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Honda announced plans for a carbon neutral future and a goal of introducing 10 or more electric motorcycles by 2025 including three mid-range models and a youth model for North America.

Until now, Honda has been very tentative when it comes to electrification, with its main focus being on developing swappable battery packs for electric two-wheelers. Its Japanese counterparts Yamaha and Kawasaki have outlined their own plans, while in North America, Harley-Davidson is days away from finalizing its LiveWire spin-off. Still, we’ve been waiting for the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer to show its hand.

We now know what Honda has in the works, following a press briefing with Managing Officer Yoshishige Nomura and Director and Executive Vice President and Representative Executive Officer Kohei Takeuchi. The executives discussed Honda’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2040 through the advance of electric mobility and cleaner internal combustion engines.

By 2025, Honda plans to launch 10 electric motorcycles worldwide. This includes a mix of scooters (what Honda calls “Commuter EVs”), mopeds and electric bicycles (“Commuter EMs and EBs”), and “large-size” electric motorcycles (“Fun EVs”).

Oracle Red Bull Racing and Blenders Eyewear, a part of the Safilo Group, one of the eyewear industry’s key players, announced an exciting new partnership. Officially kicking off at the Pirelli Gran Premio D’Italia in Monza, Italy and running through 2025, the partnership will include Red Bull Technology and Esports and allows the brand to sell Oracle Red Bull Racing licensed eyewear.

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As an official sponsor of the Oracle Red Bull Racing team, Blenders Eyewear will provide sunglasses to the team, including drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio “Checo” Pérez, pit crew, and support staff. Starting in Spring 2023, the brand will launch an exclusive collection of Oracle Red Bull Racing sunglasses globally, bringing the company’s fun, vibrant and functional products to the Formula One racetrack. Additionally, Blenders is committed to further supporting the Oracle Red Bull Racing Esports team by supplying top-of-the-line Blenders’ Blue Light Eyewear.

Oracle Red Bull Racing Team Principal and CEO, Christian Horner, said:

We are very excited to announce our partnership with Blenders Eyewear officially. They are partners who share our core principles by prioritizing high-performance athletes as we do, and we look forward to working at incredible speeds together.

Chase Fisher, CEO & Founder of Blenders Eyewear, said:

I’ve admired the Red Bull brand for many years and how they’ve evolved sports and lifestyle. We’re excited about the opportunity to partner with a brand that brings energy and a new way of thinking to every category they enter.

Facing the very prospect of his first season in F1 without a win, Lewis Hamilton admits that Max Verstappen and Red Bull are "almost unbeatable".

With the current superlicence system presenting a stumbling block to Colton Herta's entry to F1, McLaren boss, Zak Brown is calling for a review.

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Max Verstappen won the 2022 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix under the Safety Car, with pole-sitter Charles Leclerc finishing runner-up as Red Bull denied Ferrari a home victory at Monza.

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F1 is one of the most watched sports in the world. In fact, the nail-biting 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi drew over 108.7m viewers, as fans were eager to see whether Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen would come out on top. Thanks to advancements in online platforms, there are now many ways that F1 fans can enjoy the sport. Let’s take a closer look at just 5 of these below…

Watching races from your TV

The first thing you can do is watch the races on TV- Formula 1 races are broadcast live throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa and are always shown on catchup in the Americas. You can also get live updates via various apps such as BBC Sport and Sky Sports F1. While there are many ways that Formula One fans can enjoy the sport, there’s no denying that watching it on TV is still the most popular of them all. Do your research and find out which TV channel or service provider has the TV rights to F1 in your country. In the UK, this is Sky until the end of 2024, but you’ll require a subscription in order to watch. Channel 4, however, does show qualifying and race highlights which are broadcast for free!

Watching race highlights on social media

If you’re not following Formula 1 on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, then you’re simply missing out on all the best bits! Highlights are posted as soon as they happen and can be viewed right away on official accounts like the F1 Twitter page, F1 Facebook page and the Official F1 YouTube account, where fans across the nation can enjoy the best moments in the most recent races, keep up with the latest Formula 1 news and more!

Betting on your favourite drivers

Given how many drivers compete for the same title, the odds and betting dynamic for F1 are slightly different compared to other sports. F1 is known for its drama and unpredictability, so betting on your favourite drivers is a great way to immerse yourself and develop a passion for the drivers and their teams. Many online casinos offer a great range of sports betting, as well as your favourite slot titles, table games and more. Racing fans can achieve the ultimate Formula 1 experience by betting on their favourites to win. You could even make it into a competition with your friends and see who comes out on top each week! 

Attending a Formula 1 race

If you’re an F1 fan, then nothing can beat the thrill of actually going to one of the races in person. After all, there are some things you can’t get a sense of by watching F1 on television: the sights and sounds of the racetrack, the atmosphere of a Grand Prix weekend, and the sheer speed of the cars. There are tracks to choose from all around the world, and each has its own exclusive benefits and excitement for the audience in the stands. If you have a favourite driver, you could go and see them in their home country or go to your own home track. With a whole weekend of racing, you could even just book tickets to the practice laps or qualifying to keep costs down.

In 2021, fresh off his third Dakar Rally Quad class victory, Ignacio Casale decided to switch to the much larger Trucks with Buggyra Racing. After two years of piloting a Tatra Phoenix for the team, he announced Monday that he has left the organisation. His 2023 plans were not immediately revealed.

“In this post I want to inform you that I no longer belong to the @buggyra_racing @tatratrucks team,” began Casale’s entry. “I want to thank the entire Buggyra team for these two fantastic 2 seasons that we lived together on my Tatra truck. Thank you for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to drive the spectacular Tatra. Thanks also to my boss, Martin Koloc, who became a great friend. I’m sure that just is a “see you soon”. Soon I will report on my future and Dakar 2023. I hug everyone.”

Casale made his Dakar début in the Trucks in 2010, where he shared an Atakama with his father Francisco and finished twenty-sixth. He moved to Bikes for just the following year before committing to the Quads. In eight tries, he took the Quad win in 2014, 2018, and 2020. He also entered the SSV category in 2019.

Seeking a new challenge, he returned to Truck racing with Buggyra in 2021 and finished ninth. His 2022 Rally saw a pair of stage retirements but ended on a strong note as he placed third in the last leg and classified twenty-seventh. While he was able to finish both tries, he struggled with mechanical issues throughout his Buggyra Dakar tenure. For example, Stage #5 of the 2022 race saw Casale arrive at the bivouac late due to major engine problems that knocked him out of the previous leg, and he was able to muster speed for a top-ten run before his Phoenix lost cylinders and its turbocharger.

Outside of Dakar, he primarily competes in domestic cross-country rallies in his native Chile such as last month’s Atacama Rally.

The performances of George Russell have been encouraging of late and he could be poised for a breakthrough to secure his first Grand Prix victory in the closing races of the 2022 season.

Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal of Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN is happy with the Italian Grand Prix weekend as Guanyu Zhou secures a tenth place finish – the team’s first point since the Canadian Grand Prix. Despite a grid penalty and an early race collision for Valtteri Bottas, Vasseur believes the performance over the weekend was strong, and hopes to earn more points in the upcoming races.

“We had a positive weekend as a team, and the point we brought home with Zhou is a good reward. We had pace from Friday onwards, including in Q1 where Zhou was in P6, but we still had to get the job done today. We fought well in the midfield, even though overtaking was hard, and didn’t really do mistakes with Zhou so we could maximise our returns from the race,” the Frenchman explained.

Bottas’ early-race collision was at the narrow Turn One chicane of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, where he hit the back of Kevin Magnussen, before being hit behind from Mick Schumacher in the other Haas F1 Team car. The Finn says that the car went into anti-stall, which cost him some places at the start, as well as the damage sustained to the front wing.

“Unfortunately, Valtteri’s day was compromised by the damage he suffered at the start, but the key takeaway here is our performance: if we carry it over to the next rounds, we can aim to bring home more points to our name,” Vasseur concluded.

The Italian Grand Prix was a good race for Guanyu Zhou, who scored his first points in seven races during a late-race battle with Mick Schumacher.

The middle of the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season has been rather unfortunate for Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN‘s rookie, Guanyu Zhou. However, his fortunes may be changing as a tenth place finish at the Italian Grand Prix would mark the Chinese driver’s first points in seven races.

The number twenty-four driver explained that he is ‘really happy’ with the result, after a late-race scrap with Nick De Vries before the Safety Car was deployed:

“I am really happy with today’s result and with the work that has been done in the past few weeks; it’s been a tough journey since Montreal, because we were very strong at the beginning of the season and then our performances had a dip; but being back in the points today is an amazing feeling, a great result both for the team and for Alfa Romeo.

“We knew we had a chance today, our pace was good and it allowed us to be in the fight with the other teams. We have a couple of weeks off now, which will give us time to rest after the triple-header and, above all, to analyze what worked this weekend and what went wrong in the previous races, to come prepared and motivated ahead of the next ones.

As Formula 1 prepares to race in Singapore and Japan, Zhou says that he is looking forward to the seeing his fans.

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Interesting. At first, I guessed Ducati’s Chief Engineer Massimo Bordi probably decided to use a dummy cylinder because he already had a stack of V-twin engine cases lying around, but that idea is quickly out the window when you remember the super lightweight Supermono in fact got its own cases, made from magnesium even.

For background, the limiting factor for most single-cylinder engines is rpm; one big piston rising and falling by itself is (was) hard to balance past 6000 rpm or so, which means debilitating vibration coursing through bike and rider just before something breaks. The easy solution of course, is more and smaller pistons. But for some reason, Sound of Singles got to be a really competitive series around about the late ‘80s, and Ducati wanted in.

Nicholas Latifi now appears to be under even more pressure after another disappointing result at the Italian Grand Prix, after enduring a difficult afternoon at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza.

The Canadian driver has failed to score a single point this season and sits twenty-first in the standings, behind Nyck de Vries, who finished in ninth on his Formula 1 debut in place of Alex Albon.

The pressure seems to be ever increasing on Latifi and he looks to have a tough challenge on his hands to keep his seat next season. Latifi started tenth on Sunday, but immediately dropped to fifteenth within a few laps, while his inexperienced interim team-mate was running in the top ten.

The Canadian will be hoping to rejuvenate his 2023 hopes in Singapore, but time looks to be running out.

“A very tough race. I was compromised at the start being sandwiched between a few cars and trying to avoid damage. A lot of cars cut the first corner without any penalties. Unfortunately, we had a slow pit-stop which left us with very little to play for in the race.

Williams Racing finished with a rare points finish thanks to Nyck de Vries in round sixteen of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, at the Italian Grand Prix.

Alex Albon was diagnosed with appendicitis on the day of qualifying, meaning that the former Formula 2 and Formula E World Champion had to finish the race weekend at very short notice.

De Vries out-qualified his team-mate and made it through to the second part of qualifying, but he started in the top ten due to grid penalties. Expectations were not too high pre-race given that it was his debut, but his performance has definitely helped him in his mission to secure a full-time Formula 1 racing seat.

The young driver found himself in a DRS train for most of the race, showing a great display of confidence and composure to finish the race in a point scoring position. At the end of the Grand Prix, the Dutchman was voted ‘Driver Of The Day after equalling Williams’ best finish of the season.

“I’m feeling really good about today and think it was crucial to get the start right and a clean run into lap one. I got into a DRS train which helped to stick with the pack, however I think the pace was really good and we made a good call on strategy and tyre management.

The Baja 400, the youngest leg on the SCORE International World Desert Championship with just two previous editions, will kick off the run to the Baja 1000. Scheduled for Saturday, 17 September, the results from the 400 will set the starting grid for the 1000.

The Course

Like in previous years, the 393.82-mi (633.79-km) course will be a loop that starts and ends in Ensenada’s Costero Boulevard next to the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center. Teams will have nineteen hours each to complete the race, an hour less than the slightly longer Baja 500 in June.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding the course concerns the weather. Hurricane Kay made landfall in Baja California in early September, resulting in significant flooding and turning parts of the course into mud rivers. SCORE imposed a two-day moratorium on pre-running on 9/10 September to wait until the storms subsided, though many still found themselves traversing large rivers of mud once it was lifted. The storm also resulted in the cancellation of the Campeonato Estatal Off Road Baja Sur Series’ Loreto 400, which had been scheduled for the same weekend as the Baja 400.

While the race is the first since the crime wave by area drug cartels in mid-August, which prompted the United States Consulate in Tijuana to warn against travelling to the region, SCORE stressed that such incidents have decreased in the weeks since and security had been strengthened with police and military assistance.

The Grid

182 entries make up the field prior to late on-site registration beginning on Tuesday. Qualifying will take place the following day for Trophy Truck, Trophy Truck Legends and Spec, and Class 1, while the order to head out for the session was set based on registration date.

It was a positive day for Scuderia AlphaTauri, as they gained four more points in the fight with Haas F1 Team for seventh in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship Constructors’ Standing.

Pierre Gasly scored only his second points in eight races, finishing in eighth position after being held up by eventual retiree Daniel Ricciardo for most of the race. Gasly started in fifth-place, but struggled to maintain that position with quicker cars coming from behind driven by the likes of Lewis Hamilton. The Frenchman pitted early to try and undercut the Australian but the McLaren F1 Team responded by pitting their driver, leaving Gasly with the challenge to overtake Ricciardo, a lack of pace made that difficult.

Yuki Tsunoda started from the back of the grid after a series of reprimands. The Japanese driver made up a few spots from the start and got as high as twelfth. His race was an underwhelming one as he struggled on the Hard tyres, which meant he was stuck behind Esteban Ocon for much of the stint before being overtaken by Valtteri Bottas and Mick Schumacher.

AlphaTauri Team Principal, Franz Tost, was pleased with the overall weekend, with the team moving to just one point behind Haas in the standings.

“The fans, and the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of this historic track, didn’t deserve the race to finish the way it did today, as it would’ve been fantastic to see a fight on the last few laps, but unfortunately, as Ricciardo stopped so late, in accordance with the regulations we had to finish the race behind the Safety Car.

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2022 FIA Formula 2 champion, Felipe Drugovich, has become the first member of the newly set-up Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team Driver Development Programme.

The Brazilian clinched the 2022 Formula 2 title with MP Motorsport last weekend at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, wrapping it up with three races remaining having taken five victories this year, four of them in Feature races.

Aston Martin have not had a young driver programme up to now, with the team relying on the young drivers of other teams to run as their reserve driver, should they have needed one.  They ran another former Formula 2 champion, Nyck de Vries, in first practice in Italy as the first of their two mandatory sessions for young drivers.

But Drugovich has become the first recruit of their new programme, which is aimed at helping drivers get through junior formulae and reach the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in the future.

“I am hugely proud to have inaugurated the AMF1 Driver Development Programme: I am a big believer in rewarding young talent, and this is a fantastic way to help develop the next generation of racing drivers,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman, Lawrence Stroll.

Jehan Daruvala survived first lap contact, a safety car, and a red flag to take his first FIA Formula 2 victory of the season in the feature race at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Sunday.

The Prema Racing driver has endured a tough 2022 season in a year where he was expected to challenge for the title, but that elusive first victory had time and again escaped him.  However, it would all finally fall into place on Sunday, even though any thoughts of taking the title had long since disappeared.

The race started in chaotic circumstances, with six drivers finding themselves eliminated in two separate incidents at the first two chicanes, with the clear up requiring the safety car to be deployed.

Charouz Racing System’s Tatiana Calderón did not take the start after suffering a hand injury in Saturday’s Sprint race, meaning only twenty-one drivers took to the starting grid, but this number was dwindled further by the second chicane.

Firstly, Campos Racing’s Ralph Boschung cut across the chicane and re-joined alongside ART Grand Prix’s Théo Pourchaire only for the two drivers to tangle, with both crashing out as a result.  In the melee, both Olli Caldwell (Campos Racing) and Luca Ghiotto (DAMS) were caught up in the crash, with all four drivers out on the spot.