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Bio Nationality: Indian Date of Birth: 1 October 1998 Hometown: Mumbai, Maharashtra Race Starts: 247 Wins: 16 Podiums: 60 Pole Positions: 14 Fastest laps: 17 Race win percentage: 6.5% Podium percentage: 24.3% The stats provided here are accurate as of 21 June 2022  Childhood and family Jehan Daruvala comes from Mumbai, Maharashtra. Born on 1...

French Formula One driver Pierre Gasly has re-signed with AlphaTauri for another year, extending his stay with the team till the end of the 2023 season. There were numerous speculations that the 26-year old Frenchman wanted to leave the Red Bull set-up, the latter having extended Sergio Pérez‘s contract, which meant Gasly would have to...

British Formula One team McLaren Racing have announced a new partnership with global financial services firm Goldman Sachs. The multi-year partnership will see Goldman Sachs join as an Official Partner of the McLaren team, starting with the ongoing 2022 F1 season. The partnership will see the two parties work together towards McLaren’s net zero goals...

Austrian Formula One team Red Bull Racing have announced that they have suspended their junior driver Jüri Vips after he allegedly used racist language during a live-streaming session on gaming platform Twitch. Vips was live-streaming first-person shooter video game Call of Duty: Warzone with fellow Red Bull junior driver Liam Lawson. Following his usage of...

Daruvala to test the 2021 McLaren at Silverstone. Indian Formula 2 driver and Red Bull junior Jehan Daruvala will make his long-awaited Formula One debut later this week at Silverstone. The 23-year-old, who is in his third Formula 2 season, will be testing the McLaren MCL35 at Silverstone on June 21 and June 22.  Daruvala...

Red Bull made it six wins out of six as Max Verstappen took yet another win at the Canadian Grand Prix. The Dutchman, who took his maiden pole in Canada, held off Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who finished second ahead of Mercedes Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton’s teammate George Russell continued his run of finishing in the top...

Alfa Romeo’s driver Zhou Guanyu has been announced as HSBC Bank China’s latest brand ambassador. The partnership will see HSBC use Zhou’s profile to encourage the youth to pursue their goals and dreams. The partnership with Zhou also builds on HSBC’s goal in the region to support the development of a new sporting generation. HSBC,...

Max Verstappen enjoyed a comfortable afternoon in Baku as the Dutchman took yet another win in the 2022 season to extend his championship lead. Verstappen's teammate Sergio Pérez made it another 1-2 for Red Bull and the cherry on the cake for Red Bull was the fact that both Ferrari cars suffered technical issues and did not finish the race. Mercedes' George Russell took third place ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton while AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly came home fifth. Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel finished a strong sixth for the team ahead of Alpine's Fernando Alonso while the McLaren pair of Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris finished eighth and ninth respectively. It was the other Alpine of Esteban Ocon who rounded out the points scoring places after his tenth place finish.

To say it’s been a fall from grace for Mercedes would be an understatement. The German team were nearly untouchable in the turbo-hybrid era between 2014 and 2021. Such was their dominance that, from 2014 till 2021, they won all the Constructors’ titles, with only the 2021 Drivers’ title eluding them. Lewis Hamilton wiped the...

Global subscription streaming and production company Netflix is among the four bidders trying to gain the rights for Formula One’s US broadcast. ESPN, which has broadcasting the series in the US since 2018, has also been trying to renew its contract, while NBC and Amazon have also been trying to bid for the broadcast rights....