The Alfa Romeo name returns to F1

The Alfa Romeo brand will return to Formula 1 next year after an absence of more than 30 years after it entered a multi-year partnership with Swiss team Sauber.

The long-rumoured deal will see the team re-branded as Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team and will include "strategic, commercial and technological cooperation" and "the exchange of engineering and technical know-how" between Sauber and Ferrari F1 team.

Brittany Force makes history with maiden Top Fuel crown

Brittany Force has become the first female NHRA Top Fuel drag racing champion for 35 years, repeating a feat last achieved by Shirley Muldowney in 1982.

The second-generation driver took her fourth win of the year at last weekend's season finale in Pomona, California, with a 3.668 second run at 330.07 mph to beat Shawn Langdon. However, she wrapped up the championship earlier on in the quarter finals of the event.

Season Review: 2017 Red Bull Global Rallycross – Speed for the Treble

The 2017 Red Bull Global Rallycross will go down in the history books as another championship triumph for the class-leading Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team, but the reality is quite different – it wasn’t the whitewash we’ve become used to in recent years.