The entire MotoGP field were forced into running the soft front tyre during last weekend’s season-opener at Losail due to the dropping temperatures of the evening race. This is a compound KTM has typically struggled on in the past, with its preferred hard option not viable for the conditions. Binder’s team-mate Miguel Oliveira took a […]
The team endured a poor 2020 season, scoring just eight points on its way to eighth place in the constructors’ championship, with its best result coming in the Emilia Romagna GP, where Kimi Raikkonen was ninth. But, in pre-season testing, Alfa emerged as one of the surprises with its C41 car, which hinted at being […]
The Petronas SRT rider was nudged slightly wide by Binder in the latter stages of last Sunday’s 2021 season-opener at Turn 1 – though Rossi ended up two spots ahead of the KTM in 12th at the chequered flag. The incident required no intervention from Race Direction, while Binder doesn’t believe there was any contact. […]
Ricciardo jumped ship from Renault to McLaren during the off-season, hoping to do better than the two podiums he achieved in two years with the Enstone team. After not being able to finish in the top three in his first season with Renault, Ricciardo got team boss Cyril Abiteboul to agree on getting a tattoo […]
The LCR rider struggled for form on the RC213V in his rookie season in 2020, only cracking the top 12 on the grid twice across the campaign. The Honda is typically a difficult bike to extract the maximum from during a time attack, but Marquez feels he has made a step forward in this area […]
Szafnauer has blamed the rule tweaks for the team’s loss of competitiveness since the end of last season, when as Racing Point it was a regular podium challenger and took victory in the Sakhir GP. Racing Point followed the Mercedes low-rake concept for its 2020 car and was committed to it for 2021 due to […]
The Italian was tagged as one of the favourites to fight for victory in last Sunday’s season-opener, but plummeted from seventh on the grid to 18th come the chequered flag. Sources close to the team confirmed to Autosport that Morbidelli’s issue stemmed from a faulty holeshot device. Morbidelli confirmed on Thursday ahead of the second […]
While Red Bull-Honda had a clear pace advantage over Mercedes in qualifying at Sakhir last weekend, in the race there was little to separate the two teams. That shift in form opened the door for Mercedes to use an aggressive strategy to help Lewis Hamilton get track position over Max Verstappen, with the Briton holding […]
The fundamental rule surrounding track limits has not changed as such for 2021, but the policing has become stricter. Last season, riders could go one wheel off circuit onto the painted run-off area and still keep their lap times, while both wheels off-track resulted in that sector – and ultimately the lap – being cancelled […]
Lewis Hamilton turned the tables on pre-event favourite Max Verstappen with a masterful drive at Sakhir on Sunday, with an aggressive strategy and strong tyre management just being enough to keep his rival at bay. But while Mercedes came out on top this time, it reckons that the characteristics of the Sakhir track tilted things […]