Max Verstappen Wins 2024 Japanese Grand Prix
It was a Red Bull 1-2 snoozefest at the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix as Max Verstappen won followed by his Red Bull teammate, Sergio Perez, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. claiming the third and final podium position. All the drama was in the first lap when RB [formerly AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s sister team] Daniel Ricciardo […]
Max Verstappen Claims Pole Position For 2024 Japanese Grand Prix
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen claimed the pole position for the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix with his teammate, Sergio Perez, alongside him in the front row…
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Another Official Bails On The FiA
The FiA – Formula One’s governing body – has seen the departure of yet another top official from its ranks, with the loss of engineer Tim Goss who left his role as the FiA’s single-seater technical director. Goss now becomes the third senior official to quit the FIA in the last 30 days, following the departures of sporting director Steve Nielsen and the FIA’s commission for women leader, Deborah Mayer. […]
Volkswagen Prepping For CES 2024
Volkswagen is preparing for this week’s Consumer Electronics Show [CES] in Las Vegas with more news on their electric ID vehicles…
Mini Takes To The Road Again In 2024 For Rally
Mini USA is set to hit the road again for their 2024 Mini owner road rally, which they call Mini Takes The States (MTTS). The 2024 MTTS rally begins in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 13, 2024 before heading north to Seattle, Washington, and concluding with a Rally Finale on July 21. Along the way from Albuquerque to Seattle, the MTTS will travel through six states [New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, […]
Formula E Cancels 2024 Hyderabad E-Prix
Formula E has officially cancelled the 2024 Hyderabad E-Prix – which was scheduled to take place on February 10, 2024 – after the local government in the Indian city refused to sanction the event. The event had been scheduled before the current governmental officials had been elected to office and the newly elected officials declined to hold the event in the city. The 2024 Hyderabad E-Prix had been scheduled to […]
Mullen Five To Debut At CES 2024
Electric vehicle startup Mullen will debut at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show [CES] next week in Las Vegas. The Mullen Five – first shown at the 2021 Los Angeles auto show – is an electric compact crossover designed to compete with the Tesla Model Y and Volkswagen ID.4. Production is scheduled to take place in Mishawaka, Indiana, beginning in 2024 [they say] at a plant where AM General formerly built […]
2003 Indianapolis 500 Winner Gil de Ferran Dies
Former 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran has died of a heart attack at the age of 56 while at a private motor racing club in Opa-locka, Florida, on Friday. Since May 2023, De Ferran had worked as a consultant for McLaren’s Formula One team after having previously served as McLaren’s sporting director from 2018 to 2021. The French-born Brazilian driver won five races in the Indy Racing League […]
Goodyear Creates Tire Mascots For Cotton Bowl
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is creating mascots out of tires for the 88th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic college football battle between the seventh-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes and ninth-ranked Missouri Tigers. For Ohio State University’s Brutus Buckeye and the University of Missouri’s Truman the Tiger, Goodyear has created handcrafted tire sculptures standing between six and seven feet tall and weighing in at 385 pounds. Each sculpture was created for Goodyear […]
Clarkson, Hammond & May Could Reunite For Possible Show
Former “Top Gear” and “The Grand Tour” co-host, James May, has indicated to a British radio program that there could be a new show or project that he would be interested in working on with his former co-hosts from both shows, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. The final pair of “The Grand Tour” shows on Amazon Prime have been filmed and are set to debut sometime in 2024, but beyond […]
FiA Loses Sporting Director Steve Nielsen
Steve Nielsen, the sporting director of the FiA [Formula One’s governing body] has formally resigned from his role a mere 11 months after being appointed as sporting director in January 2023 after a tumultuous 2022 season following the 2021 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fiasco. The Brit Nielsen, 59, gave no reasoning for the resignation. Nielsen was well regarded by all Formula 1’s teams and drivers and his resignation is […]
Sauber And Williams Set Debut Dates For 2024 Formula One Season
Both Sauber and Williams have set dates for the unveiling of their launch plans [and presumably, cars] for the 2024 Formula One season, with each team currently scheduling to debut their plans on February 5, 2024. Williams finished seventh in the 10-team Formula 1 world championship while Sauber finished ninth. Ahead of their union with Audi in 2026, Sauber severed ties with Alfa Romeo and will be known by the […]
Audi Gets Personal
Audi of America is allowing customers to personalize their vehicle screens with Audi Themes – a new feature that allows Audi owners to update the appearance of their vehicle’s interior with display wallpapers and specially curated content that includes images from animals, cinema, shapes, sports and travel landscapes. Seasonal images for holiday seasons are also available. Customers can also have available in-vehicle ambient lighting selections automatically set to complement the […]
Viva Las Vegas! ASN Returns To The Inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix For One Final Spherical Look
Formula One visited Las Vegas last month for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix and ASN visited them right back in their ongoing series on what became one of the signature events on the Formula 1 calendar. For our final look at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, ASN focuses on one of the main drawing points to the venue – the Sphere – a relatively new feature of the already […]
Viva Las Vegas! ASN Returns To The Inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix
Formula One visited Las Vegas last month for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix and as part of continuing series, ASN returns to what became one of the signature events of the Formula 1 calendar. The promotion of the event was nonstop and took on many forms – from signage in expected places to signage in unexpected places – and one of the more expected places was a giant replica […]
Alfa Romeo Sauber Becomes Sauber For 2024 Formula One Season
After collaborating with Alfa Romeo since the 2019 season, the Swiss-based Sauber team has dropped Alfa Romeo and reverted to their original name for the 2024 Formula One season. Sauber is making the move as they prepare to transition into becoming the factory Audi team for the 2026 Formula One season but Audi does not want to be officially associated with the team until Audi formally enters the championship in […]
Viva Las Vegas! ASN Returns To The Inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix
Formula One visited Las Vegas for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix last month and ASN was there to record the scenes in the first-ever grand prix that eventually became one of the signature events on the Formula 1 calendar. ASN revisits some of the scenes from that race weekend. Fans were divided into two distinct categories for the race – those who had overpriced tickets and those who did […]
Viva Las Vegas! ASN Returns To The Inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix
Formula One visited the iconic city of Las Vegas for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix last month and ASN is revisiting the Las Vegas Grand Prix in their continuing series on what became one of the signature events on the Formula 1 calendar in 2023. The city of Las Vegas is never shy on promoting their signature events and the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix was no different as […]