Month: May 2021

17 May 2021

Rins critical of his “stupid mistakes” in MotoGP 2021

Rins crashed out of the battle for victory in Portugal last month while running second and fell early on in the following Spanish Grand Prix from sixth position. In Sunday’s wet Le Mans race, Rins recovered from 15th on the grid to run in the podium places by the end of lap five and exited […]

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17 May 2021

Reutemann moved out of intensive care as condition improves

Reutemann was transferred from the Santa Fe Hospital to Rosario’s Sanatorio Parque earlier this month after repeated episodes of internal bleeding due to a digestive haemorrhage. The 79-year-old was reported stable on Monday but then suffered another haemorrhage the following day, after which it was decided to perform an enteroscopy. An… Continue Reading on Autosport

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17 May 2021

French MotoGP “strangest race on my life”

Quartararo led the field into pitlane in the early stages of the race when the rain fell, but admitted he initially forgot about MotoGP’s flag-to-flag rule when conditions changed. The Yamaha rider was then handed a long lap penalty for stopping in the wrong box in pitlane, but recovered from this and a lack of […]

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17 May 2021

Watch McLaren F1’s Monaco Grand Prix announcement

McLaren has not revealed any details about what is being announced but it will premiere a short video live on Sunday, May 16 at 17:00 GMT / 18:00 GMT. The Woking-based outfit teased the announcement on Twitter with the caption ‘Bold is back’ and the #MonacoGP hashtag, along with a close-up shot of Daniel Ricciardo […]

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17 May 2021

Miller “didn’t believe” French MotoGP long-lap penalty notification

The Ducati rider was caught speeding marginally when he entered pitlane to take his second bike when rain started to fall on lap five of Sunday’s 27-lap Le Mans race. Both he and Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia copped double long-lap penalties for speeding in pitlane, with Miller admitting he didn’t think the notification was correct.  […]

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17 May 2021

McLaren reveals special Gulf Oil F1 livery for Monaco GP

As part of a one-off arrangement with its fuel sponsor, Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris’s MCL35Ms will feature a full-on matte Gulf livery for the first time in F1 history. The rebranding, which will include drivers’ overalls, retro helmets and team kit, comes in the wake of a renewed tie-up between Gulf Oil and McLaren last year. […]

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16 May 2021

Hamilton’s hard-fought F1 wins silencing doubters

Hamilton is locked in a thrilling duel with Max Verstappen for this year’s F1 title, and has won three of the first four races so far this season. But the tight fight with his Red Bull rival has forced Hamilton to push to the max, and that has cast a fresh light on the contribution he makes […]

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16 May 2021

Marquez “angry” at “unnecessary” French MotoGP crash

The Honda rider ran in the podium battle at the start of the 27-lap flag-to-flag contest at Le Mans – just the third race of his MotoGP comeback – and managed to steal the lead from Fabio Quartararo during the pitstops at the end of lap five. Marquez quickly put two seconds between himself and […]

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16 May 2021

Russell very close to Hamilton’s early F1 career level

Robson worked at McLaren during Hamilton’s time as a junior driver with the team – where he would go on to make his F1 debut in 2007 and win his first world title a year later.  When discussing Hamilton’s achievement of sealing 100 career F1 pole positions at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Robson explained […]

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