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Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton’s arrival in 2025 will provide a “good challenge” for everyone at Ferrari to raise their game, team-boss Fred Vasseur has said. Hamilton’s shock move was announced at the end start of February meaning he will see out the final year of his Mercedes contract before replacing Carlos Sainz in 2025.

Ryan McGee Close Ryan McGee ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Marty Smith Close Marty Smith ESPN ESPN NASCAR lead reporter Former NASCAR.com senior writer 15 years covering NASCAR Feb 13, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions With

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 12, 2024, 03:00 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso insists he has had no contact with Mercedes following the news that Lewis Hamilton will leave the team at the end of the year to drive for

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 12, 2024, 03:00 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Aston Martin’s Formula One team has launched the car it hopes will close the gap to reigning champions Red Bull in 2024. The team says the new car, named AMR24, is an

Open Extended Reactions With the 2024 F1 seasons just weeks away, ESPN lays out the best American sports comparables. Illustration by ESPN As team after team launches new livery after new livery, we are constantly being reminded that the 2024 Formula One season is just around the corner. Preseason testing will wrap up in two weeks,

Red Bull boss Christian Horner’s hearing into allegations of inappropriate behaviour started in London on Friday. Horner, accused by an F1 team employee of controlling behaviour and text messages, has strenuously denied the claims made against him. Red Bull’s wider company, which instigated the investigation, said it takes the allegations “extremely seriously.” Sources have told

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 8, 2024, 07:55 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Red Bull’s second Formula One team, now competing under the abbreviated name RB, has launched its 2024 car at a late-night event in Las Vegas. The rebranded team, which competed as AlphaTauri

Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistFeb 8, 2024, 11:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IndyCar will introduce its new hybrid powertrains in the middle of the 2024 season. Penske Entertainment: Joe Skibinski Five years in the making, IndyCar’s long-awaited technological move into hybridization is scheduled to arrive in the summer. Originally announced to go live at the first

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 8, 2024, 09:32 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions The British Grand Prix will remain at Silverstone until 2034 after the circuit signed a new 10-year deal with Formula One. Silverstone was entering the final year of its contract this season,

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 7, 2024, 11:30 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Do you hear that? The whirring sound off in the distance? That’s Formula One‘s rumour mill, and it has been working overtime to catch up with last week’s shock news that Lewis

Nate Saunders Close Nate Saunders General Editor, F1 Laurence Edmondson Close Laurence Edmondson F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Feb 7, 2024, 09:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Alpine has unveiled its new car for the upcoming Formula One season, which will see it continue the recent trend of

Feb 6, 2024, 08:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton‘s former Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas has said he expects the seven-time Formula One world champion to be a good fit for Ferrari when the British driver moves to the Italian team next year. The switch was announced last week after Hamilton, 39, exercised a

Open Extended Reactions Stake F1, what the longtime Sauber team is now known as, launched its new-for-2024 livery on Monday. ESPN Formula One is gearing up for a new season with two “new” teams on the grid, at least in name: Stake F1 and Visa Cash App RB. Only, these are two existing teams under a

Open Extended Reactions Red Bull boss Christian Horner is under an internal investigation for allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The investigation is being conducted by the wider Red Bull company, not the Red Bull F1 team which Horner has been team boss of since its inception in 2005. Red Bull said in a statement on Monday:

Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton has said his blockbuster 2025 Ferrari move will fulfil a “childhood dream” and compared it to the “leap of faith into the unknown” he made to join Mercedes in 2013. Hamilton stunned the racing world and his Mercedes team this week by signing a deal with Ferrari starting next season,

Associated Press Feb 3, 2024, 04:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Denny Hamlin, who wasn’t even sure he’d be healed from offseason shoulder surgery in time to compete in the Clash at the Coliseum, won the Saturday night exhibition that NASCAR hurried into a one-day show to avoid a dangerous “Pineapple Express”

Associated Press Feb 3, 2024, 04:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — NASCAR moved The Clash at the Coliseum to Saturday night out of concerns for inclement weather headed toward California. Only heat races were scheduled to be run Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but with a forecast calling for heavy

Open Extended Reactions Haas has launched the car which will compete in its first season without the leadership of former team boss Guenther Steiner. Haas’ new car, dubbed the VF-24, sees the team lean more into a predominantly black look, which has become a trend across the F1 grid as teams strip away paint to

Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton will make a sensational move to Ferrari for the 2025 Formula One season on a multiyear contract, the Italian team confirmed on Thursday. Hamilton, a seven-time world champion and winner of a record 103 races, will drive for Mercedes this coming season before replacing Carlos Sainz the following year. –

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorFeb 2, 2024, 08:51 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has insisted Lewis Hamilton’s decision to leave for Ferrari in 2025 was not a surprise, but admitted the timing, just three weeks before the first day of

Associated Press Feb 1, 2024, 06:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan Hunter-Reay and Conor Daly will be competing in this year’s Indianapolis 500 for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, the team announced Thursday. Hunter-Reay will drive the No. 23 Chevrolet as he attempts to qualify for his 16th start in the race. The

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterFeb 1, 2024, 09:21 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Buzz for the 2024 NASCAR season will begin to build at Sunday’s Clash at the Coliseum exhibition in Los Angeles. Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Laurence Edmondson Close Laurence Edmondson F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close Nate Saunders General Editor, F1 Feb 1, 2024, 05:09 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton has won seven drivers’ titles in his F1 career. Michael Potts/BSR Agency/Getty Images Lewis Hamilton is set for a sensational

Open Extended Reactions Formula One has formally rejected Andretti and Cadillac’s joint bid to enter the championship in 2025 or 2026 but has left the door open for the team to enter in 2028. Andretti and Cadillac, a General Motors brand, had formed a technical partnership to join F1 as an 11th team. The bid

Open Extended Reactions Former Haas boss Guenther Steiner said F1’s decision to block Andretti joining before 2028 shows the sport is in such good health it can no longer afford to have uncompetitive teams. On Wednesday, F1 rejected the joint Andretti-Cadillac bid to join the grid in 2025 or 2026, although it has kept the

ESPN News Services Jan 31, 2024, 07:38 AM ET Longtime race car owner Chip Ganassi issued a public apology after he ran over and killed a driver’s puppy shortly before the start of the Rolex 24 at Daytona over the weekend. In a social media post Tuesday, Ganassi called the incident, in which he ran

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJan 29, 2024, 11:59 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions The recently renamed Visa Cash App RB Formula One team (VCARB) has announced the signing of three senior engineers to bolster its technical department. Tim Goss, who recently stepped down as the

Associated Press Jan 28, 2024, 02:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Roger Penske snapped a 54-year losing streak at the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday when Felipe Nasr held off two-time defending race winner Tom Blomqvist in the final 45 minutes of the most prestigious endurance race in the United

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJan 26, 2024, 11:00 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Lando Norris has committed his long-term Formula One future to McLaren after signing a multi-year deal that takes him beyond his existing contract, which was due to expire at the end of

Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistJan 25, 2024, 09:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IMSA’s introduction of the GTP class last season has seen interest in the sports-car racing series rise ahead of its 2024 campaign. Nigel Cook/News-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Raging into the darkness, brake discs aglow in red, exhausts firing blue flames rearward as the