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Norris hits out at ‘fabricated nonsense’ in Netflix’s Drive to Survive (The Guardian)
‘To portray someone in an incorrect way, people are going to have their opinions of that incorrect person, it’s almost lying in some ways. I just don’t think that’s correct.’
F1 teams sign 2026 commercial ‘Concorde’ agreement (Reuters)
‘The teams include General Motors-backed Cadillac, who are due to enter next year as the 11th outfit.’
A difficult start (Ferrari)
Frederic Vasseur: ‘When the rain returned, we took the risk of staying out, as indeed did Max (Verstappen). But then we got our next strategy move wrong by staying out one lap too long, and we paid the price.’
Race recap (Haas)
Esteban Ocon: ‘It’s really the performance we missed out on this race, if we had a little bit more we would’ve been in the mix for points. The cars were fighting in front and I was just there, there was no position for me to get inside the top 10, I just couldn’t keep up unfortunately.’
Formula 1 owner bets on Brad Pitt’s pulling power to shift into US mainstream (The Financial Times)
Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang: ‘Any time Brad Pitt’s in a movie people pay attention. The movie is serving the super fan, but also driving this mainstream.’
Melbourne feature race cancelled (Formula 2)
Bruno Michel: ‘We tried everything we could to make it happen, but ultimately, the track conditions were too dangerous, which the drivers confirmed over the radio, so the right call was to cancel.’
Norris had a cheeky dig at Verstappen when the drivers were asked during the press conference if they had any concerns about the recovery vehicles and marshals on-track during Safety Car periods in today’s race.
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Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony consoled Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar after he crashed out on the formation lap.
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