The Yamaha rider leads the standings by 22 points ahead of a race weekend where he is expected to be strong, after claiming pole in his rookie campaign in 2019 on the M1 and team-mate Maverick Vinales winning the previous Dutch TT. Vinales led both sessions on Friday at Assen, with Quartararo fourth on the […]
The eight-part series called Lucky! will be produced by Pandey’s company Jiva Maya after completing extensive filming with Ecclestone at his home in Switzerland through lockdown. Ecclestone, 90, started out as a racing driver before becoming a team owner and ultimately going on to be F1’s ringmaster for over four decades, overseeing… Continue Reading on […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion was thrown from his Honda in a vicious off-throttle highside at the Dulkersloot right-hander in the early stages of FP2 and landed heavily on his knees and right elbow. Marquez walked away without any serious injury but wouldn’t ride again for the rest of FP2 – ending Friday sixth overall […]
As the final leg of an F1 triple-header, the Austrian GP completes a back-to-back Red Bull Ring event created as part of the reshuffled F1 calendar for a second consecutive year due to the COVID-19-enforced changes. Max Verstappen took a commanding victory in the opening race in Austria, leading every lap on his way to […]
The American was drafted in by Petronas SRT for the Dutch Grand Prix to replace the injured Franco Morbidelli, who was ruled out of the Assen weekend after aggravating an existing knee injury in training. Gerloff got his first taste of MotoGP machinery last year in practice for the European GP when he was brought […]
UEFA Euro 2020 – postponed by one year due to the pandemic – has dominated both the back and front pages lately, and even led to numerous football questions being put to the F1 drivers in recent press conferences. England’s success over Germany last night gave fans the chance to believe that, after over 50 […]
Pedrosa made his MotoGP debut in 2006 with Honda and raced his entire premier class career with the Japanese marque, winning 36 races and finishing runner-up in the standings on three occasions. The double 250cc world champion and one-time 125cc title winner retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2018 season and took up […]
With the young Russian driver having taken on the nickname of ‘Mazespin’ inside the team after his run of incidents this year, Steiner made a surprise presentation on race morning at last weekend’s Styrian Grand Prix. He handed Mazepin a special spinning top and base, and then joked: “It’s the Mazespin game. You spin this […]
A week after qualifying 21st and finishing last at the Sachsenring in his worst-ever MotoGP weekend, Vinales has been in imperious form across the Assen round so far by topping all three practice sessions and easing straight through to Q2. The forecasted rain for FP3 didn’t materialise on Saturday morning, firmly opening the door for […]
McLaren currently sits in third place in the constructors’ championship, heading Ferrari by 120 points to 108. After a disastrous race in France, Ferrari had a strong run in Austria last weekend, with Carlos Sainz taking sixth and Charles Leclerc recovering to seventh after a first-lap pit stop. Norris kept up his record of good […]