Category: Culture

All that glitters: “Entourage” actors unveil VCARB’s sparkly Las Vegas Grand Prix livery The Visa Cash App RB cars certainly won’t be difficult to spot on the streets of Las Vegas this weekend. On Wednesday, the team unveiled a sparkling livery that will be run on Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda’s cars during the 2024…

Meet the F1 concierge making the wealthy’s wildest dreams come true When I ask Emma Gwyther if she’s ever arranged a last-minute helicopter transfer into a Formula 1 track for one of her ultra-high-net-worth clients, she describes the task the way one might describe running a quick errand at the store. “Oh yes, we’ve done that…

3 Las Vegas GP-inspired cocktails (okay, one’s a shot) The Las Vegas Grand Prix’s current version is substantially different than the original early-’80s race, which was held, glamorously, in the parking lot of Caesar’s Palace. For one, it features a 3.8-mile city course with DRS zones and one legendary blast down Sin City’s (in)famous Strip.…

F1 TV’s James Hinchcliffe has been doing this job longer than you think It was about to be a busy few weeks for James Hinchcliffe. When we met in Austin, he was just starting off a triple-header, having joined the F1 TV team for the series’ North American swing. In between filming spots, he roamed…

Max Verstappen’s rocky relationship with “Drive to Survive” is well-documented. The three-time world champion offers very little when he’s mic’d up in front of the cameras, and even boycotted the series altogether for a time. So it might be surprising to learn that Verstappen has been getting candid on camera for years — just not…

Calling all F1 fans with impeccable sartorial taste. Mercedes is hiring a driver clothing executive to manage George Russell and Kimi Antonelli’s off-track attire. The new role, as Motorsport.com understands, was born out of necessity amid the team’s growing roster of brand partners and the number of ensembles worn by the drivers at appearances throughout each…

“This isn’t Formula 1 Fyre Fest,” Alexandra Zigrang assures through a laugh.Just a year in, her Barcelona-based trackside travel company, Off to the Races, has been far from a failure. Unlike the infamous music festival that promised luxury thousand-dollar villas only to deliver emergency tents and cheese sandwiches instead. The company offers female travelers what…

In the fan zone at the Circuit of the Americas, next to a jar of earplugs and a few feet from an industrial sized jug of free sunscreen, sat a 3-inch thick book with heavy blank white pages. Fans were shuffling from the midday heat into the tent where the book sat, writing notes in…