9:14 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Lewis Hamilton needs just four points to make certain he secures his sixth world championship on Sunday, but after Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas he will have his sights set way higher than the eighth place finish he needs to secure those points. Winning on U.S.
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4:08 PM ET Tom Brady has praised Formula One’s Lewis Hamilton as the British driver looks set to join him as a six-time world champion. Hamilton must finish eighth or higher at Sunday’s U.S Grand Prix in Austin, Texas to clinch another championship, which would move him to within one title of Michael Schumacher’s all-time
2:53 PM ET ESPN will continue to broadcast Formula One in the United States until 2022 after posting double-digit viewership growth over the past two seasons. 1 Related Through 18 races this season, F1 has averaged 671,000 viewers on ESPN networks, an increase of 19 percent over the average of 561,000 at this point last
6:13 PM ET AUSTIN — The Formula One paddock hosts a lot of serious business during a race weekend, but this is a place for some of the lighter-hearted stories in the build-up to the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Texas Fight Renault It’s not unusual for F1 drivers to mark
5:37 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Max Verstappen believes he has got in the heads of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel after the two drivers revealed they treat him differently when racing on track. Verstappen was the centre of attention at the last round in Mexico after ignoring yellow flags in qualifying, resulting in him
Oct 14, 2019 Lewis Hamilton is on the verge of winning the championship and looks likely to clinch at the U.S. Grand Prix on Nov. 3. Hamilton won in Mexico to open up a 72-point lead over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas with 78 points to play for from the final three races. While there was
2:08 PM ET Formula One boss Chase Carey is confident teams will vote to accept the proposed 2021 regulations set to reshape the championship. F1’s moved its initial publication deadline from June back to Oct. 31 earlier this year. The process has been complicated by a struggle to get teams on the same page —
10:57 AM ET Ahead of each race in 2019, ESPN is ranking every driver on the grid in our Formula One Power Rankings. In compiling these standings, we have taken out the car factor and focused solely on the drivers and how each has been performing. This is not a prediction for how the race
4:32 AM ET MEXICO CITY — Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat issued an expletive in the direction of the stewards after being issued the penalty which dropped him out of the points at the Mexican Grand Prix. Kvyat clashed with Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg on the final corner of the final lap, sending the German driver’s
11:50 AM ET The storyline of the Mexican Grand Prix revolved around two drivers. Taken to an extreme, it was almost pantomime, with Max Verstappen cast as the villain and Lewis Hamilton as the hero. Look beyond the headlines, however, and they were also the two outstanding on-track performers of the weekend. But the fact