Both 15-minute qualifying sessions at the Sachsenring on Saturday featured a number of riders backing off and cruising on track as they searched for a faster rider to use as a reference. This led to a lot of gesturing from riders on track – most notably from Tech3’s Danilo Petrucci in Q1, who flashed Avintia’s […]
Wolff had said in an interview provided to media by the FIA that it was possible for the world champion team to delay making a final call on whether or not to retain Valtteri Bottas. Asked about the timing of a second driver decision if Lewis Hamilton was definitely staying, Wolff had indicated that the […]
Mir failed to make it directly into Q2 from FP3 on Saturday morning in Germany and could only manage a season-worst 17th on the grid in qualifying. The Suzuki rider says he is struggling under braking in the last two corners of the circuit, explaining that the high temperatures are forcing him to use the hard […]
Leclerc arrived at Paul Ricard off the back of consecutive pole positions in Monaco and Baku, but downplayed Ferrari’s chances of factoring in the fight at the front upon the move back to a permanent circuit. While Carlos Sainz Jr was able to qualify fifth on Saturday, Leclerc struggled more through qualifying, scraping through to […]
Three-time MotoGP race winner was expected to be a major factor in the 2021 title battle after finishing 2020 third in the standings, having missing the opening round with injury. But, after a decent start in Qatar with two top six results, Rins hasn’t scored a point since following four-straight race crashes from Portugal to […]
Schumacher was left furious with Mazepin after the Russian aggressively chopped across the front of him as they ran to the chequered flag at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. After the race, Steiner had talks with both of them to draw a line under the matter and try to ensure that there would not be repeat […]
Rossi is in his 26th season of grand prix racing in 2021, but so far it has been the worst of his career having only scored 15 points from the opening seven races and shown nothing close to podium potential on the Petronas SRT Yamaha. The Italian – who was 21st after Friday’s practice for […]
Vettel has joined the Silverstone-based outfit after several years at Ferrari, but initially struggled to adapt to the team’s high rake car concept. However, the four-time world champion has made good progress in recent races and scored a podium with his runner-up spot at the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Team principal Otmar Szafnauer… Continue Reading […]
Fresh from winning the Catalunya MotoGP last time out, Oliveira continued to grab the headlines with the fastest lap time in FP2 to take top spot by 0.220 seconds from Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo. FP1 timesheet-topper Marc Marquez, who remains undefeated at the Sachsenring in his MotoGP premier class career, faded to 12th place in the second […]
The 17-year-old has emerged as a future F1 star in the making after becoming the youngest ever FIA Formula 2 polesitter and race winner in Monaco during his rookie F2 campaign this year. Pourchaire’s rapid rise through the junior categories has earned him a spot in the Sauber young driver academy, which has just re-added […]