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12:25 PM ET ESPN News Services DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 on Sunday will take place before a sold-out crowd, NASCAR announced Tuesday. Daytona International Speedway is back to full capacity a year after the pandemic roughly limited attendance to 30,000 fans inside the sprawling facility that usually packs more than 100,000 NASCAR

1:01 PM ET Williams driver Nicholas Latifi was so worried about the death threats he received after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he hired bodyguards to protect him and his girlfriend. Latifi’s crash in the closing stages of the Abu Dhabi title decider brought out the safety car which ultimately cost Lewis Hamilton the championship,

11:54 AM ET In the coming days, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will present the governing body’s response to the events of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after promising “structural changes” and an “action plan” in a statement on Monday. Formula One team bosses met with Ben Sulayem in London on Monday to discuss

12:15 PM ET Formula One will have three qualifying sprint races in 2022 with points now given out to the top eight rather than just the top three, it was confirmed at Monday’s F1 Commission. The revised weekend format with qualifying on a Friday evening, a sprint race on Saturday and the main race on

6:22 AM ET AlphaTauri has become the latest F1 team to reveal images of its new car, the AT03, ahead the 2022 Formula One season. The Red Bull-owned team released the first digital renders of its new car on Monday following an online video launch on Scuderia AlphaTauri’s YouTube channel. The car will be driven

3:42 PM ET WOKING, England — McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo said F1 race director Michael Masi needs support in his role to avoid a repeat of the farcical finish to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi’s future in the job is currently in question after he botched the finish of the title decider between Max Verstappen

4:02 PM ET WOKING, U.K — Daniel Ricciardo probably had the best view of anyone in the world of Max Verstappen’s title-winning pass — and the defensive moves which followed — on Lewis Hamilton at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ricciardo was sat in the next car back. Controversially, in fact. Ricciardo’s very presence

2:33 PM ET WOKING, United Kingdom — McLaren has launched its new car for the upcoming Formula One season. The team’s drivers, Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris, took the covers off the McLaren MCL36 at a launch event at the team’s factory on Friday evening. The new McLaren, which has been built to F1’s overhauled

9:25 AM ET Aston Martin has launched its 2022 Formula One car, the AMR22, which will be driven by Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll this year. The team made clear that the car it revealed on Thursday is the actual car that will race this year, making it the first genuine look at a car

9:46 AM ET Sebastian Vettel was surprised to hear Formula One has removed the pre-race ceremony which allowed drivers to take a knee before races, saying the gesture “was getting a bit too strong for the business side of things”. F1 launched the ‘We Race As One’ initiative in 2020 in solidarity with the anti-racism

10:20 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has defended FIA race director Michael Masi and said the Australian deserves to keep his job despite botching the finish of last year’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi implemented the rules incorrectly to force a one-lap sprint race in Abu Dhabi, which helped Max Verstappen overtake Lewis Hamilton to

10:15 AM ET Red Bull’s Sergio Perez says he wouldn’t be racing in Formula One if he didn’t think he could beat his teammate and the reigning world champion Max Verstappen in a straight fight. After racing for midfield teams for ten years, Perez joined front runners Red Bull in 2021 and was partnered with

2:48 PM ET Associated Press The Red Bull Formula One team has secured a new title sponsorship worth around $500 million with technology firm Oracle, placing it among the most lucrative commercial deals in sports. The five-year deal is a lift to the team ahead of the season beginning next month when Max Verstappen will

11:02 AM ET Red Bull has launched the car that Max Verstappen will use in his title defence this year. Images of the car and its new livery leaked on social media shortly before the official launch video was aired across various online platforms, including Red Bull Racing’s YouTube account. The Red Bull RB18 in

10:22 AM ET Lando Norris will stay with McLaren until at least the end of the 2025 season after extending his contract with the Formula One team. Norris is one of F1’s most exciting and popular young talents. He debuted with McLaren in 2019 and enjoyed a standout 2021 season, in which he had four

10:00 AM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Formula One, Lego and McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris are teaming up for an extremely cool Lego set. If you’re anything like me (sorry if you are), you spent a significant portion of your childhood putting together Lego

10:00 AM ET A new racing team owned by former Olympic gold medal winner and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner will compete in the 2022 W Series, the all-female motor racing championship said on Tuesday. American Jenner, a former professional racing driver, will be the team principal overseeing the day-to-day running of the Jenner Racing team.

1:22 PM ET Associated Press The father-son tandem of Petter and Oliver Solberg beat the surprisingly competitive American team of Colton Herta and Jimmie Johnson on the the frozen Baltic Sea to win the Race of Champions Nations Cup. Team Norway was led Saturday by 47-year-old Petter Solberg, the 2003 World Rally champion and two-time

5:57 AM ET Haas has become the first Formula One team to release images of its 2022 car ahead of the upcoming season. Built to the sport’s new technical regulations, the Haas VF22 is a dramatic departure from last year’s car with all new design concepts mandated by F1 and the FIA to improve wheel-to-wheel

7:31 AM ET “The Colosseum. Oh, you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans. Watching every movement of your sword. Willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike. And the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like … like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.” —

11:15 AM ET Haas team boss Guenther Steiner expressed doubt about whether Formula One’s plan to host six sprint races in 2022 would go ahead, with the top teams demanding an increase in the sport’s cost cap. Formula One trialled the sprint-race format at three events last year, with qualifying brought forward a day to

4:34 AM ET Red Bull has announced it will launch its new car, the RB18, on February 9. Max Verstappen won last year’s drivers’ championship with Red Bull and remains at the team alongside teammate Sergio Perez this year. Verstappen will defend his title with the No.1 on his car this season. 1 Related Although

10:21 AM ET Alpine has announced a restructuring of its technical department following the departure of executive director Marcin Budkowski last month. Pat Fry has been promoted to Chief Technical Officer and will be in charge of all major decisions from a technical point of view while his former role as technical director will be

4:34 AM ET Red Bull has announced it will launch its new car, the RB18, on February 9. Max Verstappen won last year’s drivers’ championship with Red Bull and remains at the team alongside teammate Sergio Perez this year. Verstappen will defend his title with the No.1 on his car this season. 1 Related New

1:15 PM ET Eric GomezMexico writer British driver Jamie Chadwick is a two-time champion of the all-female W Series circuit. Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images When Jamie Chadwick first sat behind the wheel of a Formula One car, the moment highlighted both the promise of progress and the historical stagnation of women in one of motorsports’

5:29 AM ET Alfa Romeo’s 2022 Formula One car will not be officially launched until after the opening test of the season, but it will still appear at the three-day session in Barcelona in an interim livery. On Wednesday, Alfa Romeo announced that its new car, the C42, will not launch until February 27, the

9:12 AM ET Formula One will make it mandatory for all personnel working in its paddock to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, without exemption, starting this season, a spokesperson for the sport’s commercial arm said on Monday. The mandate, which was first reported by the Times newspaper and the BBC, will apply to anyone entering

9:50 AM ET Formula One will make it mandatory for all personnel working in its paddock to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, without exemption, starting this season, a spokesperson for the sport’s commercial arm said on Monday. The mandate, which was first reported by the Times newspaper and the BBC, will apply to anyone entering

3:14 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — What a year for Helio Castroneves, the ageless Spider-Man of motorsports. Castroneves climbed the fence for the third time in a calendar year Sunday after earning another crown jewel victory, this time a second consecutive win in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Brazilian closed out

10:19 AM ET Michael Masi, the Formula One race director at the centre of the controversy surrounding last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, could be replaced in his role in 2022, according to an FIA official investigating the matter. Last year’s championship result continues to be a source of controversy in the sport and has