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It was 9 a.m. on a Monday in Manhattan, 3,406 miles from Aston Martin F1 Team’s headquarters in Silverstone, and Jimmy Horne found himself in a party store. The team’s TikTok following teetered on 999,999. The face behind the account glanced from one party horn to another. As the number ticked to one digit, Horne began filming. “I still love the video,” he says, grinning as he remembers …Keep reading

Chip Ganassi has been unwavering in his support of Roger Penske’s leadership of the IndyCar Series, even as some of the paddock grows more disgruntled with various issues that includes the charter system.Last Saturday, the day prior to the season finale that saw Alex Palou give the team owner his 16th IndyCar title, Ganassi sat down for a private media session with Motorsport.com, NBCSports.com …Keep reading

Chris Buescher spoiled the playoff party by winning at Watkins Glen, but he was far from the only one stealing valuable points away from the title contenders. There’s also Ross Chastain, who led half the race and won the second stage. In the end, only one playoff driver finished inside the top-ten in a chaotic race, with several finding trouble on the very first lap — shaking up the standings …Keep reading

Jules Gounon is set to graduate from his role as Alpine’s official World Endurance Championship reserve to take a race seat at Bahrain in November for a second consecutive weekend.The move is part of the same plan, put in place at the beginning of the season, that resulted in Gounon replacing Paul-Loup Chatin in the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh for last weekend’s Fuji round, Motorsport.com has …Keep reading

Convertibles haven’t raced at Martinsville since the 1950s, when NASCAR went to a closed cockpit concept that would have the ability to run on a variety of tracks. But a temporary assignment for Martinsville president Clay Campbell led to an idea where NASCAR and IMSA leadership agreed to put Mazda MX-5 Cup cars on an oval. And so, several decades later, the powers that be were putting …Keep reading

The Singapore Grand Prix is the one the Formula 1 drivers all train for: the hardest on the calendar. You’ll be hearing these modern motorsport cliches plenty this weekend.But there’s a case to be made that one of the championship’s newer night races has taken Singapore’s mantle as F1’s toughest physical racing challenge: the Qatar GP.It’s the drivers themselves that have made the …Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says the team won’t stand in protege Gabriel Bortoleto’s way if Sauber wants to offer him a Formula 1 race seat, but would rather sanction a loan move than let the youngster go definitively.Bortoleto recently emerged as one of the main contenders to partner Nico Hulkenberg at the future Audi team, alongside incumbent Valtteri Bottas and reserve driver Theo …Keep reading

The performances of Oliver Bearman and Franco Colapinto at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix left Haas and Williams with plenty to mull over.For Haas, Bearman’s pace out of the box in Baku was impressive – matching team-mate Nico Hulkenberg and securing a point for finishing 10th, becoming the first driver in F1 history to score for two different teams in his first two appearances.His recovery from a …Keep reading

It’s well known in Formula 1 that if you stand still with your car then you end up going backwards, because others will simply out develop you.But the same is true for team structures too. As the demands of grand prix racing have changed in recent years, and squads experience a perpetual revolving door of personnel, it would be a mistake to become stuck in your ways with how things are run just …Keep reading

RB will race at the Singapore Grand Prix with a denim-effect special livery, which has been designed by team sponsor and fashion brand Hugo for the night-time Formula 1 race.The car features a light-blue, stonewashed denim overlay on the nose and the sidepods, detailed by tears and frayed edges. This is contrasted by a darker blue denim wrap on the endplates and in the space usually occupied by …Keep reading