The 16-year-old has stunned the motorcycle racing world in the first three races of his world championship career, having finished second and won twice – with his maiden win at the Doha Grand Prix coming from pitlane. This has left the Ajo KTM rider 31 points clear in the championship coming to this weekend’s Spanish […]
Seven-time grand prix winner Ricciardo joined McLaren on a three-year deal for 2021, but has struggled to match teammate Lando Norris’s form through the early part of the season. Ricciardo was left downbeat after being eliminated in Q1 last weekend in Portugal, but recovered to finish the race in ninth place. The Australian is yet […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion rode to eighth in last Sunday’s Jerez race, the second of his comeback from a nine-month injury layoff. Though he is still not at his physical peak yet, he admitted his condition was better on the bike than it was in Portugal, and this allowed him for the first time […]
Brown’s main argument was his frustration regarding the current decision-making process in F1 – and specifically the way some teams are obliged to follow the lead of their power unit supplier or commercial partner, and how that can potentially skew the voting. It’s been a contentious issue for decades. Of course, no team is going […]
Rins crashed out of second while fighting Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo for the win in last month’s Portuguese Grand Prix, before tumbling out of the lead group on lap three of last Sunday’s Spanish GP at Jerez. As a result, Rins’ title hopes have taken an early knock as he slips 43 points off the championship […]
Fortunately – just like with thoroughbred horse racing’s standing as the ‘sport of kings’ – the prestige and status of F1 attracts some of the wealthiest people on the planet. So let’s take a look at them… As an entrée, just think about that Claro sticker on the rear wing of the Red Bull Racing […]
The nine-time grand prix world champion, who has joined the satellite squad for 2021 from the factory Yamaha squad, has scored just four points so far on the same bike which has won all three races to date. Rossi’s struggles continued on Friday at Jerez as he ended the day 1.4 seconds off the best […]
Abiteboul left Renault ahead of its rebranding as Alpine, having played a key role in the restructuring and revamping of the operation. The Enstone-based outfit elected not to directly replace him and instead installed a management structure that has no set team principal. After several months away from the spotlight, Abiteboul has now… Continue Reading […]
So fine were the margins in third practice at Jerez that just 0.098 seconds covered the top seven, while the gap covering those who made it directly into the second part of qualifying stood at 0.193s. Having spent Friday trying to diagnose his Portimao problems, Maverick Vinales set the early pace in FP3 on his […]
The Silverstone team gave the latest set of new parts to Stroll first as it tries to accelerate the development of the difficult AMR21. After an encouraging qualifying session, Vettel had a frustrating Sunday in Portugal. He made Q3 for the first time since the British GP last year, eventually taking 10th on the grid, […]