Feb 4, 2025, 03:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions George Russell won the 2024 Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix. Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Las Vegas Grand Prix will start two hours earlier in the 2025 season than it has done previously in a shift likely to boost the U.S. television
Laurence EdmondsonFeb 4, 2025, 11:22 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Sauber’s chief technical officer Mattia Binotto at F1 testing in Abu Dhabi in December. Gongora/NurPhoto via Getty Images In preparation for its relaunch as the Audi F1 team next year, Sauber will open a base
Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton has returned to testing duties for Ferrari in a Pirelli tyre test at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. Hamilton’s blockbuster move to Ferrari has dominated off-season headlines. Last week the seven-time world champion crashed during a private three-day test at the same circuit, while he and new teammate Charles Leclerc were
Feb 2, 2025, 06:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A streamlined Mercedes raced by Formula 1 greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for €51.2 million ($53m). The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in
Jan 31, 2025, 01:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula 1’s governing body is introducing new load tests to ensure bendy front and rear wings are no longer a talking point this season. The FIA said on Friday that the scope of rear wing tests on cars would be increased from the start of the
Associated Press Jan 31, 2025, 01:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tim Cindric, president of Team Penske and Roger Penske’s longtime right-hand man on competition, will step back as the overall leader of the organization but remain president of the IndyCar program. Cindric joined Penske in 1999 and oversaw the operations in
Jan 31, 2025, 02:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ex-racing driver Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as an FIA race steward. Joe Portlock – Formula 1/Formula Motorsport Limited via Getty Images Formula 1’s governing body was right to drop Johnny Herbert as a steward because of the former racer’s media work, according to Red Bull
Kelly Crandall Jan 31, 2025, 10:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time since 1971, Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will host a NASCAR Cup Series race when the Clash takes place there Sunday. Brian A. Westerholt/NASCAR via Getty Images Tim Brown, 53, is finally getting the opportunity to be a NASCAR
Laurence EdmondsonJan 29, 2025, 09:24 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Today, Jan. 29, is day 52 of 98 between the final race of the 2024 Formula 1 season and the first race of the 2025 season. From this point onward, things in the F1
Open Extended Reactions Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as an FIA race steward due to his media work. Joe Portlock – Formula 1/Formula Motorsport Limited via Getty Images Former driver-turned-pundit Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as an FIA race steward for Formula 1 races due to the “incompatible” dual roles he was trying to
Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton crashed during the second day of Ferrari’s private test at the Circuit de Cataunya on Wednesday, a source has told ESPN. Hamilton is understood to have run off the circuit and into the barriers during the private test in Barcelona, which is taking place in a modified version of the
Jan 28, 2025, 01:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The W196 4 is expected to be the second costliest car ever sold at an auction. Getty A sleek, long-nosed Mercedes raced by Stirling Moss and five-times Formula 1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 could become the most expensive grand prix car of all time
Jan 28, 2025, 05:43 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Italian Kimi Antonelli, the 18-year-old rookie replacing seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes this season, has passed his driving test. “Mission completed,” Mercedes posted on its Instagram account, with ticks for both super licence and driving licence, above a photo of Antonelli
Open Extended Reactions Formula 1’s competitive order might be dictated by engine power with the new rule change in 2026, according to new Aston Martin designer Adrian Newey. Newey was poached from Red Bull by Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll as part of the ambition to make the team title contenders under the new regulations.