7:31 AM ET Formula One CEO Chase Carey is still committed to a 25-race calendar in future and has warned events with “unattractive” deals signed under the previous regime that their places on it are at risk. Liberty took control of F1 at the beginning of 2017 and has sought out new venues to host
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8:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live At a time when the subject of one driver coming into physical contract with another is in the news, it is coincidentally
8:55 AM ET German teenager Sophia Floersch has suffered a spinal fracture in a terrifying 270km/h crash at the Formula 3 street race at Macau. Floersch, 17, was sent hurtling into the barriers lining the edge of the race track when her car vaulted over another car. Videos from the grandstands do not show the
11:14 AM ET Associated Press CHESTE, Spain — Andrea Dovizioso of Ducati took advantage of a difficult wet track to win the season-ending Valencia MotoGP on Sunday. Poor conditions forced the race to be interrupted near its halfway point with Alex Rins in the lead on a Suzuki, but Dovizioso took control after the restart
6:35 AM ET Tatiana Calderon has completed her second test for the Sauber F1 team. Over two days, the Colombian driver accumulated 590 kilometres of Ferrari’s test circuit Fiorano, in northern Italy, to follow on from her appearance at a filming day at Mexico City’s F1 circuit in October. On that occasion she was limited
9:21 AM ET Toto Wolff believes Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is an “unbelievable talent” but says the Dutchman still has some flaws he needs to address before he can be Formula One champion. Understandable but not justifiable — that was the view of Formula One’s motorsport managing director, Ross Brawn, after watching the altercation between
12:06 PM ET Teenage Formula 3 racer Sophia Floersch has come through surgery without complications following the horrifying high-speed crash which left her with a fractured spine at the weekend. Early on in Sunday’s race Floersch, 17, hit a rival car on the flat-out run down to Lisboa corner. That caused her to lose control
6:57 AM ET This time next week, Fernando Alonso will no longer be a Formula One driver. For many in the sport there is a great deal of frustration in that fact, fuelled by an overwhelming sense of ‘what if?’ What if Alonso found his way back into a competitive car? Would he then be
7:31 AM ET Formula One is hoping to bring back the Dutch Grand Prix and build on the wave of popularity surrounding Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. “We are very interested in racing in Holland,” Sean Bratches, the sport’s commercial managing director, told Reuters when asked about a possible return to the Zandvoort circuit that hosted
8:08 AM ET The chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, Carlos Ghosn, has been arrested in Japan over allegations of financial impropriety and is expected to be sacked from his position. Ghosn was arrested on his arrival in Japan on Monday after an internal investigation at Nissan revealed “significant acts of misconduct”. The Japanese car manufacturer