Month: August 2021

08 Aug 2021

Ferrari has the best driver line-up in F1, says Binotto

With Sainz and Leclerc both having impressed for the Italian outfit this year, as it currently sits a joint third in the constructors’ championship, Binotto is in no doubt about how strong his line-up is. Reflecting on the first half of the campaign, Binotto thinks that his drivers deliver more together than any other team pairing. … Continue […]

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07 Aug 2021

MotoGP Styrian Grand Prix – Start time, how to watch & more

The Pramac Ducati rider produced a new lap record to clinch his second pole position in his rookie MotoGP campaign, following up his pole from the Doha GP, after Fabio Quartararo had his pole lap time deleted for exceeding track limits.  Quartararo’s demotion pushed him to third place in qualifying behind factory Ducati rider Francesco […]

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07 Aug 2021

Sainz on living his dream with F1’s greatest team

These are just a few of the angles covered in a frank and exclusive interview with Sainz in this month’s GP Racing magazine. An exclusive interview with Sainz is the centrepiece of this month’s GP Racing magazine. In the latest edition of the Flat Chat podcast, GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher […]

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07 Aug 2021

Tech3 critical of how KTM announced Fernandez’s MotoGP signing

As reported by Autosport in June, Fernandez will step up to MotoGP with KTM and Tech3 next season having stunned so far in his debut season in Moto2 by winning three races. KTM made Fernandez’s signing official midway through Saturday’s FP4 session at the Styrian Grand Prix, with other rider market announcements due to take […]

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07 Aug 2021

Gasly expects more F1 podium chances after Hungary miss

The Frenchman took advantage of similar scenarios when he took second place behind Max Verstappen in Brazil 2019, claimed a shock victory in Monza last year, and bagged another podium in Azerbaijan this season with third. In Hungary last weekend he qualified fifth, but was forced to run wide at the first corner to avoid […]

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07 Aug 2021

Marquez admits arm condition worse than expected at Styria MotoGP

Having broken his right arm badly in last year’s Spanish GP and requiring three operations on it, Marquez has had to battle with a lack of power in his right shoulder since his racing return in Portugal in April. The six-time MotoGP world champion said on Thursday in Austria that his training regime during the […]

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07 Aug 2021

Why Alpine’s defining F1 moment still isn’t enough

It happened twice in 2020, with Pierre Gasly and AlphaTauri triumphing at the Italian Grand Prix, and Sergio Perez and Racing Point winning the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain. In Hungary last weekend it was the turn of Esteban Ocon and Alpine to benefit from a little chaos ahead, and a team that hadn’t won […]

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07 Aug 2021

MotoGP Styrian Grand Prix qualifying

Nakagami’s 1m23.805s set late in first practice was enough to claim top spot overall on Friday after the second session was hit by an early rain shower, which saw Aprilia’s Lorenzo Savadori take top spot. The mixed conditions left a jumbled up top order as MotoGP returned to action for the first time in five […]

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07 Aug 2021

F1 income continues to recover as spectators return to races

However income was still significantly lower than during the same period in the last “normal” season in 2019 as most races continued to be run without spectators in the first part of this year. Last year no races were held in April to June, and F1 claimed income of just $24m. This year the same […]

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07 Aug 2021

“Everything feels alien” in Styrian GP MotoGP return

The three-time MotoGP race winner has been called up to replace the injured Franco Morbidelli at SRT for the next three races having retired from full-time racing at the end of last season. Though now Yamaha’s official test rider, Crutchlow hasn’t ridden a motorcycle since a test in April, which made getting back into the […]

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