LONDON - Sebastian Vettel will have to be the best of the best if he is to join Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as the only drivers to have won three successive Formula One titles.

Kimi Raikkonen's comeback with Lotus means that, for the first time, six world champions will...

MADRID - Kimi Raikkonen was quickest on the final day of official testing before the new Formula One season begins later this month.
The former champion, preparing for his first season with Lotus, signed off with a fastest lap of one minute 22.030 seconds in yesterday's morning session at...

FLORIDA - Less than a year since his Masters meltdown - a collapse many people thought would leave long-lasting scars - Rory McIlroy is golf's new world number one.
And the way the 22-year-old held off a charging Tiger Woods to win the Honda Classic in Florida last night must have a lot of...

LONDON - Dereck Chisora has been handed an indefinite ban and heavy fine by the World Boxing Council following his behaviour before and after his heavyweight title fight with Vitali Klitschko earlier this month.
Chisora slapped his opponent at the weigh-in and spat water at Klitschko's...

LONDON - David Haye and Dereck Chisora broke their silence last night over the shocking press conference brawl in Munich which left German police hunting Haye and British boxing chiefs investigating Chisora.
Haye's whereabouts are still unknown as German detectives seek to question him about...

LONDON - Amir Khan's camp have taken steps to ensure there will be no repeat of the problems which beset his defeat to Lamont Peterson when the two meet for a rematch in Las Vegas on May 19.
The 25-year-old had been calling for a rematch ever since he lost his WBA and IBF light-welterweight...

LONDON - Jenson Button is convinced he has "a good base" on which to build a more solid start to the new Formula One season.
Button yesterday had the honour of being the first to put the new McLaren, the MP4-27, through its paces at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain.
Compared to...

LONDON - Lotus team chairman Gerard Lopez sees no reason why Formula One cannot return to Bahrain this season providing promises made are not broken.
With 10 weeks to go before the F1 circus is expected to set foot again on the island kingdom, the uncertain political situation continues to...

BERLIN - Ronnie O'Sullivan came from behind to beat Stephen Maguire and win the German Masters in Berlin.
The former world number one, just one frame away from a first-round exit on Thursday, won today's final 9-7 to land his first ranking title since September 2009.
Maguire fired...

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather will step back up in weight to challenge Miguel Cotto for his WBA light-middleweight title on May 5 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, his promoters have confirmed.
The fight ends immediate hopes of Mayweather facing Manny Pacquiao although there are still hopes that...