The Petronas SRT rider was forced to work his way from 20th on the grid after a crash in qualifying, and managed to score a point in 15th in the race on his final visit to the US as a MotoGP rider before his retirement. But the veteran Italian admits the race was one of the toughest […]
Haas boss Gunther Steiner suggested ahead of the Russian Grand Prix that the team could benefit from having a veteran providing input to rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. He believed that the team was lacking a good reference point to judge the speed and feedback from its current line-up. But Schumacher is sceptical about […]
Bagnaia has scored three poles on the bounce since Aragon, converting his previous two into back-to-back victories to cut Quartararo’s championship lead down to 48 points with four races to go. The Ducati rider dominated qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas on Saturday, beating Yamaha’s Quartararo by 0.348 seconds for pole. With Bagnaia showing […]
Last year, Mercedes’ Applied Science division, which is an off-shoot of the Brackley-based F1 team, began its involvement with Ineos Team UK. But after losing out in the Prada Cup final to Italy’s Luna Rossa in Auckland, project leader Sir Ben Ainslie has overhauled the rebranded Ineos Britannia team and its management for the next… […]
The Yamaha rider followed runaway race winner Marc Marquez home at the Circuit of the Americas in second and crucially finished ahead of nearest title rival Francesco Bagnaia in third. This extended Quartararo’s championship lead to 52 points, meaning he can for the first time in 2021 win the title at the following round at […]
Whitmarsh became the latest high-profile signing by Aston Martin amid its ongoing expansion under new owner Lawrence Stroll, joining as Group CEO last month. It marks Whitmarsh’s return to a role in F1 after his stint at the helm of McLaren from 2009 to 2014. He will oversee Aston Martin’s new Performance Technologies division, as […]
Sunday’s Moto3 Grand Prix of the Americas was red-flagged after eight laps after Filip Salac needed assistance being taken off track following a nasty highside. The decision was taken by organisers to restart the grand prix with a five-lap dash, but the race only made it to lap three when a second red flag was […]
The four-time world champion has reconnected with some old Formula 1 friends at Aston Martin and the effect has been transformative. Always funny and engaging off-track – until circumstances drove him to miserablism at Ferrari – Vettel has found his voice again in his new environment and thrown himself into social activism. He’s also… Continue […]
The Honda rider has endured a tough campaign as he recovers from the serious right arm injury which ruled him out of the 2020 season. While an expert at the Circuit of the Americas and on anticlockwise tracks, Marquez’s dominant victory was not a guarantee pre-weekend. In the latest Tank Slappers Podcast, Autosport’s Lewis Duncan […]
The talks come the wake of the issues faced at Spa, when the Belgian GP was red-flagged without any flying laps being run. Asked if TV schedules restricted the FIA’s ability to shuffle F1 sessions, Masi said: “It is not so much TV schedule dependent. It is something that we will be discussing in the […]