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The Florida Man of Formula 1

Logan Sargeant, the only American driver in Formula 1, is zipping around the narrow streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, at roughly 200 miles an hour. His head bounces inside the cockpit […]




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Netflix Shuns Live Sports but Embraces Sports Documentaries

By the fourth season of Netflix’s documentary series about Formula 1, “Drive to Survive,” the streaming company had plenty of evidence that it was onto something: Ratings and attendance for […]




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Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar

My colleague, the columnist John McWhorter, a trained linguist, noted in a recent essay that the catchphrase was an American instance of a euphemistic language practice known in South Africa […]




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NASCAR Bets on Next Gen Car to Draw New Crowds and Shift Fortunes

When the checkered flag drops at NASCAR’s Cup Series Championship on Nov. 7 in Phoenix, it will end a season, and an era.It is the last race for NASCAR’s sixth-generation […]