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Marquez celebrated the win with his team

World champion Marc Marquez won his ninth race of the MotoGP season after Valentino Rossi crashed four laps from the finish while leading the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Marquez, who was crowned world champion in Japan last month, qualified on pole but was hit with a six-place grid penalty for impeding another rider.

Force India are seventh in the constructors' championship, despite losing the 59 points Sergio Perez (front) and Esteban Ocon picked up in the opening 12 races of the season before the team went into administration

Sergio Perez will stay with Force India for the 2019 Formula 1 season.

The 28-year-old Mexican has been with the team since 2014 and is seventh in the drivers' championship with seven points finishes in the past nine races.

'It means everything' - Schumacher on winning F3 title

Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael, won the Formula 3 European title with a race to spare.

The 19-year-old finished second in race two of the season finale in Hockenheim, Germany, to establish an unassailable lead in the drivers' standings.

Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix in July but the race did not take place in 2015 and 2017

The 2019 Formula 1 season will finish in December, and the German Grand Prix has been included on the final calendar released by the FIA.

The record-equalling 21-race calendar has the same order as 2018, with the first race in Australia on 17 March.

George Russell is leading this year's Formula Two championship

George Russell will become the third British driver in Formula 1 next year after signing to race for Williams.

The 20-year-old, a Mercedes protege and leader of this year's Formula Two championship, has secured what Williams describe as a "multi-year contract".