Motor Sports

12/19/2024 |  Red Bull picks Liam Lawson as Max Verstappen’s F1 teammate in 2025 (Associated Press (AP)) MILTON KEYNES, England (AP) — Liam Lawson will partner world champion Max Verstappen at Red Bull in 2025, the Formula 1 team said on Thursday.
Lawson, a New Zealander, replaces Sergio Perez, who was dropped on Wednesday after months of poor results.
The 22-year-old Lawson will switch from Racing Bulls, Red Bull’s sister team, after racing as a replacement driver in 2023 and this year. He started in Red Bull’s junior program.

12/19/2024 |  Bottas returns to Mercedes as reserve driver after Sauber exit (Reuters Sports) Dec 19 (Reuters) - Valtteri Bottas will return to Mercedes as a reserve driver for the 2025 season, the Formula One team announced on Thursday, after the Finn left Sauber at the end of the season.
The 35-year-old Bottas spent five seasons from 2017 to 2021 at Mercedes driving alongside Lewis Hamilton before moving to Alfa Romeo, which later became Sauber.

12/13/2024 |  Rwandan president announces bid for F1 race (Reuters Sports) KIGALI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Rwandan president Paul Kagame announced his country's bid for a Formula One race on Friday, ahead of an awards ceremony in the capital Kigali that will hand the champion's trophy to Max Verstappen for a fourth year in a row.
Formula One has not raced in Africa since the last South African Grand Prix was held at Kyalami, north of Johannesburg, in 1993.

12/13/2024 |  F1 governing body approves controversial statute changes (Reuters Sports) KIGALI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body approved statute changes on Friday that critics say will limit the powers of audit and ethics committees.
The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said the revisions were approved at its general assembly in Kigali ahead of a gala awards ceremony for the year's various championships in the Rwandan capital.

12/13/2024 |  Red Bull's RB F1 team to compete as Racing Bulls in 2025 (Reuters Sports) Dec 13 (Reuters) - The Red Bull-owned RB Formula One team will compete as Racing Bulls next season, the official entry list published by the governing FIA confirmed on Friday.
The former AlphaTauri, Scuderia Toro Rosso and Minardi team started the 2024 season with the cumbersome name of Visa Cash App RB -- shortened to VCARB or just RB -- but will now be Visa Cash App Racing Bulls.