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FORMULA ONE

Red Bull's Max Verstappen during a practice on Saturday against of the Dutch Grand Prix.
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Aug 30, 2025
Max Verstappen: Fan favorite but — for once — not race favorite for home GP
It is impossible to avoid Max Verstappen at Zandvoort during the Dutch Grand Prix. But for once, the Dutch start won't be the favorite at his home race.
Oscar Piastri waves from the podium after finishing secondat the Hungarian Grand Prix in Mogyorod, Hungary, on Aug. 3.
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Aug 29, 2025
F1 leader Oscar Piastri backs McLaren over moves at Hungarian Grand Prix
McLaren defended the race effectively being decided on strategy and its drivers’ right to adopt different approaches.
McLaren's Lando Norris leaves the pits during the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyorod, Hungary, on Aug. 3.
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Aug 28, 2025
McLaren in driver's seat as Formula One heads to Max Verstappen's backyard
McLaren's championship leader Oscar Piastri and teammate Lando Norris, nine points behind after 14 of 24 races, have finished the last four races 1-2.
Red Bull's Sergio Perez celebrates during the podium ceremony after finishing second at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah on March 9, 2024.
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Aug 27, 2025
Perez just wants to enjoy racing as Cadillac shuts down Horner speculation
Cadillac was quick to shut down speculation about Christian Horner having a role in running the team.
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas (front) celebrates after winning the Turkish Grand Prix with third-placed Red Bull's Sergio Perez in Istanbul on Oct. 10, 2021.
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Aug 26, 2025
Cadillac set to name Perez and Bottas as F1 drivers
Perez was dropped by Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2024 season, but the 35-year-old is not far removed from finishing second in the 2023 F1 championship and third in 2022.
Sho Tsuboi said the opportunity to drive a Formula One car at Fuji Speedway was a dream come true.
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Aug 21, 2025
Sho Tsuboi realizes ‘dream’ with Haas F1 test at Fuji Speedway
An impressive performance, which also coincides with Toyota’s modest return to F1, could signal the start of something more substantial.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri celebrates on the podium after finishing second in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Aug. 3.
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Aug 19, 2025
Home hero Piastri to have Australian F1 grandstand named after him
The naming of a grandstand is an honor typically reserved for sporting legends with a long line of achievements.
McLaren chief executive Zak Brown arrives ahead of practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday.
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Aug 5, 2025
McLaren must also deal with disappointment amid runaway success
As the title battle between Oscar Piastri and teammate Lando Norris heats up, McLaren boss Zak Brown conceded he was also thinking about how to handle the aftermath.
McLaren's Lando Norris (right) and Oscar Piastri (left) stand on the podium with Mark Ingham, the team's head of design, after the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest on Sunday. Norris led a 1-2 finish in the race.
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Aug 4, 2025
Lando Norris enjoying battle with Oscar Piastri after winning Hungarian GP
The outcome was McLaren's fourth consecutive 1-2 finish and Norris's fifth win this year and ninth of his career.
Max Verstappen said it was always clear that he would stay at Red Bull next season.
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Aug 1, 2025
Max Verstappen shuts down rumors by committing to Red Bull for 2026
Verstappen has fallen into third place, 81 points behind series leader Oscar Piastri of McLaren, in the drivers' championship this year.
Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli before sprint qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday
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Jul 30, 2025
Teenager Antonelli paying price for 'wrong steps' by Mercedes
Antonelli, 18, finished third in Canada in June for his first F1 podium but has since failed to score.
Oscar Piastri, still wearing his helmet, celebrates with his team after winning the Belgian Grand Prix in Stavelot, Belgium, on Sunday.
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Jul 28, 2025
Oscar Piastri uses earlier disappointment as fuel to win Belgian Grand Prix
It was McLaren's first Belgian triumph since Jenson Button won from pole in 2012.
McLaren's Lando Norris drives during the qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
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Jul 27, 2025
Norris takes pole for all-McLaren front row in Belgium
The Briton blasted around the long Spa-Francorchamps circuit in a best time of one minute, 40.562 seconds on Saturday, just ahead of his teammate.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri (right) and Lando Norris drive during the Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England, on July 6.
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Jul 25, 2025
Formula 1's renewable energy shift drives 26% drop in carbon footprint
F1 said in a statement on Wednesday that it’s halfway toward achieving its minimum 50% reduction target, as set out in its "net zero by 2030” commitment. 
Racing Bulls team principal Laurent Mekies speaks with Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda ahead of practice for the Miami Grand Prix on May 2. Mekies was named Red Bull team principal on Wednesday.
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Jul 11, 2025
Laurent Mekies gets started new Red Bull team principal
Max Verstappen's future with the team remains uncertain, despite a contract until 2028, with Mercedes and Aston Martin keen to secure his services.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner before a practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix on June 27
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Jul 10, 2025
For Christian Horner, a brutal end to a highly successful reign at Red Bull
With this season's car not competitive with rival McLaren, a discontented Verstappen and the constant hemorrhaging of pivotal backroom talent, Horner's tenure ended brutally.
Red Bull's Christian Horner at the Bahrain Grand Prix in April. Horner was fired from his role as team principal and CEO on Wednesday.
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Jul 9, 2025
Red Bull fires team principal Christian Horner
The 51-year-old was the longest-serving team principal, having been in the position since Red Bull made its Formula One debut in 2005.
Apple is reportedly challenging current Formula One broadcaster ESPN for the sport's U.S. television rights next year.
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Jul 9, 2025
Apple eyes U.S. Formula 1 broadcast rights after movie success: report
The report follows the strong box office performance of Apple's high-octane racing film "F1: The Movie."
McLaren's Lando Norris celebrates after winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England, on Sunday.
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Jul 7, 2025
Norris revels in emotional first home win
"I've joined a long list of pretty incredible winners who have won here in the past," Norris said.
Max Verstappen says he is happy with Red Bull amid questions about his future.
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Jul 4, 2025
Max Verstappen sidesteps questions about future ahead of British GP
The 27-year-old said that staying with one team was an interesting prospect for him.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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