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Jose Froilan Gonzalez, the 'Pampas Bull' who in 1951 became the first driver to win a Formula One world championship grand prix for Ferrari, has died in Buenos Aires at the age of 90, Argentine media are reporting.

Triple Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel will race for Red Bull until the end of 2015 after the team announced this week he had extended his contract by a further year.

She has been unbeatable on the race track in the United States this season, but, unfortunately, New Zealand's Courtney Duncan was unable to even get on to the race track to continue her winning run at the weekend.

Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday but his victory was overshadowed by the death of a marshal, the first fatality in Formula One in over a decade.

Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team and tyre supplier Pirelli could face heavy sanctions after Formula One's governing body summoned them to an international tribunal for allegedly carrying out a 'secret' test in breach of the rules.

Rhys Gardner's self-confessed ''steep learning curve'' over the past two years, will continue its positive trajectory, with him being selected for July's Elite MotorSport Academy to be run in Dunedin.

Nico Rosberg has celebrated a pole-to-flag win for Mercedes in Formula One's showcase Monaco Grand Prix, 30 years after his world champion father Keke triumphed on the streets of the Mediterranean principality.

The victory, on a sunny crash-strewn afternoon with two safety car deployments and a 25-minute stoppage caused by Pastor Maldonado wrecking his Williams, was only the second of the German

Brazilian Tony Kanaan has won a wild Indianapolis 500, ending a decade of frustration at the famed Brickyard.

After two convincing victories against her professional female rivals at California's 45th annual Hangtown Classic last weekend, Courtney Duncan's name sits commandingly alongside fellow class winners, supercross and motocross world champions Ryan Villopoto and Ken Roczen.

Otago's Courtney Duncan took the opening round of the Women's Motocross Triple Crown by storm in the United States at the weekend.

Ed Carpenter upstaged IndyCar's biggest names and teams on Saturday to grab pole for the 97th Indianapolis 500.

While the pressure is off Emma Gilmour in terms of championship points in this weekend's Rally of Whangarei, it is on inside her radical and unfamiliar Suzuki Swift Maxi.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso rewrote the Formula One form book and turned up the heat in the championship battle by winning his home Spanish Grand Prix for the second time on Sunday.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso needs to make the most of home advantage when Formula One's European season starts up in Barcelona on Sunday.

Bernie Ecclestone has made clear that Formula One will pay prize money to only the top 10 teams from the end of this season.

The launch of the M135i was scheduled for the Hampton Downs track, but when BMW learnt that Audi was planning an event at Highlands Motorsport Park later in April, it pulled out all the stops to get there first.

Fernando Alonso roared to a dominant victory in a highly strategic Chinese Grand Prix to give Ferrari their first win of the Formula One season and put the pressure on champions Red Bull.

Emma Gilmour's radical new Suzuki Swift Maxi rally car completed its first high-speed special stages at last weekend's Otago Rally.

With carnage all around him, Hayden Paddon showed his mettle as the greatest New Zealand Rally driver of modern times by utterly dominating the weekend's Drivesouth Rally Fest.

David Thomson picks six prime viewing spots for this year's Drivesouth Rally of Otago.