8:01 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The new Formula One season gives fresh hope to all drivers and teams, dreams of lifting trophies and taking trips to the podium abound, and (just about) everyone has a clean slate from all that has gone before. Lewis Hamilton tops the UK charts as the top British athlete
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10:59 AM ET ESPN staff Seven British athletes cracked the ESPN Fame 100 (LINK HERE), which lists the most famous stars in world sport. The rundown of active sportsmen and women is compiled by judging three criteria: an athlete’s social media following, their Google Trend score and the amount of money that they bring in
4:58 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live Last time I looked, Charles Leclerc was 4/1 to win in Australia. That could be generous. The odds against the Monegasque winning
4:57 PM ET Formula One will award a point to the driver who sets the fastest race lap, starting from this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, providing he finishes in the top 10. The governing FIA said on Monday that the Formula One Strategy Group and F1 Commission had given unanimous approval in
12:00 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 On the eve of the Australian Grand Prix, ESPN takes a look at the
7:59 AM ET What a long winter it must have been for Sebastian Vettel. How tempting to dwell on the turning points that lost him the 2018 world championship. That underwhelming qualifying lap in Singapore; that collision with Lewis Hamilton on the first lap at Monza; that moment he threw away the lead of his
8:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live Formula One looks set to award a point for the fastest lap this season, pending approval from the relevant parts of the
10:19 AM ET The 2019 Formula One season promises to be one of the most exciting in years. Ferrari appears to be in a position to end Mercedes’ five-year domination of the sport and new aerodynamic regulations should make racing more exciting. F1’s new Netflix documentary lacks the championship’s two main protagonists, but the focus
8:02 AM ET A new set of regulations ratified by the World Endurance Championship, the premier class of sports car racing, could allow manufacturers to enter racing versions of hypercars like the Aston Martin Valkyrie and McLaren Senna. WEC is reaching the end of its current set of regulations, with the current 2018/19 super-season the
7:14 AM ET At first glance, a fly-on-the-wall series about a championship series that doesn’t feature its main protagonists might seem to be missing the point. But F1’s new Netflix show excels without its two most obvious stars actively involved in it. Last month Netflix accused Mercedes and Ferrari of doing Formula One a disservice