The largest crowd for a rugby union match was the 109,874 who watched New Zealand win 39-35 at Sydney's Stadium Australia. Each side scored five tries, including two by Stirling Mortlock, who scored ...

England rounded off their autumn in style with an emphatic 53-3 win over South Africa at Twickenham, completing a hat-trick of wins over the Tri-Nations. In a physical match, Springbok Jannes ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

The first action in a chain of events which led to the Crashgate scandal came when Renault sacked Nelson Piquet Junior after a season-and-a-half in which his best finish had been seventh. "A manager ...

Match identical photos before time runs out. Complete all three levels as quickly as possible.

The weekend after Alain Prost announced he would be leaving McLaren to go to Ferrari in 1990, he won the French Grand Prix. However, the race is often remembered for a huge accident at the start, ...

1974 American driver Peter Revson was killed aged 35 during practice at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa, driving a Ford powered Shadow DN3. He was the second Revson to lose his life racing; his ...

Choose your difficulty level: Easy, Medium, or Hard. Put the pieces together as fast as possible. Click "Show Edges" to show only the outside edges. Click the small image of the photo to bring up a ...

The birth of René Thomas, a leading French driver who won the 1914 Indianapolis 500 in a Delage. Ten years later at Arpajon he controversially broke the ten-year-old land speed record, clocking ...

The biggest drug story in Olympic history. The biggest fish they ever caught. After his bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1984 Games (August 4), Canada's Ben Johnson decided he needed some extra ...

Bernie Ecclestone put an end to outlandish rumours linking him to the Great Train Robbery by coming clean about his association with the get-a-way driver Roy James. Ecclestone had long been linked to ...