11:34 AM ET Former Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer has joined rivals Alpine as their new team boss as part of a wider restructuring of the French Formula One outfit’s management, the Renault-owned manufacturer said on Thursday. The Romanian-American, who left Aston Martin last month, will assume the role of team principal, which was
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In this article TSLA Visitors look at a Tesla Model 3 during a press preview of the Seoul Motor Show in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, on March 28, 2019. Jung Yeon-Je | AFP | Getty Images The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has initiated a new Tesla safety probe after receiving 354 drivers’ complaints about
The number of U.S. franchise dealerships ticked back up to 18,230 rooftops in 2021 after two years of declines, according to Urban Science’s annual Franchise Activity Report. The national dealership count fell in 2019 to 18,195, the first reduction since 2013, and dropped again slightly in 2020 to 18,157, according to Urban Science. But the
10:13 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jacques Villeneuve qualified for his first Daytona 500 then jogged down pit road anxiously searching for his team and a celebration. The 50-year-old former Formula One champion and Indianapolis 500 winner found his partner and lifted her in the air, then he hugged his crew members.
Unifor National President Jerry Dias said Wednesday he is taking time off to deal with health issues. The head of the union that represents hourly workers at Detroit 3 plants in Canada and thousands of workers at Canadian auto parts facilities, is currently serving a third and final term as head of Unifor. “To my
6:37 AM ET Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 We’ve seen six of the ten cars (in some form) that will contest the
PARIS — Renault-Nissan, once a contender for the world’s No. 1 automaker, has become a “small and fragile” manufacturer, former Nissan and Renault Chairman Carlos Ghosn told a French newspaper in an interview. Ghosn gave the interview to Le Parisien as his co-defendant Greg Kelly, an American former Nissan director, awaits his fate in a
12:25 PM ET ESPN News Services DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 on Sunday will take place before a sold-out crowd, NASCAR announced Tuesday. Daytona International Speedway is back to full capacity a year after the pandemic roughly limited attendance to 30,000 fans inside the sprawling facility that usually packs more than 100,000 NASCAR
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising customers a driverless vehicle since at least 2016. While the company hasn’t delivered on that promise, Tesla lets thousands of employees and customers try new and unfinished driver assistance features on public roads in the U.S. through a program called Full Self Driving Beta,
New York State’s retirement plan is ratcheting up pressure on Tesla Inc., calling on the EV maker to disclose how much it spends on settling sexual harassment and racial discrimination complaints. The New York State Common Retirement Fund, among the country’s biggest public pension plans, filed its shareholder proposal last week following a high-profile racial
1:01 PM ET Williams driver Nicholas Latifi was so worried about the death threats he received after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he hired bodyguards to protect him and his girlfriend. Latifi’s crash in the closing stages of the Abu Dhabi title decider brought out the safety car which ultimately cost Lewis Hamilton the championship,
In this article TSLA SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk holds a helmet as he visits the construction site of Tesla’s gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2021. Michele Tantussi | Reuters Elon Musk unleashed a torrent of stock sales, options exercises, tax payment sales and gifted shares last year totaling nearly
Mizuho Financial Group and other lenders are in talks with KKR-owned parts supplier Marelli Holdings to renegotiate debt and offer financing to keep it operational, people with knowledge of the matter said. The supplier, previously owned by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, had at least 1.1 trillion yen ($9.5 billion) in total debt as of September, the
11:54 AM ET In the coming days, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will present the governing body’s response to the events of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after promising “structural changes” and an “action plan” in a statement on Monday. Formula One team bosses met with Ben Sulayem in London on Monday to discuss
Visitors wearing face masks check a China-made Tesla Model Y sport utility vehicle (SUV) at the electric vehicle maker’s showroom in Beijing, China January 5, 2021. Tingshu Wang | Reuters Six of the seven car brands who ran an ad during the Super Bowl featured electric vehicles, according to analysis published Monday by the online
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has declared a state of emergency in an effort to keep trade flowing freely at the Ambassador Bridge on the U.S.-Canada border. For six days, protestors, demanding an end to vaccine and mask mandates — with some calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — blocked access to the key
12:15 PM ET Formula One will have three qualifying sprint races in 2022 with points now given out to the top eight rather than just the top three, it was confirmed at Monday’s F1 Commission. The revised weekend format with qualifying on a Friday evening, a sprint race on Saturday and the main race on
Polestar Electric vehicle start-up Polestar, which is expected to go public this year, used its first-ever Super Bowl ad to indirectly take shots at its competitors, including Tesla and Volkswagen. The 30-second spot, called “No Compromises,” is simple and to the point. It features shots of the company’s Polestar 2 electric vehicle with the word