes.

In other F1 news, find out what Flavio Briatore's future holds now his lifetime ban from the series has been overturned.

In a surprise turn of events Australia's Will Power won the IndyCar opener in Sao Paulo. Find out what happened to Scott Dixon. US driver Marco Andretti was lucky to emerge unscathed from a scary-looking crash. Check out the slideshow of pics here.

John McIntyre had to take the good with the bad racing in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series in Adelaide. Read about what the infamous street circuit dished out for him.

V8 Supercars' bright young thing Shane van Gisbergen showed himself to be the comeback kid at the Clipsal 500 meeting.

Meanwhile Jamie Whincup's team is steaming mad at V8 Supercar stewards. Find out why.

LA-based Kiwi Matt halliday had a disappointing start to his Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup campaign but bounced back in the second race. Read about how he got on in Bahrain.