Formula 1

7:00 PM ET Formula One will feature a new sprint format at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after unanimous agreement among the teams to make a change. Pending official ratification of the change, F1 is dropping Saturday’s practice session, which usually precedes the sprint race, in favour of a standalone qualifying session for that event. It

7:00 PM ET Ferrari has set in motion the appeal process to overturn the penalty which dropped Carlos Sainz from fourth to twelfth at the Australian Grand Prix. Sainz was given a five-second penalty for a collision with Fernando Alonso at the second restart. As this was given to him while the race was ending,

3:37 PM ET Mercedes will work flat out over Formula One’s April break to give Lewis Hamilton and George Russell a more balanced car, with improved suspension, the team’s chief technical officer James Allison said on Thursday. The sport has a big gap in the calendar, due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix,

10:07 AM ET Williams have hired Paul Asencio from mixed martial arts company UFC as chief revenue officer overseeing the Formula One team’s commercial and marketing operations, they said on Thursday. Asencio, who also worked previously for the New York Mets in Major League Baseball, will join on Monday and be based in the team’s

8:41 AM ET George Russell suggested Red Bull has not shown its true pace advantage this year because of fears Formula One will step in to slow them down. The Mercedes driver’s prediction of Red Bull winning all 23 races this year is still on, with the reigning world champions going three-from-three to kick off

7:49 AM ET Italian police have arrested four people wanted in connection with the theft of a luxury watch from Ferrari’s Formula One driver Charles Leclerc last year. The police said in a statement they found two “valuable watches, the provenance of which will be investigated further,” while searching the house of one of the

4:56 AM ET Formula One teams will welcome more than their drivers the breathing space provided by a long April break in a record 23-race season. Fans must wait until the last weekend in the month for the next race in Azerbaijan after Sunday’s triple-stopped Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, the gap caused by the

Apr 4, 2023 McLaren CEO Zak Brown has challenged Mercedes boss Toto Wolff to a boxing match ahead of Formula One’s Las Vegas Grand Prix in November. Brown also wants to organise a race with Red Bull boss Christian Horner, who he shared a grid with in British Formula Three during the mid-1990s. “We were

5:26 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Formula One has always been a complex sport, but the chaos of the final few laps at the Australian Grand Prix even left some drivers and team bosses confused. In the space of the last four laps, the race was red flagged twice, resulting in one standing restart, four

4:47 AM ET A spectator at the Formula One Australian Grand Prix suffered a cut to his arm when struck by a piece of debris from Kevin Magnussen’s car, putting the spotlight further on organisers’ safety protocols. Will Sweet told Australian radio station 3AW he was standing with his fiancee on a packed hill just