Bucket list stuff today, walk and talk to the grid with Ferrari’s
@Charles_Leclerc
#CanadianGP
Thanks to Ferrari for the opportunity! Tough race for the team, but it’s a long season and i’m excited to see where this championship goes from here.
This camera angle on Hamiltons car is wicked.
It’s almost a steady cam that follows what the curvature of the track is actually like, this is exactly how this track would flow with the camber. It’s incredible 🔥
#JapaneseGP
#F1
Lando Norris after speaking with Pagenaud, post
#INDYCARChallenge
"...Cause a guy get's a bit salty that a non-IndyCar driver is about to win an indy race...just ruins it"
Zak Brown on Ricciardo / Norris running Indy500:
"They'd both like to do it, but they are very focused on F1. I think it's exciting! F1 paddock really enjoys IndyCar.. I think that's something that's very unique..nothing in the immediate future but we will see"
#IndyCar
#F1
Been reported that for fans who had a single day ticket for Thursday for FP1/FP2 at VegasGP have been handed a $200 voucher to spend at the Las Vegas GP store.
So no refund…and no apology.
Confirmation from Otmar Szafnauer speaking with Rachel Brookes that Oscar Piastri has signed a deal with McLaren.
"He's a promising young driver...my wish for Oscar was that he had a bit more integrity. He signed a piece of paper as well back in November and we've done everything
Grosjean during the post quali media conference on wether or not IndyCar is where he wants to be?
“I’ve started looking at houses in the U.S.”
#IndyCar
Spoke with
@PatricioOWard
& asked if Zak Brown had given him any indication on his status doing
#F1
FP1’s / testing with McLaren in the future:
“I am going to have a call with him later this week. I haven’t even mentioned it. I know it will come but I am fully focused on what..
On a media call with Felix Rosenqvist and Colton Herta.
Rosenqvist asked if his recent run of success is giving Zak Brown reasons to think about keeping him in IndyCar next season
“Well it seems he has a lot of other things to think about right now!”
BREAKING: 🇨🇦
@Hinchtown
is back in a full time ride. Hinchcliffe will race for
@FollowAndretti
for the full 2021
@IndyCar
season. Hinch will pilot the No. 29 Honda with primary sponsorship from
@Genesys
for 10 races!
Speaking with Nicholas Latifi, says that recent IndyCar reports of him joining the series or Chip Ganassi Racing weren't true & that:
"..It's poor journalism..I haven't decided what I'm doing." Latifi went on to explain that he's still evaluating other championships & teams.
An incredible job done by 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll and the
@SportPesa
@RacingPointF1
team going from 16th to finish 9th, collecting points! A mega 1st stint to get himself up to 6th, & a nice job was done on hard compound tires at the end keeping Kvyat at bay.
#F1
#AusGP
#AustralianGP
Everyone posting about the visor camera today. Just want to remind folks of the original visor camera that debut in
@paultracy3
helmet in 2002.
1. Check out the speed
2. Check out the violence
3. Check out those hands
Shoutout
@champwebdotnet
🤯
That’s an enormous shunt for Ya Qi Zhang who absolutely pounded the wall today during warm-up for the Macau GT Cup.
Zhang suffered multiple rib fractures, a collapsed lung, bruised lung, and abrasions.
@JD33Davison
“Graham what the F&$@ are you doing under yellow..”
@GrahamRahal
“first of all calm down there mister aggressive...
secondly i was peeing..” 🤣🤣🤣
Breaking: 🇨🇦 owned
@ForceIndiaF1
will launch their 2019
#F1
car at Canadian International Autoshow on Feb 13th. 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll, Sergio Perez, and their team principle, will be in attendance. It will be the 1st time an F1 team has ever done a team launch in 🇨🇦
Spoke with IndyCar's
@ColtonHerta
today. Asked him what the most impressive thing was with driving this F1 car:
"The first thing was letting off the pit lane speed limiter, and all the torque is pretty incredible. Even when you are in such low RPM It still pulls...."
CONFIRMED: 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll will join
@ForceIndiaF1
for 2019
@F1
championship racing alongside Sergio Perez. The 20 year old moves to a team that has finished in the top 5 of the constructors standings 3 out of the past 4 seasons! And with new owners it has a very bright future
Breaking: Andretti Global and General Motors have partnered to pursue the FIA expression of interest to enter
@F1
If accepted the team would run under the
@Cadillac
brand.
During our post race presser with Scott Dixon, he was asked to compare 2022's
#IndyTO
to 2019:
"Even from Friday, they looked like they needed more grandstands, everything was full! I think it shows the love for our sport in Canada and it shows that we probably should be...
Breaking News: 🇨🇦James Hinchcliffe will be racing for McLaren Racing SP in 2020
#IndyCar
series. Despite rumours that Hinchcliffe could be bought out of his SPM contract for next season by Honda he is the first driver announcement to come from the newly formed McLaren Racing SP
What is
@danielricciardo
‘s favourite racing memory?🤔
A battle for the win with Valtteri Bottas in their Formula Renault days!
Nailing The Apex with
@AlphaTauriF1
's Daniel Ricciardo.
..on our end of the bargain to prepare him for Formula 1, and his end of the bargain was to either drive for us or take a seat where we would place him for the next three years. I just wish Oscar would have remembered what he signed in November and what he signed up to."
🚨This Thursday Nailing The Apex will be recording with
@HaasF1Team
Team Principal Guenther Steiner!
If you’ve got a question drop it below and we’ll get to as many as we can! 👇👇
Spoke with
@callum_ilott
Asked him if at the beginning of the season did he think he'd ever have a chance at possibly grabbing P1 this year?
"No, not really. I learned very quickly on that it was going to be a hard year and a long year. Putting it all together like this..👇
Crazy to wake up to this.
Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney
& Michael B. Jordan, their investor group Maximum Effort, along with
Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners have just purchased a 24% stake in Alpine F1 Team. Spend is roughly $218M, while valuing the team around $900M
Will Power during today’s media availability was asked what he thought of Colton Herta’s recent test in the McLaren f1 car:
"It’s cool to see that, cause I know how that feels, and how awesome that would be for Colton, and I hope if he goes there and he does really well...1/2
Checo's team radio at the end of the race..
Perez: "It shows who he really is"
I will say this, Sergio has been a solid teammate for Verstappen for the past two seasons, it will be interesting to see how Perez handles this moving forward with the team and Max.
The team I raced for in Atlantics that season were paddocked right beside RuSport. Bugged the heck out of JW that weekend with questions, as i was a rookie.
He never once turned me away or told me to stop. Class act all the way. I remember the look on his face after this race!
Remembering Justin Wilson’s maiden victory at the 2005 Toronto Grand Prix with the RuSport
@cdwcorp
outfit.
Fitting tribute leading into the victory lane interview.
…I have to do in IndyCar,
I have no say in all the F1 stuff, so I really don’t care what happens. I am going to perform and they can make the decisions.”
#IndyCar
BREAKING:
🇨🇦
@DevlinDeFran
has signed with
@FollowAndretti
to compete in the 2022
@IndyCar
championship.
This signing rounds out the Andretti Autosport 2022 INDYCAR lineup. Devlin joining Alexander Rossi, Colton Herta and Romain Grosjean.
🚨Sat down with 🇨🇦
@lance_stroll
in lead up to this weekends first race.
We spoke about:
-Starting the season healthy
-Teammate battles
-RB20
And much more.
Thanks to the team
@AstonMartinF1
and Lance for doing this, it was a lot of fun chatting.
Full interview 👉
Sergio Perez speaking with Sky Sports on Verstappen not giving back the spot at the end:
“Nothing to say really..after all i’ve done for him it’s a bit disappointing to be honest.”
#F1
#BrazilGP
There is more than 1 drain cover that has come up. Currently FIA are in a meeting to discuss how many covers there are and need to be checked. The drains are sealed with a cover sealant that the cars have pulled up out of the track due to the downforce that they generate.
Teams so far reported to be bringing major upgrades to this weekends
#SpanishGP
-Aston Martin full upgrade
-Alfa Romeo full upgrade
-Mercedes new floor
-Ferrari new rear wing
-McLaren new brakes
-Alpine new rear wing
#F1
🔥TSN Racing Pod Episode 32 with special guest
@NASA
astronaut
@Astro_Feustel
🔥 Was a thrill to have on Drew Feustel to talk about his recent space travel, his passion for car racing, and the
@F1
#USGP
Subscribe on iTunes or listen here:
BREAKING:
According to
@MarioAndretti
son Michael Andretti has applied to the FIA to field an F1 team in 2024.
The entry name is Andretti Global and according to Mario, Michael “has the resources and checks every box” and is awaiting the FIA’s answer
You will hear a new voice on
@lance_stroll
’s radio for FP1 today. That’s the voice of former Willaims Racing performance engineer Andrew Vizard who is slowly being transitioned to Lance’s full time race engineer.
Ben Michell who currently is the Canadians engineer, was given a
Breaking:
@IndyCar
has announced multi-year agreement with Honda, and Chevy and will introduce a 2.4 litre V6 twin turbo with hybrid technology for 2023