Martin suffered several fractures in a heavy crash during practice for last month’s Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao, which required surgery. The MotoGP rookie was forced to miss his home round at Jerez and last weekend’s French GP at Le Mans as a result, with 2014 Moto2 world champion and former Avintia Ducati rider Tito […]
Earlier this month Reutemann was admitted to the intensive care unit of a local hospital in his hometown of Santa Fe after suffering a digestive haemorrhage. Four days later doctors decided to transfer him via helicopter to a different facility in Rosario, 170 kilometres down the road, due to new episodes of internal bleeding. Following… […]
After losing his place with the factory Ducati squad for 2021 – with whom he raced between 2013 and 2020 – Dovizioso is taking a sabbatical in 2021 with a view to preparing for a full-time MotoGP return next year. Dovizioso agreed to test the Aprilia RS-GP at Jerez last month, carrying out a second […]
Despite sitting out most of Thursday morning’s first free practice session with gearbox issues, Charles Leclerc topped the second session at the Monaco Grand Prix, holding off Carlos Sainz for a Ferrari 1-2. Observers expected Ferrari to be strong in Monaco as its SF21 proved to be very competitive through Barcelona’s slow final sector at… […]
The 2020 MotoGP runner-up has a two-year deal in place with SRT that runs to the end of 2022, but SRT is yet to confirm its future plans beyond this season. Yamaha has been linked in tying up with Valentino Rossi’s incoming VR46 team from 2022, though rumours suggest a deal between VR46 and Ducati […]
After Valtteri Bottas was involved in a huge crash at Imola, the team highlighted that the cost of the damage might compromise development later in the season, and skipping a planned tyre test is further evidence of how the top teams are now having to account for every dollar they spend. Even a $400,000 budget […]
Verstappen arrived in Monaco looking to score his first podium finish in the principality and cut the 14-point gap to Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton at the top of the drivers’ championship. But Verstappen could only finish fourth-fastest in Thursday’s second practice session as Ferrari swept to a surprise 1-2 finish led by Charles… Continue Reading […]
Sainz finished second in both FP1 and FP2 in Monaco, trailing Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc by one-tenth of a second in the afternoon session. It marked Ferrari’s first 1-2 finish in any F1 session since second practice for the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, acting as the latest milestone in the team’s recovery from its difficult […]
MotoGP was due to return to Finland for the first time since 1982 last year at the new purpose-built KymiRing, but was one of many rounds scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event made it back onto the provisional 2021 schedule on the weekend of 11-13 July, but ongoing travel restrictions in Finland has […]
After missing the majority of the opening practice session due to a gearbox problem, Leclerc stormed back in FP2 to top the times with a 1m11.684s on a late soft tyre run, to edge out Sainz by 0.112s after the Spanish driver had held the provisional top spot. While the Ferrari 1-2 came as a […]