Valtteri Bottas has won Formula One's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from pole position.

Jamie Whincup has won an unprecedented seventh Supercars title after Scott McLaughlin's championship dream turned to ruin during an epic finale in Newcastle.

Daniel Ricciardo will start from the second row while Lewis Hamilton was beaten to pole position by his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas for the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi.

Scott McLaughlin has capitalised on Jamie Whincup's heartbreak, with the Ford star poised to claim his first Supercars title after a dramatic race in Newcastle.

COFFS HARBOUR: Thierry Neuville survived a dramatic final day to win Rally Australia and secure second overall in the World Rally Championship.

Macau British motorcycle racer Daniel Hegarty has died following an accident at the Macau Grand Prix.

Thierry Neuville will take a commanding lead into the final day of Rally Australia at Coffs Harbour after mishaps claimed the defending champion, landed a car in a creek, and forced the cancellation of a stage.

The Canberra forests will again host the Australian leg of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship from June 1-3.

This weekend's World Rally Championship event in Coffs Harbour is once again headlined by Bates and Taylor. Except, it's not Neal and Coral, but their respective children.

The World Rally Championship is on a whole other level, but it's a level Canberra's Harry Bates wants to be at.

Daniel Ricciardo has no regrets about the first-lap collision at the Brazil Grand Prix ,which nearly resulted in his third Formula One non-finish in a row.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won the Brazilian Grand Prix.

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.

Being linked to tax avoidance in the "Paradise Papers" will not distract Lewis Hamilton from his job.

Holden's Jamie Whincup has claimed victory in Sunday's Supercars race in New Zealand as the championship chase narrows to a battle between him and Ford's Scott McLaughlin.

He's finishing the year well, but Shane Van Gisbergen isn't letting himself think about a Supercars championship defence just yet.

Cameron Hill will get his first taste of international competition.

Multiple Bathurst winner Will Davison hasn't given up hope of remaining a full- time driver in next year's Supercars championship.

​Ferrari could quit Formula One after 2020 if the sport's new owners take it in a direction contrary to the Italian sports car maker's interests, chairman Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday.