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- Ferrari and Red Bull withdraw from FOTA
- McDowell leads at Sun City despite air shot
- Cricket-Kohli, Sharma take India to comfortable win
| Ferrari and Red Bull withdraw from FOTA Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:53 PM PST LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - World champions Red Bull and rivals Ferrari will withdraw from the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) after failure to reach agreement over cost cutting measures. Ferrari said in a statement on Friday the organisation's "drive has run its course". The decision will leave FOTA, created to represent a united front in negotiations with commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the governing FIA, with just nine of the 12 teams. Strugglers Hispania (HRT) pulled out last January, saying it no longer made sense for them to be members, although FOTA said the Spanish-based team had failed to pay their membership dues. "Red Bull Racing can confirm it has served notice to withdraw from FOTA," the team of double world champion Sebastian Vettel said in a statement just five days after the end of the season in Brazil. "The team will remain committed to finding a solution regarding cost saving in Formula One." Ferrari, whose president Luca di Montezemolo was FOTA's first president, said they had also given notice. "Ferrari has informed FOTA president Martin Whitmarsh that it is leaving the organisation," the Italian team said on their website (www.ferrari.com). "It (the decision) was taken reluctantly after analysing the current situation and the stalemate when it came to debate on some issues that were at the core of why the association was formed," said Ferrari. "FOTA's drive has run its course, despite the excellent work of... Whitmarsh in trying to reach agreement between the various positions for the common good." Ferrari said they would work with the other teams to make the cost-cutting Resource Restriction Agreement (RRA) "more effective and efficient". Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| McDowell leads at Sun City despite air shot Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:50 PM PST SUN CITY, South Africa, Dec 2 (Reuters) - World number 14 Graeme McDowell snatched a one-stroke lead in the Sun City Challenge on Friday despite playing an air shot during his second round at the $5 million invitational event. The 2010 U.S. Open champion fired a five-under-par 67 for a seven-under tally of 137, one ahead of world number three Lee Westwood (70), fourth-ranked Martin Kaymer (68), American Jason Dufner (68) and Swede Robert Karlsson (69). McDowell picked up four birdies in five holes around the turn but found a bush off the tee at the par-five 14th. His club then bounced off a rock as he attempted to hack his ball back on to the fairway at the Gary Player Country Club. McDowell made it to the fairway with his third shot but his fourth landed in a bunker and he eventually took a double-bogey seven. However, the 32-year-old Briton hit back in style by sinking 20-foot birdie putts at the 16th and 18th. "It was a very calm and quiet front nine and an exciting back nine," McDowell told reporters. "I tugged my drive on 14, I was kind of trying to steer it down there but pulled it into the bush. "Then I made contact about an inch behind the ball, hit the rock and my club just bounced right over the top. It was interesting because my caddie called it before I hit the shot, he said, 'Be careful your club does not bounce off that rock'." Dufner, making his debut in the elite 12-man tournament, was pleased with his position. "It is a bit of a learning curve for me but I think I am learning pretty well as we go," Dufner told reporters. "I was on the right side of the holes and was able to attack some of them." U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, the only South African in the field, struggled to a 74 for 142 after making a double-bogey six at the eighth where he lost his ball off the tee. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Cricket-Kohli, Sharma take India to comfortable win Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:47 PM PST VISAKHAPATNAM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Virat Kohli compiled his eighth hundred in one-dayers and with able support from Rohit Sharma took India to a comfortable five-wicket victory against West Indies in the second one-day international on Friday. Chasing 270 for victory, Kohli (117) and Sharma (90 not out) batted with a lot of maturity and added 163 for the fourth wicket to give India a 2-0 lead in the five-match ODI series against the tourists. Man-of-the-match Kohli hit 14 boundaries before edging a catch behind with India still 23 away from the win. But Sharma, who brought up his second consecutive half-century in the series, kept his calm to take India home with 11 balls to spare. India lost Parthiv Patel and Gautam Gambhir early but Kohli and captain Virender Sehwag (26) added 55 for the third wicket to steady the ship. The visitors were still in the hunt after Sehwag departed trying to clear off-spinner Marlon Samuels over the long-off boundary and India were reduced to 84-3. But the stand between Kohli and Sharma put paid to their hopes of levelling the series. Earlier, tailender Ravi Rampaul blasted his way to an unbeaten 86 from the number 10 position to deny India's hopes of restricting West Indies to a far lower total. The left-hander hit six fours and six sixes in his 66-ball innings to lift West Indies to 269 for nine. Rampaul, whose highest score in ODIs before this match was an unbeaten 26, added 99 in 14 overs for the unbroken final wicket with Kemar Roach (24 not out). Pace duo Umesh Yadav (3-38) and R. Vinay Kumar (2-43) picked up the first five wickets to fall, reducing the visitors to 63-5, before opener Lendl Simmons (78) and Kieron Pollard (35) stemmed the rot with a 56-run stand for the sixth wicket. Simmons anchored the innings with his patient 102-ball knock but was run out with West Indies on 170 and with just the last pair left to bat. The third ODI will be played in Ahmedabad on Monday. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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