Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

Two years ago, IBM realized there was one glaring omission in its roster of sports partnerships: Formula One.  Formula One has become one of the world’s most popular sports, especially in the U.S., where Netflix’s “Drive to Survive” documented the working lives of F1 drivers and turned them into mainstream celebrities. The tech-centric sport has…

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When F1 Engineering Becomes the Chair You Sit In

When F1 Engineering Becomes the Chair You Sit In

The first time I saw images of the Rear Wing Chair by Keon-Jo, I genuinely had to look twice. Not because it’s strange, but because it’s so precisely right that your brain takes a moment to catch up with what it’s actually looking at. That wide, sweeping profile. Those curved, grounded legs. The unmistakable geometry…

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‘Epic,’ Viral Musical Retelling of ‘The Odyssey,’ To Become Animated Movie Thanks to Jerry Bruckheimer (Exclusive)

‘Epic,’ Viral Musical Retelling of ‘The Odyssey,’ To Become Animated Movie Thanks to Jerry Bruckheimer (Exclusive)

It began life in a college dorm room (well, technically it was 2,700 years ago, but we’ll get to that later), gained a multi-million army on TikTok, and earned a real-world record deal. Now Hollywood is calling. Epic, the musical telling of Homer’s The Odyssey, is getting the movie treatment thanks to Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer,…

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Sakura-Inspired Racing Bulls F1 Simulator Is the Most Beautiful Thing to Come Out of the 2026 Japanese GP

Sakura-Inspired Racing Bulls F1 Simulator Is the Most Beautiful Thing to Come Out of the 2026 Japanese GP

Racing Bulls arrived at the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix wearing a livery that had nothing to do with sponsor placement optimization or brand color refresh cycles, and everything to do with sakura. Designed by Bisen Aoyagi, one of Japan’s most accomplished calligraphers, the Cherry Edition wrapped Lawson and Lindblad’s cars in white, red, and silver…

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Alpine’s Wildest F1 Concept Car Concept Uses a Magnetic Levitation Cockpit to Protect Its Driver

Alpine’s Wildest F1 Concept Car Concept Uses a Magnetic Levitation Cockpit to Protect Its Driver

If Alpine’s 2026 season is about consolidation, about switching to Mercedes power units and clawing back from last place in the Constructors’ Championship, then HakHyeon Lee’s Alpine Horizon concept is the opposite impulse entirely. This is a designer throwing Alpine’s arrow logo onto a closed-cockpit hypercar with a magnetically levitating driver pod, wire-tethered to a…

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Audi R26 Concept: Radical Minimalism Rewrites F1 Design

Audi R26 Concept: Radical Minimalism Rewrites F1 Design

Formula 1 faces a design reset in 2026. New regulations mandate smaller, lighter cars with 50% electric power: the most significant technical shift in decades. Audi enters this moment not by copying existing visual language but by challenging it. Where competitors layer graphics and sponsor density across every surface, Audi strips to essentials. This matters…

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