Formula One racing is set to use a new tyre supplier from 2011 after Bridgestone announced on Monday that they will not be renewing their current contract when it expires at the end of 2010. Bridgestone have been participating in the sport since 1997, winning 156 Grands Prix, 10 drivers’ and 10 constructors’ titles.

Once a brake problem slowed McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel had no competition in Sunday evening’s inaugural day/night Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A brilliant win cemented his second place in the drivers’ world championship behind Brawn GP’s Jenson Button, who enlivened the end of the race with a superb challenge to second-placed Red Bull of Mark Webber in the closing stages…

Welcome to race day for the 17th and final round of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship, the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit. It will be partially cloudy to begin with, with an ambient temperature high of 36 degrees Celsius, which will fall to 31 as the race progresses into the evening…

The first day/night qualifying session proved a complete success on the dramatic new Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, where Lewis Hamilton’s pace in the McLaren surprised Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.

Heikki Kovalainen is set to receive a five-place grid penalty from the Yas Marina race stewards after McLaren decided his car needed a new gearbox following Saturday’s qualifying. Kovalainen, who had qualified in 13th, will now start Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from 18th.

Red Bull’s Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel came alive in the dying moments of the final qualifying session of 2009, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton kept his nerve and ultimately decimated their chances of taking pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a lap of 1m 40.948s on Saturday evening. Vettel had moments before beaten Webber’s 1m 41.726s best with 1m 41.615s.

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will decide the championship runner-up to Jenson Button. Sebastian Vettel is not making a big fuss about it, but losing it to Rubens Barrichello at the last race would be hard to swallow for the ambitious young German

McLaren remained top of the pile after the second practice session here under the lights in Yas Marina on Friday. Heikki Kovalainen just pipped team mate Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages, 1m 41.307s to 1m 41.504s, while Brawn GP’s Jenson Button and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel nipped at their feet with 1m 41.541s and 1m 41.591s respectively. The surprise of the evening was the speed of Toyota’s rookie, Kamui Kobayashi, who lapped his TF109 fifth fastest in 1m 41.636s…

The US F1 Team, who will join the Formula One grid in 2010, announced on Friday that MotorLand Aragon, an 865-acre motorsports complex located in northern Spain, has been selected as their European base. MotorLand will serve as the team’s European testing, race car development and logistics headquarters. “MotorLand Aragon is the ideal motorsports complex for our European operation,” said Peter Windsor, executive vice president and sporting director for the US F1 Team…

Williams confirmed on Friday that they have signed a long-term engine partnership with Cosworth Limited.