Formula 1

10:07 AM ET Austria will continue to host Formula One until 2027 after signing a four-year contract extension, both sides said on Wednesday. The Austrian Grand Prix returned to Formula One in 2014 and the last race of the existing agreement was set to be held on July 2. “The Austrian Grand Prix brings together

8:50 AM ET The second race of the Formula One season takes place in Saudi Arabia this weekend, and it promises to reveal more details about the competitive order in 2023. Red Bull dominated the season-opener in Bahrain, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be the case in Jeddah, where different track characteristics could shake up

6:18 AM ET Formula One is not in talks about a London street race despite plans being drawn up for a track in the east of the city, ESPN understands. This week reports circulated of new plans for a race around the Docklands area, which currently hosts a Formula E event, put forward by built

11:58 AM ET The son of FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has died in a car crash in Dubai. A spokesperson for the FIA, motor racing’s governing body, confirmed on Friday that Saif Ben Sulayem had died. The younger Ben Sulayem had a brief racing career and competed against 2023 Formula One rookies Oscar Piastri

5:39 AM ET Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said his Mercedes team did not listen to him in developing their 2023 Formula One car. The Briton told reporters last week that Mercedes were on the wrong track before he finished fifth in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix opener. “Last year, there were things I told

5:53 AM ET It took just one qualifying session of the 2023 season for Toto Wolff’s worst fears about Mercedes’ new Formula One car to be confirmed. George Russell’s best lap time was 0.632s off Max Verstappen’s pole position lap time — a huge gap as big as the one that it faced after the

4:52 AM ET Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll detailed on Tuesday his successful battle to be fit for the start of the Formula One season with broken wrists after a cycle accident and said his doctors feared initially he would miss the opening races. The Canadian finished sixth in Sunday’s Bahrain opener despite injuries that

Mar 4, 2023 ESPN and Reuters Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll qualified eighth for Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and then revealed he had broken a big toe as well as both wrists in a cycling accident two weeks ago. The 24-year-old Canadian said the last week had been “pretty insane”. “If someone had offered me

4:50 AM ET There’s no better time to make sweeping statements about a new Formula One season than the days after the first race. Mercedes’ George Russell himself made a pretty big one on Sunday evening, and the scale of Red Bull’s win made it easy to cast some pretty big judgements about the year

7:51 AM ET Reliability was not the top concern for new Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur before the start of the Formula One season but Sunday’s opening race in Bahrain sent it back up the list of priorities. Charles Leclerc, who led a Ferrari one-two from pole at Sakhir last year, lost power and retired 17