The Oscar-winner professed no qualms about his relative lack of experience in the Grand Prix world.
They won all three of their events and set a new world record at the Grand Prix Final.
BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Renault, Honda and Toyota revealed their proposals for a Grand Prix World Championship (GPWC) at a meeting with nine F1 teams.
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Known for its four-stroke 90-degree V-twin engines and its unique valve design, Ducati has carved out an impressive racing record, highlighted by its 2007 Grand Prix World Championship win.
The next stop on F1's world tour is the Japanese Grand Prix on October 7.
One tournament that will not be covered by the BBC is the World Open, formerly the Grand Prix, which will be played overseas this year.
The 17-round MotoGP World Championship starts with the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez on March 26.
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Cardiff has recently hosted a Rugby World Cup final, FA Cup finals, world championship boxing and rallying, Grand Prix speedway and Ashes Test cricket.
Massa struggled to hold back the tears after winning his home Grand Prix but losing the world crown by the smallest of margins.
Her absence from last month's world trials and then the recent British Grand Prix in Birmingham prompted speculation that the setback was more serious than first diagnosed.
The FIA president, who won a High Court case against the News of the World, is in Monza for the Italian Grand Prix.
He became the youngest race-winner in F1 history when he won the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix, and its youngest world champion in 2005, though he has lost those marks to Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton.
Their first win followed in 1979, when Swiss Clay Regazzoni won the British Grand Prix, and their first world championships in 1980, when Australian Jones won the drivers' title and Argentine Carlos Reutemann added enough points to secure the constructors' crown.
After this weekend's race in Valencia, the world championship will head to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix on July 8.
As Ferrari's star driver, Mr. Schumacher won four world championships, set the record for the most career Grand Prix victories and cemented his place as the greatest driver of all time.
And with the unpredictability this season has produced there's no need to write off either Button -- who has always been dogged by bad luck in his home grand prix -- or his fellow former world champion Hamilton.
Bekele, a two-time winner when the event was staged in Newcastle, is scheduled to run in the Boston Indoor Games on 29 January, the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham in February and the World Cross Country Championships at the end of March.
He fell 41 points behind the drivers' world championship leader Lewis Hamilton when he crashed at the Belgian Grand Prix in the last race.
He covered Spain's 2010 World Cup victory from Madrid and has broadcast live from Wimbledon, the US Open (both tennis and golf), the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and five consecutive Champions League finals.
The MotoGP World Championship now moves to Barcelona for next week's Catalan Grand Prix.
World champion Michael Schumacher came seventh in last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix while also failing to finish in the opening race in Australia.
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Hamilton, who won his first world title in a nail-biting climax to Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, was welcomed at the McLaren Technology Centre by the team's 1, 000-strong workforce, plus another 500 ancillary staff.
The Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympic Games and the reinstated Russian Grand Prix in 2014, and Russia will host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, with many hotel chains around the country investing in anticipation.
The 54-year-old Englishman, who has previously won world titles with Benetton and Ferrari, broke down in tears after the Brazilian Grand Prix when asked for his reaction.
That first season was a huge success - he won his first championship point in his first race, recorded his first Grand Prix victory at Monza and finished an incredible third in the World Drivers' Championship.
The seven-time world champion is due to replace stricken Ferrari driver Felipe Massa in the European Grand Prix in Valencia later this month, but his spokesperson Sabine Kehm told ZDF television in Germany that the injury could wreck his return.
Hodgson was tipped as the next great British rider after claiming seventh in his home Grand Prix and earning a dream move to the Ducati factory squad for the 1996 World Superbike Championship.
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Vettel became F1's youngest ever winner with victory in the Italian Grand Prix in September, while Lewis Hamilton is now the sport's youngest world champion following his success this year in only his second season.
" On the victory podium standing with Mario Andretti, the only living American F1 world champion, Hamilton called the event "probably one of the best, if not the best Grand Prix we've had all year.
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She swept all the major events last season, winning her first Grand Prix Final title, her fourth European championship and, in her crowning achievement, that world title.
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