5:52 AM ET Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff said he wants to cut from three to two the number of non-factory teams that race with its engines. Wolff told the Financial Times in an interview published at the weekend that new spending rules meant Mercedes was no longer making “substantial amounts” from providing engines
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4:00 PM ET Formula One. IndyCar. NASCAR. Breakfast in Monaco. Lunch at Indianapolis. Dinner in Charlotte. Mimosas. Bloody Marys. Beer. This is racing’s highest of holy days, and it’s not even close. A motorsports harmonic convergence that doesn’t happen every year but does more often than it does not. Thank the horsepower heavens. That perfect
Marco Canoniero/LightRocket via Getty Images) MONTE CARLO — Charles Leclerc claimed pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix in a session that ended with a crash for Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz. Leclerc was on the verge of setting an even quicker time than his 1:11.376 when Red Bull’s Sergio Perez slammed into the wall
5:31 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has not delivered the results hoped for in Formula One, McLaren boss Zack Brown said on Friday after announcing that their IndyCar team had extended their agreement with Pato O’Ward who is eyeing a Formula One seat. McLaren took care of a bit of business ahead of Sunday’s Indy 500
1:07 PM ET MONTE CARLO — Lewis Hamilton said he’s never experienced anything as bad as trying to drive his bouncing Mercedes around the bumpy Monte Carlo circuit on Friday. Mercedes appeared to have solved the worst of its car’s bouncing issues at the last race, the Spanish Grand Prix, but the nature of the
6:42 AM ET Former Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone denied on Friday he had been arrested in Brazil and said an illegal gun found in his luggage before boarding a flight was never used and had no ammunition. The 91-year-old Briton, now in Portugal, told Reuters a “silly, tiny little incident” had caused a lot
11:51 AM ET MONTE CARLO — Grand Prix cars have raced around the streets of Monaco since 1929. In that time the cars, Monaco itself and the rest of the world have changed dramatically, yet somehow the tradition of racing the fastest automobiles on the planet around one of the tightest circuits anywhere in the
8:31 AM ET SAO PAULO — Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland, local police said on Thursday. The Brazilian police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 pistol in Ecclestone’s luggage during an X-ray screening, police said in
10:20 AM ET Former F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen will return to racing later this year in a one-off NASCAR appearance at Watkins Glen in August. Raikkonen will compete for the Trackhouse Racing team in a NASCAR Cup Series event, alongside teammates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. Raikkonen, one of the most popular F1 drivers of
6:47 AM ET The Monaco Grand Prix has long been considered to be the jewel in the crown of F1. Since 1955 it has been a mainstay on the schedule and only failed to take place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The circuit includes some of the most famous parts of any F1