FormulaOne? announced today that #Miami? will be hosting a new race in 2022 in the “Magic City” famous for laidback seaside vibes and Latin-American influences. Here is all you need to know:
– The Miami Grand Prix race will be the first in Florida since 1959 and will be held on an exciting new layout at the Hard Rock Stadium complex in Miami Gardens – home to the NFL’s iconic Miami Dolphins franchise.
– The date of the race has yet to be confirmed, however the 2022 event will be the first in a 10-year deal and it means the USA will host two races in motorsport’s blue-riband event from next season.
– Miami will be the 11th USA location that Formula One has raced in after Indianapolis, Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Detroit, Dallas, Phoenix and Circuit of The Americas in Austin.
Since the 1930’s racecar drivers from all origins have tried to set new records on the Nurburgring. Although only very few ever could match Sabine Schmitz. In the years 1996 and 97 she won the 24 hour race as the first woman ever and therefore earned the title “Queen of the Nurburgring”.
Unfortunately Sabine Schmitz lost her battle against cancer on the 16th of march 2021. On the sad occasion of her passing, we look back on her greatest successes. Rest in Peace, Sabine!
Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California’s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand.
It sure would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those, Meyers thought, if only they weren’t so ugly and didn’t appear so uncomfortable. He built his own solution: a “dune buggy” fashioned out of lightweight fiberglass mounted on four oversized tires with two bug-eyed looking headlights and a blindingly bright paint job.
The result would become both an overnight automotive sensation and one of the talismans of California surf culture, especially when he created a space in the back to … More
Since 2016, Ferrari has been a publicly-traded company that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RACE”. Here is the update to who owns Ferrari in 2021:
Institutional investors own 59% of the company.
The largest shareholder, with 24% of shares outstanding, is EXOR NV, Asset Management Arm (owners of Fiat Crysler Automobiles.
Piero Ferrari is the second-largest shareholder holding 10% of the shares
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc is the third-largest shareholder owning 4.7%
The general public owns … More
Ferrari debuts on Wall Street – On 21 October, 2015 at 9.30 ED, flanked by FCA Chairman John Elkann and a group of Prancing Horse executives, Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne rang the opening bell at the NYSE which traditionally marks the start of trading on the floor of what is considered the world’s leading stock exchange. Ferrari N.V. has chosen RACE as its ticker symbol for the listing.