Formula 1 parent company Liberty Media is selling $825 million worth of F1 shares to fund its majority takeover of MotoGP rights holder Dorna Sports. Liberty announced its planned acquisition of MotoGP in the form of an 86% takeover of commercial rights holder Dorna in April. The deal, slated for completion by the end of […]
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Sergio Perez has claimed that Red Bull’s meeting over Formula 1’s summer break was related to its slump in competitiveness and “had nothing to do with the drivers”. Perez entered the summer break with speculation hanging over his place with the team amid a torrid run which had comprised a pitiful 28 points across eight […]
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Alpine has elected to promote its Reserve Driver Jack Doohan to a full-time drive for the 2025 Formula 1 season, per a Friday announcement by the Anglo-French outfit. With Esteban Ocon’s departure from the Enstone-Viry squad confirmed in June, Alpine made a bid to sign Carlos Sainz to race alongside Pierre Galsy in 2025. With […]
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Lewis Hamilton has admitted he will “know early on whether it’s going to work” with his Ferrari Formula 1 race engineer with Peter Bonnington to remain at Mercedes. It was revealed earlier this week that Bonnington, Hamilton’s race engineer throughout the latter’s spell with the team, will remain at Mercedes in a promoted position. Bonnington, […]
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AF Corse and AWA Racing have confirmed their presence on the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship grid with the former’s #88 Oreca 07 LMP2 and the latter’s #13 GTD Corvette Z06 GT3.R. With three races remaining in the 2024 IMSA season, AF Corse and AWA are the first teams to officially confirm their spots on […]
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Oscar Piastri has revealed that discomfort with the seat in his McLaren car triggered the broken rib that he competed with in the run-up to Formula 1’s summer break. The Australian went into the annual shutdown with the wind in his sails as he took his maiden F1 win in Hungary in a McLaren 1-2 […]
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Seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton has said the sport can’t “continue to ignore Africa” as it expands to new regions amid reports an effort to host a Rwandan Grand Prix has picked up pace. Autosport reported recently that Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is set to meet with Rwandan representatives in September regarding […]
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Turner Motorsport’s Robby Foley highlighted how the team will continue a straightforward approach to retaining their second place in the IMSA GTD points standings despite being 268 points behind the leader. The #96 BMW M4 GT3 driver explained the team’s mentality about retaining their second position in the GTD standings whilst being 268 points away […]
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Speaking to selected media ahead of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT-only round at the Virginia International Raceway (VIR), #3 Corvette Z06 GT3.R driver Antonio Garcia attributed the ABS increasing car-to-car contact. When asked in a pre-event media call about whether the level of contact in IMSA was reaching its limit, he said: “Probably yes. […]
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Carlos Sainz has revealed that his choice to move to Williams in 2025 derived from having the same “feeling” about its Formula 1 prospects as when he left McLaren. Williams announced last month that it has won the race to secure Sainz’s coveted services to partner the incumbent Alex Albon on a multi-term contract with […]
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