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 – […]
The Japanese Grand Prix will continue to be held at Suzuka through the 2024 Formula One racing season according to an announcement from Formula 1. The last race was held in 2019 – with Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas winning that – but last year’s race was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this year’s race […]
After winds increased 100 mph earlier today, Tropical Storm Hagibis was upgraded to Super Typhoon status and the now-Category 5 Typhoon is headed in a northwesterly direction from its current spot in the northern Pacific Ocean – directly toward a potential meeting with Formula One’s 2019 Japanese Grand Prix track at Suzuka on Saturday. The […]
Former Marussia Formula One race car driver Jules Bianchi has been moved back to his native France. Bianchi had been in an induced coma at a Japanese hospital since crashing into a recovery tractor at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka last month. However, Bianchi’s condition had improved slightly, enough to allow him to […]
When Marussia’s Jules Bianchi hydroplaned, slid off the track at Suzuka and careened into a tractor during the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the only existing video was of the previously-crashed Adrian Sutil [who the tractor had been dispatched to move his car off the track]. But now from French media outfit TenSport has posted […]
As far as the end results were concerned, it was the same old, same old in Formula One racing this weekend as Mercedes won yet another race – the only difference this time was the weather conditions and the crash of Marussia’s Jules Bianchi that was attributed to said weather conditions. Prior to the race, […]
With Daniel Ricciardo performing admirably for Red Bull and likely to be vaulted into the top driver spot for 2015, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has decided to both take advantage of a clause in his contract as well as accept a lucrative offer from Ferrari to join the Italian team while their current #1 […]
In what is essentially a trial run before his 2015 debut as a full-time driver for the Toro Rosso team, soon-to-be 17-year-old teenager Max Verstappen will replace Jean-Eric Vergne as the practice driver for Toro Rosso for the Friday session prior to the 2104 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. Verstappen’s practice run will officially make […]