It is Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s 50th birthday today but it will be an occasion tinged with great sadness. The German continues to recover at home from the life-changing skiing accident that left him in a coma for a number of months, five years ago, writes Niamh O'Mahony.

9am. I am in the car, en route to hospital, where I am to have a small lesion removed from my lower calf, writes Aida Austin. 

Lewis Hamilton believes his crushing victory at the British Grand Prix is proof that his off-track demeanour should not be questioned.

Lewis Hamilton fears he faces an uphill task to land his Mercedes on pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix following Friday's troubled practice.

Very few sporting lives have skirted as often, or as wilfully, with drama and danger as Tommy Byrne’s.

Lewis Hamilton has rued Red Bull's strategical mistake to pit Max Verstappen and gift-wrap second place, and potentially the Formula One championship, to Nico Rosberg following a chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix.

A laid-back Lewis Hamilton insisted he was “just chilling” as he delivered a wet-weather masterclass to triumph in a chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix and take the championship battle to the deciding race of the season.

Lewis Hamilton heaped the pressure on championship rival Nico Rosberg by claiming pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The only missing element to Roy White’s Triton Showers National Rally Championship victory is an event win in a round of the series. 

Lewis Hamilton extended his dominance of the Italian Grand Prix into a third successive year by claiming an emphatic pole position ahead of his championship rival Nico Rosberg.

HE MAY have needed high doses of Berocca, coffee, and fruit to get through the Rose of Tralee, but escort Carl Mullan is still on a high.

Irish Olympic boxer Michael Conlan shows us around his Renault Kadjar

The event will begin in Cork on Sunday, June 12, with in-harbour racing.

HONDA has long been regarded as one of the most innovative and ingenious of all the motor manufacturers in the world and thus, when the company announced a return to the pinnacle of motor sport with a new hybrid Formula One engine, it was expected that the Japanese company would make an immediate and sustained impact, writes Declan Colley

Dubliner Robert Barrable, better known for his rallying forays, will compete in this season’s British GT Championship where he will team up Northern Ireland’s Wilson Thompson in a Team HARD-prepared Ginetta G55 GT4.

Alyx Coby shows us the go-kart she uses  to race in the IAME X30 Junior class in the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship.

The French Riviera has long been the playground of the rich and famous. Darragh Murphy experiences the high life – but on a limited budget.

Billionaire Denis O’Brien has halted the sale of his exclusive Quinta do Lago resort in Portugal after bids fell short of the asking price, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Lewis Hamilton rued a “boring” Brazilian Grand Prix after he finished behind Nico Rosberg for the second race in succession.

F1 fans will be delighted to see that Ayrton Senna’s 1988 McLaren MP4/4, in which he won all but three of the sixteen races during the 1988 season, will be featured in Forza Motorsport 6 from today.

Lewis Hamilton will be in it to win it this weekend as Mexico makes its return to the Formula One calendar after a 23-year absence.

Lewis Hamilton has been crowned Formula One world champion after winning the US Grand Prix in the most dramatic of circumstances.

Lewis Hamilton says he is in dreamland after he matched his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna’s victory tally with an exhibition drive in Japan.

Sebastian Vettel believes he can make the “impossible possible” as he bids to stop Lewis Hamilton from winning a third Formula One world championship.

The most prestigious award in Irish motor racing, the Leinster Trophy, awaits the winner of Sunday’s Formula Ford race in Mondello Park. Drivers like John Watson, Eddie Jordan, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen have all lifted the famous trophy at the Kildare venue and on Sunday Meath’s Stephen Daly will be hoping to retain the trophy for another 12 months.

Lewis Hamilton has been confirmed as the winner of the Italian Grand Prix after an investigation into a tyre pressure breach.

An emotional Sebastian Vettel paid tribute to Jules Bianchi by dedicating his thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix triumph to the fallen Formula One star.

The world of Formula One, led by world champion Lewis Hamilton, turned out en masse for Jules Bianchi’s funeral yesterday.

Jules Bianchi was being lined up as a future Ferrari driver, according to the Italian team’s former chairman Luca di Montezemolo.

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton praised his own pit-stop calls as he won an entertaining British Grand Prix and completed a hat-trick of home victories.

Lewis Hamilton has revealed he was determined not to allow his high-profile split from Nicole Scherzinger scupper his chances of becoming the first British driver to win back-to-back Formula One world championships.

The defending world champion dominated much of the weekend and had left the rest of the field trailing in his wake, before certain victory evaporated.

Germany’s Nico Rosberg celebrated a surprise hat-trick of Monaco Grand Prix victories yesterday after Mercedes blew championship-leading team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s chances with a needless pitstop.

The films have been a mixed bag, but Don O’Mahony is enjoying the Cannes Film Festival

The first race is on Sunday, so you'd better hurry up and choose a driver.

Soon, you'll be able to pick out drivers again by their familiar helmets.

Lewis Hamilton soaked up the feeling of becoming a two-time Formula One world champion and declared it to be "the greatest day of my life".

After nine gruelling months, 19 races and 1,037 race laps the Formula 1 circus has reached the deserts of Abu Dhabi and it’s final stop of its globe-trotting calendar.