Mick Schumacher to race at Spa 30 years on from dad’s debut Mick Schumacher will follow in his father Michael’s footsteps at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix when he races a Formula One car around Spa-Francorchamps for the first time, 30 years after the Ferrari great made his debut at the iconic track
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8:31 AM ET Mexico’s Sergio Perez will remain with Red Bull in 2022 as Max Verstappen’s teammate, the team confirmed on Friday. Former Racing Point driver Perez replaced Alex Albon at the team this year and won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in what has been an up and down debut season at Red Bull. The
10:33 AM ET Mick Schumacher will follow in his father Michael’s footsteps at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix when he races a Formula One car around Spa-Francorchamps for the first time, 30 years after the Ferrari great made his debut at the iconic track. The 22-year-old has raced at Spa before on his way up
11:04 AM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Sebastian Vettel believes Formula One could take a more common sense approach to the kind of technical infringement which saw him stripped of second position and disqualified from the Hungarian Grand Prix. Vettel finished second in Budapest but was thrown out of the race several hours later, as his
7:58 AM ET Valtteri Bottas and George Russell are still waiting on Mercedes to make a final decision on who will be Lewis Hamilton’s teammate in 2022. Bottas has been Hamilton’s teammate since replacing Nico Rosberg at the start of 2017 but his future with the team has looked increasingly doubtful over recent seasons. Some
4:37 AM ET Fernando Alonso will remain in Formula One next season with the Alpine, the team has confirmed. Alonso, a world champion with Renault in 2005 and 2006, returned to the grid this season with the French manufacturer’s rebranded Alpine team. He hinted at “big news” earlier this week ahead of Sunday’s Belgian Grand
6:55 AM ET Germany’s markets watchdog BaFin said on Tuesday it found no evidence to pursue an insider trading investigation in the shares of carmaker Daimler, including the purchase of a stake in the United Kingdom’s Aston Martin by Mercedes’ Formula One boss. BaFin looked into trading at Germany’s Daimler and passed information to counterparts
8:09 AM ET Double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso hinted at an imminent “big news” announcement in a teasing Twitter message posted in code on Wednesday to the Alpine driver’s 2.8 million followers. “BTV vras nduvrg ddwa. Eno iw giadt gby awa, Q’z xwptbvrg ewqf mn ndlr!!!!,” wrote the Spaniard ahead of this weekend’s
8:29 AM ET This year’s British Grand Prix was the first Formula One race since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to feature a full crowd, and by Sunday evening it showed. As 140,000 fans emptied the grandstands to join the long queue of traffic creeping out of the circuit, several tonnes of rubbish were
7:00 AM ET Formula E champions Mercedes will withdraw from the all-electric series at the end of the Gen2 era in 2022 to concentrate on Formula One, the carmaker said on Wednesday. The announcement comes three days after Dutch driver Nyck de Vries won the Formula E world championship title after finishing eighth in the