Month: January 2022

7:20 AM ET Aston Martin have named Mike Krack as its team principal following the departure of Otmar Szafnauer, the Formula One team announced on Friday. Krack joins from BMW, where he led the German manufacturer’s global motorsport division. He has worked previously in F1 with Swiss-based Sauber. The move means he will work again
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11:44 AM ET Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes will have to wait until March 18, two days before the start of the 2022 season, to discover the outcome of the FIA’s investigation into last year’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen beat Hamilton to the title in controversial circumstances on Dec. 12, with FIA race
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The round-the-clock GT enduro was set to run on 25-27 February, however it will now take place on 13-15 May. The postponement has been prompted by the current outbreak of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 on Australia’s east coast, with daily cases currently higher than has been seen at any other point of the pandemic.
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11:57 AM ET Executive director Marcin Budkowski has left the Renault-owned Alpine Formula One team, where he effectively ran day-to-day operations, with immediate effect. Alpine said in a statement on Thursday that chief executive Laurent Rossi would temporarily step in to ensure preparations for next season continued smoothly. Budkowski has been linked with rivals Aston
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5:41 AM ET An investigation by Formula One’s governing body into last season’s Abu Dhabi finale is picking up speed amid speculation the outcome will determine whether seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton races on or walks away. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) promised in December “a detailed analysis and clarification exercise” of a controversy it
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Villeneuve has spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway driving the #27 Ford in the Next Gen test for Team Hezeberg, a new Cup team this season formed between racing legend Toine Hezemans and Dutch entrepreneur Ernst Berg. Loris Hezemans, the 2019 NASCAR Euro champion, plans to compete in all the road course events
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9:43 AM ET Turkey’s Cem Bolukbasi will race in Formula Two this season, becoming the first gamer to go from F1 Esports to the Formula One feeder series. The 23-year-old told a news conference in Istanbul on Wednesday that he had signed a deal with Czech-based Charouz Racing System and had the ultimate goal of
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Bolukbasi makes the step up from the Euroformula Open championship, where he finished fifth overall in the standings with the Van Amersfoort Racing team, which also joins F2 for this season. The Turkish driver made a one-off Formula Renault Eurocup appearance at Hockenheim in 2019, but turned his attentions to single-seater racing full-time from 2021,
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