In a turbulent weekend off-track that saw both Hamilton and championship rival Max Verstappen get summoned to the stewards, Mercedes emerged victorious as Hamilton completed an impressive fightback. F1’s third sprint race weekend gave Hamilton the chance to charge from 20th to fifth on Saturday, and then went from P10 on the grid after… Continue […]
For just the second time in its MotoGP history, Ducati locked out the front row in qualifying with Jorge Martin on pole ahead of Francesco Bagnaia and Jack Miller. And in Sunday’s 27-lap season finale, Bagnaia took his fourth win of the season ahead of newly crowned rookie of the year Martin and Miller. Ducati’s […]
From 3-5 December F1 will head to the coastal city of Jeddah for its first venture around the city’s streets, on an anticlockwise layout that is set to be the championship’s fastest street circuit on the calendar with average speeds of up to 250km/h. The 6.174km course, which passes through Jeddah’s seafront Corniche, will make […]
The rookie qualified on pole for Sunday’s final round of the 2021 MotoGP season and was one of the favourites to challenge for victory. Leading from lap two through to lap 14, Martin was holding eventual winner Francesco Bagnaia at bay before the Italian eventually found a way through on the 15th tour. Martin then […]
A report on the Autocar website on Monday said that Audi has agreed to a takeover that would give it complete control over McLaren’s road car and racing operations. But in a statement issued on Monday, McLaren made it clear that the report was not true. The statement said: “McLaren Group is aware of a […]
Morbidelli shadowed Rossi for most of Sunday’s 27-lap Valencia season finale and eventually latched onto the back of his Petronas SRT Yamaha counterpart. The factory Yamaha says he tried to push in the latter stages to snatch 10th away from Rossi, but says the retiring legend was “riding unbelievable”. “Yeah, it was great to have […]
Verstappen was defending from Hamilton on lap 48 of the Interlagos race, when his Mercedes rival managed to pull ahead of him on the run down to Turn 4. The Red Bull driver braked late on the inside and subsequently ran wide off the track, forcing Hamilton to take evasive action to avoid contact. While […]
The Pramac Ducati rider claimed his fourth pole of his rookie MotoGP campaign by beating Francesco Bagnaia to top spot by just 0.046 seconds ahead of the final round of the year. Bagnaia lost the chance for his own late lap in Q2 when he crashed at Turn 2, with factory Ducati team-mate Jack Miller […]
Verstappen found himself in a wheel-to-wheel battle with Hamilton after the Mercedes driver managed to recover from 10th place on the grid to sit second behind his Red Bull rival. Hamilton managed to catch Verstappen and line up a pass on lap 48 around the outside at Turn 4, only for both drivers to run […]
After 432 grand prix starts spanning 26 seasons, nine-time world champion Rossi has brought the curtain down on his career in an emotional final ride to 10th having qualified there. The Petronas SRT rider made up one spot to ninth on the opening lap, though was demoted to 11th when Enea Bastianini blasted past early […]