Simona de Silvestro, who was aiming to be the first female F1 driver since 1976, has been booted off Sauber’s testing programme for lack of funds.

Kimi Raikkonen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, while Sebastian Vettel defended his F1 championship lead by climbing from from last place to third.

Sebastian Vettel’s win in Japan has blown the F1 championship wide open with five races remaining, after Fernando Alonso spun out at the start.

Here are ten of those who came away from London 2012 with a golden glow and ten others who might be wishing they had done things differently.

Spanish Formula One test driver Maria De Villota has been taken to hospital after her car hit a parked truck at an airfield in east England.

Brendan Rodgers has been appointed Liverpool manager with the club’s owners hailing him as the man with the vision to bring back the glory days.

F1 champion Sebastian Vettel returned to the top of the standings with Red Bull’s first victory of the season in a lively Bahrain Grand Prix.

With just 200 days to go before the London Olympic Games, the United Kingdom is looking forward to the legacy the Games will bring to the country.

Formula One’s Bernie Ecclestone has backed Bahrain to put on an incident-free race in 2012 but agreed that unforeseen events could force a re-think.

London Olympic organisers are facing significant budgetary challenges in the run-up to next year’s Games, with bills almost doubling.

Mark Webber led a Red Bull one-two in the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday to celebrate his first victory of the year.

Red Bull has been on pole for 16 races in a row until McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton ended their sequence with his first pole since last year.

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel had his second successive Formula One world championship almost wrapped up after winning the Italian Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso won the British Grand Prix for Ferrari’s first victory of the season at the same circuit where they enjoyed their first F1 success.

Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel took his fifth victory in six races when he won a crash-hit Monaco Grand Prix thriller.

A new Formula One engine being designed for 2013 will sound fantastic and be good for the sport, according to Williams chairperson Adam Parr.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton roared to victory in the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday to deny Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel a fifth win.

Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel seized his fourth pole position in a row for Red Bull at the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday.

Tottenham Hotspur and David Beckham’s Los Angeles Galaxy are planning closer ties that could lead to players crossing the Atlantic in both directions.

Dimitar Berbatov scored five goals to send Manchester United roaring back to the top of the Premier League with a 7-1 rout of Blackburn Rovers