From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

Formula One (the formula in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must comply and was originally and briefly known as Formula A) can trace its roots back to the earliest ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

The iconic fights' iconic fight. The Rumble in the Jungle. The night Muhammad Ali slew the ogres' ogre when people expected him to be chewed up and spat out. His comeback after three years away had ...

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Jochen Rindt was leading the World Championship for Lotus when he lost his life at Monza, but the popular Austrian became the sport's first posthumous champion. In a dark year, Bruce McLaren and Piers ...

Jo Schlesser became the fourth driver to die during the 1968 season after getting trapped upside down in his blazing car. John Surtees had pronounced Honda's experimental RA302 car unsafe, but ...

The first fatality of a tragic weekend at Imola came when Roland Ratzenberger was killed after the front wing on his Simtek failed during qualifying and he flew off the track at high speed. He had ...

1994 A frightening moment for Jos Verstappen and watching Formula One fans happened during the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. The Benetton driver came into the pits for a regulation stop but fuel ...

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One of the great cheats in Olympic history, Boris Onishchenko, won Britain a gold medal. Consider his case for a second. In the modern pentathlon, he was world individual champion in 1971 before being ...

The biggest drug story in Olympic history. The biggest fish they ever caught. After his bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1984 Games (August 4), Canada's Ben Johnson decided he needed some extra ...