Dixon made his MotoGP debut last weekend at the British GP filling in for the injured Franco Morbidelli on SRT’s ‘A-spec’ Yamaha. Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow had been filling in at the Austrian double-header, but Maverick Vinales’ ousting from the factory Yamaha team forced the marque to call up Crutchlow to replace the Spaniard. […]
Mercedes is set to announce in the coming weeks who out of Russell and Valtteri Bottas will race for its senior squad next year, with Russell widely expected to land the seat. Mercedes has raced with an unchanged line-up since Bottas joined the team in 2017, replacing Rosberg after his immediate retirement in the wake […]
Vinales will join the Italian marque for 2022 having requested back in June for his contract with Yamaha to be terminated at the end of this season. After trying to deliberately damage his bike’s engine in the Styrian GP, which led to his suspension from the Austrian GP, Yamaha formally parted ways with Vinales last […]
1975 Dutch GP, Zandvoort Car: Hesketh 308 Several moments come to mind as candidates for the race of my life and my win at Brands Hatch in 1976, although it was taken away from me by political manoeuvring by Ferrari, is one of them. It was probably the most emotional race because of the drama […]
Marquez tucked the front-end of his RC213V as he tipped into the fast Maggotts left-hander right at the end of FP1, the Honda rider crashing at 274km/h. Both he and his bike barrel rolled through the grass before coming to a halt, with his Honda left stricken in the middle of the circuit and necessitating […]
Kimi Raikkonen is the most experienced Formula 1 driver of all time. Starting the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix moved him past Rubens Barrichello’s previous mark of 322 world championship starts, and his decision to call time on his F1 career – announced on the eve of the Dutch Grand Prix – came after his 341st […]
Last weekend’s British GP was the first MotoGP event in the UK since 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced last year’s race to be cancelled. Silverstone welcomed a sold out crowd for the event, with over 142,000 people attending the event across the weekend. In conjunction with Towcester Community Larder, which takes surplus groceries and […]
It took a long time but Kimi Raikkonen has finally won the world championship title that he so clearly deserves. And, of course, it came at the expense of McLaren after his own two near misses with the British team in 2003 and ’05. This was an extraordinary season for the Finn that began with […]
The nine-time MotoGP race winner rode the RS-GP for the first time at a private test at Misano on Tuesday and Wednesday following his dismissal from the factory Yamaha squad earlier this month. Aprilia has now confirmed Vinales – who has signed a deal to race for the marque for 2022 – will make his […]
The 2007 F1 world champion, Raikkonen was out of contract with Alfa Romeo at the end of the year and widely expected to leave the team. The Finn has now confirmed he will be leaving F1 at the end of the season, calling time on a career in the series spanning over 20 years. Raikkonen […]