The UEFA Champions League draw was made today and it has drawn up some pulsating encounters. Of the English sides in the fray, Cash-rich Manchester Ciy making it’s first appearance in the Champions League has no doubt the toughest group.Manchester City is drawn alongside Bayern Munich, Villarreal and Napoli. Bayern and Villareal will give a tough test for ManC and Napoli are no pushovers either. So in Manchester Ciy’s perpective ,they certainly should be thinking that they are in the Group of death.But we still believe that Manchester City have …

Sebastian Vettel scored his sixth victory of the season in Valencia on Sunday, without anyone getting anywhere close to his Red Bull. This was a strong statement to the Red Bull detractors, as this weekend saw the introduction of a limitation on playing around with the engine mapping in between qualiying and race, and this was expected to slow down Red Bull, particularly on Saturday.However, that was not to be, and the two Bulls lined-up on the front row of the grid yet again, led by Vettel. The two Ferrari’s …

Yamaha Factory Racing’s Ben Spies took the first victry of his premier class career, with the two Repsol Hondas of Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso occupying the next two podium positions. Spies was on top form all weekend, as he just got edged out of pole position by Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team), and then rode a perfect race to pick-up the win. However, Simoncelli once again couldn’t convert his Saturday heroics into a podium finish as he crashed on the opening lap, and also took World Champion …

Just like 2010, this year’s Canadian Grand Prix was the best race of the season so far (and I guess it will stay the best). As if the venue – Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – was not enough to provide us a great race, we also had intermittent rain on Sunday. Again, like what we saw last season, Jenson Button was a class apart in the changeable conditions and stormed to victory here. With hindsight, Button was on the right tyres at the right times and made the correct strategy calls …

The second race of the 2011 MotoGP Championship, hosted at Jerez, was a real classic played out in treacherous track conditions. A number of riders went down, but Jorge Lorenzo(Fiat Yamaha) kept running in the top 3 throughout the race and inherited the race win when the other contenders crashed out of contention. Casey Stoner, Valentino Rossi, Marco Simoncelli and Ben Spies were the front-runners who got caught out in the slippery conditions. A steady rhythm saw the reigning World Champion take the chequered flag, his first ever professional race …