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Formula One's Switch To Hybrid Engines Leads To Criticism Following Season Opener

F1's new sound has "received the thumbs down from a few big names of motorsport," according to the AP. The switch to V6 turbo hybrid engines may "suit automakers, but some observers believe they've stripped away the sport's powerful sound." During Friday's "testing sessions for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix," IndyCar driver Will Power tweeted he was "missing the scream of the old F1 cars." IndyCar Owner and ex-Cart champion Jimmy Vasser said that the cars were "looking slow and ugly and that sound...." (AP, 3/14). In Sydney, Mark Fogarty wrote it "might not have been the day" F1 died, but on Sunday at "an Australian Grand Prix that was lacklustre by most measures, it began what could be a terminal illness." The sound of the cars "was dreadful, the racing was somnolent and the spectacle completely underwhelming." F1 authorities, along with the teams, have to "urgently address the failings of the radical new regulations that have neutered much of the cars' traditional visceral appeal." The 57 laps of the Albert Park circuit "was the quietest F1 race in history, with the hushed drone of the new turbocharged 1.6-litre V6 engines barely troubling the noise meters" (SMH, 3/17). In N.Y., A.J. Baime reported F1 entered the Australian Grand Prix "facing more uncertainties than it has in recent years: new cars so technologically ambitious, it's unclear if their paint can last through a race; new driver lineups for nearly all the top teams; looming financial woes; and a chief grappling with legal problems after more than three decades in charge" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/14).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

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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