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Malone’s Purported Interest Drives Formula One Valuation To $8B
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Formula One’s current owners want about $500 million more for ceding a 49% stake to John Malone and Discovery Communications
Irish-American billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA)!-->…
MOTOR RACING: Sons do their dads proud at Combe
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THERE was plenty for Wiltshire dads to smile about at Castle Combe’s Fathers’ Day meeting – with some playing an important part in the outcome.
Chippenham’s Bob Higgins, a former multiple…
Profiled – the men who made Austria’s F1 heritage
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In celebration of Spielberg hosting a Grand Prix for the first time in over a decade, every living Austrian to have competed in Formula One racing will take to original machinery for a unique legends parade on!-->…
Motor-racing champion Schumacher out of coma, taken to Swiss hospital
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GENEVA/LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Seven time Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered severe head injuries in a ski accident last year, has come out of a coma and was transferred to a Swiss medical…
McLaren: Will the 71-lap race in Austria produce a Hollywood thriller?
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Formula 1 returns to Austria this weekend for the first time since 2003. The race takes place at the newly refurbished Red Bull Ring, situated deep in the Styrian mountains near Spielberg. Will the 71-lap race produce a…
Liberty’s Malone Said Valuing F-1 at $8 Billion in Stake Talks
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John Malone’s Liberty Global Plc and Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA) are working to bridge a $1 billion valuation gap with the owners of Formula One, as they seek to buy a 49 percent stake in the auto-racing…
Is Entropy Racing’s EVSR going to start a boom in electric racing? [w/video]
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Sure, we're seeing electric racing catch on with the likes of Formula E racing and it promises to be exciting to watch. But what about the rest of us who would like to get behind the wheel of an EV racer, but lack…
TSN and RDS Reach Media Rights Extension with the Formula One Group Through to 2019
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MONTRÉAL, June 10, 2014 /CNW/ – Bell Media’s TSN and RDS and the Formula One group announced today that they have reached a new multi-year partnership, which allows Canada’s #1 English and French specialty networks to…
F1 Canadian Grand Prix ends with a wild crash on the last lap
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The Canadian Grand Prix was by far the best Formula 1 race of the year, with five drivers dueling for podium positions in the closing laps at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Infiniti Red Bull’s Daniel…
FIA post-race press conference – Canada 08 Jun 2014
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Reproduced with kind permission of the FIA
Drivers: 1 - Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull Racing); 2 - Nico Rosberg (Mercedes); 3 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing)
PODIUM INTERVIEWS!-->…
Race – selected team and driver quotes 08 Jun 2014
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Mercedes duo Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton on their differing fortunes; McLaren's Jenson Button on surging from eighth to fourth in the final two laps; and Max Chilton on his lap one crash with Marussia team!-->…
Motor racing – Perez, Chilton penalised for triggering crashes
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Force India's Sergio Perez and Marussia's Max Chilton were both handed penalties for the next race after triggering crashes at the Canadian Grand Prix, Formula One officials said on Sunday.
Perez will drop…
Arie Luyendyk Jr. to race in Detroit Stadium Super Truck competition
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Quicken Loans and Arie Luyendyk Jr. will headline a group of nine drivers in the Menards-sponsored Formula Off-Road Presented by TRAXXAS race in Detroit Friday-Sunday. The Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix…
Mann only woman on Indy 500 grid this year
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INDIANAPOLIS: After years of building up a presence at the Indianapolis 500 there will be a noticeable lack of girl power when the green flag drops at the Brickyard today.
At one time, the only females…
Exclusive: Bernie Ecclestone tells F1 teams they ‘must learn to spend less’
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Bernie Ecclestone says that Formula One teams do not need a budget cap to cut costs but should learn to spend less – and questioned the costly decision to introduce the new 1.6-litre V6 engines.
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Exclusive: Korean GP dropped to make way for race in Azerbaijan
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that the Korean Grand Prix will be kept off the Formula One calendar next year to make way for a race in the oil-rich country of Azerbaijan. The F1 chief executive has ruled out a return to South…
Ho-Pin Tung tests FIA Formula E electric racecar [w/video]
Ho-Pin Tung became the first Chinese driver to test one of the racecars competing in the all-electric racing series to debut in September. That's appropriate because the first race of the FIA Formula E Championship will take place…
Foxford’s formula for racing
Foxford’s Sean Hynes kicked off his 2014 Formula Sheane (pronounced ‘Shane’) season last weekend at a double header in Mondello, The opening two rounds of the MicksGarage.com backed championships, which has twenty one!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
High-voltage Formula E championship to feature electric cars in 2014
For all those people who think Formula One racing is wastage of extremely precious fossil fuel, a first fully electric auto racing championship will soon get a green flag.
The new championship will be designed on the lines of existing…
Hankook Driver Chris Forsberg wins first place at opening round of 2014 Formula Drift Season
Hankook Tire driver Chris Forsberg scored a first place win at the opening round of the 2014 Formula Drift season at the Streets of Long Beach in Long Beach, California this weekend, the only street course on the 2014…