Oct 9, 2022 Max Verstappen capped a sublime Formula One season with a similar performance at the Japanese Grand Prix to clinch his second straight championship. Verstappen’s win gave him a place in the record books as he secured one of F1’s most dominant championship wins. Only Michael Schumacher (2001 and 2004) and Sebastian Vettel

8:04 AM ET Max Verstappen wrapped up a second F1 world championship on Sunday, but you won’t find any pictures of him celebrating with the trophy he just won. It remains one of the archaic quirks of Formula One that the world champion does not receive their trophy until the end of the year. Verstappen

Oct 8, 2022 SUZUKA, Japan — Daniel Ricciardo does not expect to race in Formula One next year following news Pierre Gasly has signed a new multiyear contract with Alpine starting in 2023. Ricciardo’s McLaren contract is set to be terminated one year earlier than planned at the end of this season after the team

7:38 AM ET The FIA, motor racing’s governing body, has launched an immediate investigation into how Pierre Gasly almost had a 200 km/h collision with a crane during the Japanese Grand Prix. Gasly was furious with the FIA after he drove past the recovery vehicle in the opening laps while he tried to catch up

2:18 AM ET Pierre Gasly was furious with the FIA after narrowly avoiding a collision with a recovery vehicle on the race track at the start of a wet Japanese Grand Prix. With visibility severely limited in the rain Gasly passed to the right of the crane, which had been deployed to recover the car

8:00 PM ET SUZUKA, Japan — Pierre Gasly will join Alpine in 2023, while Nyck de Vries will take the French driver’s place at AlphaTauri, the two teams confirmed Saturday. Gasly will replace Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso, leaving the Red Bull driver program he joined in 2014. Meanwhile, de Vries, who impressed on his debut

4:10 AM ET Lando Norris has accused Max Verstappen of intentionally trying to block him ahead of their Q3 qualifying laps at the Japanese Grand Prix after the pair nearly collided on track. The two drivers were preparing for their first flying lap in Q3 when Norris moved to pass Verstappen ahead of the final

After several days of rain in Canada the weather looks a lot more stable today. An hour away from lights out and it’s 19 degrees Celsius (66F) and there’s barely a cloud in the sky. Feeling in the paddock this morning is that this is Verstappen’s race to lose. Start will be fascinating – surely

5:33 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — Haas has switched Mick Schumacher to a spare chassis for the Japanese Grand Prix after he crashed at the end of the opening practice session at Suzuka. Schumacher was returning to the pits following a practice start on the grid when he lost the rear of his Haas and

Oct 6, 2022 SUZUKA, Japan — Lewis Hamilton says it is “imperative” that any Formula One team found in breach of last year’s budget cap faces severe consequences as the FIA finalises its audit process of team accounts. The sport’s governing body was due to announce its findings on Wednesday but has now delayed the