Motorsport

Dec 15, 2024, 11:42 AM ET Abbi Pulling still has a long road ahead to reach Formula 1 after winning the all-women’s F1 Academy title, but it remains the target and she believes time is on her side. Part of the Renault-owned Alpine F1 team’s academy, the 21-year-old Briton will have a fully funded seat with Rodin Motorsport in Britain’s…

Max Verstappen clinched the drivers’ championship with two rounds to spare this year. It was a much closer contest than last season. Verstappen claimed the 2023 title by winning 19 of the 22 grands prix. Red Bull were only beaten once that season, and it was clear anyone not in an RB19 was never going to win the title that…

Formula E’s 2024-25 season started with a remarkable last-to-first victory for Jaguar’s Mitch Evans, who didn’t even manage to set a qualifying time yet emerged on top in a wild race. No one has ever won an FE race from last on the grid before, but does it rank as the best through-the-field drive in series’ history? Here’s Sam Smith’s…

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez turned up at the team’s base at Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom with a special gift for their employees. He presented them with 2,000 bottles of tequila as part of a promotion for a sponsor. Can you come up with the best caption for this picture? Post your funniest suggestion in the comments below….

BRS working president and Sircilla MLA KT Rama Rao HYDERABAD: Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has given permission to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for the prosecution of BRS working president and Sircilla MLA KT Rama Rao in connection with allegations of financial irregularities in the conduct of Formula E races in Hyderabad.According to sources, Raj Bhavan gave the nod on the…

Dec 13, 2024, 07:07 PM ET Red Bull driver Max Verstappen collected the Formula 1 champion’s trophy for the fourth year in a row at an awards ceremony held in Africa for the first time on Friday. The 27-year-old was handed the trophy in Kigali, Rwanda by International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Mohammed Ben Sulayem alongside Rwandan President Paul Kagame,…

Pascal Wehrlein has for the first time shared his view of the accident that left him upside-down in his Porsche and the Sao Paulo E-Prix stopped as a result last Saturday. The reigning champion detailed to The Race today how he feared he might get struck by another competitor whilst inverted and that he “just wanted to get out of…

Dec 13, 2024, 11:21 AM ET Mohammed Ben Sulayem is president of the FIA. Getty Formula 1’s governing body approved statute changes on Friday that critics say will limit the powers of audit and ethics committees. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said the revisions were approved at its general assembly in Kigali ahead of a gala awards ceremony for the year’s…

“I saw him for about two corners and then I was trying to spot him but then I was like, ‘S***, he’s in the lead. This thing is powerful.’” Mitch Evans’s victory from last on the grid in the Formula E Sao Paulo E-Prix season-opener last weekend was certainly a surprise to the Kiwi, his Jaguar team and many others,…

As the 2024 season neared its end, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner admitted his decision to hand Sergio Perez an early contract extension in June “obviously didn’t work.” Having been comprehensively beaten by team mate Max Verstappen for much of 2023, their third season alongside each other, Perez got his 2024 campaign off to a promising start. But his…

Dec 12, 2024, 11:54 AM ET Eddie Jordan was a team owner between 1991 and 2005. He has since been a television pundit and manager. Clive Rose/Getty Images Former Formula One boss Eddie Jordan spoke on Thursday of going through “very dark days” after being diagnosed with prostate and bladder cancer earlier this year. The 76-year-old’s Silverstone-based team competed from 1991…

While its Formula 1 team was earning its first constructors’ title in 26 years last weekend, McLaren’s Formula E arm was celebrating a landmark result which put it on top of the teams’ standings of the all-electric series for the first time. Not since Mercedes — whose operation was coincidentally absorbed by NEOM McLaren following its exit — in 2021…

Dec 12, 2024, 09:22 AM ET Ryan Blaney spends his offseasons by switching off the competitive part of his personality. James Gilbert/Getty Images Ryan Blaney gets lazy. Brad Keselowski takes more chances. Hendrick Motorsports drivers get right back down to business. There is no one-size-fits-all template for navigating a NASCAR winter, but many agree that it looks much different from what…

Formula E has launched a strategic partnership with More than Equal as it seeks to reduce barriers to entry in motorsport. Confirmed: Formula E and More than Equal have commissioned research to understand the barriers faced by women to race full-time in the series US$250,000 to be split equally between Red Bull’s Wings For Life charity and strategic research partnership…

The 2024 Formula 1 season became so close and competitive it was hard to remember that after the first race it seemed little had changed following a year of Red Bull dominance. “Business as usual” ran our headline after the Bahrain Grand Prix, where Max Verstappen cruised to victory, the nearest non-Red Bull 25 seconds adrift. Few thought his closest…

Jeff Dodds, CEO of Formula E, was confident that Max Verstappen would be the Formula 1 champion in 2024. In fact, he even wagered that if a driver could beat the Dutchman to the title in 2024 he would donate $250,000 to said driver’s charity of choice. While Lando Norris briefly seemed to be in contention for the championship, Verstappen eventually came out…

The FIA has revealed new images showing how Formula 1 cars could look in 2026, following changes to its planned overhaul of the regulations. With teams able to start work on the 2026 chassis from the first day of next month, the FIA is finalising the details of its first change to both the power unit and chassis regulations since…

Three weeks ago, Jaguar sent shockwaves through the automotive world when it teased its reinvention with a controversial video showcasing its rebrand. The conversation continued last week with the unveiling of the Type 00 concept car, which perhaps presented more questions than answers, but as the Formula E season got underway in Sao Paulo last week, there was an air…

Published: December 4, 2024 This year’s SEMA show featured seemingly thousands of new products from hundreds of tire and automotive aftermarket companies across the industry. I’m sure you were overwhelmed and inundated with all the new additions – whether that be tires or aftermarket parts like TPMS sensors.  Speaking of TPMS, we had the opportunity to chat with the leadership…