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12:05 PM ET Spa’s Eau Rouge and Raidillon are two of the best corners in racing. Will the Belgian track win the World Cup of Circuits? James Moy Photography/Getty Images The 2022 Formula One season is finally finished. NASCAR concluded its season a few weeks back, as did MotoGP, while IndyCar has been preparing for 2023

8:09 AM ET Red Bull has confirmed Daniel Ricciardo will join its team as a third driver next season — a role that will include testing, simulator work and commercial activity. Ricciardo had his McLaren contract cut one year short over the summer after a lack of on-track performance convinced the team to sign fellow

1:10 PM ET Ferrari finished the 2022 season as it started it, with its team setting the fastest time of a test session. Carlos Sainz led the way on a 1:25.245s, with Charles Leclerc and junior driver Robert Schwartzman both finishing with 0.1s during their respective runs in the car. Ferrari’s early promise failed to

7:22 AM ET Fernando Alonso had his first taste of Aston Martin machinery on Tuesday as he and five others familiarised themselves with their 2023 teams for the first time. After one of the busiest driver markets in recent years, there are a few changes this year which are reflected in the lineup of the

11:24 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Before climbing into his Formula One car for the final time ahead of a grand prix, Sebastian Vettel did a lap of the Aston Martin garage to thank each and every mechanic personally. It was a simple gesture, but one that meant a huge amount to

12:22 PM ET ABU DHABI — Lewis Hamilton ranks his 2022 season among the worst three of his career, but says he is not overly concerned about missing out on a race victory this year. The seven-time champion recorded his worst ever position in the driver standings after finishing sixth, 35 points adrift of teammate

11:22 AM ET Sebastian Vettel signed off his legendary Formula One career with 10th in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Vettel’s final race has been marked in a number of ways, including a track run on Saturday evening the four-time world champion organised for people of all abilities within the paddock to take part in. Lewis

9:09 AM ET Ferrari Formula One boss Mattia Binotto said on Saturday he was relaxed about his future with the team and had discussed recent speculation that he was facing the sack with company chairman John Elkann. Ferrari issued a statement earlier this week dismissing as “totally without foundation” media reports in Italy that Binotto

10:00 AM ET ABU DHABI — FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem says Formula One’s governing body is making changes to ensure penalties for breaching the sport’s cost cap are decided earlier in the year. The FIA announced Red Bull had breached last year’s $145 million cost cap in early October before issuing a penalty later

2:13 PM ET Associated Press Stefan Wilson will attempt to make his fifth Indianapolis 500 next year in a combined entry fielded by Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Cusick Motorsports. The British driver will pilot the No. 24 Chevrolet-powered car. Dreyer & Reinbold, which fielded two cars in last year’s Indy 500, still plans on

9:03 AM ET ABU DHABI — Sergio Perez has denied he crashed on purpose during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix and said the accident did not feature in talks to clear the air with his teammate Max Verstappen following last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Speculation over whether Perez crashed intentionally in Monaco resurfaced last

12:26 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg will replace Mick Schumacher at Haas next year, the Formula One team has confirmed. Hulkenberg, 35, has not had a full-time F1 drive since 2019 but made four appearances in the last two years as a COVID-19 super-sub. He made his F1 debut in 2010 with Williams and has driven

8:28 AM ET Mick Schumacher looks completely calm. There is a sense, even if just for a fleeting moment, that Formula One and the outside world are a million miles away. This feels like a safe space for him, the eerie quiet of the North Texas ranch broken only by the throaty engine notes of

10:44 AM ET Ferrari dismissed media reports in Italy on Tuesday that Formula One team boss Mattia Binotto was set to be replaced by Sauber’s Frederic Vasseur at the end of the season and said they were “totally without foundation.” The Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport newspapers had suggested Frenchman Vasseur was being

11:57 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg is set to replace Mick Schumacher at Haas in 2023, according to German publication Bild. The move will be announced ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, allowing Hulkenberg to drive for the team at the tyre test which follows the season finale next week. Hulkenberg, 35, has not

6:47 AM ET Max Verstappen’s refusal to help Sergio Perez in his bid for second in the championship was reportedly based on frustrations that have been bubbling away for five months since May’s Monaco Grand Prix. According to two Dutch journalists well connected to the Verstappen camp, the two-time world champion believes Perez intentionally crashed

3:39 PM ET Newly-crowned champion Max Verstappen refused a Red Bull team order at the Brazilian Grand Prix to help teammate Sergio Perez in his fight for second in the title race. Perez dropped down the order after a late safety car restart, with nearest championship rival Charles Leclerc one of the cars to get

6:03 PM ET Lewis Hamilton has retained his front row grid position for the Brazilian Grand Prix despite the stewards investigating the positioning of his car on the grid ahead of Saturday’s sprint race. Three drivers, including Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo, all lined up slightly outside the width of their grid

4:24 PM ET Alpine teammates Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon blamed each other for the collisions which will see them start at the rear end of the grid for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Alonso, who is leaving Alpine for Aston Martin next year, twice made contact with his teammate on the opening lap of Saturday’s

5:00 PM ET In the heat of the moment, Charles Leclerc labelled Ferrari’s decision to send him out on the wrong tyres in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix as “f—ing unbelievable,” but later revealed he had accepted the tyre choice before heading out on track in Q3. Using intermediate tyres when the rest of

11:22 AM ET Carlos Sainz will drop five places on the grid at the Brazilian Grand Prix after Ferrari incurred a penalty for fitting a new engine to his car. Sainz will use his sixth engine of the season this weekend, meaning he is three engines over his original quota of three for the year.

3:33 PM ET Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton has praised his former rival Max Verstappen for his dominant championship-winning performance this year. Verstappen secured his second title last month with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix and has won 14 of the 20 races so far this year, breaking the record for the most wins in

8:03 AM ET Michael Schumacher’s 2003 championship-winning Formula One car has sold at auction for $14.8 million (£12.9 million). The F2003 is the most expensive modern-era F1 car ever sold, breaking the record set on Schumacher’s 2001 F1 car, which sold for $7.5 million in 2017. Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images The 2003 was also a record

6:04 AM ET The head of Formula One’s governing body warned on Tuesday that online abuse, including death threats, against volunteers and officials would destroy the sport if left unchecked. International Automobile Federation (FIA) President Mohammed Ben Sulayem said a female steward recently received death threats while staff had been targeted with harassment and hate

3:45 AM ET Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of Brazil on Monday by the country’s lower house of Congress and dedicated it to his boyhood idol, the late Brazilian triple world champion Ayrton Senna. “I feel like now I’m one of you,” the Mercedes driver said in a

12:20 PM ET Max Verstappen and Red Bull will talk to Sky Sports as normal at the Brazilian Grand Prix, despite a boycott of the broadcaster at last month’s Mexican Grand Prix. Verstappen did not talk to Sky’s channels on Saturday or Sunday at the Mexico City race, citing what he considered to be disrespectful

12:00 PM ET The finale of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season wound up being a nearly perfect summation of the imperfect campaign that it had just wrapped up. A most apropos period stamped at the end of a story that had been written since the first green flag was waved over NASCAR’s 74th season,

12:51 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson‘s NASCAR retirement and IndyCar experiment lasted all of two seasons. The seven-time NASCAR champion is returning in 2023 to the series that made him a global motorsports star as the part-owner of Petty GMS. He’ll also enter about five Cup races. Johnson announced that his

10:00 AM ET One of Joey Logano, Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell will be crowned 2022 NASCAR Cup Series champion on Sunday in Phoenix. Sean Gardner/Getty Images After nine months, 35 points-paying races, two exhibition events, 19 different race winners, paddock parity like we’ve never seen before and nearly as much controversy as there

2:53 PM ET Mauro Forghieri, the technical director and designer who helped Ferrari win a string of Formula One titles from the 1960s through to the 1980s, has died in Italy at the age of 87. “Legends last forever…It’s been an honour making history together. Ferrari and the world of motorsport will never forget you,”