Just last year, Honda Formula One engines were a mix of the biggest joke and the biggest mechanical plague in the sport. “Honda” was so synonymous with “bad” in F1 that you could practically swap the words out in a sentence. Now, Honda is the new engine supplier for F1’s third-best team, Red Bull Racing.
After a miscommunication between officials ended the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix early and caused a lot of grief for Winnie Harlow, the celebrity who waved it, F1 could start using a computerized checkered flag. No, really, F1 may hand the most iconic symbol in motorsports to computers over a rare mistake.
It wasn’t surprising that Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel took the checkered flag first on Sunday at the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix. What was surprising was when he took it, since a major miscommunication led the flag to be waved before the finish and effectively end the race more than five miles early.
It’s difficult to call what happened in Montreal today a race, exactly. At the front of the field, it was Sebastian Vettel who had qualified on pole, run away at the start, and set the car on cruise control leading every single lap and never looking back. This was an incredibly boring Formula One Grand Prix, which is…
Fernando Alonso is the fourth most prolific racer in Formula One history, having already entered 299 Grands Prix with this weekend’s Canadian run set to be his 300th—only Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button, and Michael Schumacher have run more. He’s been saddled with some terrible racing cars in recent years, and he…
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A 20-year-old driver named Lewis Hamilton recently got sentenced to eight months in jail and a temporary ban from driving after a police chase in March, according to the Daily Star. He’s not the Lewis Hamilton most of us are familiar with, not that the Daily Star’s headline would’ve keyed you into that.
Formula One driver Max Verstappen said at a recent press conference that he “might headbutt someone” if journalists (and other people, too, maybe?) keep asking about how much he’s been crashing his car in F1 lately. It’s not the cute and loving kind of headbutt like a pet cat does, though. He seems mad.
Formula One helmets are tougher than bad steak at a cheap restaurant you knew looked sketchy but went to anyway, as shown by YouTube video upon YouTube video of people trying to break them with sledgehammers and other weaponry. But they don’t get to that point without some ridiculous testing requirements.
A woman who accused Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen and a member of his entourage of sexually assaulting her at a bar during Montreal’s 2015 Grand Prix weekend is now the subject of a police complaint from Raikkonen claiming harassment and extortion, according to reports. But the woman who made the allegations on…
Jackie Stewart’s transition from three-time Formula One World Champion to businessman and public figure was pretty flawless. It’s pretty hard to argue with someone as universally well-known as Stewart when it comes to cars; the man was basically a self-made racer who dug his own path to success.
Formula One has given us a great look at the obstructive view of the new F1 halo design from a camera strapped to Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly’s noggin as he raced around the Monaco Grand Prix.
For being the crown jewel of the Formula One season, the Monaco Grand Prix… usually leaves a little left to be desired. It’s one of those races that usually isn’t too exciting unless someone crashes because after the first lap, there’s not much action to be had. Racing isn’t what it used to be back in the day; it…
It’s graduation season, which means it’s time for students to bust out their eleventh hour creativity. For some, that means trying to snap their fingers to turn that questionable grade into a solid A during the last week of classes to make sure they won’t have to have an awkward conversation with the parents about…
Following the fatal crash of Jules Bianchi at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, Formula One developed and introduced a new virtual safety car system the next racing season, which slows drivers down during a caution without the need of a physical pace car on the track. Here’s how it works.
The introduction of Formula One’s new halo cockpit design was extremely controversial, despite the drivers slowly warming up to having the new protection. Aesthetics be damned, the new halo has already probably saved at least one driver during a Formula 2 race last weekend.
Formula One raced at the Circuit de Barcelona for the 5th round of the season today. Lewis Hamilton took the victory after streaking away from pole at the start of the race and never relinquishing the lead. With Sebastian Vettel making an unexpected late-race pit stop, his Ferrari fell into fourth and he didn’t score…
Ever since Formula One announced that they were going to offer a new livestreaming service, people have been eagerly rubbing their hands together waiting for its debut. F1 TV was finally announced to be in action for the Spanish Grand Prix after several issues caused its release to be pushed back from the start of…
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Typos are bad and embarrassing. Why, the very website you are reading once called the then-GOP presidential nominee “Tump” in a headline. So we’re sympathetic to the particularly noticeable typo before this weekend’s Formula One race, designing a “#SpainishGP” logo that got painted across the race track. Then some…