1:10 PM ET At the end of his second season as Lewis Hamilton’s teammate at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas was ready to quit Formula One. His dream opportunity of driving the fastest car on the grid against the sport’s best driver had quickly turned into a nightmare and by the end of 2018 he was close

8:29 AM ET Cape Town will host a round of the electric Formula E championship next February, joining India’s Hyderabad and Brazil’s Sao Paulo as three new venues on a 2023 calendar, the series said on Wednesday. The Feb. 25 race will be Formula E’s debut in South Africa and the fifth of 17 rounds

1:31 PM ET With glitzy new races in Miami and Las Vegas, it would be easy to forget or overlook just how important Austin’s Circuit of the Americas (COTA) has been for Formula One’s push to be relevant in the United States. Last year’s carnival-like event at COTA was confirmation of the extent F1 has

10:42 AM ET Formula One teams who spend more than allowed by the rules are effectively cheating and should face stiff sporting and financial penalties, McLaren boss Zak Brown wrote to FIA, F1’s governing body. The BBC reported details of the letter on Monday and McLaren confirmed they were correct. Championship leaders Red Bull, who

10:25 AM ET IndyCar’s Alex Palou will drive for Formula One team McLaren in opening practice at the U.S. Grand Prix on Friday, Oct. 21. Palou will take the place of outgoing driver Daniel Ricciardo, who will then resume driving duties for the rest of the event. 1 Related Palou, who joined the McLaren racing

Oct 9, 2022 SUZUKA, Japan — Pierre Gasly says he was just two metres away from being involved in a fatal accident at the Japanese Grand Prix after labelling race control’s decision to release a recovery vehicle onto the track in heavy rain unacceptable. Gasly was doing 200 km/h when he came across a crane,

Oct 10, 2022 The all-woman W Series cancelled its remaining three races in the United States and Mexico for financial reasons on Monday and declared Britain’s Jamie Chadwick champion for the third season in a row. The series had been due to support Formula One at next week’s U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, before

Oct 10, 2022 Hazel Southwell W Series announced on Monday that it would not complete the 2022 season, citing a lack of funding. Mark Thompson/Getty Images In the great, inclusive era of racing as one, Formula One and its teams have been quick to try to highlight female presence. Although, when surveyed by ESPN a year

11:23 AM ET Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, has confirmed Red Bull breached the sport’s cost cap in 2021 but has yet to decide on the team’s punishment. After delaying the announcement last week, the FIA confirmed Monday that Red Bull had committed a “procedural breach” and a “minor overspend” in 2021, meaning a

5:02 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — It wasn’t until Max Verstappen was about to walk onto the podium that he knew for certain he was a double world champion. He’d been told he’d won this year’s title shortly after getting out of his car and completing his first post-race interview, but he didn’t quite believe