Nigel Mansell has hailed Lewis Hamilton as "close to perfection" after his fellow Briton’s stunning start to the Formula One season.

A father accused of murdering his eight-week-old baby daughter has said she was injured accidentally when they clashed heads with the force of heading a football.

Sebastian Vettel today became a Formula One record-breaker as the pole magician conjured up the 15th of his phenomenal season ahead of tomorrow’s finale in Brazil.

Sebastian Vettel made it 10 poles for the season as he continues to close in on Nigel Mansell’s Formula One record.

Lewis Hamilton has taken a swipe at his detractors as he gets in a fighting mood for this weekend's British Grand Prix.

Nigel Mansell sees no reason why Bahrain should not host a Formula One Grand Prix next season despite the controversy surrounding the country’s failed attempt to host one this year.

Nigel Mansell has urged Sebastian Vettel’s rivals to raise their game if they are to compete both on and off track this year with the current Formula One world champion.

THE Limerick SFC reign of Dromcollogher-Broadford is over as they crashed out at the semi-final stage at the hands of Monaleen.

REMEMBER the bit in the old baseball movie ‘The Natural’ when the eponymous Robert Redford is lamenting his sorry past (he was shot by Barbara Hershey), beating himself up to Glenn Close?

Nigel Mansell escaped serious injury after crashing out just 17 minutes into his debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours race today.

Ferrari risk dropping further behind rivals Red Bull and McLaren if they fail to resolve the technical problems that have blighted their season so far, former world champion Nigel Mansell has warned.

Former world champion Nigel Mansell has described McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton as being “manufactured”.

A blaze at a block of flats in which Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson died was either started deliberately or there was a catastrophic failure of the alarm system, a fire investigation expert told a jury in England today.

An apprentice jockey who survived a fire which killed two of his colleagues, one of them Irish, told a British jury today that one of the victims was “calling for help” moments before he plunged to safety from a window.

Nigel Mansell has written off Jenson Button’s prospects of ever becoming a Formula One world champion.

Munster rugby chiefs have vowed to launch a stout defence of back row forward Alan Quinlan, who appears before a Heineken Cup citing commission in Dublin this evening.

A roadside bomb blast killed four Canadian soldiers today in southern Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against Canadian forces since they deployed here in 2002, the military said.

Former Formula One world champion Nigel Mansell has warned Jenson Button he must “get a win under his belt pretty quickly” if he is to fulfil his potential.

Nigel Mansell will return to Silverstone with the new Grand Prix Masters series, after Britain earned a spot on the five-race calendar.

Former world champion Nigel Mansell has launched his sons on the path to Formula One as part of a deal with the British Formula BMW championship.

Nigel Mansell won the first GP Masters race in South Africa following a terrific battle with Emerson Fittipaldi.

FORMER world champion Nigel Mansell is ready to “make history” at the inaugural Grand Prix Masters event next month when he joins up with old racing foes and broadcasting legend Murray Walker.

David Coulthard believes Saturday’s qualifying session will make or break his bid to score points in a landmark Hungarian Grand Prix.

Jenson Button believes there is room for improvement in Formula One – although does not share Nigel Mansell’s view that it has become “Mickey Mouse”.

The future of Silverstone remained uncertain yesterday after claims that a consortium featuring former world champion Nigel Mansell had reached an agreement to save the British Grand Prix were disputed by the owners of the Northamptonshire circuit.

Former world champion Nigel Mansell will return to a Formula One cockpit next month when he drives a Jordan around the streets of London.

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Apprentice jockey Sean Cleary, who suffered head injuries in a fall at Galway last Sunday, has died. He was 22.

Irish apprentice jockey Sean Cleary, who suffered severe head injuries in a fall at Galway last Sunday, has died. He was 22.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER may be tantalisingly close to a historic sixth drivers' crown but a nightmare scenario will dominate the thoughts of his Ferrari bosses before the title decider.

BALLYLIFFIN’S Brendan McCarroll shot a round-of-the-day 71 to win the Nissan Irish Boys Amateur Close Championship at Hermitage by four strokes from Karl Gilbert (Malone).

Nigel Mansell recovered from a nightmare start to card a one-over-par 73 and move into a challenging position after the first round of his own Nigel Mansell Classic staged over his own Woodbury Park course in Devon.

Ex-Formula One motor racing champion Nigel Mansell was recovering today after he was hurt confronting a group of youths on his property.

Ex-Formula One motor racing champion Nigel Mansell was recovering today after he was hurt confronting a group of youths on his property.

Jockey Jimmy Mansell has been transferred to the chest unit of the University Hospital in Galway after suffering a setback in his recovery from injuries sustained in a fall at Ballinrobe in August.

Michael Schumacher romped to a record 10th victory of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps today.

Leading Irish conditional jockey Jimmy Mansell remains in a stable but critical condition after his fall at Ballinrobe on Sunday.

Leading conditional jockey Jimmy Mansell remains in a stable but critical condition today after his fall at Ballinrobe on Sunday.

Leading Irish conditional jockey Jimmy Mansell is in a “stable but critical” condition after his fall at Ballinrobe on Sunday.