Max Verstappen became the first Dutchman ever to win the Formula One world championship title when he won a dramatic season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, leaving Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes shell-shocked. Just as it seemed Hamilton was heading for his eighth world title, Verstappen took advantage of a crash by Nicholas Latifi that … Read more
Valentino Rossi, who retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season, test drove an Audi in Spain with the aim of competing in endurance races, the WRT team said on Thursday. “From Tuesday to Thursday of this week, the Belgian team tested at the Ricardo Tormo circuit near Valencia with Audi Sport,” the team … Read more
From the moment that Max Verstappen joined the Red Bull Junior Team in 2014, there was an inevitability that he would one day find himself battling it out to be Formula One world champion. He missed an opportunity in Saudi Arabia last weekend, first when he slammed into the wall during qualifying and then when … Read more
Formula One team Mercedes announced on Wednesday they had ended their controversial sponsorship deal with a firm linked to the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze in London, which killed 72 people. The logo of Kingspan, whose products were used in the building, appeared on Lewis Hamilton’s car at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday. British … Read more
Title challenger Max Verstappen has been bullied by seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team this season, former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has told AFP. Verstappen and Hamilton are tied on points heading into the final Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi on Sunday and Ecclestone believes the pressure of Mercedes’ “psychological game playing” … Read more
Formula One has been built on the box-office drama of bitter, sometimes dangerous, feuds between its most charismatic stars. The battle between seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton and the relative youngster who wants to take his crown, Max Verstappen, boils down to 58 laps in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. From the first-lap crash at the British … Read more
Drug-tainted Kentucky Derby-winner Medina Spirit died suddenly during a workout in California on Monday, officials said. The California Horse Racing Board said in a statement that the three-year-old colt, who is trained by legendary US trainer Bob Baffert, collapsed near the end of a morning workout at Santa Anita Park. “(Medina Spirit) was just completing a workout … Read more
Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of former Formula One champion Emerson Fittipaldi, said on Monday he was grateful to have escaped a serious crash with just a broken heel bone, vowing to be “back on track soon.” Fittipaldi, 20, smashed into French driver Theo Pourchaire’s stalled ART car at the start of the Formula 2 race in … Read more
French racehorse trainer Cedric Rossi who trained Sealiway to win one of English racing’s most prestigious races in October was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of doping horses, a source close to the investigation told AFP. Rossi’s uncle Frederic and brother Charley — both fellow trainers — were also among those arrested by the police branch … Read more
Max Verstappen was handed a five-second penalty for a controversial move on championship rival Lewis Hamilton in a chaotic Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday. The penalty came after the two drivers collided with each other late in the race with the incident to be fully investigated by the marshals after the race. Mercedes’ world … Read more
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton lashed out at title rival Max Verstappen after Sunday’s gripping Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, describing the Dutchman as “over the limit”. Mercedes driver Hamilton won a dramatic race under lights on the Jeddah street circuit but only after several close run-ins with Red Bull’s Verstappen. “I really had to try … Read more
Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of former Formula One world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, was airlifted to hospital after a serious crash at the start of the Formula 2 race in Jeddah, the FIA said on Sunday. French driver Theo Pourchaire, 18, who was also taken to hospital, was involved in the accident which happened when his ART … Read more
Lewis Hamilton snatched pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Saturday as championship leader Max Verstappen smashed into a wall and could only manage third place. Verstappen’s hopes were extinguished when his Red Bull speared into the barriers at the exit of the last bend on his final flying lap on the tight, … Read more
Lewis Hamilton will bid to keep alive his hopes of a historic eighth Formula One world title at the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend, powered by the new engine that aided his remarkable triumph in Brazil. After consecutive victories in Sao Paulo and Qatar, Mercedes’ defending champion seeks to complete a hat-trick, or … Read more
Williams’ Team Principal Jost Capito has tested positive for Covid before travelling to Jeddah for this weekend’s Saudi Arabia Grand Prix, the British Formula One outfit announced Thursday. “Jost is now following UK national health authority guidelines,” the team said in a statement. “There has been no wider impact on Williams Racing personnel and the team will … Read more
Norwegian 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm and Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah were named the World Athletes of the Year on Wednesday. Warholm received the award for smashing the 29-year-old world record in winning the Tokyo Olympics final in a sensational time of 45.94sec. His performance is widely considered one of the greatest Olympic track performances of … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s debut Formula One race will showcase the country to the world, its motorsports chief told AFP, hitting back at criticism over human rights and calls for singer Justin Bieber to cancel his headline act. The newly built venue in Jeddah is all but completed ahead of Sunday’s night race, Prince Khalid bin Sultan … Read more
The Dakar rally will be raced across the daunting deserts of Saudi Arabia again in 2022 with organisers on Sunday revealing the full route that exploits the depths of the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter). The January 1-14 endurance test will be a third Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia, a country accused by the international … Read more
Frank Williams, the founder of Formula One outfit Williams Racing, has died at the age of 79, the team announced on Sunday. The team won the F1 drivers’ title seven times and the constructors’ championship on nine occasions under Williams’ stewardship, although the most recent triumphs came in 1997. The Englishman stepped down from the board … Read more
Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo broke the half-marathon world record on Sunday with a time of 57min 31sec. The world half marathon champion Kiplimo won Sunday’s race by over two minutes and took one second off the previous world best established by Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie in Valencia last year. Ethiopia’s Esa Huseyidin Mohamed was second at 2min 08sec just … Read more
Max Verstappen has been handed a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s Qatar Grand Prix and will start the race from seventh, with his Formula One world title rival Lewis Hamilton on pole position. The Dutchman, who leads Hamilton by 14 points in the standings with three races remaining in the season, has been penalised for … Read more
The holiday island of Lombok welcomed thousands of fans Sunday for Indonesia’s first superbike race on a new circuit that is part of a mega tourism infrastructure project denounced by the UN over the eviction of local families. With a population of more than 270 million people, many of whom get around on two wheels, … Read more
Sebastien Ogier heads into semi-retirement having clinched an eighth World Rally Championship title in nine years but without ever quite escaping the shadow of his former mentor Sebastien Loeb. The 37-year-old Ogier wrapped up the title on Sunday at Monza by holding off his Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans to move within one of Loeb’s record … Read more
Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes set the fastest time in free practice Friday at the Qatar Grand Prix as the Formula One title fight enters the final three races of the season. Bottas, set to leave for Alfa Romeo next year, was 0.209 seconds quicker than Alpha Tauri’s Pierre Gasly, with championship rivals Max Verstappen and … Read more
German carmaker Audi is looking at ways into Formula One, with partnerships with established racers teams like McLaren, Red Bull and Williams mooted in the press on Wednesday. Audi’s supervisory board discussed the options at a meeting in Stuttgart, including “potential transactions” with McLaren, according to Bloomberg News. “We constantly look at different cooperation ideas … Read more
Amid the novel Coronavirus pandemic, the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix has been canceled this year, Circuit of the Americans (COTA) officials have confirmed. According to the details, “The cancellation is prudent, but painful,” COTA chairman Bobby Epstein said. “After a sold out 2019, advance ticket sale deposits were up nearly 250% over the prior year, … Read more
British Formula One Racer Lewis Hamilton bags another record after he became the first driver ever to win Hungarian Grand Prix thrice in a row. According to media reports, the defending six-time champion Lewis Hamilton controlled a tactical race from lights to flag, making light of changing conditions to deliver his 86th win. Max Verstappen … Read more
British Racer Lewis Hamilton has called for anti racism approach in Formula One and maintain on the stance of equality. According to the details, the statement of the six-time world champion came after winning Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton said that a number of drivers in Formula One wanted to stop the pre-race anti-racism … Read more
