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Leonardo DiCaprio, Venturi Automobiles Join Formula E As 10th Team

Venturi Automobiles announced a joint venture with U.S. actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to enter a team in the new FIA Formula E Championship. Based in Monaco, the new Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team has been co-founded by DiCaprio and EV manufacturer Venturi Automobiles Founder Gildo Pallanca Pastor, together with Bert Hedaya and Francesco Costa. Venturi Grand Prix will now be put forward to the FIA for approval as the 10th and final team to enter the new zero-emission series (Formula E). DiCaprio said, "The future of our planet depends on our ability to embrace fuel-efficient, clean-energy vehicles. Venturi Grand Prix has shown tremendous foresight in their decision to create an environmentally friendly racing team, and I am happy to be a part of this effort" (REUTERS, 12/9). AUTOSPORT's Sam Tremayne reported Venturi Automobiles is the current "holder of the world land speed record for an electric vehicle," with its Buckeye Bullet 2.5 clocking a measured 307mph in '10. The team "plans to become a Formula E constructor from the second season, building its own car using a powertrain based on the 3,000bhp unit used by its new electric land speed record challenger, the Venturi VBB-3" (AUTOSPORT, 12/9).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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