Stuttgart, Jan 4 : Nico Rosberg welcomes Michael Schumacher as his Mercedes GP teammate but will show no respect for the seven-time world champion on the Formula One racing tracks.

"Of course, I want to beat any teammate, that's the direct confrontation, the driver has the same equipment. A little egotism is involved here," Rosberg told Monday's edition of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten daily.

Chennai, Dec 31 : Gaurav Gill of Team MRF has been declared as the champion driver of the 2009 Speed-Indian National Rally Championship following a ruling by the Indian Motor Sport Appeals Court (IMSAC) here last week on two appeals.

Gill, along with team-mates Lohitt Urs and Aroor Arjun Rao had finished in that order at the Coffee Day Rally of Chikmagalur last month, but subsequently the Stewards excluded them from the results on technical grounds following a protest by Red Rooster Racing team.

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Chennai, Dec 24 : Like anywhere else, the Indian motor sports fraternity welcomed the decision of seven times World champion Michael Schumacher to return to Formula One racing in 2010 with Mercedes GP Petronas team.

"I think, you will see the same old Michael," said Narain Karthikeyan, India's first and only Formula One racer. "I have raced with him and he is simply unbelievable. Also, he has consistently beaten the current crop of drivers in karting races recently. Of course, this isn't much, but at least, it is an indicator."

Chennai, Dec 22 : Indian motor sport switched gears in 2009, but rarely, if at all, into overdrive. While the election of Vijay Mallya to the World Motor Sports Council of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) following a fairly successful season for his Formula One team Force India grabbed the headlines, Indian racing drivers and riders did not make much of an impact on the big stage.

Chennai, Dec 7 : Arjun Rao Aroor (co-driver Musa Sherif) of Team Castrol India took the top spot in Group N class at the fifth round of the Malaysian Rally Championship at Perak.

According to information received here, the victory Sunday was their third in four rounds and it helped them annex the championship with a tally of 44.5 points.(IANS)

Pune, Dec 7 : Veer Patel, riding a CR 250F of Team Pashankar delivered two second places to clinch the overall title in the showpiece Class 1 class (Foreign motorcycles, Group A) in the sixth and concluding round of the MRF National Supercross championship.

CS Santosh of Team TVS (250X) took the honours in both the Motos (races) while team-mate Aravind KP, riding an identical bike, came in third behind Patel here Sunday.

Chennai, Dec 5 : On an afternoon that dragged on endlessly with the programme running behind schedule due to protests and collisions, K. Vinoth of Wallace Sports and Karthik Krishna of Rams Racing won the two races of Round two in the JK Tyre Junior Cup National Racing Championship here Saturday.

Vinoth, starting from pole position, outpaced the field in the first race that he won comfortably, sparing nearly three seconds to Krishna who survived a protest for "weaving and blocking" that third placed Vikas Anand of Wallace Sports lodged.

Jerez, Dec 4 : Paul di Resta continued with his impressive showing in a Mercedes-powered Force India car by clocking the second fastest timing on the concluding day of the Formula One test session for rookie drivers.

The 23-year-old from Scotland clocked one minute, 18.336 seconds over 53 laps of the 4.337 kms Circuit de Jerez that put him second behind Red Bull-Renault's Daniel Ricciardo (1:17.418) and ahead of Gary Paffett (McLaren-Mercedes), who took 1:18.746, here Friday.

Jerez (Spain), Dec 3 : Paul di Resta of Force India returned the fourth quickest time in the Formula One test session for rookie drivers at the Circuit de Jerez here.

Di Resta, the 23-year old from Scotland who was the second quickest on day 1, clocked one minute, 19.411 seconds that was slower than his previous best of 1:19.369 around the 4.337 Kms track while completing 58 laps here Wednesday.

London, Nov. 29 : Britain’s world champion team-mates Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will be allowed to duel on track as hard as they can next season, but with respect for each other, News of The World reports.

Button’s surprise move to the McLaren team just a month after inheriting the world crown from Hamilton will provide a real challenge of management as the duo vie for another title.

Chennai, Nov 27 : The Force India team have retained Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi as their drivers for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.

While Sutil drove for Force India for the entire 2009 season, Liuzzi was brought in as replacement for Giancarlo Fisichella who moved to Ferrari to stand in for an injured Felippe Massa for the last five races.

London, Nov 26 : Formula One legend Niki Lauda does not believe that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will join Mercedes next year.

Rumours have suggested that Schuey was ready to make a shock return after Mercedes bought the Brawn team.

Mercedes are not only prepared to put him in the seat vacated by world champion Jenson Button’s move to McLaren, but are open to discussion on a variety of other roles whether in the cockpit, management or as a roving ambassador and advisor.

London, Nov 24 : Team principal of Mercedes Formula One team Ross Brawn has confirmed that seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher will not come out of retirement to drive for them.

After world champion Jenson Button decided to sign for McLaren last week, speculations had been mounting about Schumacher's comeback to spearhead the official return of Mercedes for the first time since 1955.

However, it was effectively ruled out when German driver Nico Rosberg was confirmed as Mercedes'' first nominated driver for next season.

London, Nov. 23 : Speculations over Michael Schumacher’s Formula One comeback are rife once again, with his manager saying that the seven time F1 champion had spoken with representatives of Mercedes-Benz.

The moment Jenson Button announced his decision to leave Mercedes Grand Prix (formerly Brawn GP) to join McLaren, media reports started suggesting that Button’s former team principal, Ross Brawn, had approached Schumacher to replace him, Times Online reports.

Chikmagalur (Karnataka), Nov 21 : The 2009 Speed-Indian National Rally Championship leader Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) of Team MRF topped the time charts at the end of the rain-affected first Leg of the Coffee Day Rally of Chikmagalur, the concluding round of the series, here Saturday.

Driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia (N+), Gill, the 28-year old from Delhi, led last year's champion Vikram Mathias (co-driver PVS Murthy) of Team Red Rooster Racing by
24 seconds.

Mathias was tied in second place overall with Team MRF's Lohitt V Urs (co-driver Shrikant Gowda) who lost precious seconds behind the slower Cedia of Prithvi Domnic

London, Nov 21 : F1 champ Jenson Button has reportedly offered 6 million pounds to buy singer Robbie Williams’ mansion.

The singer had bought the 18th-century Compton Bassett House for 8.5million pounds and now is ready to accept a 1-million-pound loss on the sale.

The seven-bedroom property stands in 71 acres and boasts a helicopter hangar, temples and fountains.

He has also built his very own racing track in the garden for "rage buggies".

Hamburg - Kimi Raikkonen dismissed speculation Thursday that he is in talks with Mercedes GP about driving for Formula One's newest team next season.

Mercedes took over Brawn GP earlier this month but the Finn, who had been in talks with McLaren about a possible drive with the British-based team in 2010, now seems certain to take a year out probably to compete in rallying.

Johannesburg, Nov. 19 : A playful lion cub kept both Matt Prior and Kevin Pietersen on their toes as England''s cricketers visited the Johannesburg Lion Park on a day off ahead of Thursday’s first one-day international

The England team were told to expect some serious mind games this winter by South African coach Mickey Arthur.

Arthur has already launched an assault on England''s "predictable" tactics.

London, Nov. 18 : Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso has told Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard that the club must get used to do without him.

Gerrard had branded midfielder Alonso, 27, as one of the world''s best players.

He added that Alonso’s 28.8-million-pound switch to Real Madrid left him gutted as he is now isolated on the pitch.

But Alonso said: "I want to thank Stevie for his kind words but life goes on.