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Open Extended Reactions MEXICO CITY – Sergio Perez’s self-proclaimed “terrible” season took another turn for the worse on Saturday as he qualified 18th for his home race. Perez failed to progress through Q1, finishing 0.8s off teammate Max Verstappen’s time in the same session. Editor’s Picks 1 Related The result will do little to quieten
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Open Extended Reactions Carlos Sainz took pole ahead of title rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images MEXICO CITY – Outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz could not help but feel mixed emotions as he claimed pole as the team’s surge of form continued in Mexico. Sainz, who will make way for Lewis Hamilton next
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Open Extended Reactions MEXICO CITY — The FIA has rejected McLaren’s appeal over the U.S. Grand Prix penalty Lando Norris labelled a “momentum killer” in the title fight. Norris was given a costly five-second penalty in Austin after the stewards deemed he had gained an advantage by going off track while overtaking Red Bull’s Max
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Oct 25, 2024, 07:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sergio Perez is yet to win a race this season and is eighth in the drivers’ championship. Mark Thompson/Getty Images Red Bull team boss Christian Horner agreed on Friday with Sergio Perez’s assessment of his Formula 1 season as ‘terrible’ but said the Mexican was still the
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has engaged in secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to reporting published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Citing “several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials,” the Journal reported that conversations between Putin and Musk, a Republican megadonor and Pentagon contractor, took
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Open Extended Reactions MEXICO CITY – Oscar Piastri has dismissed a report that his manager Mark Webber is pursuing a move to Red Bull. After the U.S. Grand Prix, Red Bull racing advisor Helmut Marko suggested the McLaren driver is exploring other options. Editor’s Picks “Let’s put it this way: Mark Webber is intensively seeking
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix,
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Open Extended Reactions MEXICO CITY — Lando Norris suggested he will change the way he approaches racing Max Verstappen on track after the way their U.S. Grand Prix battle ended. Norris passed Verstappen for third late in the Austin race but was forced off the race track while doing so. Editor’s Picks Verstappen also went
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Oct 23, 2024, 11:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The United States Grand Prix saw Ferrari and Red Bull regain their form. Ferrari took a surprise one-two in the grand prix led by Charles Leclerc while Max Verstappen collected enough points from his sprint race victory and a third place on Sunday to extend his
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Open Extended Reactions AUSTIN – Lando Norris said F1 stewards have to be more consistent with penalties after he lost a podium to championship rival Max Verstappen at the U.S. Grand Prix. Norris and Verstappen both ran off the circuit while they battled for third position late in the race. Editor’s Picks Norris emerged ahead
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Oct 23, 2024, 05:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sauber hope to have next season’s driver line-up sorted by mid-November but that looks like one of the easier challenges facing new boss Mattia Binotto at what will become the Audi works Formula 1 team from 2026. The Swiss-based outfit are last with five rounds to
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Chinese companies are aggressively developing autonomous vehicles. In August, China announced that it had issued 16,000 test licenses for driverless cars and opened up about 20,000 miles of roads nationwide for autonomous vehicle testing. But Chinese autonomous vehicle companies have also quietly been testing their technology on U.S. streets. Baidu, Didi, WeRide, Pony.ai and AutoX
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Oct 20, 2024, 08:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions McLaren’s Andrea Stella criticised Formula 1 stewards on Sunday for what he said was an “inappropriate” U.S. Grand Prix penalty that seriously dented Lando Norris’s title hopes. Norris was waging a thrilling duel with title rival Max Verstappen for third place and overtook the Red Bull
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In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The General Motors headquarters inside the Renaissance Center in Detroit on April 15, 2024. Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT — General Motors is set to report its third-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday. Here is what Wall Street is expecting, according to
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Oct 21, 2024, 03:41 PM ET Formula 1’s governing body imposed a €500,000 ($543,250) fine on the U.S. Grand Prix promoter on Sunday after a post-race track invasion, with €350,000 suspended to the end of 2026. Stewards said in a statement that the suspended element of the fine depended on there being no further track
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Open Extended Reactions AUSTIN – Charles Leclerc said Ferrari can win its first constructors’ championship since 2008 after he led Carlos Sainz to a one-two finish at the U.S. Grand Prix. Leclerc passed the duelling Lando Norris and Max Verstappen at the start and disappeared into the distance for a comfortable victory. Editor’s Picks 1
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Open Extended Reactions AUSTIN — Max Verstappen brushed off McLaren’s complaints about Lando Norris’ penalty at the end of the U.S. Grand Prix. Norris was handed a five-second penalty for running wide while overtaking Verstappen at Turn 12, meaning he dropped back behind the Red Bull driver in the final standings after the race. Editor’s
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Open Extended Reactions Daniel Ricciardo has been replaced by Liam Lawson at RB. Mark Thompson/Getty Images AUSTIN, TEXAS — RB boss Laurent Mekies has said that the team could have handled Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from Formula 1 better. Ricciardo will be absent from the grid at the U.S. Grand Prix this weekend after his F1 career
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Open Extended Reactions AUSTIN — Lewis Hamilton qualified down in 19th for Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix, complaining his car was “pretty terrible” to drive after Mercedes was forced into car changes. Hamilton was sixth in the sprint race on Saturday before getting knocked out of the first qualifying session for Sunday’s race. The seven-time world
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