British formula one driver Jenson Button plans to take part in another triathlon.

The 28-year-old Honda racer, who regularly takes part in such events, finished a competitive 16th of the 250 triathletes - eight minutes behind the winner - in the Sevenoaks Triathlon in England last month.
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Hot on the heels of strong speculation that Fernando Alonso has penned a Ferrari agreement for 2010, it is being rumoured again that the Italian team’s current star driver Kimi Raikkonen could be soon to retire.

The reports, suggesting that the 28-year-old reigning world champion will not renew his contract beyond next year, appeared on Friday [...]

Triple world champion Niki Lauda has become the first person to be interviewed by fellow Austrian Natascha Kampusch, the former kidnap victim who was held in a dungeon by her captor for eight years.

The 20-year-old escaped from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil in late 2006, and on Sunday she will make her television debut as the [...]

The Montreal circuit’s famous kerbs have been changed ahead of the Canadian grand prix there next weekend.
Previously, it emerged that organisers of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve event would modify the wall adjacent to the left-hand kink prior to the hairpin, in response to Robert Kubica’s huge crash in 2007.
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Michael Schumacher’s next motorcycle race outing will be at the Nurburgring in Germany, organisers confirmed.
Earlier this month, the retired former seven time world champion made his debut in the professional IDM - the German superbike series - at the Oschersleben circuit.
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Niki Lauda is calm about the addition of two more city circuits to the 2008 formula one calendar, despite suggestions that the development is a step backwards for driver safety.
The former triple world champion was quoted last weekend at F1’s famous street circuit, Monaco, as insisting that car and track improvements mean that the venue [...]

By the veteran Scot’s own admission at Monaco, 2008 has been a “shocking” season so far for David Coulthard.
“To be six races in, without any points and with so much accident damage, is really disappointing,” he said after crashing out of the grand prix at Monte Carlo.
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Team co-owner Gerhard Berger has refused to rule out the possibility that 50 per cent partner Dietrich Mateschitz might not walk away entirely from Toro Rosso.
Mateschitz, the Red Bull mogul and billionaire, has made it clear, however, that he does not intend to fully develop STR’s Faenza factory, despite the looming ban on customer cars [...]

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa has turned around his disappointing early form to emerge as a true candidate for the 2008 title.
That is the admission of rival team Renault’s sporting director Steve Nielsen, who said the Brazilian driver started the season looking like he couldn’t cope with the ban on traction control.
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Pedro de la Rosa has confirmed reports that his McLaren colleague Lewis Hamilton was lucky to win last Sunday’s Monaco grand prix.
After the 23-year-old Briton delightedly took the chequered flag in the Principality, it was rumoured that one of his tyres was flat shortly after it returned to parc ferme.
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