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Following on from the trial of three sprint qualifying races in 2021, F1 has proposed a doubling of that to six for the upcoming season. The sprint races will be approximately 100km – or a third of a grand prix distance – and will run on Saturday, with the traditional three-part qualifying setting the grid for the sprint and taking place on the Friday. As Formula 1 teams prepare for the next season, it's clear that Red Bull Racing Honda has come into its own, not just as a formidable competitor on the racetrack, but also in the race for the hearts and minds of motorsports enthusiasts.

The session ended with Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, and Daniel Ricciardo finishing on the top three positions respectively. However, while Bottas finished first in sprint qualifying, Verstappen took pole position for the race, due to Bottas having a penalty for exceeding his quota of engine components, which demoted him to 19th. Ricciardo and his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, was promoted to second and third for the grid respectively. Max Verstappen held off Formula One title rival Lewis Hamilton over the final thrilling laps of the U.S. Grand Prix on Sunday to win his eighth race of the season and double his lead in the championship standings.

For example, if fans build a profile or read driver profiles on the Red Bull Racing Honda website, they earn points. They earn more points each time they watch race highlights, take quizzes, find hidden codes and refer friends. As their points accrue, they can level up their status in The Paddock from Red Bull Racing Honda Driver to Red Bull Racing Honda Legend, and redeem points for merchandise, digital downloads, autographed items, unforgettable VIP experiences and more. As has been the case for some time now, in the United Kingdom, Sky Sports F1 have near exclusive coverage rights for the season. They will be showing all practice sessions, qualifying sessions, sprint qualifying and races throughout the season. Formula One season championship leader Max Verstappen posted the fastest time of Friday's second practice at the Mexican Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas finished first in sprint qualifying but was required to start the race from the back of the grid for exceeding his quota of power unit elements. Lewis Hamilton passed Max Verstappen with six laps remaining Sunday to win the chaotic inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and pull even on points with his rival as Formula One's thrilling championship race heads into the title-deciding finale. Get stuck into race weekend early with free practice results published on the Friday of every event and keep track of how things are progressing throughout the season with our regular 'as things stand' updates. Stay close to this page for all of your F1 practice, qualifying and race results. Get all of the latest F1 results from practice sessions, qualifying and race day here. Alongside regularly updated standings, we'll cover the final driver and constructor points tallies at the end of each season.

Together with all of the standard F1 race coverage, you'll find Esports results and standings from all Virtual Grand Prix events here too. After the race, Verstappen and Hamilton were summoned to the stewards regarding their crash. The stewards ruled that Verstappen was predominantly at fault and awarded him a three-place grid penalty for the following race in Sochi, as well as two penalty points on his Super Licence. Hamilton said he was proud of the stewards for being willing to give Verstappen a penalty for the incident. Three-time Formula One World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart criticised Verstappen's behaviour following the incident with Hamilton, saying he was "taking longer than expected to mature".

The FIA will also carry out a safety investigation into the Hamilton-Verstappen crash after considering it an 'unusual incident'. Meanwhile, race winner Ricciardo stated that that was the first time he had ever been overwhelmed by winning, especially considering he had been consistently outperformed by teammate Lando Norris in the first half of the season. Norris himself felt he could have challenged Ricciardo, but decided it would be in the best interests of the McLaren team not to, fearing challenging his team mate could have resulted in a Hamilton-Verstappen-style crash between the pair. Ricciardo held Verstappen behind for 21 laps, until he pitted for hard tyres on lap 22. Verstappen entered the pits on the next lap, but was held for 11.1 seconds due to an issue with the right front tyre.

While Verstappen was in the pits, Hamilton overtook Norris, prompting Norris to pit. Norris came out of the pits ahead of Verstappen, and Hamilton pitted for medium tyres on the following lap. Due to this, Norris was able to overtake him, and Hamilton ended up side-by-side with Verstappen on the pit exit and into turn 1. Verstappen was squeezed into turn 2, bouncing over a sausage kerb and making contact with Hamilton's left rear tyre, launching Verstappen's car into the air and over the top of Hamilton's car. Both drivers were uninjured, but were forced to retire from the race.

This was Hamilton's first retirement in 63 races, the previous being the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix. This scenario is a concern for Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff who, having watched Hamilton crash into the back of Verstappen last time out, said he thought the quicker car with the quicker driver should win the championship. As ever with modern F1, the new season will soon be upon us and with it a new breed of cars and a possible – and hopeful - shake-up of the order. It will be the longest season in F1's history with a total of 23 rounds and potentially six sprint qualifying races, too. Charles Leclerc and George Russell took advantage by pitting during the safety car period, resulting in Leclerc and Russell exiting the pits in second and ninth, respectively.

On the safety car restart, Norris overtook Leclerc to move up into second place. A few laps later, Sergio Pérez attempted an overtake on Leclerc into turn 4, but went off the track; Pérez took third place from Leclerc, but was given a 5-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage. Pérez held off Bottas until the end of the race, but dropped to fifth after the race due to his penalty. The event was the second, of three, to implement a trial weekend format. The first race to use this format occurred during the British Grand Prix.

The change in format means that Free practice 1 and qualifying took place on the Friday. Free practice 2 and sprint qualifying took place on the Saturday, while the race is the sole event on the Sunday. The Yas Marina Circuit is set for dry and clear weather conditions throughout the race weekend, with a very low chance of rain on each day of track action. Highs of 26 degrees Celsius are predicted on Sunday for the start of the race with the temperature dipping as the race progresses into the night. The task for both men is simple – finish ahead of their title rival – but advantage is still with Verstappen.

Should neither finish in the points then the Red Bull driver will be awarded his maiden championship on account of having won more races than Hamilton this season. Now is the time to tune into Formula One, just in case you've been sleeping on the most spectacular season in decades. After 21 races, the championship battle is tied as F1 screams into its title-deciding season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Indeed, this is the time of year when teams like Red Bull Racing Honda, which recently won the 2021 Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship, redesign and develop their cars by experimenting with technology to prepare for the following season. Red Bull Racing Honda recognizes that its fans are engrossed in these changes. It is going above and beyond to feed that interest, even during the winter break, as the off-season is known in the sport. The most thrilling Formula One season in years has come down to the final race.

A straight shootout between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will decide the destination of the 2021 drivers' championship. Here you can read latest news and columns about your favourite sport, analysis of races, watch videos, participate in quizzes and much more. While the battle for the Formula One championship appears destined to go down to the final race of the season, Max Verstappen does have a chance clinch his first career title in Saudi Arabia.

Max Verstappen has no shortage of confidence as he enters Sunday's final Formula One race of the season tied with Lewis Hamilton in points for the driver's championship. Mercedes filed two protests after Lewis Hamilton lost the Formula One world title to Max Verstappen on the final lap of the last race at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Hamilton is currently the most celebrated driver in the sport, with more than 100 race wins and seven world titles to his name. The driver, however, dominated even before making it into F1 by winning the GP2 series in 2006.

Now, a clip of Hamilton battling with former F1 drivers Timo Glock and Nelson Piquet Jr. has emerged on Twitter. In the clip, the Briton demonstrated all kinds of racing techniques, covering off both the inside and the outside while lightly trading hits with Glock and Piquet Jr. As drivers, we all hate traffic, but as the group website editor for Auto Express, I love it. Back in August the Auto Express website smashed through the five-million-users barrier, recording its best-ever trafficfor a single month. In the aftermath of the sprint qualifying, Sergio Pérez criticised the format, saying the sprint at Monza was "very boring" and did not add anything.

Formula One managing director Ross Brawn defended it, saying there was "plenty of action". Fernando Alonso advocated for single lap qualifying as a method of setting the grid for sprint qualifying. Both Channel 4 will the Sky commentary and analysis teams, but the deal means that fans without access to Sky Sports will also be able to watch the historic race live. Hamilton won a dramatic and chaotic Saudi Arabian GP last weekend, while also setting the fastest lap to put him level on points with Verstappen as the Red Bull driver finished in second place. For the first time since 1974, the title contenders go into the final race level on points.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton, having been 19 points behind Verstappen four races ago, has drawn level after a trio of dominant performances in Brazil, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. I dont get the hate, lewis was never more than 5 secs behind par for after his third stop, we have checo passing a bunch of people, also some other great passes in the midfield, great atmosphere and all the drivers loved the track. People say it was boring but i found it much more entertaining than most of the races from the last couple of years. I hope with the new regs next year this track will become even better. Hamilton moved up to fifth after Pierre Gasly — a surprise winner at Monza last year — clipped the back of another car and crashed into the barriers at turn one. He will start the race behind Lando Norris and just ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who won the Italian team's home race in 2019.

Mercedes's Valtteri Bottas wins sprint race but it will be Max Verstappen of Red Bull on pole for the Italian Grand Prix. In the rare event that both racers DNF this Sunday, then the championship will go to Verstappen, as he owns one more race win over Hamilton in 2021. Formula One's dramatic title race took another turn when Max Verstappen edged title rival Lewis Hamilton for the pole at the Circuit of the Americas, where the seven-time champion Hamilton has dominated. Lewis Hamilton was given a five-place grid penalty Friday for this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix after his team decided to give him a new engine.

It's the second time the Mercedes driver has exceeded the limit of three engines for the season. Lewis Hamilton and Max Vetstappen qualified 1-2 for the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix, setting up a showdown between the Formula One championship contenders at the very start of Sunday's race. Sir Frank Williams, the founder and former team principal of Williams Racing, has died. Max Verstappen overcame a mistake in qualifying to grab the pole for the Formula One title-deciding Abu Dhabi GP, where he'll try on Sunday to dethrone seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. The most dramatic Formula One season in years ended, of course, in one of the most dramatic finishes possible when Max Verstappen snatched the world championship away from Lewis Hamilton with a pass on the final lap of the Abu Dhabi GP. Mercedes ended the dispute over the Formula One season finale on Thursday when it withdrew its appeal of the controversial finish that cost Lewis Hamilton a record eighth championship.

Results from sprint qualifying at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Round 19 of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. Updated F1 drivers' and constructors' world championship standings following the 2021 Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos. Updated F1 drivers' and constructors' world championship standings following the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix.

Updated F1 drivers' and constructors' world championship standings following the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Updated F1 drivers' and constructors' world championship standings following the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Perez finished the season strongly with podiums in Turkey, the United States and Mexico, and played a critical role in holding up Verstappen's title rival, Lewis Hamilton, in the Abu Dhabi championship decider. Ben Roethlisberger missed the opportunity for his second touchdown pass of the night when he missed a delivery that resulted in Pittsburgh having to settle for Chris Boswell's second field goal of the game, this one a 30-yarder.

Formula 1 will present upgrades introduced by five teams after qualifying at each race weekend during 2022. While there wouldn't be any actual F1 cars at the shoot, each of the seven road-car manufacturers taking part in the 2021 season was sending some of its very best metal on sale today. I arrived to find supercar after supercar rolling off delivery lorries, including the likes of a McLaren 720S, a Ferrari 488 Pista, a Honda NSX, and an Aston Martin Vantage Roadster.

It's not usual to include a road test among our highlights of the year, but then the Hyundai Ioniq 5 is not your usual car. The car pictured was one of only two in the UK and arrived the day before, directly from Norway, hence its unfamiliar number plate. But it's the model itself that's my personal highlight of 2021; indeed it's probably among the top ten cars I've ever driven.

Formula 1 Race Today Highlights The new website opened for business in March 2020 right before the pandemic really started to bite, and in the difficult times since, the impact of our new technology has been nothing short of phenomenal. It's fair to say that the car industry has experienced myriad problems, but the story of our website shows that far from waning, the interest and enthusiasm of our audiences is growing. In fact, 35 per cent more people have visited our site since it relaunched, and 2021 is the best year we've ever had.

Drop the clutch, fish around for second gear with the enormous, wand-like gearlever and sink your foot into the throttle. Just as you wonder if it's broken, the huge Garrett turbocharger takes a deep breath and catapults you at the scenery. It's a case of holding on, watching the digital rev counter whip towards the limiter and seeing the speed rise at an impossible rate. I stole a couple more laps of the Millbrook bowl than I was allowed, because it's probably the last time I'll drive a 227mph Skoda. Channel 4 will have their extended qualifying and race highlights again, with the British Grand Prix in July broadcast live.

Pierre Gasly finished ninth in the drivers' championship and he spoke around his progression in the recently concluded season. Bottas was quickest in Friday's qualifying and so started just ahead of Hamilton. But the seven-time world champion had a nightmare start and swiftly dropped to sixth. Rather than the standard format of two practices on Friday and a third practice and qualifying on Saturday, there was one practice on Friday followed by a qualifying session that determined the grid for Saturday's sprint. Mercedes has asked for a review of the overtaking incident involving world champion Lewis Hamilton and title rival Max Verstappen during the Brazilian Grand Prix, the Formula One team said Tuesday.

Lewis Hamilton inched closer to the Formula One championship lead with a dominating victory Sunday in the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix to earn back-to-back wins and chip away at Max Verstappen's points advantage. As Hamilton and Verstappen sat next to each other for their joint news conference, the F1 championship trophy strategically placed between them, the race was already on. Hamilton took the lead at the race start after a brilliant launch off the line – but the race was turned on its head with five laps to go, as Nicholas Latifi crashed at Turn 14. In his second season, Koretsky comes to the starting line with more confidence as a driver, more power under the hood, and even higher expectations for the team's success. There is a lot happening as NHRA speeds into what figures to be a very promising 2022 season, but we've managed to lock down 10 noteworthy storylines that every race fan should be following.

The first week of January marked the start of the pursuit of NHRA Top Fuel championship No. 4 for Steve Torrence's Capco Contractors team. NHRA's John Kernan stopped by their Brownsburg, Ind., shop to take a look at the work underway for their title defense. Results from the final practice session at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Round 21 of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. Results from the third and final practice session at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Round 22 of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. Reflecting on his first season with Red Bull, Perez explained how the vastly different car philosophy and lack of pre-season test running - cut to just three days in total for all teams last year - made it hard to adjust quickly.

To me, Abu Dhabi was not an incident in isolation, but the culmination of a series of things that could easily have been avoided. This is partly due to poor decisions from FIA officials, but also from a rulebook that is more of a bodged-together collection of quick-fix, knee-jerk rules than a coherent and sensical set of regulations. For example, is a red flag restart lap back to the grid a SC lap or a formation lap, because at the minute it has a selection of rules from each of them? Yes, the end was farcical and unfair, but not that unsurprising considering the state of the sport and the officials. And I guess keeping that sentiment alive might also help push the new FIA leadership into accepting a real change.

Let's hope they do really improve the rules of racing and make them clear and reasonable instead of obfuscated in hundreds of pages of partly contradictory. To make matters worse, the fact that AlphaTauri had one of the most balanced and well rounded cars on the grid and a great performing Gasly didn't do him any favours and extrapolated his weaknesses. Together with Gerald Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi, Kalkhoven bought the collapsed series in 2004. He also acquired engine builder Cosworth from Ford, ensuring a supply of motors for the championship, which continued for four more years as the Champ Car World Series. Since launching in October, The Red Bull Racing Paddock loyalty program has already generated substantial engagement, including significant growth in its fan account members, and earned kudos from fans around the world.