By Steve Keating INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - For the first time in 17 years, America has a hometown driver to cheer for in Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix. When Scott Speed steers his Toro Rosso onto the starting grid, he will be the first U.S.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - American Scott Speed was stripped of his first Formula One point and fined US$5000 for swearing at another driver after Sunday's Australian Grand Prix.

LONDON (Reuters) - Scott Speed will become the first American to race in Formula One for 13 years after the new Scuderia Toro Rosso said on Tuesday that he and Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi would be their 2006 drivers.