After enduring a nightmare race in Germany when he finished a career-worst 19th place, Vinales bounced back strongly at Assen by leading both practice sessions, with the fastest lap time of the day set in FP1 of 1m33.072s. The second practice session was somewhat curtailed by rain arriving midway through, with Vinales leading the times […]
That’s just one of the thoughts of John Turner, who as well as following motorsport for more than half a century, is currently involved with the organisation of a historic racing series and helped current Autosport Chief Editor Kevin Turner – and his son – start his journalism career. Father’s day may have passed but […]
Morbidelli aggravated a pre-existing left knee injury during a training incident on Tuesday and has been ruled out of this weekend’s Dutch TT as MotoGP returns to Assen for the first time since 2019. SRT has called up Yamaha World Superbike rider Gerloff for this weekend, who completed two practice sessions in Valencia last year […]
The Friday practice sessions have each been cut to one hour in 2021, instead of the usual 90 minutes each. Verstappen topped both of them, ahead of Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) in FP1 and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo in FP2. What happened in Free Practice 1? Verstappen set the medium-tyred benchmark at 1m06.511s, before the soft tyres […]
Vinales dominated the opening night of the championship in Qatar for his ninth MotoGP victory, but hasn’t troubled the podium since and suffered his worst-ever weekend in Germany when he qualified 21st and finished last. Yamaha made changes to his personnel in Barcelona, replacing crew chief Esteban Garcia with ex-Valentino Rossi ally Silvano Galbusera – […]
Verstappen ended up 0.256s clear of Gasly and 0.422s ahead of his title rival, but all three might have been beaten by Valtteri Bottas had the Finn not run too wide through the final corner when set to usurp the Red Bull’s position at the head of the times during the qualifying simulation efforts in […]
On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix the VR46 team announced a tie-up with Ducati for the next three seasons, with Rossi’s squad joining the premier class full-time in 2022 having backed Luca Marini’s Avintia ride this season. Nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi is yet to decide on his racing future, […]
Bottas was heard fuming over team radio about the decision not to run a two-stop strategy as he struggled with tyre life in the closing stages of the race at Paul Ricard, allowing Sergio Perez to pass for third place. Bottas has experienced a difficult start to the 2021 season, failing to finish a race […]
Marquez claimed a sensational win last time out at the Sachsenring, 581 days after his and Honda’s most recent success at the 2019 Valencia finale, the first since his career-threatening right arm break at Valencia last July. But the Honda rider expected to be strong at the Sachsenring due to its anticlockwise layout easing the […]
Silverstone announced on Thursday that it would be hosting a full crowd for its F1 race on 16-18 July as part of the UK government’s Event Research Programme for large events. It will make the British Grand Prix the first race since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to run in front of a capacity […]