Formula 1

12:27 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Winning a Formula One championship is always an emotional moment, but Red Bull’s fifth constructors’ crown carried added significance on Sunday. The death of Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz the day before meant the team was determined to win the title in his honour. And to secure it with

10:15 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Fernando Alonso has been relegated from seventh to 15th at the U.S. Grand Prix following a protest from rival team Haas. Alonso turned in a memorable performance in Austin after being sent airborne in a collision with Lance Stroll on lap 22, which left his car damaged. He recovered

12:43 PM ET Red Bull has won the Formula One constructors’ championship for the first time since 2013, ending Mercedes’ run of eight straight titles. The championship was secured at the U.S. Grand Prix, with three races to spare, a day after company founder and team owner Dietrich Mateschitz died aged 78. Max Verstappen, who

12:00 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Red Bull and the FIA have put talks over the budget cap breach on hold following the death of company owner Dietrich Mateschitz. Mateschitz, co-founder and owner of the Red Bull brand and F1 team, died Saturday aged 78. F1 will hold a tribute to the Austrian ahead of

5:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Red Bull owner and co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz has died, the company’s Formula One team confirmed Saturday. He was 78. There was no immediate word on where he died or the cause of death. The Austrian billionaire gained fame as the public face of Red Bull, an Austrian-Thai conglomerate that

4:56 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Lando Norris says it frustrates him that people assume he and McLaren teammate Daniel Ricciardo do not get along. Ricciardo joined Norris at McLaren in 2021 but will leave the team at the end of the year. The circumstances around Ricciardo’s premature McLaren departure fueled speculation and memes online

12:37 PM ET AUSTIN — American driver Logan Sargeant will race for Williams in F1 next season if he gets the final superlicence points he needs in Formula 2 this year, the team confirmed on Saturday. Sargeant, 21, would become the first American on the F1 grid since Alexander Rossi in 2015, replacing the outgoing

5:31 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Lewis Hamilton intends to take Tom Cruise up on an offer to go flying in his P-51 Mustang and wants to get a pilot’s license of his own. Hamilton considered taking up a roll acting alongside Cruise in the recent “Top Gun: Maverick” movie but couldn’t find a way

4:10 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Red Bull and motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, are negotiating the punishments for the team’s breach of Formula One’s 2021 budget cap. Red Bull is believed to have overspent by around $1.8 million last year, which constitutes a “minor” breach of the financial regulations. Red Bull is the only

7:19 PM ET AUSTIN — Lewis Hamilton says Formula One might as well get rid of its cost cap if the FIA is unable to offer severe punishments to teams that overspend. The FIA found Red Bull guilty of a minor overspend under last year’s £145 million cost cap and is now in the process