This weekend’s race at Le Mans will be Puig’s first of the 2021 season having missed the opening four rounds due to a medical issue. Espargaro emerged from the Spanish GP last time out frustrated with his bike after finishing 10th behind returning team-mate Marc Marquez, and wasn’t happy with the direction all HRC riders […]
Bottas is currently in his fifth season racing for Mercedes in F1, having routinely agreed one-year contract extensions with the team, the most recent of which expires at the end of the 2021 campaign. Mercedes is set to be a focal point of the driver market silly season for next year as both Bottas and […]
Live MotoGP hasn’t been broadcast on free-to-air television in Britain since the end of the 2013 season, when BT Sport took over exclusive live rights in 2014. Since then, free-to-air offerings for MotoGP have been hourly highlights packages shown on Channel 5, Quest TV and ITV4 on the Monday after each grand prix. While exclusive […]
On Wednesday McLaren announced it had signed Norris to a new multi-year contract for 2022 and beyond, meaning the British driver is set to drive for McLaren for at least five seasons after making his debut in 2019. When asked if his long-term commitment to the team could set Norris up to become one of […]
Ducati is the only manufacturer other than Yamaha in 2021 to have reached the podium in the first five races of the season and has won twice courtesy of Miller. This marks the first time in MotoGP that Ducati – either with its factory team or a satellite squad – has scored podiums in each […]
Norris, 21, made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019, and has since scored two podium finishes for the team, the most recent coming at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April. The British youngster’s McLaren contract was due to expire at the end of the year, but the team announced on Wednesday ahead of […]
MotoGP’s 2020 calendar consisted of five double-header races which took place at repeat venues in Jerez, Austria, Misano, Aragon and Valencia as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 season kicked off with back-to-back Qatar races, with the Doha GP – along with a round in Portugal – added to replace the postponed US […]
Rewind the clock to last year and the Woking-based team had actually been the first to test a 2021 specification floor, when it installed one on its MCL35 at the Belgian Grand Prix. This allowed it to assess the aerodynamic havoc that the changes would wreak at the rear of the car, and which all […]
Pole looked set to go to Marc Marquez as spots of rain appeared in the latter stages, but the top six changed right at the death as a number of riders found lap time improvements in the conditions. Meanwhile, Q1 claimed several big hitters including championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and Suzuki duo Joan Mir and […]
As F1 heads to its blue riband event in Monaco, which has regularly been one of the most watched races on TV over recent years (not last season because it didn’t take place), all the indications are for another bumper audience. But the prospect of F1 delivering its closest championship battle for years has again […]