Formula One to replace grid girls with grid kids
Formula One will swap its recently scrapped grid girls program with grid kids, a move that will incorporate youth competitors as mascots in a bid to boost its popularity among its young followers.
Formula One will swap its recently scrapped grid girls program with grid kids, a move that will incorporate youth competitors as mascots in a bid to boost its popularity among its young followers.
Crashes on the first and last laps marked a frustrating Bathurst 12 Hour where Audi snatched an unlikely victory in race cut short by officials.
Sweet and sour day for German manufacturers on the mountain.
As Formula 1 banishes female models from its races, longtime grid girl Rebecca Cooper explains why it is bad news for women.
Mark Webber has ruled out a return to racing in Australia, saying races such as the Bathurst 12 Hour are too dangerous.
Europeans look to avenge Brock's final Bathurst win.
Sayonara, then, to the grid girls, who have gone the same way as refuelling stops, driver medals and double-points races, consigned to the dustbin of Formula One ideas that once masqueraded as progress.
Formula One is ending the use of female models who parade around with the drivers' names before every grand prix.
It was a ritual as regular as clockwork.
Mark Webber has led Formula One's tributes to the late Ron Walker, who was at the forefront of efforts to establish the Melbourne Grand Prix.
CORDOBA:Spanish driver Carlos Sainz has won his second Dakar Rally title.
Toby Price has won the bike stage while Toyota's Bernhard ten Brinke took stage 11 of the Dakar Rally, as defending champion Stephane Peterhansel and his Peugeot teammate Carlos Sainz continued their duel for the overall lead.
Australia's Toby Price has finished third in the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally, to move up to fourth overall in the motorbike race.
Australian Toby Price is fifth overall in the bike category at the halfway point of the Dakar Rally after a fourth-placed finish in the seventh stage.
Formula One boss Ross Brawn calls for faster cars and spectacular action to produce grands prix worthy of the name, and that they must also listen to the fans.
Toby Price, the 2016 overall bike winner of the Dakar Rally, is the best-placed Australian after day one of the 2018 edition in Peru.
Toby Price is in Lima, directing his enduro motorcycle toward the dunes of the Peruvian desert, and two weeks of pain in the Dakar Rally.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has apologised after sharing a video on Instagram of him chastising his nephew for wearing a princess dress.
Cameron Hill has his sights set climbing up the motorsport ladder.
​Ferrari could lead other Formula One teams into an alternative championship if the sport becomes too much like the US-based NASCAR series, but says they hope it doesn't come to that.
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