As the Australian ended the first half of the season having faced another pointless afternoon in Hungary, on a day when team-mate Lando Norris could have finished on the podium, you could tell that some self-doubts had started to creep in. Sure he had made some progress in getting on top of the struggles with […]
The Petronas SRT rider fell from his Yamaha just over five minutes into the first part of qualifying at Misano at the Turn 15 left-hander. He was able to complete the session on his second M1, but couldn’t improve on his initial 1m32.967s set before his crash, meaning he’ll start second-to-last on Sunday just ahead […]
F1 staged its second sprint race last Saturday at Monza, with the 100km event to set the grid for Sunday’s grand prix offering little on-track action or overtaking. It came after F1 managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn revealed consideration was being given to changing the sprint race format for next season, while Ferrari… Continue […]
Bagnaia stormed to his second-successive pole with a new lap record at Misano, while Miller shadowed him in qualifying in a repeat of Saturday at Aragon last weekend. The poleman appears to be one of the strongest on race pace coming into Sunday’s race and could give his title hopes a bit more of a […]
Warning: This review contains spoilers When Sebastian Vettel said recently he was looking forward to the new Michael Schumacher Netflix documentary telling him things he didn’t know, it was easy to think he could be disappointed. After all, in a world where almost everything the seven-time world champion did was under the spotlight of… Continue […]
Quartararo has an incredible qualifying record in 2021, scoring five poles and putting his M1 on the front row of the grid at all but one race so far. At Misano he was once again third having qualified there at Silverstone and at Aragon, with his latest front row coming despite a late crash at […]
F1 decided to trial sprint races at three grands prix in 2021, with the 100km sprints on Saturday setting the grid for Sunday’s full-length race. The two sprint races F1 has held so far, at Silverstone and Monza, produced mixed results at best. The running order was largely established after the first lap, as a […]
Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia took the top spot in qualifying for the second race in a row, snatching a new Misano lap record to lead team-mate Jack Miller – who says he’s happy to play blocker to defend his team-mate in tomorrow’s race – and championship leader Fabio Quartararo on the factory Yamaha. Quartararo fell […]
The championship contenders made contact at Monza’s first chicane as Red Bull driver Verstappen attempted to overtake Mercedes rival Hamilton, who had just emerged from the pits. The crash, their second after their British GP incident, put them both out of the race on the spot. Although opinion was divided on who was to blame, […]
Vinales has been strong all weekend at Misano having first test the Aprilia at the Italian venue ahead of his Aragon debut last week. Ending Friday fastest of all, Vinales eased directly into Q2 and went on to qualify 10th on the RS-GP, 1.056 seconds off pole, but only 0.184 off eighth-placed team-mate Aleix Espargaro. […]