Mercedes and Haas Unveil Upgrades; Rossi Hurt in Indy Crash and More

Comment of the day

This week’s poll asks whether Lewis Hamilton should continue into a third decade of racing in Formula 1:

The one thing that has always struck me is that Hamilton at least comes across as being less passionate and interested about racing and motorsport in general compared to the likes of Alonso, Verstappen, Norris, Sainz and many, many other past drivers who all have done or seek to race other categories.

Whilst he clearly has some level of determination to have stayed in the sport this long, Hamilton evidently has significant interests outside of motorsport — music, fashion and public appearances among them. Sometimes it feels like he remains in F1 partly because it supports those wider ambitions.

I think the better question would be, ‘is Hamilton still in the sport for the right reasons?’
David B

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‘We will stay balanced and keep learning’ – Toto previews the Canadian GP (Mercedes)

“Our competitors took a step forward in Miami and we need to respond; seven grands prix in 10 weekends before shutdown is an opportunity to do that and build momentum. We bring our first update package of the year to Montreal, but we know that performance is only performance once it is delivered on track.”

Canadian Grand Prix: Race preview (Haas)

Ayao Komatsu: “For us, we’re looking forward to the weekend as we have an upgrade package coming. As it’s a Sprint weekend, we’ll only have FP1 to evaluate it, understand it and get the best out of it. It’s quite a lot to do, but that’s what a lot of other teams did in Miami, so we’re really up for the challenge.”

Multiple cars crash in Indy 500 practice (IndyCar)

Ed Carpenter Racing (X)

Alexander Rossi underwent successful outpatient procedures to repair minor injuries to a finger on his left hand and his right ankle after an on-track incident during Indianapolis 500 practice. He is in good spirits with no additional injuries. Rossi’s recovery is being overseen by IndyCar medical director Dr. Julia Vaizer and the IndyCar medical team. His condition will be evaluated with the aim of returning for final practice on Friday, May 22 and competing in the 110th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 24. The number 20 Chevrolet crew will prepare a backup car and return to the track for final practice.

The 2015 Pocono tragedy sent Sage Karam spiralling into depression. Now, he wants others to learn from his journey (Racer)

“The first year was bad, but it went for years. I’d randomly just get somebody message me something stupid: ‘that should have been you’, or, ‘Justin would still be here if it weren’t for you’. And then any race I would do after that, it would just be like, ‘can’t wait to see you crash again’. It carried on for basically my entire career. And being 20, social media was very much in my life. I would always be on Twitter, and Instagram, Facebook, and checking my messages, whatever. So I saw everything, and I became obsessed with it. I would see these things, and then I want to know, ‘who else was saying these things about me?’ So then I was reading forums and stuff. And it’s just never good. Especially on the internet, you’re very rarely going to find many good things written about you from other people like that are sitting behind a keyboard.”

FIA continues to expand career pathways and strengthen environmental frameworks in 2025 (FIA)

“Absolute emissions increased by 16% year-on-year against a backdrop of increased headcount and the opening of a new office in London.”

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On this day in motorsport

• Born today in 1975: Ralph Firman, who contested a single season of Formula 1 for Jordan in 2003. He also won Japan’s Formula Nippon, British F3 and the Macau Grand Prix.
• 35 years ago today Jean-Marc Gounon won the Pau Grand Prix, the second round of the Formula 3000 championship, ahead of Christian Fittipaldi.