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Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 16, 2023, 12:53 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Lance Stroll has been declared fit to race by the medical team at the Singapore Grand Prix after walking away from a huge accident in qualifying. Stroll lost control of his Aston Martin

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety slapped each of the four minivans in the U.S. market with less than acceptable ratings in its new moderate front overlap crash test, which places a higher emphasis on back seat safety. The Chrysler Pacifica, Kia Carnival and Toyota Sienna received IIHS’ “marginal” rating; the Honda Odyssey was rated

In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2023 Ford Super Duty F-350 Limited Ford DETROIT – Ford Motor‘s labor troubles could become an international issue that affects U.S. production of some pickup trucks, as Canadian union Unifor and the company have only hours to reach an agreement for roughly 5,600 autoworkers. The sides have

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 16, 2023, 12:35 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Max Verstappen says his record run of Formula One victories will come to an end at Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix after he qualified 11th on the grid. The two-time world champion is on

The UAW will expand its strike against the Detroit 3 on Friday if negotiations this week stall, President Shawn Fain said. “If we don’t make serious progress by noon on Friday, Sept. 22, more locals will be called on to stand up and join the strike,” Fain said in a video posted by the union

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi, on the right, operates in the Yizhuang suburban district of Beijing alongside Pony.ai’s version. The two vehicles are pictured here in November 2021 shortly after Beijing allowed the companies to charge fares. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s capital city is taking swift steps to allow

Associated Press Sep 18, 2023, 11:04 AM ET Chip Ganassi Racing is expanding to five cars for next year’s IndyCar season to accommodate 18-year-old development driver Kyffin Simpson. The expansion for Simpson will give Ganassi three rookies in next year’s Indianapolis 500. Marcus Armstrong already won IndyCar rookie of the year this season, but is

Nikola Corp. has hired a new chief operating officer to lead the company’s engineering, product and manufacturing teams, among others, the company said Monday. Mary Chan will start her new role Oct. 9. She’s a former president of the global connected consumer group at General Motors and a former senior vice president at Dell. “My

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk discussed his plans for Twitter, now called X, on Monday during a livestreamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister

Sep 17, 2023, 05:23 PM ET AlphaTauri stand-in Liam Lawson scored his first Formula One points at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday and, in only his third race, also chalked up the team’s highest finish of the season. Despite that, the 21-year-old New Zealander managed to find fault in his weekend. Editor’s Picks 2

UAW President Shawn Fain on Sunday said the union and the Detroit 3 remain far apart on contract agreements to end a historic strike, although the two sides were continuing to negotiate.  “Progress is slow,” Fain said on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” “I don’t really want to say we’re closer.” Fain declined

The United Auto Workers targeted all three Detroit automakers — General Motors (GM), Chrysler-owner Stellantis (STLA) and Club name Ford (F) — with walkouts for the first time in its history. But the strikes by less than 13,000 UAW members at three plants, one at each company, are much more contained than many had feared.

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 17, 2023, 12:31 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE – Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has no regrets over his team’s strategy gamble at the Singapore Grand Prix, which ultimately saw George Russell throw away a podium when he crashed into the barriers on

TOLEDO — The UAW’s first simultaneous strike against all of the Detroit 3 is certainly historic, but here in the town where Jeep was born and helped win a World War — where 5,800 workers walked off their jobs at midnight Friday — it is doubly so. Why? Because Friday’s walkout appears to have marked

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks with the media and union members outside the UAW Local 900 headquarters across the street from the Ford Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, Sept. 15, 2023. Matthew Hatcher | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT – The United Auto Workers strike is bringing a blue-collar versus billionaire battle to

Associated Press Sep 16, 2023, 06:58 PM ET Truck Series champion Zane Smith has been signed to a multi-year contract with Trackhouse Racing in which he will be loaned to Spire Motorsports for a Cup Series ride in 2024. Smith, 24, will fold into the Trackhouse lineup when the team is able to expand to

The American automotive industry has a big problem. A bigger than big problem. One that is significantly impacting dealership operations, customer retention and profitability. And if not resolved, the heartburn will only grow. Though dealers are aware of it, most struggle to address it. It’s the shortage of automotive technicians and the dilemma dealers face

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT MALIBU, California – The most amazing thing about the $2.1 million Rimac Nevera is how easy it is to just get in and drive. The Nevera is an electric hypercar from Croatia. It sits low — very low — to the ground, and at first

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 16, 2023, 01:19 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Max Verstappen has escaped a grid penalty at the Singapore Grand Prix despite being reprimanded for two separate incidents during qualifying. The Red Bull driver was the subject of three stewards’ investigations after

The Honda brand is in the midst of a swift recovery from a pandemic and chip shortage-related sales slump and is on track to close 2023 with sales of 1.2 million vehicles now projected. “We expected at this point to be up around 25 percent, so we are growing past that,” Lance Woelfer, Honda brand’s

In this article STLAM-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Demonstrators during a United Auto Workers (UAW) practice picket outside the Stellantis Mack Assembly Plant in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stellantis said Saturday that its most recent proposal to the United Auto Workers includes

The 2023 Formula One racing season is chugging along, with expanded viewing options for American F1 fans across a variety of platforms. After Max Verstappen emerged victorious at the Italian Grand Prix, the action heads to the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore. When is the Singapore Grand Prix? How can I watch? The Singapore

The end of every month at Sam Pack’s Five Star Chevrolet in Carrollton, Texas, is marked by the “tick, tick, tick” of a spinning prize wheel. And, if the top-performing employee is lucky, General Manager Alan Brown will announce the biggest amount: “Five hundred dollars!” The game is the center of the staff’s regular “pep

In this article STLA GM F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives to the U.S. Capitol Building on June 01, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders will address striking autoworkers in Detroit on Friday, after calling on working people across the U.S. to stand

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 15, 2023, 09:43 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

DETROIT — An executive helping to power electric vehicles is questioning his own EV purchase because of poor charging experiences. Oliver Gunasekara, CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, a startup that makes underwater robots to pick up battery metals, publicly voiced his frustration Thursday during the audience question-and-answer portion of a panel on EV charging

Donald Trump and Kristen Welker Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump warned that U.S. auto workers’ jobs will move to China and accused the United Auto Workers’ leadership of failing its members, thousands of whom went on strike Friday against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. “The auto workers will not have any jobs, Kristen, because

DETROIT — In a historic gambit, nearly 13,000 hourly workers at three large assembly plants went on strike against the Detroit 3 early Friday in what UAW President Shawn Fain has framed as a “righteous fight” against the rich to get better wages and benefits for the working class. Never in the UAW’s 88-year history

In this article STLA F GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Members of the United Auto Workers union hold a rally and practice picket near a Stellantis plant in Detroit, Aug. 23, 2023. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – The United Auto Workers union plans to strike three U.S. assembly plants of General Motors,

Lewis Hamilton said he was not surprised to read Helmut Marko’s offensive comments about Sergio Perez, suggesting other teams would have come down harder on the Austrian as punishment. After the Italian Grand Prix Marko, Red Bull’s motorsport consultant, said Perez’s ethnicity was to blame for his poor form this year. “We know that he