Red Bull's Mark Webber has vowed to return a better driver in 2011 after the disappointment of missing out on the Formula 1 World title.

Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull teammate Mark Webber have had a heart-to-heart after the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi.

Melbourne may not continue to host the Australian Grand Prix after the current contract runs out in 2014.

Australian Daniel Ricciardo kept champions Red Bull on top of the Formula One timesheets on the first day of post-season tests of young and up-and-coming drivers.

Nico Hulkenberg has been ditched by Williams for 2011, the British-based Formula One team said on Monday.

The T-shirts hailing Mark Webber as 2010 Formula 1 World Champion were left in their box as his Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel took the title instead.

Fernando Alonso gestured angrily at Russian racer Vitaly Petrov but he might as well have shaken a fist at his own Ferrari bosses after being denied a third Formula 1 title by a strategic error

Sebastian Vettel cocooned himself from distraction, took inspiration from Kimi Raikkonen's astonishing 2007 title comeback and then shed tears of joy on becoming Formula 1's youngest champion

Sebastian Vettel sobbed with joy at becoming Formula 1's youngest champion and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso shook his fist as his title hopes disappeared into the desert on Sunday.

Lewis Hamilton was coolness personified on Saturday, easily the most relaxed of Formula 1's four title contenders on the eve of the sport's deciding race.

Mark Webber hoped fate and "The Fat Lady" would favour his Formula 1 title hopes after he qualified fifth, behind the men he must beat in the race of his life.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has just one more box to tick before he can step up as Formula 1's youngest triple World champion.

Red Bull has claimed pole position for Sunday's championship-deciding season-ending Abu Dhabi GP, outpacing McLaren by only 0.031sec.

Sebastian Vettel has kept Red Bull team mate and title rival Mark Webber off the top of the timesheets in the final practice session of the 2010 Formula 1 season.

McLaren has rattled the cage of Formula 1's three title favourites with the fastest time on the first day of practice for the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP.

Red Bull has won the first round in Formula 1's four-way title fight with the fastest lap in opening practice for the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP.

No Formula 1 fan will be left indifferent if Ferrari's Fernando Alonso becomes the sport's youngest triple World champion on Sunday.

Born in the same year that Red Bull sold its first can of energy drink, Sebastian Vettel has always seemed a marketing match made in heaven for the newly crowned Formula 1 Constructors' champion.

Once considered a journeyman driver, seemingly destined to play a supporting role, Mark Webber now stands one step away from becoming the first Australian in 30 years to win the Formula 1 title.

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have been given the nod to race each other full-on for the Formula 1 title in Sunday's season-ending Abu Dhabi GP.