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2:31 AM ET Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time Formula One world champion Michael, will double up as a Ferrari reserve driver next season while also having a regular race seat at U.S.-owned Haas. Team boss Mattia Binotto told reporters that the 22-year-old German would be available to stand in at 11 of the record

12:16 PM ET Canadian Nicholas Latifi spoke out on Tuesday after receiving death threats and online abuse over a crash at the Dec. 12 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that led to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen winning the Formula One title and Lewis Hamilton missing out. The Williams driver brought out the safety car late in

10:57 AM ET Paralympic champion and former racing driver Alex Zanardi has left hospital following injuries sustained in a handbike accident 18 months ago. Former F1 driver and Champ Car champion Zanardi suffered a severe head injury in a collision with a truck during the Obiettivo Tricolore handbike race in June 2020. Since then he

5:59 AM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen collected his Formula One world champion’s trophy at a gala awards ceremony on Thursday and looked forward to fighting seven times title-holder Lewis Hamilton again next season. His Mercedes rival, beaten this year on the last lap of the last race, did not attend the event at the

7:48 AM ET Mohammed Ben Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to Jean Todt as the first non-European president of motorsport’s world governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said on Friday. The 60-year-old Dubai-born former rally driver was standing against British lawyer Graham Stoker, who has been Todt’s deputy president

6:42 AM ET PARIS, France — Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff will not attend the FIA’s prize giving ceremony in Paris on Thursday evening, Wolff confirmed. The decision not to attend comes in the wake of Mercedes’ decision not to appeal the result of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which saw

8:16 AM ET Toto Wolff suggested he is unsure whether Lewis Hamilton will continue racing in Formula One as the seven-time champion is “disillusioned” with how he lost this year’s title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton was denied a record eighth championship on the final lap of the race amid a controversial finish

8:24 AM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he has no desire to talk to the FIA’s race director Michael Masi, saying his values and sense of integrity are not “compatible” with the decisions taken by Masi at the title deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi’s role in Max Verstappen’s championship victory over Mercedes

9:55 AM ET Associated Press Jimmie Johnson will enter the Indianapolis 500 next year and run a full IndyCar schedule. The seven-time NASCAR champion had been speeding toward the Indy 500 decision he finally announced Wednesday since he moved to IndyCar earlier this year. Johnson ran only the road and street courses in his first

3:06 PM ET The FIA has agreed to conduct a detailed analysis of the events that led up to Max Verstappen being crowned world champion at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix amid concerns the sport is being tarnished by “misunderstandings” and “arguments”. The ending of a safety car period one lap from the end of

12:55 PM ET New Formula One world champion Max Verstappen said Mercedes are not as gracious in defeat as his Red Bull team. Verstappen claimed the title in dramatic fashion at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, passing Lewis Hamilton on the final lap to win. 2 Related The circumstances around the finish are controversial and

2:13 PM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — NASCAR champion Kyle Larson‘s first Formula One race was the season finale, and he is as conflicted as anyone over the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap Sunday to win the title, but

2:52 PM ET Associated Press James Hinchcliffe, one of IndyCar’s most popular drivers, said Tuesday that he is stepping away from full-time racing in the series. The Canadian driver said he is not retiring and will explore other types of racing. Andretti Autosport did not renew his contract for next year. “With a decade-plus of

11:23 AM ET ABU DHABI — Dressed in a t-shirt proudly pronouncing Max Verstappen as the 2021 world champion, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner marched towards the stewards’ office on Sunday night to defend the very slogan stamped across his chest. Just four hours earlier, Horner had stood on the Abu Dhabi podium celebrating

10:13 PM ET EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Dec. 24, 2020. Since then, Bubba Wallace earned his first career Cup win — making him the first Black driver to win a Cup Series race since 1963. That win came on Oct. 4, 2021, at Talladega, the same track that what was believed to

1:17 PM ET Formula One world champion Max Verstappen took stock of his new status on Monday and revealed that Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, despite threatening to appeal, had texted his congratulations. The 24-year-old handed Red Bull their first title since 2013 in Abu Dhabi on Sunday when he overtook Mercedes’ seven times world

6:02 AM ET Williams driver Nicholas Latifi has apologised and said it was not his intention to play such a major role in deciding the outcome of the F1 championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Latifi’s crash on lap 52 of 58 was the spark for the safety car which changed the

3:01 PM ET Bethan Clargo In a season full of drama and controversy, it almost feels fitting the championship title was decided on the final lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton entered the race level on points — a feat that has only happened once before in the sport’s

1:41 PM ET It quickly became clear at the start of the year that Mercedes would not have an easy ride to the title in 2021. After seven years of facing no serious competition for either the drivers’ or the constructors’ title, the reigning world champions were suddenly on the back foot. Red Bull emerged

4:06 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Haas driver Nikita Mazepin will miss the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi after testing positive for COVID-19. Mazepin, who was due to start from last place on the grid, is asymptomatic but the timing of the positive test result means he will not

11:41 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Max Verstappen’s pole position lap at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was “insane” and one of the best he’s had, said Red Bull boss Christian Horner. Verstappen put himself in the perfect position to win his first world championship on Sunday, out-qualifying title rival Lewis Hamilton

1:20 PM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will start alongside each other on the front of the grid at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Any other front row would not have seemed right ahead of Sunday’s winner-takes-all showdown, and given the performance of the two title rivals

6:18 AM ET Australian Oscar Piastri won the Formula Two title in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, his third successive crown on the road to Formula One, but the Alpine Academy driver will have to wait to take the next big step. The 20-year-old Melbourne-born driver went from 10th to third for the Prema team in

7:42 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Dale Coyne Racing and Vasser Sullivan Racing announced Friday they will end their IndyCar Series partnership. The two teams had worked together for the past four seasons. Coyne’s team issued a statement acknowledging Vasser Sullivan wanted to focus on its sports car entries, though the Vasser Sullivan team

12:00 PM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff and his Red Bull rival Christian Horner put on a display of sportsmanship ahead of the Formula One title showdown at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, after months of trading bitter barbs. Facing the media with the constructors’ championship trophy between them, the pair shook hands

5:58 AM ET ESPN News Services Al Unser Sr., a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and three-time champion in what is now the IndyCar Series, Thursday following a long illness. He was 82. Indianapolis Motor Speedway said early Friday that Unser died at his home in Chama, New Mexico, with his wife, Susan, by

9:30 AM ET ABU DHABI – Max Verstappen said his opinion of Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes team has gone down during their championship fight in 2021. Verstappen and Hamilton have collided on track three times this season and go into the final race of the year, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, level on points.

11:50 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato will drive for Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware next season in a deal announced Thursday that keeps the popular driver from Japan in the IndyCar Series at least another year. Sato has 12 years of IndyCar experience with 198 starts and

6:52 AM ET Mercedes have agreed to end a sponsorship deal with insulation firm Kingspan, it was announced on Wednesday, amid a backlash about the Irish company’s link to Britain’s 2017 Grenfell Tower fire. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire last week called for Lewis Hamilton’s team to reconsider a sponsorship deal due to Kingspan’s

7:00 AM ET At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this Sunday, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen will look to emerge victorious from one of the most dramatic championship contests Formula One has ever seen. It’s been incredible, it’s been unpredictable and it’s been controversial. It might sound clichéd, but if you were to make a