Formula 1

5:20 AM ET A new Formula One season starts with the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 5, but three of the grid’s most popular drivers will not be lining up on the starting grid. One is the biggest star of the ‘Drive to Survive’ boom, the other is a four-time world champion and environmental activist,

2:56 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close Laurence Edmondson F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close Nate Saunders General Editor, F1 The new Formula One season starts with the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. Here’s some answers to the most important questions of the season to bring you

7:22 AM ET The AlphaTauri Formula One team has denied rumours it is up for sale, with team principal Franz Tost saying Red Bull will continue to support it going forward. Reports in the German media last week said the team could be sold by Red Bull, but a statement on the eve of the

9:54 AM ET Susie Wolff, former principal of the Venturi Formula E team and wife of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, has been appointed managing director of the new all-female Formula One academy, F1 said on Wednesday. The new series aims to help young female drivers move up the motorsport ladder. No woman has started a

5:37 AM ET Associated Press Electric karting tracks will be built underneath the South Stand of the stadium. Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images Formula One and Premier League football club Tottenham have formed a partnership to build race tracks for karting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. As part of the 15-year partnership announced Tuesday,

9:53 AM ET Formula One drivers can help steer the sport away from a “moral vacuum” by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday. Paul Scriven, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, told a news conference organised by the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and

5:00 AM ET Struggling with where your support should lie this Formula One season? This is the guide for you. Although without Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Mick Schumacher this year, F1 is packed full of great drivers and compelling characters. There’s plenty of candidates for your favourite team or driver in 2023. Here we

9:41 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain – After three days of testing in Bahrain, Formula One is just seven days away from the first race of the new season on March 5. The single preseason test ran remarkably smoothly for the vast majority of teams, but it was clear by the evening of the final day

Feb 24, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain – Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich looks increasingly likely to race in place of the injured Lance Stroll at the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 5. Drugovich, one of the team’s reserve drivers, opened Aston Martin’s preseason test schedule on Thursday following the news that Stroll had injured himself in

Feb 24, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — McLaren looks set for another tough start to a Formula One season after missing car development targets over the winter. McLaren started 2022 on the back foot after encountering brake issues in the Bahrain preseason test and has had a quiet start to the same test this year, which