William Byron Wins 2024 Daytona 500
William Byron survived a pair of crashes in the final laps to win the 2024 Daytona 500…
William Byron survived a pair of crashes in the final laps to win the 2024 Daytona 500…
“The Grand Tour” boys – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – return for the latest episode of their intermittent Amazon Prime series with the double entendre-titled “Sand Job” – a two hour and 16 minute foray into West Africa [mostly Mauritania and Senegal] under the tutelage of executive producer Andy Wilman. The episode […]
There had been much whinging by teams about the formats of the various sprint races during the 2023 Formula One season and Formula 1 has decided to make some changes to the format of sprint races for the 2024 season. Going forward in the 2024 F1 season, free practice and sprint qualifying will be on […]
The boys are back with a new episode of “The Grand Tour” as they visit the Sahara Desert in “The Grand Tour: Sand Job”. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reunite and return to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Paris-Dakar rally, with one major exception – they will be using cheap modified […]
Formula One has signed the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit for five more years – until at least the 2029 season – after successfully fending off a street race challenge from Osaka. Traditionally held in September, the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix is moving to a new home this year – in April – […]
Formula One has officially rejected the Andretti Cadillac’s request to enter the sport in either the 2025 or 2026 season – despite the proposal being approved by the FiA, Formula 1’s governing body. In doing so, F1 decided an 11th team on the grid would not “be a competitive participant” in either of those seasons […]
Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes at the end of the 2024 season and join Ferrari in a multi-year deal beginning with the 2025 Formula 1 season. The 39-year-old Hamilton had signed a renewed a two-year deal with Mercedes in 2023 but that contract contained a clause allowing Hamilton to move […]
Felipe Nasr joined Porsche Penske Motorsport last year and is already paying dividends as Nasr took the checkered flag in the 2024 62nd Rolex 24 at Daytona in Florida – Porsche’s first overall victory at Daytona in 14 years. Nasr fended off Cadillac’s Tom Blomqvist, who started in pole position and was closing in on […]
Jaguar Racing’s Nick Cassidy won Round Three of the 2024 Diriyah E-Prix, successfully fending off Robin Frijns of Envision Racing and Oliver Rowland of Nissan.
Andretti Global’s Jake Dennis held off a last-ditch maneuver by Jaguar’s Mitch Evans to win the 2024 Diriyah Formula E-Prix. Evans’ last lap maneuver cost him a podium position as well as DS Penske’s Jean-Eric Vergne claimed second place and Evans’ Jaguar teammate, Nick Cassidy, claimed the third and final podium position.
2026 will be bringing many changes in the Formula One racing season and one of them will be a major venue shift as the Spanish Grand Prix will move from Barcelona to Madrid beginning in that year in a deal that runs to the 2035 season. It will be Madrid’s first time hosting a Formula […]
Alpine and Mercedes both announced launch dates for their cars ahead of the 2024 Formula One season – with Alpine debuting their car on February 7, 2024 and Mercedes unveiling their car on February 14, 2024. Meanwhile, Mercedes also re-signed current team principal Toto Wolff to a three-year deal to remain as the team principal […]
Pascal Wehrlein of Porsche won the 2024 Mexico City E-Prix – first race in Season 10 – at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. Wehrlein fended off Toyota’s Sebastien Buemi and Jaguar’s Nick Cassidy in winning the first race of the 2024 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.
Honda is channeling their successful off-road racing past in their newest promotion for their 2024 TrailSport lineup which includes the 2024 Honda Ridgeline, Passport and Pilot. Honda won the Dakar Rally four times in the late 1980s and the prestigious Baja 1000 classic off-road race 17 years in a row from 1997 to 2013. More […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]