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The competitors in the FIA World Endurance Championship set off at 1600 hours for the 6 Hours of Bahrain, sixth round of the season, under a scorching sun and a suffocating heat relative to that of the past few days.

The 20-minute qualifying for the LMP1 and LMP2 competitors had a brief stoppage just over half way through for marshals to retrieve a dislodged bollard, but that mattered little to Allan McNish in the No.2 Audi R18 3-tron quattro.

World Rally Championship - Hyundai will be returning to competition in the FIA WRC.

The FIA and Eurosport Events have renewed their commercial rights agreement for the FIA WTCC.

Decisions of the World Motor Sport Council

World Raly Championship - Rally Italia Sardegna - Entries

FIA President meets with World Health Organisation Director-General Mrs Margaret Chan in New York City.

Action for Road Safety - Jean Todt meeting with Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretay General and Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil.

Michael Schumacher was handed a 10-place grid penalty for the Japanese Grand Prix after he slammed into the back of Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso just after the half way mark in the Singapore Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel prospered from Lewis Hamilton’s mechanical failure, to record his second victory of the season.