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Nov 12, 2024, 10:09 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula One will sell tickets to an unprecedented 2025 season launch event featuring all the teams and drivers at London’s O2 Arena on Feb. 18 as the world championship celebrates its 75th anniversary year. Formula One said in a statement on Tuesday that tickets would go

Nov 12, 2024, 12:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dan Fallows is leaving his role as Aston Martin technical director this month but will stay within the group, the Silverstone-based Formula 1 team said on Tuesday. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Fallows joined from Red Bull, where he was in charge of aerodynamics, in 2022 but

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 11, 2024, 02:21 PM 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 Joey Logano took home his third NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday in Phoenix. Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Legitimacy (li-jit-uh-muh-see) noun. The state

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 8, 2024, 11:15 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 One of Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick and William Byron will be crowned 2024 NASCAR Cup Series champion on Sunday in

Keith Jenkins Nov 7, 2024, 02:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula One awards a world drivers’ championship and a world constructors’ championship at the end of each season. The drivers’ title is presented to the top competitor behind the wheel, while the constructors’ championship is given to the top team. Lewis Hamilton and Michael

Open Extended Reactions George Russell is head of the Grand Prix Drivers Association. Dan Istitene – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Formula 1’s drivers have called on the governing FIA and its president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to treat them like adults amid the ongoing controversy around Max Verstappen’s community service order for foul language. The

Nov 7, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sauber Motorsport chairman and Audi chief executive Gernot Dollner has said the team’s signing of 20-year-old driver Gabriel Bortoleto is a sign of a “generational shift” in Formula 1. The addition of Bortoleto to the grid means at least a fifth of the 20 F1 drivers

Keith Jenkins Nov 6, 2024, 02:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula 1‘s inaugural season was in 1950. The premier class in open-wheel single-seat racing has crowned a world champion driver every year since. Since 1958, F1 has also crowned a championship team each year with its constructors’ title. Below is a list of every

Open Extended Reactions Max Verstappen leads Lando Norris by 62 points going into the final three races of the season. Getty Max Verstappen‘s incredible win at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix moved him to the brink of a fourth consecutive Formula 1 title. The victory extended his lead to 62 points over Lando Norris with three

Nov 6, 2024, 03:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sauber have confirmed Brazil’s Gabriel Bortoleto will drive in 2025 alongside Nico Hulkenberg as the team prepares to transition to Audi for 2026. The team announced on Wednesday Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will leave at the end of the season. Sao Paulo’s Bortoleto joins from

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 3, 2024, 03:05 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO — Lando Norris said luck played an important role in the outcome of the Brazilian Grand Prix after his title rival Max Verstappen took a remarkable victory from 17th on

Open Extended Reactions Max Verstappen is on the brink of a fourth world championship title. Mark Thompson/Getty Images Max Verstappen’s incredible win at the Brazil Grand Prix was singled out for praise by Formula 1’s multiple world champions, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. Verstappen underlined his credentials as a master of the rain in Sao Paulo,

Nov 4, 2024, 09:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Williams boss James Vowles said he was “hurting” after the Formula 1 team suffered three costly crashes in Brazil on Sunday and dropped a place in the constructors’ world championship. Franco Colapinto and Alex Albon both crashed in qualifying at Interlagos, postponed from Saturday, with the

Open Extended Reactions Childhood friends Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly both agreed it was a “beautiful story” to score a double podium for the Alpine team in Brazil. Ocon and Gasly mastered the conditions at Interlagos to finish behind winner Max Verstappen, Alpine’s first double podium finish since Renault returned to the sport in 2017.

Nov 4, 2024, 12:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions McLaren have said their priority is to win the Formula 1 constructors’ title after Lando Norris‘s challenge for the drivers’ crown was all but ended in Brazil at the weekend. “The constructors’ championship was always our priority, so this doesn’t change anything,” team boss Andrea Stella

Niamh Lewis Nov 3, 2024, 04:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Max Verstappen celebrates a stunning drive in heavy rain with Red Bull. Mark Thompson/Getty Images Max Verstappen said he “surprised himself” with his superb drive in the rain from 17th on the grid to win the Brazilian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver is a

Nov 3, 2024, 04:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finished second and third respectively. Peter Fox – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Alpine hit a possible $50-million jackpot in Brazil on Sunday with French pair Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finishing second and third respectively to rescue the Renault-owned Formula

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 1, 2024, 04:15 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Charles Leclerc has been summoned to the stewards over his use of language in a post-race press conference at the Mexico Grand Prix. The summons comes after Max Verstappen was given F1’s

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 2, 2024, 01:18 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO — Max Verstappen has been demoted from third place to fourth in the final classification of Saturday’s Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race after he was found to be in breach

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 2, 2024, 03:31 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO — Qualifying for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix has been rescheduled to take place at 7:30 a.m. local time on Sunday due to heavy rain at the Interlagos circuit in Sao

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 2, 2024, 11:58 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Lando Norris said he took no pride in winning Saturday’s sprint race at the Brazilian Grand Prix after McLaren ordered teammate Oscar Piastri to move out of the lead with two laps

Nov 1, 2024, 06:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Kevin Magnussen will miss the Sao Paulo Grand Prix due to sicknesss with Britain’s Oliver Bearman replacing the Dane for the whole weekend, the Haas Formula 1 team said on Friday. Bearman was in impressive form in Friday practice, lapping third fastest, and sprint qualifying at

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 1, 2024, 07:06 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO — Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has been fined €10,000 — half of which will be suspended for a year — for swearing during a post-race press conference in Mexico. The

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 1, 2024, 11:33 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO — Championship leader Max Verstappen will face a five-place grid penalty at Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix after a sixth engine was fitted to his Red Bull for the season. Verstappen

Oct 31, 2024, 06:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Max Verstappen’s driving style has been heavily criticised of late but Lewis Hamilton said little had changed since they fought for the title down to the last lap of the 2021 Formula 1 season. Red Bull’s reigning champion, who denied Hamilton an eighth title in a

Kelly Crandall Oct 31, 2024, 03:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Kevin Harvick, left, and co-owner Tony Stewart won Stewart-Haas Racing its two NASCAR Cup Series championships in 2011 and 2014. Chris Graythen/Getty Images Rodney Childers hardly goes down into the basement of his North Carolina home. The basement is where you’ll instead find his teenage

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorOct 31, 2024, 11:30 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SAO PAULO, Brazil — RB driver Liam Lawson says he learned lessons from his collision with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez at the Mexico Grand Prix, but will not change his overall approach

Oct 30, 2024, 05:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions McLaren have told Lando Norris he has no need to change the way he drives in the Formula 1 title battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, according to team boss Andrea Stella. The Briton, often his own harshest critic, had told reporters before Sunday’s Mexico City

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorOct 30, 2024, 12:47 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Fernando Alonso has an intestinal infection. Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso will miss his second media day in as many weeks on Thursday after receiving specialist treatment

Oct 30, 2024, 11:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Ferrari strategy head Inaki Rueda has joined the Sauber team as sporting director in a move that reunites the Spaniard with his former boss Mattia Binotto. Sauber, who will become the Audi factory team in 2026, announced the news on Wednesday ahead of the Brazilian