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Lego and Formula 1 Roll Out Full Sets of Teams and Drivers

Lego and Formula 1 Roll Out Full Sets of Teams and Drivers

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If there’s one thing Lego is known for—besides the legendary clutch power of its immortal plastic bricks—it’s the company’s uncanny ability to pinpoint the Next Big Thing and immediately sign a licensing deal. After creating sets for the most legendary IPs to have ever existed (see: Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean), the Lego Group partnered with Formula 1 in 2024. Today, the two companies unveil new Lego F1 sets that launch in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of Formula 1. Starting on January 1, 2025, Lego fans can collect and build sets for all 10 F1 teams, in products that span Lego’s entire portfolio. Whether you have an enormous Lego City build in your basement, or your small child is just beginning to build with Duplos, you will be able to participate in a Formula 1 experience. Photograph: Lego Courtesy of Lego Perhaps the most exciting are the sets that will be part of the Lego Speed Champions lineup, which are realistic Lego models of popular sports car models from manufacturers like McLaren and …

Apes love being tickled, rats giggle: Hannah Fry on the science of laughter | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

Apes love being tickled, rats giggle: Hannah Fry on the science of laughter | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

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While the British sense of humour is something every Brit holds dear, it’s fair to assume many British jokes would leave other cultures mystified. I think there is something quite interesting in that: it means that humour is not universal. The things we find funny are not innate, they’re cultural. That makes humour very different from laughter, which every human (even the grumpy ones) will have experienced at some point or another. Unlike humour, laughter is much easier to understand and study scientifically. For instance, TV producers have long known that adding pre-recorded “laugh tracks” makes people find you funnier than when they don’t hear that laughter (I’m looking at you, 90s sitcoms). But neuroscientist Robert Provine found that there didn’t even need to be any gags whatsoever. In 2013, Provine did a study where he simply played the laugh track on its own, and strangely found that was enough to trigger laughter in almost all of the study’s participants. Provine went on to revolutionise the way we understand laughter, by taking it out of …

Hannah Fry: I hate the word ‘ginger’, but I love how we develop our ‘colourful’ language | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry: I hate the word ‘ginger’, but I love how we develop our ‘colourful’ language | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

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I’ve always hated the word “ginger”. I know that people use it as a descriptive term, but there’s just something about the way the vowels can be elongated that make it sound like it was destined to be a sneer across a school playground (at least, the playgrounds I frequented in the 1990s). “Redhead” always seemed a much more affectionate term, even if it is wildly inaccurate. Growing up, I assumed that was deliberate misdirection. I thought “red” was a euphemism, like saying someone has “passed wind” when it’d be impolite to use the real word. I only recently discovered this is not the case at all. Redheads and redbeards are called “red” because we glorious genetic mutants have been around much longer than the word “orange”. I’m sure you know this bit of pub trivia already: the colour orange was named after the fruit, and not the other way around. But until about 1500, the English language just didn’t have a way to describe anything with that particular hue. People lumped gingers, squirrels and …

Hannah Fry on selfies: we think we know what we look like, but we’ll never really know | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry on selfies: we think we know what we look like, but we’ll never really know | The Formula To Life With Hannah Fry

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It’s strange to imagine, but before mirrors became commonplace, most people would not be well acquainted with what their own faces would look like. Apart from maybe the occasional glimpse in a river, the internal self-image of many of our ancestors would have been based only on how others reacted to them, not on what they actually looked like. Physical mirrors have been in existence in one form or another for thousands of years, but as recently as the 1960s, the anthropologist Edmund Carpenter came across a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea, known as the Biami, who (as far as he could tell) had not yet seen them. Using Polaroids, film cameras and tape recorders, Carpenter showed the tribesmen what they looked and sounded like. At least initially, they were all completely freaked out by their photos. They covered their mouths, ducked their heads and turned away in a “terror of self-awareness”. But within moments, they became completely transfixed and wanted to capture their own photos. (Everyone, it seems, loves a selfie.) Samsung Galaxy …

How to Watch the 2024 Italian Grand Prix Online: Start Time, TV Channel, Formula 1 Livestream

How to Watch the 2024 Italian Grand Prix Online: Start Time, TV Channel, Formula 1 Livestream

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The 2024 Formula 1 season continues this weekend with the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday, and the competition is as hot as the late summer heat in Monza. Teams meet in Italy for the second time this year, but now they are at one of the most celebrated tracks. The Temple of Speed has been a Formula 1 classic circuit since the ‘50s, featuring long straights and fiercely fast corners that will test the agility of every driver. Watch F1 Racing on Sling TV While Red Bull’s Max Verstappen claimed the championship title last year, the race is anything but in the bag this year as both McLaren and Ferrari drivers put increasing pressure on the reigning champ. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the 2024 Italian Grand Prix online, including the full schedule and where to stream the F1 race for free. When is the 2024 Italian Grand Prix? The Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix takes place on Sunday, September 1, 2024. The race starts at 2:00 p.m. local time in Monza, Italy. That’s 9:00 …

Natalie Robyn, FIA’s first female chief executive, leaves post after 18 months | Formula One

Natalie Robyn, FIA’s first female chief executive, leaves post after 18 months | Formula One

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Natalie Robyn is leaving Formula One’s governing body after serving just 18 months as its first chief executive, the FIA said on Wednesday. Robyn was one of the most senior female executives in motorsport and her arrival from the auto industry was hailed by the sport’s governing body, the FIA, as a “transformative moment” for an organisation led by Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Ben Sulayem, from the United Arab Emirates, highlighted Robyn’s appointment as proof of his commitment to equality and diversity after a controversy over remarks he had once made about women “who think they are smarter than men”. The governing body said Robyn had decided to pursue opportunities elsewhere and was leaving by mutual agreement at the end of May. “Performing in the role of CEO at the FIA has been an enormous privilege and I am grateful to have directed a programme of restructuring and reform,” she was quoted as saying. “Now is the time to step away in the knowledge that the organisation is better placed for the challenges which lie ahead.” …

Lando Norris ends Max Verstappen’s winning streak with first Formula One win | US News

Lando Norris ends Max Verstappen’s winning streak with first Formula One win | US News

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Lando Norris has ended Max Verstappen’s winning streak by securing the first victory of his career at the Miami Grand Prix. In his 110th Formula One appearance, the 24-year-old from Bristol took advantage of a safety car period to pull ahead of Verstappen. Verstappen followed Norris on the 180mph drag to the opening corner at the Hard Rock Stadium, but Norris managed to keep him at bay before turning in the fastest lap of the race. Image: Norris in action during the race. Pic: Reuters He crossed the line seconds ahead of Verstappen, who took second place ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, whose teammate Carlos Sainz took fourth. Lewis Hamilton claimed his best result of the season by crossing the line sixth. “Whooooooooooo, whooooooooo, I love you all,” Norris yelled over the radio after crossing the finishing line. “Thank you so much. We did it, Will [Joseph, Norris’s race engineer]. We did it. “I guess that is how it is done. Finally. Oh, I am so happy. I knew it when I came in this …

McLaren’s Lando Norris wins his first Formula 1 race at thrilling Miami Grand Prix

McLaren’s Lando Norris wins his first Formula 1 race at thrilling Miami Grand Prix

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — McLaren’s Lando Norris scored his first win in Formula 1 at a thrilling Miami Grand Prix on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen and disrupting an otherwise perfect weekend for Verstappen that included a sprint race win and pole position. A jubilant Norris celebrated victory after more than 100 races and several near-collisions as the crowd erupted in cheers. Before Miami, Norris held the unwanted record of most podiums in F1 without a race win, at 15. “Woo!” he shouted on team radio after he took the checkered flag. “I love you all. … We did it!” After the race, Norris, who started in fifth, leapt into the arms of his crew and was hoisted up. He was greeted to rapturous cheers of “Lando! Lando!” as he took the winner’s trophy to the podium. Verstappen started first and held his lead, but a mid-race safety car put Norris ahead of the pack. When the race restarted, Verstappen had no answer for Norris, who sped off into the distance. Verstappen has dominated F1 for …

TAG Heuer Kith Formula 1 Watch 2024: Prices, Specs, Availability

TAG Heuer Kith Formula 1 Watch 2024: Prices, Specs, Availability

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Concessions to modernity include sapphire crystal instead of plastic for the dial covering on these new models, and high-grade rubber straps instead of the plastic of old. The range includes five versions with stainless steel cases (two of which have black PVD coatings to match their bezels), and five featuring cases in the original Arnite, in fun colorways designed in partnership with New York-based Kith. Ronnie Fieg, Kith’s founder and an influential figure in today’s streetwear and sneaker world, is also a passionate collector of vintage TAG Heuer Formula 1s. The all-plastic versions, plus two steel versions with bright blue and green bezels respectively, are exclusive to Kith—find them in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hawaii, Tokyo and Paris, or on its website. But expect to move fast, because if the MoonSwatch is any precedent, the scalpers will move faster—notwithstanding the fact that at $1,350, the new Formula 1s are five times the price of a MoonSwatch. But they are rare: there are only 250 examples each of the Kith exclusive all-Arnite models, and …

Ayrton Senna’s death was predicted to end Formula One, former boss Bernie Ecclestone reveals | UK News

Ayrton Senna’s death was predicted to end Formula One, former boss Bernie Ecclestone reveals | UK News

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Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he was told Ayrton Senna’s death in a Formula One race 30 years ago “would be the end of” the sport. The former F1 boss said Max Mosley, then president of the sport’s governing body the FIA, made the prediction after the Brazilian driver died at the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994. Senna, a three-time world champion and one of the biggest names in world sport, died instantly when his Williams car ran off the road at 190mph and hit a concrete wall on the seventh lap of the Imola circuit. The 34-year-old was the second driver to die that weekend after Austrian Roland Ratzenberger crashed his Simtek car into a wall during qualifying. Speaking on the eve of the 30th anniversary of Senna’s death, Ecclestone said: “Max Mosley said to me afterwards that he believed it would be the end of Formula One. I said, ‘I think you are wrong and we will have to see’. “We hoped it wouldn’t cause what Max had suggested might happen, …