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6:40 PM ET Formula One’s commercial rights holders Liberty Media are buying a plot of land in Las Vegas for $240 million to locate the pit and paddock complex for a grand prix next year, they said on Friday. The floodlit race, to be held on a Saturday, will be the third U.S. round on

2:20 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Formula One has taken over South Florida ahead of Sunday’s Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix (3:30 p.m. ET on ABC). Along with the Aramco United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, this is the only other event based in the U.S. The F1 circuit’s top drivers have also been enjoying the

10:20 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — British driver Stefan Wilson spent an entire year hoping to drive in this year’s Indianapolis 500. All he has to do now is qualify. Cusick Motorsports and DragonSpeed announced Thursday that they have hired the 32-year-old British driver, virtually assuring race organizers they will fill the traditional 33-car

5:36 PM ET MIAMI – Pierre Gasly drives Formula One cars for a living and can boast that he is a grand prix winner, but he says the best experience of his life so far was having dinner with Michael Jordan this week ahead of the Miami Gand Prix. Gasly, who drives for Red Bull’s

3:23 PM ET Daniel Ricciardo started the final lap of last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title showdown right on the tail of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. What followed was one of the most dramatic moments in Formula One history, but Ricciardo, long regarded as one of F1’s most talented drivers, wasn’t part of

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, this May, ESPN highlights the stories of athletes, coaches and other sports figures who have experienced personal battles with mental health, and who want to use their platforms to openly discuss what happened next, and what helped them. These stories reflect a broad range of subjects and

12:06 PM ET As he watched his dad’s van pull back on to the Autostrada without him, Max Verstappen was struggling to digest what had happened. In all of his 11 years and 11 months on this earth, he’d never seen his dad as angry as he was at the go-kart track a couple of

3:45 AM ET Tony Brooks, the British ‘racing dentist’ who was Formula One’s last surviving grand prix winner from the 1950s and finished second in the 1959 world championship, has died aged 90. “I was saddened to hear the news that Tony Brooks has died,” Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali said in a statement.

10:30 AM ET It’s been hard to find Kevin Magnussen without a big smile on his face since he made his sensational return to Formula One in March. The story of his comeback has been well told now. He was preparing for a family holiday in Miami with wife Louise and baby daughter Laura, having

9:19 AM ET Volkswagen’s premium brands Audi and Porsche will join Formula One after convincing the German automaking group that the move will bring in more money than it will cost, VW chief executive Herbert Diess said on Monday. Discussions by the board of directors about the two brands’ plans had created some divisions, Diess

7:00 AM ET Has NASCAR’s D.B. Cooper been found? Here, at the start of the week when a new NASCAR Hall of Fame class will be announced, a member of the sport’s Hall of Infamy has broken a four-decade silence. “I said, ‘That straightaway is almost a mile long! How much can that car gain

3:59 PM ET Associated Press LEEDS, Ala. — Pato O’Ward made a conscious decision to stop worrying about his IndyCar contract and Formula One aspirations and focus on his current job. The effort first earned him a pending contract extension, and on Sunday, O’Ward picked up his first win of the IndyCar season. The popular

5:37 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — John Force won the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on Sunday at zMAX Dragway for his 155th Funny Car victory. The 72-year-old Force beat Robert Hight, Ron Capps and Mike McIntire Jr. in the final with a 3.914-second run at 328.66 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro SS.

3:50 PM ET Associated Press Rinus VeeKay led an upset in IndyCar qualifying to position himself to race for the win at Barber Motorsports Park. The Dutchman was the surprise pole winner for Sunday’s race following a qualifying session that saw most of IndyCar’s top names fail to advance through the rounds. Alexander Rossi and

7:34 PM ET ESPN News Services CONCORD, N.C. — John Force topped Funny Car qualifying Saturday with his zMAX Dragway-record run Friday night in the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. The 72-year-old Force, a 16-time Funny Car season champion, had a 3.850-second pass at 334.24 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro, eclipsing the track record of

1:52 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Chris Buescher was the surprise pole winner Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway, turning a lap of 160.149 mph to win his first career top spot. The RFK Racing driver will be joined on the front row by Denny Hamlin, who was ordered this week by NASCAR to

6:28 AM ET All-electric racing series Formula E has launched a new net carbon zero car to compete its 2022-23 season. The triangle-shaped ‘gen 3’ car will increase the top speed of Formula E’s racers to 200 m/ph (320 km/h). It will feature two different powertrains, one at the front and one at the rear,

3:56 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has downplayed speculation he is unhappy with Formula One, posting to Instagram that he will be the one to decide when his “masterpiece” is finished. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has endured a difficult start to the new season with Mercedes. After scoring a podium at the opening race in Bahrain,

4:10 AM ET Formula One race directors Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich have both tested positive for COVID-19, raising questions about who will take charge of next week’s inaugural Miami Grand Prix, British media reported on Wednesday. A well-placed source confirmed to Reuters that the news, first reported by the Daily Telegraph and Sky Sports

3:10 PM ET Formula One’s 46-year wait for a woman driver is likely to continue for some years but next week’s Miami Grand Prix could be a significant springboard for the all-female W Series, according to founder Catherine Bond Muir. The single-seater championship, which uses F3 cars and partnered with Formula One in 2021, has

7:26 AM ET Associated Press HOBART, Australia — A 59-year-old driver was killed in a crash at the Targa Tasmania rally Wednesday, a year after three competitors died in the annual race. The Australian man and a female passenger were in a 1989 Porsche 944 S2 when it crashed over an embankment on a closed

3:26 PM ET Formula One teams agreed to double the number of sprint races to six in 2023 in a meeting on Tuesday, but formal approval was stalled by the FIA who called for a further evaluation. The world governing body said in a statement that the proposal was to use the same format as

6:10 PM ET Associated Press Roger Penske has tweaked qualifying for next month’s Indianapolis 500 to add a shootout that will determine the first four starting rows for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Penske told The Associated Press the tweaks will create a high-pressure atmosphere on the second day of qualifying. “We’re going to have

12:28 PM ET As Lewis Hamilton crossed the line in 13th place at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff issued an apology to his driver over the pit-to-car radio. “Lewis, sorry for what you have needed to drive today,” Wolff said. “This is undriveable and not what we deserve to score

6:27 AM ET IMOLA, Italy — Red Bull boss Christian Horner labelled the team’s one-two finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix one of its best ever performances in Formula One. Red Bull arrived in Imola with a string of reliability issues at recent races which had looked like a serious early threat to its

12:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Ferrari will be reluctant to admit it, but the pressure ratchets up when it races on home soil. The expectations of victory are always significantly multiplied in Italy and the cost of mistakes become massively amplified. It’s a pressure no other team in F1 faces. Individual drivers may feel

9:03 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Houston native Erica Enders closed Houston Raceway Park with a victory, beating Camrie Caruso on Sunday in the final NHRA SpringNationals in the first all-woman final in NHRA Pro Stock history. Enders had a 6.568-second pass at 210.24 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro for her third victory

1:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Toto Wolff said Mercedes has not produced a car worthy of Lewis Hamilton’s status as a seven-time world champion after seeing him get lapped by Max Verstappen and finish 13th at Imola. In one of the most ordinary displays of his illustrious career, Hamilton found himself stuck behind AlphaTauri’s

1:40 PM ET IMOLA, Italy – Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc‘s late battle for victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix’s sprint race was the icing on the cake for Formula One boss Ross Brawn, who is already planning to roll out the format at twice as many races in 2023. Imola’s race is the

8:54 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Steve Torrence took the No. 1 spot in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday at the final NHRA SpringNationals, moving past Brittany Force at Houston Raceway Park. The track that hosted its first national event in 1988 is closing after the event to make room for Katoen Natie’s expanding