2011

Given Valentino Rossi's autobiography was titled ‘What if I had never tried it?’ it’s unsurprising that the Italian didn’t publicly regret his ill-fated decision to leave Yamaha for Ducati in MotoGP.

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez was sidelined for over four months during his previous episode of diplopia, during the winter of 2011-2012.

Today, January 20, would have been Marco Simoncelli's 34th birthday. The charismatic Italian, winner of the 2008 250cc World Championship, was competing in only his second season of MotoGP when he lost his life at Sepang in 2011.

Just for you, here is the countdown of our sexiest grid girls of the year - and how you rated each of them...

Just for you, here is the countdown of our sexiest grid girls of the year - and how you rated each of them...

The full list of 27 drivers as ranked by the 2011 Crash.net F1 Driver of the Year vote....

He had shown glimpses in 2010 of what his move to McLaren may produce, but Jenson Button proved that he was no one-hit wonder as he took control of the team en route to runners-up honours in the 2011 F1 world championship - and top spot in your F1 Driver of the Year poll

Dani Clos: I feel very lucky to be driving a F1 car again, like I did in 2008. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make it to an F1 Test. I would like to thank the whole HRT team beforehand for putting their trust in me.

Bernie Ecclestone has lauded the efforts of Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing as both appear destined to repeat as F1 champions.

So incensed was Ferrari's Felipe Massa following his collision with Lewis Hamilton in today's Singapore Grand Prix that he accosted his McLaren-Mercedes rival post-race and accused him of being unable to 'use his mind'

Following a Facebook campaign, the Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team has re-liveried the Fiesta RS WRCs of Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala and Khalid Al Qassimi for this weekend's Rallye de France

As he continues to outperform team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the internecine duel at McLaren-Mercedes, Jenson Button has received high praise indeed from the most successful driver in F1 history...

Airwaves Racing have confirmed that they will be running a third Ford Focus ST in the 2011 BTCC at Rockingham this weekend - as well as revealing the identity of its driver...

Runaway F1 2011 World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has downplayed his supreme qualifying form in the top flight, insisting there will only ever be one pole position king...

Perhaps mindful of his own succession of run-ins with rivals and race stewards this season, Lewis Hamilton has remained tight-lipped on his duel with a 'super-aggressive' Michael Schumacher in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza...

As Sebastian Vettel speeds towards what looks all-but certain to be a second consecutive F1 drivers' crown this season, Ferrari star Fernando Alonso insists his Red Bull Racing rival would fully deserve it

Hispania Racing (HRT) team principal Colin Kolles runs the rule over the F1 tailender's 2011 campaign to-date - and explains why there are reasons for encouragement looking forward...

"You could only have that kind of fight with Villeneuve; I think we had the same temperament, the same way of regarding racing, the same hunger to win...I didn't call Gilles a driver, I called him the acrobat of the circuits!"

The summer break is a time for reflection in the world of F1, and as we do just that, here is the beginning of our mid-season review, as we rate the drivers' performances. Today, positions 27th to 21st...

Vitantonio Liuzzi: If we work in the right direction, I'm sure we can achieve good things. I never doubted that there was potential for improvement, obviously we are not expecting to win races but to be where we are already is proof of the strength of the project.

Having pulled off a successful comeback of his own but elected to call it a day once his form tailed off, three-time F1 World Champion Niki Lauda suggests Michael Schumacher needs to ask himself some serious questions

Even if his badly-injured right arm will 'probably never recover entirely', claims a report, Lotus Renault GP star Robert Kubica has now regained movement in all-bar his middle finger

Jenson Button has suggested some people need to 'get some friends' after a hacker posted on his website that the McLaren-Mercedes star had been 'critically' injured in a car accident in Budapest

Nick Heidfeld tried out a new, more conventionally rearward-facing exhaust on Lotus Renault GP's struggling R31 during Friday practice at the N?rburgring - but the signs are it is not ready to be used just yet...