As the great and the good of the sporting world descend on glittering Abu Dhabi for the World Sports Awards, we crunch the Laureus Lucky Numbers...
New Zealand’s Chris Birch returned to the mountains of Lesotho in style by winning the Roof of Africa enduro again before setting off on a safari holiday in neighbouring South Africa. We interrupted his packing.
While Kimi Räikkönen has signed a deal to race in the WRC with Citroën next year, the six-time rally world champion Sébastien Loeb is considering another run at Le Mans
F2 was rocked by tragedy after Henry Surtees was killed in the second race at Brands Hatch on Sunday.
Weekend four of the Formula Two series saw Andy Soucek extend his lead in the championship but events on the track were overshadowed by the death of driver Henry Surtees
Dany Torres took victory in front of 23,000 fans at his home event as the Red Bull X Fighters World Tour 2009 touched down at the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid on Friday night.
Philipp Eng’s maiden victory at Brands Hatch on Saturday makes him the fifth winner in seven races as F2 makes its return.
Having decided not to compete in Rally Russia, the sixth round of this year’s IRC, Peugeot UK’s Kris Meeke still leads the Driver’s Standings but by just one point.
Daredevil Robbie Maddison set London abuzz when he jumped his motorcycle across the open span of Tower Bridge.
Day five: England get out jail for free.
Victory in Fort Lawrence, Dubrovnik, handed Orlando Duque the overall lead in the Cliff Diving Series after three events.
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Never mind whether England can win back the urn, who’s going to win the traditional war of words on the pitch? We put England and Australia’s best Ashes sledges to the test.
Dig out the black leather and eyeliner because Bedroom Jam stalwarts My Passion have been nominated for the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomers.
Honda’s Dani Pedrosa shook off a season plagued by injury and bad luck to turn the Red Bull US Grand Prix into a one-man show.
Seconds after taking pole position for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, Jorge Lorenzo crashed and slid into a sand trap at high speed.
X Fighter Ronnie Renner will attempt to break his own Guinness World Record for the highest air ever attained on a motorcycle at Red Bull High Rise in Chicago on July 25.
Kimi Raikkonen is to make his World Rally Championship debut in his home round, Rally Finland, next month.
Nate Adams may have won his home X-Fighters event, but the headlines were made by Cameron Sinclair with his two double backflips.
World champion Sébastien Loeb crashed out of the WRC in Poland, handing Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen a gilt-edged chance to take the lead in the championship.
It had to happen sooner or later. After dominating the first three races of the new Formula Two championship, all three Red Bull Junior Team drivers went out of race two in Brno.
He may have barely caused a ripple as he hit the waters of Rottersdam’s old Leuvehaven but Orlando Duque’s winnng dive showered his rival’s title hopes with cold water.
Mirko Bortolotti made it three wins from three races for the Red Bull Junior Team in F2 as he took a commanding win in race one in Brno.
Robert Wickens dominated round one of the Formula Two championship, winning both races from pole. So is the 20-year-old about to dominate F2 in the same way that Button is ruling F1?
The clubs and brothels of Amsterdam’s Red Light District are getting a taste for culture thanks to the Rooms of Red Bull.
It was third time lucky for Peugeot as they scored a home win for France at Le Mans while all-conquering Audi failed to win for the first time in five years.
To celebrate his new long-term contract with Red Bull Racing, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers went to New York City for the day, taking his race car with him.
Taking time out from the IRC, Irishmen Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle scored their second consecutive victory in the Rally Barbados.
British rally fans who can’t wait until the Wales Rally can catch Sebastien Loeb in action at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex next month.
Having dominated all weekend in Valencia, it was fitting that Robert Wickens should claim pole position again and cruise to his second win of the weekend.
Sebastian Vettel was reunited with the car he drove to victory in a rain-soaked Monza last year as he collected the Trofeo Lorenzo Bandini for the most promising new F1 driver.
Robbie Maddison steered his way to victory in front of a sell-out crowd of 21,000 fans in the Stampede Park rodeo ring in Calgary on Saturday night.
As he prepares to jet off to the Turkish GP, Mark Webber is optimistic that he’ll finish on the top step of the podium sooner rather than later.
A flawless drive from pole position saw Robert Wickens claim a commanding victory at Valencia as he won the first F2 race to take place in 25 years.
Canadian Robert Wickens took pole position for the first round of the Formula Two Championship at Valencia, Spain, ahead of Tobias Hegewald and Andy Soucek.
The world’s best freestyle motocross riders did a little warming up ahead of the second stop of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2009 on Saturday in Calgary, Canada.
With the Red Bulletin patented celebradar in place, we head back to the glamour and excitement of the Monaco Grand Prix.
After the (relative) disappointment of Sardinia, Sébastien Loeb returned to Paris in triumph as he was knighted by the French Republic.
Teenage skateboarding star Ryan Sheckler and the etnies team will be showing off their skills and meeting their fans under the Westway in north London on Saturday.
Mountain biking world champion Gee Atherton flew the flag for Britain at the US Open in New Jersey last week and found himself not just battling a field of 500 riders, but also the elements.
He may be a resident of Monte Carlo but Robert Doornbos won’t be watching the Grand Prix this weekend as he’ll be strapping himself in to race in that other premier motorsport event, the Indy 500.
Monte Carlo and the Brickyard are both in action but what of the world’s most challenging circuit? Not to be outdone, the infamous Nordschleife is hosting the 24-Hour race on the Nürburgring.
After the first day in Sardinia, Sébastien Loeb is exactly where he wants to be – back in third place behind Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen.
The Air Race touched down in San Diego with a host of celebrities onboard.
Edoardo Mortara, the man who took over Sébastien Buemi’s seat at Arden, claimed victory in the first sprint race of the new GP2 season at Barcelona.
On their way from Mexico to the X-Fighters show in Canada, the Red Bull FMX team hit the Glamis Dunes in California.
Ukrainian diver Andrey Ignatenko made the perfect start to the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series by claiming victory over nine times world champion Orlando Duque in La Rochelle.
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh spent his 51st birthday facing the World Motor Sport Council alone and apologising for the team lying to stewards at the Australian Grand Prix.
Button back on top, Vettel pressing, Hamilton closing and Trulli impressing, we take a look back at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Dani Pedrosa made a blistering start to the Japanese MotoGP on Sunday, taking his Honda from 11th on the grid to second at the end of the first lap.
That’s five rallies, five wins, 50 points for Sébastien Loeb as he hopes to go undefeated throughout the championship.
WRC champion began the day in third place, behind his team-mate Dani Sordo and Mikko Hirvonen and finished the day 58.6 secs in front.
Last year, Conrad Rautenbach finished fourth in the Rally Argentina in just his second time out in the Citroen C4. This year, he's finding it harder, but he's going to fight to the end.
Even though he's sweeping the road, WRC champion Sébastien Loeb finds the conditions in Argentina to his liking.
Comebacks, crashes and an early scare for the champion, but in the end Sébastien Loeb triumphed at the Rally Portugal.
A decade ago, Eddie Irvine won the first-ever Malaysian Grand Prix and the season-opening Australian GP. So what does he make of 2009 so far?
It was age versus experience in the final of the first round of X-Fighters as Kiwi teenager Levi Sherwood took on 30-year-old Eigo Sato in the Plaza de Toros, Mexico City.
After a year in the wilderness, former Red Bull Racing driver Robert Doornbos is staging a comeback: he’s joined IndyCar’s most successful team and is getting to grips with oval racing.
In the end, there was no more than a 10th of a second between Sébastien Loeb and Stefan Everts when the two multiple champions went head-to-head on the infamous Mur de Grammont.
Go behind the scenes at Red Bull Technology’s factory as Formula One star Sebastian Vettel reveals how his stunning new RB5 is taking shape.
The X-Fighters roar back into action next weekend with the first round in the historic Plaza De Toros in Mexico City.
Next weekend sees the beginning of the traditional media feeding frenzy that marks the start of a new Formula One season.
The new F1 points system, which sees the winner of the most races being crowned champion, does not have too many supporters among the drivers.
He may have left it to the last minute, but Sweden’s Patrik Sandell made it two from two as he elbowed past Armindo Araujo to win the P-WRC in Cyprus.
Sébastien Loeb brought his C4 through the gravel stage of the Cyprus Rally to win the 50th race of his career and make it a clean sweep of the first three races of the 2009 season.
The Scandinavian drivers were celebrating as the C4s struggled in the conditions on Day Two of the Cyprus Rally.
McLaren admit they are struggling to produce a car capable of defending the world championship as the new regulations promise to turn the grid upside-down.
It was a case of 'catch me if you can' as Sébastien Loeb pulled out all the stops on the first day of the Cyprus Rally.
In these straitened times, a racing car doesn’t only have to be built to survive a crash on the race track, it also has to survive financial crashes. Luckily it looks like F2 has a car that can do both.
The new STR4 has completed its first day of testing, producing a positive result, having completed 20 laps more than a grand prix distance at Spain's Circuit de Catalunya.
The new Toro Rosso car will get its official unveiling at the final test of the pre-season in Barcelona next week.
The man who Sébastien Loeb dubbed “the fastest rival I ever had,” is to return to WRC at the Rally Portugal.
Slumdog Millionaire may have swept the Oscars, but it was overlooked by the judges of the Golden Peak short film competition, because a) it doesn’t feature extreme sports and b) it didn’t enter.
Self-styled Aerial Adventurer Chuck Berry’s dream came true this weekend as he carried out a daring BASE jump from the top of Terror Peak in New Zealand.
Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth claimed back-to-back Sprint Cup victories with his win at the Auto Club 500 on Sunday.
Brian Vickers grabbed pole position from under the nose of Jimmie Johnson at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.
The 51st Daytona 500 was a classic all-American stock car race of crashes, over-the-top drama and more crashes. One of the few to emerge with much to celebrate was Scott Speed.
The new season of Red Bull Bedroom Jam live online gigs kicks off on Monday afternoon with a set from hotly-tipped glam rockers My Passion.
Not content with being 'the next Dennis Bergkamp' and 'the next David Beckham', David Bentley’s knack for trash-talking could make him the next Michael Jordan.
USF1, the all-American team aiming to take to the F1 grid next year, are considering IndyCar driver Danica Patrick as a candidate for one of their seats.
In 1984, Enzo Ferrari suggested staging a grand prix in the Italian capital, and this week it looks like his dream could just become reality.
New Super-G world champion Lindsey Vonn explains how careful planning, a clear head and raw aggression helped her to victory in Val D'Isere.
Mark Webber’s undergoing one unconventional route to full fitness – standing in a sub-zero chamber for three minutes.
Among the more far-fetched rumours emerging this week is that an all-American team is about to launch itself on the F1 grid next year.
According to the Dutch press, Robert Doornbos has signed a contract to race for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing in the 2009 IndyCar Series.
While Sébastien Löeb dominated in Ireland, Travis Pastrana set the early pace in the American national rally championship with victory in the Sno*Drift in Michigan.
Sébastien Buemi says he can cope with the inevitable comparisons that will be made between himself and his predecessor in the Toro Rosso hot seat, Sebastian Vettel.
It was business as usual for Shaun White in Aspen as the Californian underlined his dominance with victories in the X Games slopestyle and superpipe.
The X Games pride themselves on providing an alternative to Olympic and World Cup winter events not least in the way the athletes are turned out.
One poor jump cost Levi LaVallee the gold in speed and style leaving him finishing the games with a solitary silver having looked good for gold in four events.
All the practice counted for nothing as defending champion Daron Rahlves was held up in the Skier X final… literally.
France's Xavier Bertoni caused a surprise as he ended Tanner Hall’s run of three straight victories in the skiing superpipe to take gold, but Hall had a few surprises of his own left to spring.
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All eyes should be on Sébastien in the Citroen rally car, says Petter Solberg, The surprising thing is he’s talking about junior champion Sébastien Ogier.
The man in charge of Ford’s WRC team says his team is ready to wrestle the drivers and manufacturers titles from Citroen this year.
British F3 champion Jaime Alguersuari has chosen a move to the World Series by Renault instead of jumping straight into GP2
The testing programme on the Algarve was disrupted by heavy rain on Monday, but was that the reason why Ferrari decided to stay in Italy?
Two-times F1 world champion Fernando Alonso has once again played down talk that he has signed a contract to drive for Ferrari in 2011.
The new king of the Dakar, Marc Coma, has endured weeks of racing through the heat, dust and rain of South America. Now, he says, he really wants a snooze.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis used the launch of the new MP4-24 to unveil some plans of his own: he’s standing down as team principal.
Marc Coma’s winning ride in the 31st Dakar Rally has been hailed as the performance of the race by the competition organisers.
When it comes to defending an X Games crown, it helps if you have a secret weapon. Lucky for Daron Rahlves, he’s got one.
Frenchman Cyril Despres (KTM) won his third stage of the Dakar finishing Stage 12 1.23secs ahead of Spain’s Marc Coma (KTM), passing David Frétigné to take second place overall.
After establishing a commanding lead in the Dakar Rally, disaster struck for Carlos Sainz when he careered off the track, down a ravine and out of the race.
The annual extreme sports circus that is the Winter X Games opens next week in Aspen, Colorado. The Red Bulletin takes a quick look at some of the leading athletes…
The winner of the Dakar 2007, Cyril Despres, has taken his first stage win on the 2009 Rally Dakar.
Russian driver Mikhail “Crazy Mike” Aleshin is joining Red Bull’s line-up in the new Formula Two season.
Sébastien Loeb and Mattias Ekström will renew their rivalry when the Frenchman comes to Sweden next month to prepare for Rally Norway.
Rally ace Sébastien Loeb overcame a costly mistake, a crash and London traffic on his way to being crowned Champion of Champions.
Canada’s Robert Wickens eager to line up as Formula Two returns next year.
Impressive debut at Red Bull test should be enough to put talented Brendon Hartley in an F1 driving seat next year.
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