The nine-time MotoGP race winner scored his best result since joining Aprilia in last weekend’s Misano race, with Vinales coming from 19th to narrowly be beaten by team-mate Aleix Espargaro eighth. But Vinales insists he could have cracked the top three for the first time on the RS-GP but for losing “a minimum 10 to […]
McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris took a sensational 1-2 win in Monza, but in subsequent races Ferrari introduced an upgraded power unit for both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. After a closely fought battle throughout the 2021 season, the upgrade enabled Ferrari to leap ahead, which allowed Leclerc to qualify over six tenths… Continue […]
Red Bull and Max Verstappen are widely regarded as favourites for the event, with the Dutchman having won in 2017 and 2018 and been fastest in qualifying in 2019 before he received a grid penalty. However, after Verstappen won last weekend’s US GP in Austin – a track usually associated with success for Lewis Hamilton […]
The Alpine driver was left frustrated at the United States Grand Prix when he felt Kimi Raikkonen got away with overtaking him off track. In their battle for a points scoring place, Raikkonen made a move around the outside of the Spaniard at Turn 1 and kept his foot in as he ran wide across […]
The KTM rider endured a wretched weekend at Misano having failed to crack the top 16 across practice and going on to qualify a disappointing 19th while team-mate Miguel Oliveira was fifth. Binder crashed at the Turn 10 right-hander on his way to the grid ahead of the race start having elected initially to run […]
Perez was running third in the closing stages at Austin, with second placed Hamilton on course to grab the extra championship point that comes from taking the fastest lap. With the title battle between Verstappen and Hamilton so tightly poised, one of the features of this season has been of Mercedes and Red Bull trying […]
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia spectacularly crashed out of the lead, handing the Yamaha rider the crown, while his team-mate Jack Miller suffered the same fate while running in second. In the latest Tank Slappers Podcast, Autosport’s Megan White and Motorsport.com’s Oriol Puigdemont discuss Quartararo’s title win and Marquez’ victory. Uri is fresh off the phone to […]
While the world champion team was forced to see title rival Max Verstappen triumph on a day when Lewis Hamilton’s tyre strategy did not pay off, it thinks there are still grounds to be encouraged by what it saw. In particular, it reckons that on a race weekend where Red Bull had the competitive edge, […]
Espargaro’s KTM exit and signing to the factory Honda squad for 2021 was one of the biggest rider market shocks of the 2020 campaign, especially when KTM emerged as a race winner last season. Affected by limited testing this year due to the COVID pandemic, Espargaro has largely struggled to adapt to the RC213V – […]
Verstappen and title rival Lewis Hamilton locked out the front row of the grid to set up a Texas shootout at the Circuit of the Americas – but it turned into one of the most strategic and compelling races of the year. Hamilton had muscled his way past Verstappen on the uphill run to Turn […]