Darragh Kenny was particularly enthusiastic yesterday about his prospects in tomorrow’s $600,000 Global Champions Tour class in Miami, writes John Tynan.

With just 10 weeks to go before race day, training plans and choosing the right footwear are vital to getting over the line on race day, writes Robert McNamara

Back in January, before a wheel had turned on Formula One’s latest grand design, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner made an eye-opening claim that up to half the grid would retire in the first grand prix of the season in Australia.

BECAUSE it’s a bank holiday Monday, nobody’s in a hurry.

Fernando Alonso grabbed arguably the most stunning victory of his Formula One career on a day of high-drama in the European Grand Prix.

Consumers have been urged to ask GPs for a price list for routine medical treatments.

A new medical practice in Killarney has slashed its consultation fees to what the doctors feel people can afford to pay.

HORSE Sport Ireland (HSI) has had to defer the introduction of its anti-doping and medication regime, which was due to come into force on January 1.

Bosses at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin claim they have paid Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone the money owed to stage the United States Grand Prix next year, and have resumed work at the new purpose-built facility.

Formula One driver Robert Kubica has told the Lotus Renault GP team he will not be fit enough to start the 2012 season.

Lewis Hamilton ended Sebastian Vettel's winning streak in Formula One with a superb battling victory in today's breathless Chinese Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso gave Ferrari their first win on home soil for four years as the Spaniard thrust himself firmly back into world title contention with an emotional victory in the Italian Grand Prix.

Formula One could be staged in Rome by 2012.

Felipe Massa has applauded the scrapping of the controversial 'winner-take-all' system that was due to be imposed this year.

Motor sport’s world governing body, the FIA, in conjunction with the Formula One teams have today announced a raft of proposals in a bid to cut escalating costs.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is reported to have confirmed India will be added to the race calendar in 2011 and hinted Russia may also get an event in the near future.

Jeremy McWilliams has set his sights on scoring world championship points and starring at the British Grand Prix during his debut season with new team Ilmor.

World champion Fernando Alonso will start the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position after setting the fastest time in qualifying today.

Turkish Grand Prix organisers have been summoned before world governing body the FIA, accused of breaching Formula One rules.

Martin Walsh

Today’s United States Grand Prix could be run as a non-championship race unless Ferrari agree to the installation of a chicane into Indianapolis’ final turn.

World champion Michael Schumacher admits he is not looking good for a repeat of his stunning Imola pace in this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona.

BAR boss Nick Fry claims Jenson Button has been unfairly robbed of the chance to break his grand prix duck in Spain this weekend.

Plans for a breakaway Grand Prix World Championship are still on course and the major car makers will leave Formula One in 2008 as a last resort if a compromise cannot be reached.

Rubens Barrichello claimed his second consecutive victory when he became the first-ever winner of the Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit.

Hungarian Grand Prix winner Michael Schumacher has said: "To win in the style we have done after the way I lost here last year shows why we are winning the constructors' championship so early.

Jenson Button has targeted his home GP as the one to win after going close several times this season to recording his maiden victory for BAR.

Jarno Trulli set his sights on a maiden Formula One victory after claiming his first-ever pole position in Monaco today.

This year’s French Grand Prix was finally given the go-ahead today, ensuring the 2004 Formula One World Championship will be the biggest in history.

Former GP racer Randy Mamola has backed Valentino Rossi’s move from Honda to Yamaha for the 2004 season but has dismissed the Italian’s title chances.

Ulsterman Jeremy McWilliams admitted he pulled out of the Czech Grand Prix after his Proton KR bike became a danger.

Kimi Raikkonen was handed his second grand prix victory in Brazil today in an incident-packed race at Interlagos.

Italy’s Valentino Rossi confirmed himself as the world’s top rider when he won the first-ever MotoGP title with victory in Brazil.

Arrows should learn their future in Formula One by the end of the week after responding to a deadline for action set by the sport’s governing body.

AS the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Championship enters the final third of the season at Oulton Park this weekend, results are becoming more crucial.

KL Minardi have pulled out of the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona on safety grounds after a series of wing failures.

Michael Schumacher has taken pole position ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix later today in Montreal, finishing almost half a second faster then the next closest driver.