The Yamaha rider’s session would come to a crunching halt just moments after he’d gone fastest, when he suffered an off-throttle highside at the Vale left-hander while running the hard rear tyre. Quartararo was slow to get to his feet and initially needed to be helped away by the marshals as he struggled to put […]
Red Bull’s power unit supplier, Honda, revealed on Thursday that both Verstappen and Perez had lost their second of three engines to use this year due to crash damage sustained in the past two races. It has put both drivers on the brink of a grid penalty that the team has come to accept is […]
As part of the growing calendar, which is due to be 20 races in 2022, MotoGP has gradually been scaling back its pre-season testing schedule. The traditional post-Valencia GP two-day test was scrapped as of last year, while next year’s February testing phase will consist of just five days – which equals the 2021 pre-season, […]
Rain falling in the hours ahead of the session starting meant there was no early scramble to get out of the pits, with the majority of the field waiting a few minutes before emerging to undertake several slow and untimed laps on the intermediates. After 10 minutes had passed it became clear that the track […]
Vinales was ousted from the factory Yamaha team with immediate effect last week following his suspension from the Austrian Grand Prix for deliberately trying to damage his bike’s engine in the Styrian GP. Ahead of Yamaha’s announcement last week, Aprilia had already confirmed it had signed Vinales for the 2022 season, while Autosport reported the […]
Russell and Valtteri Bottas remained tight-lipped over the decision regarding which of them will race alongside Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes next year as the F1 paddock reconvened after the summer break with the pre-event media day for this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. When Leclerc and Verstappen appeared together for their part of the… Continue Reading […]
SRT joined grand prix racing in Moto3 in 2015 and expanded to Moto2 by 2018, before stepping up to MotoGP in 2019 as a Yamaha satellite team. Running with factory support for Franco Morbidelli in 2019, Fabio Quartararo in 2020 and Valentino Rossi in 2021, SRT forged closer ties with Yamaha than the previous Tech3 […]
Hamilton and Bottas have raced together at Mercedes since the start of 2017, winning four constructors’ championships in that period, with Hamilton taking the drivers’ title in all those years as well. Mercedes is currently weighing up whether to continue with Bottas as Hamilton’s teammate for next year or promote junior driver… Continue Reading on […]
The former British Superbike star and current SRT Moto2 rider has been drafted in to replace Cal Crutchlow at SRT, who in turn was due to replace the injured Franco Morbidelli. However, Maverick Vinales’ ousting from the Yamaha factory squad last week has prompted the Japanese marque to put its test rider in the Spaniard’s […]
The German lost his second place at the Hungaroring race earlier this month after post-race checks found that there was not the minimum one-litre of fuel left in his car that is required for FIA analysis. While his Aston Martin team had been convinced on race night that enough fuel remained in his car, it […]