Category: Motorsports

Binotto Resigns as Ferrari F1 Team Boss

Ferrari Formula One boss Mattia Binotto has handed in his resignation and will leave at the end of the year, the world championship runners-up said on Tuesday. The news came after considerable media speculation that the 53-year-old, whose contract was due to expire at the end of 2023, had lost top-level support after another failed…


Verstappen Signs Off With Record-Extending Win in Abu Dhabi Finale

ABU DHABI—Double world champion Max Verstappen signed off on a dominant 2022 Formula One campaign with a record-extending 15th win of the year in Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as Charles Leclerc secured second in the overall standings. The Dutchman, who wrapped up the title last month in Japan with four races to spare,…


Perez, Leclerc Battle for 2nd in F1, Vettel in Last Race

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—Two drivers are level on points ahead of the Formula One season finale in Abu Dhabi. This time it’s only for second place. Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez are both on 290 points going into the final race Sunday at the Yas Marina circuit. It’s a subdued echo of last year’s…


Joe Gibbs Racing Co-owner Coy Gibbs, 49, Dies Hours After Son Wins Title

AVONDALE, Ariz.—Coy Gibbs, the vice chairman of Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) for his NFL and NASCAR Hall of Fame father, died Sunday morning just hours after his son won the Xfinity Series championship. He was 49. “It is with great sorrow that Joe Gibbs Racing confirms that Coy Gibbs (co-owner) went to be with the…


Bubba Wallace Accepts Penalty, Wants Consistency

Bubba Wallace returned to NASCAR competition Saturday and said last week’s one-race suspension was difficult, but he recognizes that the penalty was warranted. Going forward, though, Wallace wants NASCAR to be consistent in officiating. Wallace was suspended one week under NASCAR’s behavioral policy for intentionally wrecking Kyle Larson, walking on a live track and then…


Red Bull Fined $7 Million for Overspending F1 Cost Cap

MEXICO CITY—Fancy catering and energy drinks. Social security contributions and medical treatments for an employee that survived their illness. Those are some of the expenditures Red Bull claimed Friday it improperly misrepresented when submitting its 2021 financial report. It led to a breach of Formula One’s spending cap, set at $145 million for its debut…


Verstappen Wins US Grand Prix as Red Bull Take Constructors’ Crown

Max Verstappen fought back from a slow pitstop to win the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin on Sunday as his Red Bull team clinched the Formula One constructors’ title a day after the death of billionaire owner Dietrich Mateschitz. The title, clinched with three races to spare, ended an eight-year streak by Mercedes who have…


Red Bull Formula One Owner Dietrich Mateschitz Dies at 78

AUSTIN, Texas—Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, announced Mateschitz’s death Saturday. There was no immediate word…


NASCAR Set for Homestead, While Wallace Watches From Afar

HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Bubba Wallace is missing Sunday’s NASCAR race, and that’s evidently not his only sanction after losing his cool in Las Vegas last weekend. Denny Hamlin—who, along with Michael Jordan, co-owns the 23XI racing team that Wallace drives for—said Saturday that the team has dealt with matters in a way that goes “above and beyond”…


Verstappen Fastest in Final US Grand Prix Practice

AUSTIN, Texas—Double Formula One world champion Max Verstappen was fastest in final practice on Saturday for a U.S. Grand Prix likely to hand the constructors’ title to his Red Bull team. The Dutch 25-year-old, who took his second successive drivers’ title in Japan this month, lapped the Circuit of the Americas with a best time…