Mir and Miller were debating sixth place when the Suzuki rider made contact with Miller at the Turn 15 left-hander on the final tour, forcing both out wide and allowing Avintia rookie Enea Bastianini to score sixth. Race Direction subsequently demoted Mir one position for the clash, dropping him to eighth behind Miller. Both Miller […]
The McLaren driver, who came close to winning the recent Russian Grand Prix, says that the jovial image that he has carried with him throughout his career does not tell the true story of feelings he had a few years ago. He added that he carried doubts that he was good enough for F1 during […]
The Repsol Honda rider cruised to his seventh career victory at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on Sunday, heading championship leader Fabio Quartararo by 4.879 seconds having led every lap. It was the second win of the season for Marquez and the second to come at an anticlockwise track, which generally eases some of the […]
Mercedes switched its traditional silver arrows livery for all-black design ahead of the delayed start to the 2020 season in a strong anti-racism message amid activism around the world. The black livery was retained for a second season in 2021, but the team could return to its silver design next year. After making a similar […]
The Ducati rider has secured his third straight pole position with a blistering lap at the Austin track to beat MotoGP world title rival Fabio Quartararo by 0.348s. With the Yamaha rider lining up in second place, Marc Marquez completes the front row for Honda having lost his perfect pole position record at COTA this […]
From a low-key beginning with Bahrain in 2004, F1 now have four grands prix in the region, all with contracts that ensure they will be on the calendar for the foreseeable future. Even allowing for the inevitable expansion beyond this year’s 22 races that is a high percentage of events concentrated in a relatively small […]
Having ended his six-year Circuit of the Americas victory streak with a crash in 2019, Marquez made amends for this in Sunday’s 2021 edition of the Austin race and led every lap to take a commanding win. The Honda rider leaped from third to the lead on the run up the hill into the first […]
For anyone with a passion for motorsport and writing, becoming a journalist seems like the perfect profession; one day you could be interviewing the stars, the next you could be writing race reports or penning an opinion piece. This makes it a highly competitive career to get into, and can make it tougher to stand […]
The reigning world champion’s GSX-RR blew up as he tried to accelerate out of Turn 11 early in FP4 on Saturday, bringing him to a sudden halt and bringing him close to a collision with KTM’s Miguel Oliveira who was directly behind. Mir was able to get back on track on his second bike and […]
But it was a result that did not come easily for the seven-time world champion. It required a fight from as low as seventh on the opening lap, a late downpour and a risky yet ultimately correct switch to intermediate tyres to deny Lando Norris a maiden race win. Norris looked set to give McLaren […]