Formula One has always been one of the grimiest sports of the modern era, from running races in Apartheid South Africa to supporting every dictatorship imaginable. But it likes to present itself as classy, so it never went in on sports betting. But that’s changed now.
Photos of a Formula One concept car for the 2021 season popped up on Twitter earlier this week, and, aside from the routine rules overhaul planned for that year, the photos had almost no context at all. But F1 stepped in a few hours ago to give us all the context we needed, and it turns out what we’re seeing is the…
Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen mumbles most of the time, perhaps because he doesn’t care enough about a conversation to do more than that. That’s just a theory. But if you listen closely to those mumbles, you’ll get hit with a low tone of straight sass.
Formula One comes out with a new, overhauled set of rules every few years, like when it went from its beloved V8 engines to hybrid V6 turbos in 2014. The next magic number is the year 2021, when we don’t know what exactly the rules will be, but we do know the cars will maybe, possibly look something like this.
Formula One is definitively at its best when people are trying all sorts of crazy tricks. Ferrari’s latest one—that of covering up its cockpit camera usually used for television broadcasts—is either brilliant or hilariously dumb. Ferrari was ordered to stop it. It didn’t. So it was ordered to stop it again. It didn’t.…
Before the Ferrari Formula One team unsurprisingly announced it would trade 38-year-old Kimi Raikkonen out for younger driver Charles Leclerc this week, someone started a petition to keep him around on Change.org—the “web’s leading platform for social change,” as it calls itself. A valiant effort.
At 38 and in Formula One since 2001, mumbling Finnish weirdo Kimi Raikkonen is one of the veterans of the sport. But time comes for us all, and Raikkonen hasn’t won a grand prix since 2013, so it’s time for the Ferrari machine to swap him out with a newer, younger model.
Formula One isn’t racing in Miami next year as planned, but it still would have been interesting, at least for a couple of minutes, to watch 20 drivers navigate the ridiculously tight street course the organizers mapped out. But we can see how it might have looked, thanks to computer simulators.
In one of the more silly F1 dramas of the past few years, teams had been wondering why Ferrari had been coolings its onboard camera with an ice pack. Now it has become clear that, well, cooling wasn’t what the team was going for.
Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage is more territorial than a cat claiming a cardboard box, and hoo boy, people are really stepping on this cat’s tail this week. But do you know what else cats have? They have claws. Gossage’s have come right on out, and it is not pretty.
Just a few days ago, Formula One and its governing body, the FIA, announced they were extending the zones for using the sport’s drag-reduction system at several more tracks this season. Already an apparent mishap with the system sent driver Marcus Ericsson into a freak crash at Italian Grand Prix practice.
Sunday is the Formula One Italian Grand Prix, Ferrari’s home race, so the team had a fan event in Milan this week. But Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who’s gaining on title leader Lewis Hamilton in the standings faster than most of us can gain weight on vacation, walled it during a low-speed run in front of the crowd.
Look, life isn’t fair, alright? Some people, like Formula One driver Lance Stroll, are born better off than others. How is that their fault? They didn’t choose to be born exorbitantly rich, and white guys on top of that. They worked hard for their own success, even if their father just so happens to be a billionaire…
After years of speculation, indignities, close calls, almost-was moments and constant hope that he could accomplish what every racing fan in the world knew he was capable of, we accepted reality: Fernando Alonso is leaving Formula One. He’s going to do something else; Indycar, maybe, or more of the World Endurance…
Nearly four miles of track at Silverstone Circuit in the UK got a full repave this year for the first time since 1996, after complaints of increased bumpiness. The new stuff was smooth at first, but rapid degradation made for a bumpy Formula One race and a canceled MotoGP event.
Everybody hated the flip flop ‘Halo’ when they first saw it because, well, look at it. Even Niki Lauda dissed it and he has a corner named for his brush with death. But most everybody has shut up about the looks now that they’ve seen this onboard 360 camera video of Fernando Alonso crashing over Charles Leclerc’s car…
The Formula One cockpit halo has been controversial from day one, often seen as a necessary evil at best or an ugly symbol of how “soft” the inherently dangerous sport has become. It’s true that it doesn’t look great. But today at the Belgian Grand Prix, it very well may have proved its worth.
Truly, one can never be as cool as whoever shows up to the vintage races at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion to run Laguna Seca in a 1970s F1 car with a custom Dodge Street Van.
After requests from Formula One and the FIA rather than a self-realization that its abundance of F1 tire names are ultra confusing and super difficult to figure out, Pirelli said it will “simplify” its system soon. But the plan is more like a facade of simplification, which just adds another layer of confusion.
With rumors that it might not be able to race at the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend with its recent drama and new ownership, the Force India Formula One team is now Racing Point Force India. Everyone will probably still just call it Force India, because it’s easier and sounds better. And it’s the same team.
