Aston Martin Provides Glimpse Inside Their Testing Last Week
Aston Martin gives you a brief glimpse into their testing sessions last week in preparation for next weekend’s season-opening Formula One race of the 2021 year, the Bahrain Grand Prix…
Aston Martin gives you a brief glimpse into their testing sessions last week in preparation for next weekend’s season-opening Formula One race of the 2021 year, the Bahrain Grand Prix…
Bill S. Preston [Alex Winter] and Ted “Theodore” Logan [Keanu Reeves] – aka Bill and Ted of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” drive the new electric Porsche Taycan. Sadly, Rufus [George Carlin] was unable to join them in physical form. Both actors claim to be Porsche enthusiasts with Reeves specifically relaying the anecdote about he […]
German racing driver Sabine Schmitz – the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours – has succumbed at age 51 after being diagnosed with cancer in 2017. Schmitz, driving a BMW M3, won the 24-hour touring car race back to back – in 1996 and 1997 – at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, the 14-mile circuit […]
Three Formula One pre-season testing sessions were completed in anticipation of the upcoming 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix which will kick off the season on March 28, 2021. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was the fastest in the final session – but only barely – in front of the Red Bull junior team AlphaTauri car of Japanese […]
Ferrari has revealed their car for the upcoming 2021 Formula One season set to begin on March 28, 2021 with the Bahrain Grand Prix. Ferrari finished in a dismal sixth place in the 2020 constructors’ championship and could only muster a single second place podium as their best result of the year making it their […]
Williams has launched their car for the upcoming 2021 Formula One season. George Russell is the lead driver for the team and the 23-year-old Brit had a good year last year – while he was temporarily driving for Mercedes as a substitute for Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix […]
The trailer for the third season of Netflix’s “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” – due out on March 19, 2021…
Formula One has officially added the Portuguese Grand Prix to the 2021 calendar as the third race of the season on May 2, 2021 at the Portimao circuit in the trendy Algarve region of Portugal. The 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix was one of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton’s 11 victories last year on his way to claiming […]
Alpine – the team formerly known as Renault – has launched their 2021 car for the Formula One season with Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon behind the wheels of the cars…
Extreme E electric motor sports racing team Andretti United has signed up Fluère Drinks as a principal sponsor. Andretti United is a collaboration between US-based Andretti Autosport and UK-founded United Autosports. Electric off-road racing series Extreme E will premiere with its inaugural race in Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia on April 2, 2021. The series features […]
Mercedes has unveiled what is expected to be the winning car for the 2021 Formula One season and the car in which Lewis Hamilton will compete for his eighth drivers’ title. Mercedes won 13 of last year’s 17 Formula 1 races and the new Mercedes W12 revealed today is an upgrade of that car. Hamilton […]
The organizers of the 2021 Formula One season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix offered Covid-19 vaccinations to all Formula 1 personnel upon their arrival in Bahrain for race preparations – but F1 officials have declined the offer. The Bahrain officials will be making the same offer to all the F1 teams – but the teams are also […]
Finnish rallying world champion Hannu Mikkola – dubbed “The Flying Finn” – passed away at age 78 after a battle with cancer. Mikkola began his rallying career in 1963 with Volvo but switched to Ford and then to the iconic Audi Quattro A1 in 1981 [and subsequent A2 later] before going on to win the […]
Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer – already a sponsor of the Porsche Formula E team – has expanded their sponsorship of Formula E overall. Tag Heuer is a longtime Formula One sponsor and was a founding sponsor of Formula E since the electric racing series’ inception seven years ago. Tag Heuer will continue as official […]
Red Bull has introduced their car – dubbed the RB16B – which they hope will at least partially challenge Mercedes’ dominance in the 2021 Formula One season. Red Bull finished second in the constructor’s championship last year – a distant second behind Mercedes. However, while lead Red Bull driver Max Verstappen finished a distant third […]
Alfa Romeo has launched their car – dubbed the ORLEN C41 – for the upcoming 2021 Formula One season. Alfa Romeo finished eighth in the constructors’ championship in 2020 – usually tussling with Haas and Williams for the title of slowest car in the field. Alfa Romeo returns former 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen […]
Red Bull’s junior team, Alpha Tauri, has launched their new car – which they have dubbed AT02 – for the upcoming 2021 Formula One racing season. Alpha Tauri retains French driver Pierre Gasly – who won the chaotic 2020 Italian Grand Prix – and wound up finishing seventh overall in the driver’s championship. It is […]
The Portimao circuit in the Algarve region of Portugal is set to be the third race of the 2021 Formula One season on May 2, 2021. The postponement of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix along with loss of the Vietnamese Grand Prix created a gap in the Formula 1 schedule that can be filled by […]
Defending Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has signed a new one-year contract with Mercedes for the 2021 season – his ninth with Mercedes. The 36-year-old Hamilton has won seven F1 world titles – six at Mercedes, one at McLaren – and holds the all-time win record. The duration of the contract is reported to […]
Former Haas Formula One driver Romain Grosjean was dropped by Haas at the end of last season but will race in the 2021 IndyCar season for Dale Coyne Racing. The 34-year-old Frenchman’s Formula 1 career famously ended with a fiery crash at November’s 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix which he survived after extricating himself from the […]