Despite the rollout of vaccines to combat COVID-19 in 2021, the MotoGP calendar has still been heavily affected by the pandemic owing to fresh outbreaks and changing travel restrictions. All but one flyaway race has already been cancelled for 2021, with the Japanese, Australian and Thailand races scrubbed from the calendar, as well as the […]
Last season Racing Point caused a stir when it arrived in winter testing in Barcelona with a car that looked a lot like the Mercedes from 2019, the team it bought a gearbox, power unit and other unlisted parts from. Its midfield rivals were alarmed about the design of the RP20, with Alpine – then […]
Both of Red Bull’s F1 squads changed drivers this season, with the main team taking Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen’s team-mate, and AlphaTauri slotting in Yuki Tsunoda alongside Pierre Gasly. Although Perez has had a harder time than he expected in adjusting to the unique characteristics of the Red Bull F1 chassis, his bosses have… Continue Reading on […]
Vinales has been suspended by Yamaha following the Styrian GP, in which he attempted to deliberately damage his bike’s engine in the closing laps. Yamaha announced on the eve of last weekend’s Austrian GP that Vinales had been suspended and withdrawn from the second Red Bull Ring race. Vinales publicly apologised to Yamaha on Saturday […]
The race was due to take place on 10 October, as the third leg of a triple header after Russia and Turkey. A decision on whether or not the race would go ahead was expected in August after all parties were able to review how the Olympic Games unfolded in Tokyo. No further updates have […]
Quartararo came to the Austria double-header to kick off the second half of the season 34 points clear of the rest after four wins from the first nine rounds. And after a third and seventh in the Red Bull Ring races, Quartararo’s lead has swollen to 47 points heading to next weekend’s British Grand Prix. […]
Despite having made an impressive start to life as a Ferrari driver, the Spaniard feels he is yet to have a full weekend without any problems, claiming he doesn’t see the current season as his strongest in F1 yet. Sainz is ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc in the standings after 11 races, and has been […]
Vinales will quit Yamaha at the end of the 2021 season a year earlier than planned as his relationship soured irreparably with team management across a largely difficult campaign. After winning convincingly on the opening night of the championship in Qatar in March, Vinales has only scored one further podium as his form has once […]
For with it well entrenched in that ultra-close midfield pack, any small pace advantage that rivals gained as they pushed on with their current cars risked shuffling the Hinwil-based operation down the order. Sure enough, with most of the grid bringing at least some major developments early in the campaign, it’s been perhaps a tougher […]
Following last Sunday’s race at the Red Bull Ring, in which Vinales entered the pitlane before the end of the final lap after his bike’s display showed “pitlane”, Vinales said he was “having a great time” in the first race before it was red-flagged. But after the red flag and upon returning to the pits, […]