On paper a ninth place finish for rookie Yuki Tsunoda represented a solid if unspectacular start to the season for the Italian team. However, it was the pace that the AT02 showed on Saturday that really caught the attention of rivals. Tsunoda sailed through Q1 in second after a lap that McLaren boss Andreas Seidl […]
For the first time in the turbo hybrid era, a team other than Mercedes has started a campaign with the fastest package – as Verstappen’s Red Bull squad led the way in the Bahrain season opener last month. Verstappen took pole for the event, but lost victory to Lewis Hamilton after Mercedes’ aggressive strategy calls […]
The Italian manufacturer is the only one of the six present on the current MotoGP grid who supplies bikes to two satellite squads on top of its factory effort. Long-time partner Pramac receives full factory support from Ducati, with both current championship leader Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin running identical machinery to works team duo […]
The French car manufacturer endured a tough season opener in Bahrain, with neither Fernando Alonso nor Esteban Ocon managing to finish in the points. Alonso’s hopes were wrecked in the race by overheating brakes, triggered by a sandwich wrapper getting caught in the car, while Ocon was left on the backfoot by poorly timed yellow […]
Brown originally joined McLaren in 2016 before becoming CEO in 2018. A year later, he appointed Seidl as team principal, with the pair having divided responsibilities that play to their strengths. With a number of F1 teams adopting similar structures of having roles spread across a number of senior figures rather than one overall chief,… […]
The Honda star hasn’t been on his RC213V since his aborted comeback at the Andalusian GP last July just days after surgery on the right arm he broke in the Spanish GP, with Friday’s FP1 session at Algarve marking the first time he’ll have ridden a MotoGP bike in 265 days. No one is sure […]
But, have we seen enough evidence from just the first race to judge who’s on the right track and who’ll have to think again? On one side, we have the conventional thinkers who have taken the new rules at complete face value when it comes to dealing with the lost floor section. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, […]
Zarco registered just one top 10 result in his stint with KTM as a factory rider in 2019, which ended after the Misano round when the marque elected to drop him with immediate effect after he’d already announced the termination of his two-year contract following the Austrian Grand Prix. A three-race run with LCR and […]
F1 is bracing itself for a rules revolution in 2022, with the sport switching to all-new ground effect cars that it hopes will improve the racing. The extent of the changes for next season means teams cannot afford to fall behind in early development. That is because the biggest performance steps will be found during […]
One-lap time attack pace hasn’t been a strong point of the Suzuki, with Mir the first world champion since Wayne Rainey in 1992 to win the title without a pole position last year. Suzuki’s only pole since it returned to MotoGP in 2015 remains Aleix Espargaro’s top spot in qualifying for that year’s Catalan GP, […]