Ahead of his home round, Zarco’s 1m31.747s was enough to beat fellow countryman Fabio Quartararo to top spot in second practice and complete a French 1-2. Quartararo’s factory Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales slotted into third place ahead of impressive Repsol Honda rider Pol Espargaro, as Franco Morbidelli rounded out the top five on his two-year-old Yamaha […]
Just a few weeks after the Turkey event was announced as being slotted in to the schedule to replace Canada on 13 June, F1 chiefs have had to change plans again. The fate of the Istanbul race was thrown in to doubt when the British government added Turkey on to a list of red zone […]
There aren’t too many circuits around the world that conjure up as much passion and drama when you mention their names. For motorsport fans, these two little French words never fail to send chills down spines: Le Mans. Whether it’s the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans car race, or MotoGP’s now traditional yearly stop […]
The July event at Silverstone is to be the first to feature a 100km sprint qualifying race on the Saturday, that will decide the grid for Sunday’s main event. The introduction of the sprint race means that the normal qualifying session that takes place on the Saturday is now moving to Friday – with there […]
Honda has had a tough start to the 2021 campaign, with none of its riders so far having made it to the podium in any of the opening four races. HRC put most of its riders through a busy testing schedule at the post-race test following the Spanish GP, having recently admitted it is facing […]
Having switched to IndyCar after his F1 career was abruptly ended by a fiery crash in last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, the Frenchman had been due to get two outings with Mercedes in June as part of a special final run in F1 machinery. He was originally due to demo a Mercedes W10 over the French […]
Thick grey clouds enveloped the sky above Le Mans ahead of Friday’s second practice, prompting a rush out of pitlane at the start of FP2 from the field to get some banker laps in just in case rain did arrive. Aleix Espargaro set the early pace with a 1m35.466s on his Aprilia in a session […]
F1 will stage ‘sprint qualifying’ at three races this year, running a 100km race on a Saturday to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday. Sprint qualifying is set to debut at the British Grand Prix in July, with the current plan being to run the tweaked weekend format in Italy and Brazil, […]
The Le Mans weekend is set to be disrupted by wet weather for the duration of the three days, with the opening session taking place in damp conditions. That meant lap times improved significantly across the opening stages, with Spanish Grand Prix winner Miller annexing top spot at the start of FP1. The Ducati rider […]
The Frenchman qualified fifth in both Bahrain and Imola, and then subsequently started ninth at Portimao and only 12th in Barcelona. In Spain last weekend he made his life more difficult by overshooting his grid box when he lined up before the start, which led to a five-second time penalty being applied at his pitstop. […]