Formula One has added a race in Las Vegas – the Las Vegas Grand Prix – for the 2023 season. The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix will be a night race – duh – and will be 50 laps and take place on a 3.8-mile track that will include a portion of the Nevada resort […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen rebounded from last week’s zero-point loss and held off Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to win the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix…
Former “Top Gear” and current “The Grand Tour” co-host Richard Hammond will produce a new UK-based show entitled “Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions” – featuring engineering enthusiasts from around the UK who must battle to create the most ingenious contraptions using everyday objects. Teams of contestants will go head-to-head to build their own Chain Reaction Machines […]
Retired Formula One driver, Jenson Button, has collaborated with Scotch whisky brand Coachbuilt to launch a blended whisky combining whiskies sourced from all five primary whisky-producing regions of Scotland – Campbeltown, Highland, Islay, Lowlands and Speyside. Button is the 2009 Formula 1 world champion and has 15 race wins along with 50 podium finishes to […]
As the focus group can now attest, the new 2022 Toyota GR86 has a manual transmission, a rear-view camera and it can park. In a four-minute video entitled “The Focus Group”, Toyota takes a page out of “The Blues Brothers” and uses professional Toyota Gazoo Racing team drivers, race-modified cars and an actual abandoned shopping […]
Ferrari went 1-2 in the Formula One 2022 season-opening race as Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Jr. winning the top spots with Mercedes’ seven-time Formula 1 world Lewis Hamilton claiming the third and final podium position. Leclerc was the pole-sitter ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen entering the race and except for a few brief […]
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen – by 0.123 seconds – to claim pole position for the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. claimed third, just 0.129 seconds off pole. Red Bull’s Sergio Perez was fourth while seven-time F1 world champion, Lewis Hamilton, was fifth for Mercedes – however, a whopping […]
Nearly 100 days later and not surprisingly, the FiA – Formula One’s governing body – made the predictable announcement that “human error” was to blame for the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fiasco where then-race director Michael Masi went rogue with his interpretation and mis-application of rules that gave Red Bull’s Max Verstappen a distinct […]
Like most of the country, Nissan is afflicted with March Madness and has launched their “Road 2 Final Four” promotional campaign as part of their role as the official partner of the NCAA’s 2022 March Madness men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The campaign consists of a series of eight spots featuring mascots from 27 colleges […]
Apple TV+ announced that they will be showing the new documentary about the life and career of seven-time Formula One world champion, Sir Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton has broken both records and barriers to become one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers in the history of the world’s premier racing series and continues to be the […]
Formula One team Haas has tapped Danish driver Kevin Magnussen as their replacement for the Russian driver, Nikita Mazepin, who was sacked last week as a response to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Magnussen, 29, is familiar with the USA-based Haas, having driven for them from 2017 to 2020 before the team replaced him […]
Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini takes his Ducati to victory at the 2022 Qatar Grand Prix at Losail Circuit for his first MotoGP victory over a year removed from the death of team founder Fausto Gresini due to complications from COVID-19…
Although the 2022 Formula One season has yet to begin, tequila brand Patrón has popped the clutch and collaborated with Mexican Red Bull driver Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, to celebrate his Mexican roots. In the video, Patrón paints a picture of the behind-the-scenes look at Pérez’s life, and presents Pérez travelling from the Jalisco highlands region, […]
Morgan introduces their new Super 3 three-wheeler, the newest Morgan offers a new design and an extensive options list to create what Morgan is claiming is the most configurable Morgan to date…
Nikita Mazepin’s Formula One career is over just as quickly as it begun after the USA-based Haas team sacked the Russian driver as a result of his country’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Haas has terminated the contract of their title sponsor, the Russian chemicals company, Uralkali – which is part-owned by Mazepin’s billionaire father, […]
The future remains clouded for Russian Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin, who drives for the Haas team, would be required by the FiA to sign a neutrality document [like all drivers] if he were to remain in Formula 1 for the 2022 season, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Mazepin is on the Haas […]
New Zealand’s Scott McLaughin won pole position and logged his first career IndyCar victory, winning the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg [not the Russian version] over defending champion Alex Palou and teammate Will Power.
Volkswagen Group, Stellantis [subsidiaries include Dodge, Chrysler, Citroen, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot] and Mercedes-Benz are all aiding Ukraine after the invasion by Russia with each of the companies donating one million euros ($1.1 million) to Ukraine support groups. Stellantis still has 71 employees based in Ukraine. Ford is flying the Ukrainian flag at its world headquarters […]
After a somewhat inexplicable delay, Formula One finally made a decision to terminate its contract with the Russian Grand Prix for the foreseeable future due to the country’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s connection to and control over that race. In what has become an unfortunate pattern of inadequate and […]
After burning for a couple weeks, the Felicity Ace – a 650-foot cargo ship that was carrying luxury cars from Germany to the USA – finally sank in the mid-Atlantic, 250 miles off the Azore Islands coast, as it was being towed to land, according to Portuguese navy officials. All 22 crew members of the […]