Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Formula One teams set to unveil radical new look

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Red Bull, which lifted Max Verstappen to a contentious maiden Formula One title last year, will kick off the annual catwalk season on Wednesday by introducing their 2022 car. The interest will be ramped up this year because changes in Formula One rules mean, as Mike Elliott, the technical director of world champion constructors Mercedes, … Read more

Drama in Abu Dhabi as Verstappen ends Hamilton’s F1 supremacy

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Red Bull’s driver Max Verstappen became Formula One world champion for the very first time after a stimulating end to the 2021 season which was held over nine months and 22 different races. The 24-year-old’s triumph in Abu Dhabi came in a nail-biting last-lap contest with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. However, there were different turns of … Read more

Verstappen crowned world champion despite Mercedes’ protests

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ABU DHABI: Max Verstappen emerged from a Formula One season like no other as a worthy world champion, the Dutch driver prising the crown from Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the final race on Sunday. The road to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was marked by moments of high drama, but no one could have … Read more

Mercedes lodge appeals over Verstappen’s Abu Dhabi GP win

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes have lodged two appeals over Max Verstappen’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix win over Lewis Hamilton on Sunday. Mercedes are contesting safety car procedure which resulted in Verstappen overtaking Hamilton on a frantic final lap to clinch the world championship. “Mercedes have protested ‘against the classification established at the end of the Competition’, relating to … Read more

Verstappen wins ‘insane’ first world title on last lap

Max Verstappen

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

Rossi switches to four wheels for endurance test drive

Valentino Rossi

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

Verstappen – the ‘natural’ born heir to Hamilton’s throne

Max Verstappen

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

Mercedes F1 team end controversial deal with Kingspan

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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

Hamilton not ‘playing fair’ with title rival Verstappen: Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone

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

Neck and neck: F1’s keenest rivalries

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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

Retiring Raikkonen ‘wouldn’t change a thing’ after 20 years in F1

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JEDDAH: While all eyes in Abu Dhabi will be on the headline drama of the title fight between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen this weekend, another world champion will be making his final appearance in a Formula One car. Twenty years after making his F1 debut for Sauber at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix, Finnish … Read more

Fittipaldi grandson to be ‘back soon’ after crash

Enzo Fittipaldi

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

Verstappen handed five-second penalty in Saudi GP chaos

Max Verstappen

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

Hamilton slams ‘over the limit’ Verstappen after Saudi chaos

Lewis Hamilton

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

Hamilton on Saudi pole as Verstappen hits wall in ‘terrible’ crash

Lewis Hamilton

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

Golovkin world title bout in Japan postponed over border ban

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TOKYO: Gennady Golovkin’s world title fight against Ryota Murata in Japan was Friday postponed “to next spring”, over a ban on new foreign arrivals to the country prompted by the Omicron variant. The hard-hitting Kazakh boxer was set to return to the ring after a year’s absence with a unification bout against Japanese WBA super-titlist Murata … Read more

Hamilton looks to extend F1 race as Verstappen eyes title

Lewis Hamilton

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

Covid hits Williams F1 team ahead of Saudi Grand Prix

Jost Capito

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

Saudi motorsports chief says F1 debut is ‘signal’ to the world’

Prince Khalid bin Sultan al-Faisal

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

Williams Racing founder Frank Williams dies

Frank Williams

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

Hamilton wins Qatar Grand Prix, Verstappen second

Hamilton wins Qatar Grand Prix, Verstappen second

Lewis Hamilton won Sunday’s inaugural Qatar Grand Prix with a commanding performance from pole to cut Max Verstappen’s world championship lead to eight points. The Mercedes seven-time champion comfortably held off his arch Dutch rival’s Red Bull under the Losail circuit’s lights to leave the battle for the F1 drivers’ crown delicately poised with only two races … Read more

Verstappen given five-place grid penalty for Qatar Grand Prix

Verstappen given five-place grid penalty for Qatar Grand Prix

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

Bottas quickest ahead of Gasly in Qatar practice

Bottas quickest ahead of Gasly in Qatar practice

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

Mercedes’ Brazil Grand Prix appeal rejected

Mercedes' Brazil Grand Prix appeal rejected

Formula One officials have rejected the request by Mercedes for a review of Max Verstappen’s driving during the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, motorsport’s governing body said on Friday. Verstappen appeared to force Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes wide but the FIA said the team’s appeal failed to raise significant new evidence in the case. After the incident, … Read more

Audi exploring entry into Formula One racing

Audi exploring entry into Formula One racing

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

Psychologists for players in T20 World Cup, says ICC

Psychologists for players in T20 World Cup, says ICC

DUBAI: Psychologists will monitor players at the T20 World Cup to help cope with the growing number of mental health cases in coronavirus safety bubbles, cricket’s governing body said Thursday. Pandemic strain has become increasingly apparent in recent months with England’s Ben Stokes on a prolonged mental health break, and other leading players complaining about … Read more

Crypto.com declared as Global Partner of the F1 ‘Sprint’ series

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With the fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform becoming initial and global partner of the new Sprint series for 2021, Crypto.com will join Formula One.

Apart from the sprint races, Cryptocurrency will have a trackside presence at every race for the rest of the season as part of a major global partnership agreement. The platform thinks that the agreement will help maintain its international brand awareness. F1’s Official Cryptocurrency Sponsor and NFT Partner (A non-fungible token a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain) will also be Crypto.

The Cryptocurrency Visa Card is the world’s most popular crypto card, available in 30+ countries worldwide. In addition to establishing the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform and the leading app in both the App Store and Google Play, the Cryptocurrency Visa Card is the world’s most popular cryptocurrency card.

Furthermore, in May 2021, Cryptocurrency set an ambitious goal of becoming carbon negative in 18 months, providing the industry with a path and a prototype for “clean crypto.” This strategy will initially focus on determining the amount of carbon produced by cryptocurrency trading, deposit, and withdrawal operations across all of its platforms, before rethinking how it conducts business outside of trading.

Formula One’s President and CEO, Stefano Domenicali said: “We are pleased to welcome Crypto.com to the Formula 1 family, as we continue to attract progressive global brands anchored in performance and innovation.”

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British Racer Sam Bird wins second Diriyah E-Prix night race

Diriyah E-Prix

British racer Sam Bird won the second round of the Diriyah E-Prix double-header in Riyadh. According to the media report, in the presence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it was Diriyah’s second race under the floodlights to conclude the opening weekend of the 2020-21 Formula E season. Upon the arrival of the Crown Prince … Read more