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18-03-2025
- Sport
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Racing Bulls' F1 Rookie Isack Hadjar Had an 'Embarrassing' Debut to Forget
Red Bull Formula 1 team long-time consultant Helmut Marko criticized Kick Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto during the Formula 1 preseason suggesting that the reigning F2 and F3 champion was not a Grade-A driver. However, it was one of Marko's own proteges who pulled a shocker in Melbourne. Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar's encouraging debut weekend came to a crashing conclusion on the formation lap for the season-opening F1 Australian Grand Prix when he looped the car into the barriers at turn 2. Hadjar was emotional in the aftermath and that public display did not go down well with Marko, Red Bull's consultant and driver honcho. 'He put on a tearful show,' Marko told Austria's broadcaster ORF. 'That was a bit embarrassing.' There was more sympathy for the Racing Bulls driver from Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. 'It was quite heart-wrenching to see him so gutted,' Horner said. 'His first Grand Prix, I think the positives he needs to take out of it. When he reflects on the weekend, he performed very well through the practices and the qualifying. You forget that these guys are just kids, really. Obviously, a lot of emotion for him, but I think when he strips it back, there's an awful lot of positives he can take out of the weekend. He's got many bright days ahead of him.'
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Business
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CNBC Will Bring Its Sports Business Brand to TV and Events in Expansion (Exclusive)
CNBC is throwing its weight behind its nascent CNBC Sport brand, bringing its sports business coverage to CNBC TV and live events in a significant way. The company will launch a CNBC Sport weekend show CNBC Sport: On The Record, that features interview with sports business executives and newsmakers, and is planning a series of long-form CNBC Sport-branded productions that explore the intersection of sports and business, with NBA superstar Steph Curry's off-court endeavors set to be the focus of the first such project. More from The Hollywood Reporter Women's Selection Sunday 2025 Livestream: When to Stream NCAA March Madness Online on Sling TV How to Watch the 2025 NWSL Regular Season Online Without Cable F1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 Livestream: How to Watch the Race Online Free 'In an era where everything is time shifted or time delayed, sports is the one sort of appointment type viewing — that and the live market, by the way — so you have to be engaged,' says Max Meyers, VP & senior executive producer of strategic verticals & audience development, in an interview. 'And that has inflated the value of these franchises, and there's a natural scarcity to them as well. 'That has brought a torrent of money from all around the world, whether it be from sovereign wealth funds, whether it be from private equity funds, whether it be from other types of Wall Street type, traditional investment houses into this space,' he adds. 'And as a result of that, there's a lot of money going back and forth. CNBC tells the story of money better than any network or any news outlet in all of its forms, so it made sense that we did it.' According to CNBC Sport reporter Alex Sherman, the idea came from CNBC president KC Sullivan: 'His pitch was 'look, sports is like a very large investable asset now.'' 'But in addition to that, the people that are the owners of these teams are largely already on CNBC, and so we talk to them about the markets, or whatever their main business is, and then we shoehorn in a sports question or two when they're up on air,' Sherman adds. 'We've shoehorned it in the past to some degree so his his idea was like, look, this is already here, we should have a platform for all this where we really dive in, because there's so much appetite for it, and there's so much crossover with what we already do.' In addition to the CNBC Sport newsletter, CNBC has increased the amount of sports business coverage sevenfold since it launched, the business outlet says. And it has pushed into a weekly sports business podcast, which in turn will form the basis of its upcoming weekend show beginning March 29. Interviews filmed for the video podcast will be repurposed for the weekly series. 'If you think about the amount of wrings you get out of that media, it's remarkably efficient, and it looks modern, it doesn't look like cable news,' Meyers says. As for the longer-form video docs, Sherman frames them as an extension of something he was doing previously, with YouTube and ESPN already being the focus of some of those efforts. 'The process of this thing that we're going to do with Steph Curry will be quite similar,' Sherman says, adding that his crew followed Curry around for a few days around the NBA All Star weekend, with an extended interview taking place on a boat. 'The original conceit of it was that we were going to follow him into the Chase Center for the three point contest,' he added. 'But then at the last minute, he pulled out of the three point contest with [WNBA star] Sabrina Ionescu, and they scrapped that plan. But we kept the boat ride.' The first branded live event, CNBC Sport: Inside the Business of Women's Basketball, is set for April 5, and will be sponsored by JPMorganChase. 'There's a real desire on the part of the marketplace to partner and be associated with this content and this brand and how it lives in this space, and that was the goal,' Meyers says, adding that they are reaching the audience they intended to reach when they launched. 'I think the thing that is sort of most interesting to me is the engagement that we're finding with our content … we can see the email addresses of the people who are signing up for these and it's all the people that we hoped to attract when we talked about this endeavor. It's the commissioners, it's the agents, it's the sports bankers.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Brad Pitt Races Toward Redemption in Fast-Paced ‘F1' Trailer
Brad Pitt gets a second chance behind the wheel in the full trailer for F1 — and yes, the star actually does his own driving for the racing movie. The Apple film from director Joseph Kosinski hits theaters and IMAX from Warner Bros. on June 25. Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Javier Bardem round out the cast. F1 features Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former Formula One racer who was forced into early retirement until a team owner (Bardem) asks him to return to the sport and help mentor a rookie driver (Idris). More from The Hollywood Reporter F1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 Livestream: How to Watch the Race Online Free 'Lilo & Stitch' Live-Action Remake Makes Splash With Full Trailer Jon Hamm Robs His Rich Friends in 'Your Friends & Neighbors' Trailer During a press event to debut the trailer, which can be seen below, Kosinski explained that he connected with racing legends Lewis Hamilton, who is a producer on the film, and Toto Wolff to help capture the speed associated with the sport. 'It was actually Toto who came up with the idea of, rather than making a movie car fast enough to achieve these speeds, he said, 'Why don't you take a real race car and then work the cameras that you need into that?'' Kosinski said. 'So every time you see Brad or Damson driving in this movie, they're driving on their own in one of these real race cars on a real F1 track.' Kosinski praised his star for an innate sense of how to handle the vehicle. 'Brad had a lot of just natural ability right from the start, and I don't know where he got that or if he was born with it, and he rides motorcycles, which I think has something to do with it,' the filmmaker shared. 'But he's just a very talented, naturally gifted driver, which for Lewis after that first meeting gave him a lot of confidence that we might have a shot at pulling this off.' The film's team worked to improve the cameras that were used to capture flight footage for Kosinski's most recent film, Top Gun: Maverick. 'The big challenge was just the camera system itself,' he said. 'We had to develop a brand new camera system taking everything we learned on Top Gun: Maverick and pushing it much further. You can't put 60 pounds of gear onto a race car and expect it's going to perform the same way.' In the trailer, Pitt's character expresses his love for racing. 'If the last thing I do is drive that car, I will take that life, man,' the actor says as Sonny. 'A thousand times.' Kosinski helmed the film from a script by Ehren Kruger, who also worked on Top Gun: Maverick. Pitt, Kosinski, Hamilton, Jerry Bruckheimer, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman serve as producers for F1. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
