Formula 1 | Hamilton fastest on disrupted final day of pre-season running in Barcelona

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the week on the final day of pre-season running in Barcelona, after five red flags truncated the morning session, and Pirelli conducted a wet weather tyre test in the early afternoon.

Hamilton lit the sectors purple with a very late effort of 1m 19.138s to put Mercedes at the top on Day 3. Team mate George Russell was fastest in the morning, amid five stoppages. The first red flag was for Alpine’s Fernando Alonso, thick smoke pouring out of his A522. The team soon stated that they would call an early end to their pre-season programme in Spain due to that hydraulic issue.  –read more–

CNN BUSINESS | Home prices skyrocketed last year. Two regions saw the biggest increases

Home prices rose 18.8% in 2021, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, the biggest increase in 34 years of data and substantially ahead of 2020’s 10.4% gain.

All regions saw price gains last year, but increases were strongest in the South and the Southeast, each of which were up over 25%.

Phoenix, Tampa and Miami reported the highest annual gains among the 20 cities in the index in December. Phoenix led the way for the 31st consecutive month with prices 32.5% higher than the year before. It was followed by Tampa with a 29.4% increase, and Miami, with a 27.3% increase.  –read more—

ESPN | F1 to host three sprint races in 2022 with revised point format

Formula One will have three qualifying sprint races in 2022 with points now given out to the top eight rather than just the top three, it was confirmed at Monday’s F1 Commission.

The revised weekend format with qualifying on a Friday evening, a sprint race on Saturday and the main race on Sunday, will take place at April’s Emilia Romagna GP, July’s Austrian GP and November’s Brazilian GP.

The winner of the sprint race at each of those events will score eight points, rather than three like last year, with the points scaling down to eighth position, which will score one point. –read more–  

CNN BUSINESS | The biggest chip deal in history has fallen apart

Hong Kong (CNN Business) – SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off.

At an initial value of $40 billion, the US chipmaker’s acquisition of British design firm ARM would have been the largest semiconductor deal on record.

But regulators around the world have long raised concerns about the deal, eventually leading to its collapse on Tuesday.  –read more– 

CNN BUSINESS | These GameStop traders struck gold. Then came the hard part.

(CNN) – Best friends AJ Vanover and George “Rash” Adams were once making $35,000 a year working together at a battery store in rural Missouri. But a bet on GameStop last year changed their lives. So what happens after you strike market gold? –watch–

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CNN Sports | The Chiefs-Bills wild playoff battle may be remembered as one of the greatest in NFL history

Patrick Mahomes celebrates after a dramatic victory over the Buffalo Bills.

(CNN) – Did we just watch one of the best games in NFL history?

We definitely saw two great next generation quarterbacks on display at Arrowhead Stadium as Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen put on an absolute clinic on Sunday night in an epic AFC divisional round clash in the NFL playoffs.  –read more–