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Feb 19, 2025, 08:19 AM ET Lewis Hamilton completed his first laps in Ferrari’s new 2025 car on Wednesday as the seven-time Formula 1 world champion continued his preparation for a huge season in red. Hamilton, a marquee signing from rivals Mercedes, had already driven some of Ferrari’s older machines leading up to the Maranello shakedown but Wednesday provided crucial…

Ferrari has revealed its new car for the 2025 season. While the team presented its new livery at Formula 1’s official pre-season launch event, it also issued images of the 2025 car, which is due to be presented tomorrow. The most striking change to the SF-25 is at the front of the car. Ferrari’s design team, led by Loic Serra,…

Formula 1 has finally achieved its long-held goal of holding a single pre-season launch event attended by all the teams. F1 75 Live was held at The O2 arena in London and broadcast on a free live stream worldwide. All 10 teams participated, each of which presented its livery for the upcoming season. Some, like Ferrari and Haas, also used…

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Laurence EdmondsonFeb 18, 2025, 08:25 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 LONDON — Tuesday marked something brand new for Formula 1. For the first time ever, the series hosted all ten teams in one place, on one night, putting on a launch event that would appeal to every F1 fan on the planet…

Last year’s constructors’ champions McLaren have presented the livery they will race with during the upcoming season. McLaren revealed its new car, with which it will attempt to defend their title, in a one-off testing livery at Silverstone last week. The team showed off its definitive paint scheme at Formula 1’s official launch event for the 2025 season in London….

Last weekend, the FIA may have set a precedent that Max Verstappen and his fellow competitors in Formula 1 could well benefit from. The stewards in Formula E – an FIA sanctioned championship – let Dan Ticktum’s vulgar shouting match over the onboard radio go unpunished. That’s a big difference with Verstappen, who was severely punished by the FIA stewards…

Feb 18, 2025, 11:16 AM ET George Russell has not spoken to Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen since their end-of-season bust-up in Abu Dhabi last December and the Mercedes driver said on Tuesday he was not about to change his approach either. Russell and Red Bull’s four-time champion traded accusations last year, with Verstappen saying he had lost respect for…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why Idris Elba believes in Formula E The investment group The ABB Formula E FIA World Championship‘s newest team announced that it had expanded its ownership to a group of high-profile, highly strategic investors, including Gold Globe-winning actor, producer, and rapper Idris Elba. Based in Los Angeles, California, Kiro Race Co has partnered with…

“It could be an absolute s***show” was a phrase uttered more than once in the Jeddah Corniche Circuit’s paddock last weekend, and not just because the decision had been taken to add a surplus of chicanes to the truncated layout ahead of Formula E’s debut. After more than two years of development and thousands of individual tests, the Pit Boost…

LONDON — Alpine rookie Jack Doohan has shrugged off suggestions he will be replaced by Franco Colapinto during the coming season. Doohan’s future in F1 has been immediately complicated by the arrival of the Argentine, who has joined on loan from Williams as reserve driver. Reports in Argentina have suggested a swap could happen as early as May’s Miami Grand…

Oliver Rowland has said his Nissan Formula E Team are “gelling in a good way,” after the Brit cemented his title credentials with a commanding victory in Race 2 of the Jeddah E-Prix. Starting from second, Rowland played a team strategy perfectly, using his Attack Modes well to overcome the challenge of NEOM McLaren’s Taylor Barnard to claim his second…

Georgina Rodriguez took her job seriously at the Formula E event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. The longtime partner of Cristiano Ronaldo headed to the championship to wave the checkered flag during the race. Prior though, she visited the pit lane and met Porsche driver Antonio Felix de Costa. Rodriguez opted to look the part in head-to-toe leather. For…

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Rafael Villagomez completes Van Amersfoort Racing’s 2025 FIA Formula 2 line-up (Van Amersfoort) ‘Van Amersfoort Racing (VAR) is pleased to announce that Rafael Villagomez will continue with the team for the 2025 FIA Formula 2 season, marking his second campaign in the Championship. The Mexican driver will race…

Motorsport enthusiast Georgina Rodríguez made a dazzling appearance at the Formula E World Championship in Saudi Arabia last Friday. The model, influencer, and partner of Cristiano Ronaldo captured the attention by waving the iconic checkered flag during the thrilling final lap of the race. © LAT ImagesGeorgina Rodríguez waves the checkered flag at Formula E Saudi Arabia, adding glamour to…

Hyderabad: Nearly two months after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) filed an FIR over the alleged illegal transfer of 55 crore in the Formula E racing case, officials on Monday questioned the management of UK-based Formula E Operations (FEO).The inquiry was conducted virtually, with ACB officials speaking to senior FEO management online. While FEO has not been named as an accused,…

Feb 17, 2025, 12:29 PM ET The family of Michael Schumacher has lodged an appeal against a “far too lenient sentence” for one of the defendants found guilty in a blackmail plot. Last week, a German court found three people guilty of trying to extract money from the Formula 1 legend’s family with the threat of releasing videos and photos…

Doyen of the rant and occasional lord and master of hair-trigger, high-comedy vitriol, Dan Ticktum issued a full-on medley of fury as Formula E made its Jeddah race debut last Friday. The whole publicly available conversation was displayed in all its technicolour sweary glory and, by the power of AI, in black and white transcription too. And it was up…

Haas provided what might be the first glimpse of an official 2025 livery at a rollout event of its new car at Silverstone on Sunday. Haas broke in its new car for the first time at the home of the British Grand Prix in wet conditions. As McLaren and Williams had done earlier in the week, Haas used one of…