6:16 PM ET The sun had barely risen when Lewis Hamilton’s jet touched down in New York on the morning of the Met Gala. It had been a rough flight for the seven-time Formula One world champion, interspersed by on-board physio sessions to relieve a building tension in the muscles around his neck and upper

8:30 AM ET Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen will start the Russian Grand Prix from the back of the grid after Red Bull made an engine change in Sochi. Verstappen already arrived at the race with a three-place grid penalty having been found “predominantly to blame” for a collision with title rival Lewis Hamilton

Max Verstappen hits out at ‘hypocrites’ who said he walked away from Lewis Hamilton crash Max Verstappen has called people who suggested he walked away without checking on Lewis Hamilton in Monza ‘hypocrites’, while also questioning why his title rival was able to attend the Met Gala despite Hamilton saying he had injured his neck.

12:12 PM ET Valtteri Bottas said he would ‘take one for the team’ if Mercedes asked him to let title contender Lewis Hamilton overtake in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix. Bottas won in Sochi last year and has a strong record in Russia, taking his first Formula One victory at the circuit in 2017. The Finn

4:32 AM ET Haas will retain the services of Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for the 2022 Formula One season. Schumacher, the son of seven-time world champion Michael, and Mazepin are the only all-rookie lineup on the F1 grid this season. Haas has struggled for competitiveness this year and has found itself firmly at the

11:04 AM ET Associated Press SOCHI, Russia — The first Formula One race in Miami will be held on May 8. The Miami race at a new track named the Miami International Autodrome — being built around Hard Rock Stadium — will be the first of two U.S. events on the 2022 F1 schedule, along

5:59 AM ET Formula One’s Monaco Grand Prix will scrap its traditional rest day next year and hold practice on Friday like the other races on the calendar, according to the sport’s boss Stefano Domenicali. The Italian told CNN television that the schedule for one of the glamour highlights of the season would shrink to

1:14 PM ET Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix from the back of the grid due to a change of power unit, the Italian team said on Wednesday. Ferrari said they would be introducing an updated hybrid system in Sochi, mainly to gain experience with it for the 2022 car project. 1

9:07 AM ET Former McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh is set to join Aston Martin in the new role of CEO of Aston Martin Performance Technologies from Oct. 1. Whitmarsh’s new position will oversee the strategic director of the Aston Martin Formula One team as well as setting up a new arm of the company

9:33 AM ET Fernando Alonso said Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were “unlucky” to collide like they did at the Italian Grand Prix. The collision between the championship contenders has been a major talking point in the week since Monza. The FIA race stewards found Verstappen was “predominantly to blame” for the incident, saying the