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ABC News
02-05-2025
- Automotive
- ABC News
Mercedes' 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli pips Oscar Piastri in Miami F1 Grand Prix sprint qualifying
Mercedes' Italian rookie Kimi Antonelli became F1's youngest pole sitter in any format after lapping fastest in the Miami Grand Prix sprint qualifying. Photo shows Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris pose for a photograph together. Oscar Piastri leaps to the defence of Lando Norris after ex-Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones suggests the Briton lacks mental toughness. The 18-year-old, preparing for only his sixth grand prix weekend, lapped with a best time of one minute and 26.482 seconds to pip Australia's championship leader Oscar Piastri by 0.045. Piastri's McLaren teammate Lando Norris was third fastest, with Red Bull's four-times world champion Max Verstappen completing the second row on the day he announced he had become a father for the first time. "The last lap was mighty. I put everything together. I'm really happy to get the first pole," said a surprised Antonelli, who replaced seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in January. The previous youngest ever pole sitter was Sebastian Vettel at the age of 21 years and 73 days in 2008 at the Italian Grand Prix, before sprint races existed. Piastri leads closest rival Norris by 10 points on the championship standings and will be chasing his third grand prix win in a row in the main event on Monday AEST. Qualifying for the race taking place after the sprint. "We can still fight from there in the sprint tomorrow. All in all pretty happy," Piastri said. "We've got a bit more pace to unlock hopefully, so I'm feeling positive still. I'll try to make up a spot in the sprint before we get stuck into where the big points are." ABC Sport will be live blogging the Miami F1 Grand Prix on Monday morning AEST Hamilton, winner of the first sprint race of the season in China from pole position for Ferrari, qualified seventh with teammate Charles Leclerc sixth. Mercedes' George Russell will line up in fifth position. Only the top eight places in the 100km race on Sunday AEST score points. Williams had Alex Albon qualify eighth, with French rookie Isack Hadjar ninth for Racing Bulls and Fernando Alonso completing the top 10 for Aston Martin. Australia's Jack Doohan, driving for Alpine Renault, was 17th in the qualifying stage. Reuters/ABC
Indianapolis Star
24-04-2025
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
IMS Museum acquires 14 cars from Chip Ganassi Racing, including 5 Indy 500-winners
This is the museum's largest acquisition since 2011. With the addition of these five Indy 500-winning cars from Ganassi, the museum now owns 39 500 winners and has in its possession 49, far and away the largest collection in the world. The collection of 500 winners provides a needed update to the museum, which gives it five Indy 500-winning cars more recent than the previously most current winner it owned (1995). INDIANAPOLIS — In the process of the IMS Museum's $60.5 million facelift, museum president Joe Hale and the museum's board made a decision that stands to alter its future for generations. With all the cars rolled out of the museum's confines, they could take stock in the entire collection, and they started to see differentiating factor in the dozens of cars they owned: They either had something to do with their mission, telling the 100-plus-year history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, or they didn't. Lucky for them, several of those non-mission cars had significant value, including the second-most valuable car sold at auction, the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Streamliner, an ex-Formula 1 car driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Sir Stirling Moss which sold for $53,917,370 earlier this year. Together with RM Sotheby's, the museum sold off 11 cars in its collection, among them a (Le Mans-winning) 1964 Ferrari 250 LM ($36,344,960), a 1966 Ford GT40 MK II ($13,205,000), a 1908 Mercedes 17.3-liter 150 HP Brookland Semmering Rennwagen ($8,255,000) and a 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64 ($7,705,000). In total, the 11 cars combined to fetch just short of $125 million, and with that endowment, the museum has made its largest vehicle acquisition since 2011, purchasing 14 cars, including five Indianapolis 500-winning ones, from Chip Ganassi Racing, adding the museum's first modern-day Indy cars to its collection. The museum would not revealed what it paid for the cars. 'Three or four months ago, we started having conversations with Chip, and what a great partner to have. He's basically said, 'I have these cars, and they belong in your museum where people can see them and enjoy them,'' Hale told IndyStar. 'My whole point (in this acquisition) was that if a guy or girl who's 30 or 40 comes into our museum, they really don't see a car that is in their era that they can relate to, and with this collection from Chip, we're acquiring cars from the last 30-plus years, and it's really going to resonate with a younger crowd that comes in here.' The five 500-winning cars acquired by the museum from CGR amount to all the team's victorious cars in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, including: Juan Pablo Montoya's 2000 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Target G-force GF05 Scott Dixon's 2008 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara IR6 Dario Franchitti's 2010 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara IR6 Dario Franchitti's 2012 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara IR12 Marcus Ericsson's 2022 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Huski Chocolate Chip Ganassi Racing Honda Dallara IR18 Ahead of Thursday's news, the museum owned 34 500-winning cars, 28 of which are currently on display – 27 split between its pair of 500 winners' galleries as well as A.J. Foyt's victorious car from 1977 in the Four-Time Winners Gallery. Additionally, the museum currently has on loan the winning cars from 1996 and 2011 and eight more split between the Penske Gallery and the Four-Time Winners Gallery. With the five purchased from Ganassi, it makes 49 Indy 500-winning cars in the museum's possession, far and away the most in the world. Prior to Thursday, the museum's most recent 500-winning car acquisition came in 2021, Bobby Rahal's 1986 winner, and until the addition of the five Ganassi cars, the museum's most current 500-winning car it owned was the victorious machine of Jacques Villeneuve from 1995. Among the rest of the purchases from Ganassi include the museum's first Brickyard 400-winning car, the 2010 winner of Jamie McMurray, the Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevrolet Impala SS, which was already on display in the museum as part of its temporary Brickyard 400-winning cars gallery. Other highlights from the museum's latest acquisition include: Scott Dixon's 2022 Indianapolis 500 Pole Winner, PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda Dallara DW12, in which he passed Al Unser as the all-time leader in most laps led in the 500 Michael Andretti's 1994 Target/Scotch Video Reynard 94I, Chip Ganassi Racing's first team win Greg Moore's rookie year car, the 1996 Player's/Indeck Reynard 96I Alex Zanardi's 1998 CART Championship-winning car, h 1998 Reynard 98I Scott Dixon's 2015 IndyCar Championship winning car, Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet Dallara DW12 Delta Wing, one of three chassis proposals for the 2012 IndyCar season, which was unveiled at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show Juan Pablo Montoya's Target Lola B2K/00, which won the 2000 Michigan 500 Tomas Scheckter's Target Chip Ganassi Racing G-Force GF09, in which he placed fourth at the 2003 500 — the South African driver's best finish at Indianapolis 5 thoughts on the IMS Museum's glow up: From 'indoor parking lot' to immersed wonder Hale said since the news of the museum's $125 million endowment, outsiders haven't been shy about showing their interest in striking a deal. 'We've been approached by a lot of people who want to sell us stuff, but we really want to be strategic in what we add to the collection,' Hale told IndyStar. 'This (acquisition) was so important because it really does fill a void in winning 500 cars from the last 30-plus years, but I think we're going to be very strategic with any future acquisitions.' Though he declined to offer specifics on the deal with Ganassi, Hale said that moving forward with the amount the museum has left from the nearly $125 million it earned from its deaccession of those 11 cars, the museum will plan to only work off of the interest revenue the endowment earns, with which it can make future purchases of cars or memorabilia to add to its collection. 'We've made a nice acquisition from Chip, but now we want to take a very steady approach annually to determine where the gaps in our collection are,' Hale said. 'It won't always be cars. It could be different items we think belong in our collection, whether it's a helmet or a race suit or a trophy.'
BBC News
02-04-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
What's it like being a replacement F1 driver?
It is the sort of debut he will have dreamed Tsunoda will race for Red Bull for the first time in front of his home fans at this weekend's Japanese Grand alongside the sense of pride there will likely also be feelings of uncertainty and pressure on the 24-year-old, after he was promoted to replace Liam Lawson just two races into the was demoted after crashing out of the season opener in Australia and then qualifying last for both the Sprint and Grand Prix in China a week meanwhile, steps up from the junior F1 team Racing Bulls."It's a mixed feeling," he told BBC Radio 5 live."But even with the pressure and challenge you'll only experience that situation ever, maybe once or twice in life so overall I'm super excited." What are the challenges Tsunoda faces? Tsunoda will have a lot to learn in a short space of may be only 24 but is an experienced F1 driver, having been racing since 2021 with AlphaTauri and RB - now Racing Bulls - last having spent pre-season familiarising with the Racing Bulls car he will now quickly have to learn how to handle Red Bull's says he has spent plenty of time in the simulator, but nothing can match the experience of driving it for real."I think getting into any new car is not easy but at the same time I drove already the simulator car quite well, it's close enough to feel the car," Tsunoda said. "I know the direction I want to have in terms of car set-up, it still works quite well when I tried in simulator and I'm sure I'll start in a direction more towards that."In addition, he will have to quickly build a relationship with his new race engineer and team-mate Max Verstappen that the rest of the field will already have."I think Yuki has nothing to lose because everybody has been struggling in that seat," ex-Formula 1 driver Jaime Alguersuari told BBC Radio 5 live."Everybody has been struggling to find the right set-up, to understand how Max is doing it."He has a lot of experience. He came into Formula One and many people were doubting him but he has developed himself. "He had a decent season last year and I think he is a very competitive driver." Ruthless Red Bull or right decision? Lawson's demotion means he will be racing for Red Bull's junior team Racing Bulls this 23-year-old New Zealander is certainly not the first to have experienced this at Red Bull, with the team having developed a reputation for being great for giving young talent a chance, but ruthless with a driver if they feel it isn't working 2016, Daniil Kvyat was dropped after two high-profile crashes with then team-mate Sebastian Vettel at the Russian Grand Prix - the fourth race of the world champion Max Verstappen, who was 18 at the time, was promoted to replace Kvyat and the Dutchman made an instant impression as he won the Spanish Grand Prix - his first race for Red Bull and one that made him the youngest winner in F1 went on to dominate the sport while Kvyat's Formula 1 career never really recovered. He had a couple of seasons with Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri but has raced in different series' since Perez was Verstappen's team-mate last season but endured a difficult run of form as he struggled with the RB20 and he was dropped by Red Bull at the end of the year."When I joined Red Bull, there had been great drivers who had struggled - Alex [Albon], Pierre [Gasly], they are fantastic drivers and they struggled," Perez told external"For me, it was very simple, the car is just quite difficult to get 100% out of it, to get the confidence out of it - and the things I struggled with, even Adrian [Newey, the team's former design chief] talked about them."Alguersuari knows all too well how tough the sport can be with all the pressure to perform, particularly at Red spent three seasons in F1 from 2009, mainly racing for Red Bull's junior team Toro Rosso, where he scored 25 of the team's 40 points in 2011 but lost his drive there at the end of that season."Red Bull as the ability to make you feel outside of your comfort zone, to make you doubt yourself," Alguersuari added."Red Bull is a machine of destroying drivers because they have this mentality and philosophy of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So they always push and put pressure on you."Even at Toro Rosso they asked me to win a race or otherwise it was not good enough. You had this feeling of not being good enough all the time unless you are world champion." What about the driver being replaced? There's no doubt it is tough to take for the driver who has effectively been reacted to the news on social media by posting a picture of himself as a child and a drawing he made of becoming an F1 driver."Being a Red Bull Racing driver has been my dream since I was a kid, it's what I've worked towards my whole life," he wrote."It's tough, but I'm grateful for everything that's brought me to this point."Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said everything would be done to ensure Lawson has the support he needs."We have a duty of care to protect and develop Liam and together," he said."We see that after such a difficult start, it makes sense to act quickly so Liam can gain experience, as he continues his F1 career with ... Racing Bulls, an environment and a team he knows very well."
Daily Tribune
21-03-2025
- Automotive
- Daily Tribune
Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan dies aged 76
AFP | Paris Flamboyant former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has died aged 76 after battling an 'aggressive form of prostate cancer', his family announced yesterday. The Irishman revealed in December he was suffering with bladder and prostate cancer, which had spread to his spine and pelvis. 'It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Eddie Jordan OBE, the ex-Formula 1 team owner, TV pundit and entrepreneur,' his family said in a statement. 'He passed away peacefully with family by his side in Cape Town in the early hours of 20th March 2025 at the age of 76, after battling with an aggressive form of prostate cancer for the past 12 months. 'EJ brought an abundance of charisma, energy and Irish charm everywhere he went. We all have a huge hole missing without his presence. He will be missed by so many people, but he leaves us with tonnes of great memories to keep us smiling through our sorrow.' Jordan's team, which he named after himself, entered 250 races between 1991 and 2005. They won four times, with Damon Hill leading home Jordan's best-ever result -- a onetwo finish at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix.
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
Formula 1 Mourns The Loss Of 'Chaotic Genius' Eddie Jordan At 76
MONTE-CARLO, MONACO - MAY 23: Eddie Jordan walks in the Paddock during previews ahead of the F1 ... [+] Grand Prix of Monaco at Circuit de Monaco on May 23, 2024 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by) The Formula 1 world mourned the loss of Eddie Jordan on Thursday after the flamboyant former team owner passed away aged 76. The Irishman was diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer last year and in December revealed the 'aggressive' disease had spread to his spine. 'It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Eddie Jordan OBE the ex-Formula 1 team owner, TV pundit and entrepreneur,' his family said in a statement. "He passed away peacefully with family by his side in Cape Town in the early hours of 20th March 2025 at the age of 76, after battling with an aggressive form of prostate cancer for the past 12 months. "He was working until the last, having communicated on St Patrick's Day, about his ambitions for London Irish Rugby Football Club, of which he had recently become Patron." One of the most colorful and outspoken characters in the paddock, Jordan made his Formula 1 debut in 1991 with his eponymous team. In the same year, Jordan, who was born in Dublin, famously gave Michael Schumacher his first start in Formula 1, with the German replacing Bertrand Gachot for the Belgian Grand Prix after the latter had punched a London taxi driver. Like his future Ferrari teammate, Eddie Irvine also made his Formula 1 debut with Jordan as did Schumacher's brother Ralf, who in 1998 along with Damon Hill secured the team's best-ever finish in Formula 1. Eddie Jordan, Ralf Schumacher, Damon Hill, Grand Prix of Belgium, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, 30 ... [+] August 1998. Jordan team owner Eddie Jordan celebrating victory in the 1998 Grand Prix of Belgium where his cars finished first and second in the hands of Damon Hill and teammate Ralf Schumacher. (Photo by Paul-) Hill, a world champion with Williams two years earlier, won the Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Schumacher, securing Jordan's first win in the sport. 'Eddie was chaotic and a genius all at the same time. He had the energy of 100 men. He created so much joy and had a massive heart. There will only ever be one EJ,' the Briton said on Thursday. 'He left his mark on the sport. He came from nothing, he worked his way up by using his cunning and guile. "And by his own admission, it wasn't because of his good looks but because he was undeniable. 'He had a way of getting himself into your life. He was extraordinary and brilliant. He had a lovely family and he enriched life all around him. My heart goes out to them. The sport has lost a true legend and we have lost a true friend.' Three more wins followed, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen winning the French and Italian Grands Prix in 1999, as Jordan finished third in the constructors' championship - its best result in 15 seasons that spanned 250 races. Jordan's last win came in 2003, when Giancarlo Fisichella won the Brazilian Grand Prix. Along with Jarno Trulli and Rubens Barrichello, the Italian was one of a series of drivers for whom Jordan represented a significant staging post in their careers. Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert and Hill, meanwhile, all competed for Jordan in the now-defunct Formula 3000. 'EJ brought an abundance of charisma, energy and Irish charm everywhere he went,' Jordan's family said. 'We all have a huge hole missing without his presence. He will be missed by so many people, but he leaves us with tonnes of great memories to keep us smiling through our sorrow.' A keen rock fan, Jordan played the drums in his band Eddie & The Robbers and was great friend with former Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. 'Eddie was a hugely colourful character who I first met in 1991 as a young driver at his then new factory after his first year in Formula 1,' said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. 'His advice was 'Get a good sponsor... welcome to the Piranha Club'. Formula 1 has lost a legend and we will miss his wit and his Irish charm.' Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali added: "We are deeply saddened to hear about the sudden loss of Eddie Jordan. "With his inexhaustible energy he always knew how to make people smile, remaining genuine and brilliant at all times. "Eddie has been a protagonist of an era of Formula 1 and he will be deeply missed. In this moment of sorrow, my thoughts and those of the entire Formula 1 family are with his family and loved ones'. 27 Jun 1999: Heinz-Harald Frentzen of the Jordan team celebrates and is congratulated by owner ... [+] Eddie Jordan after winning the 1999 French Grand Prix held at the Nevers Circuit in Magny-Cours, France. The race finished in a win for Heinz-Harald Frentzenof the Jordan team. \ Mandatory Credit: Michael Cooper /Allsport Jordan won the Irish kart championship at his first attempt in 1971, before an accident in Formula 3 five years later derailed his dreams of becoming a racing driver. In 1979 he set his sight on team ownership and founded Eddie Jordan Racing, competing in Formula Ford, Formula 3000 and Formula 3, where he won the British title with Herbert in 1987. Four years later came the big leap to Formula 1, where Jordan swiftly established himself as one of the most recognizable and loved figures in the sport. His seemingly extraordinary penchant for pulling off deals coupled with a tendency to always speak his mind in public ensured Jordan punched way above its weight in Formula 1 until 2006. With cigarette giant Benson & Hedges pulling his sponsorship after Formula 1 banned tobacco advertising, Jordan felt he could no longer keep up with his rivals and sold the team to the Midland Group for $60m. The team went through a series of rebranding before eventually becoming Aston Martin three years ago. By then, Jordan had gone through a number of career changes himself, becoming a typically outspoken analyst in Britain for BBC Sport and later Channel 4. Jordan and Aston Martin's paths crossed again last year, when he negotiated Adrian Newey's shock move to team from Red Bull to the tune of a $40m-a-year-deal in his role as the engineer's agent. There will quite simply never be another Eddie Jordan, who leaves Marie, his wife of 42 years, and four children behind.
