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Mercedes Formula One team robbed at gunpoint

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has called for the "people at the top" to take action.

Lewis Hamilton has demanded Formula One's owners take significant action after eight members of his world championship-winning Mercedes team were held at gunpoint in a harrowing robbery on Friday night.

Doyle poised to take world title on home ground at Etihad

World-title chance: Australian Jason Doyle.

It's not often that Australian sportsmen can win world titles on their home ground, but local rider Jason Doyle is poised to capture the world speedway championship on his own turf in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Saturday night.

The conundrum that is Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton is still yet to achieve the popularity in Great Britain that athletes in his position would receive in ...

​Just as odds on Lewis Hamilton's anointment as a quadruple Formula One world champion this weekend stand at 1-500, his knighthood in the New Year's Honours is regarded by most bookmakers as a fait accompli.

MotoGP: Miller revs up and defies the pain

Jack Miller

Three weeks after snapping his right leg in a training accident, one week after he was in too much pain to even throw his leg over a motorcycle, and one day after he'd qualified a career-best fifth on the grid, Jack Miller surged to the lead at the first corner of Sunday's Australian Grand Prix