Miller, team-mate Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac duo Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin monstered the field off the line to occupy the top four places on the opening lap. But all of them hit trouble as the race wore on, with Miller suffering with a loss of grip late on despite making a gentle start to […]
Track limits played a pivotal role in the outcome of Formula 1’s entertaining 2021 season opener, as with four laps to go Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtook erstwhile leader Lewis Hamilton at Turn 4 but had to hand the position back to the defending world champion after leaving the track. In qualifying track limit transgressions […]
Despite dropping to sixth as a quartet of Ducatis rocketed to the front at the start of the 22-lap race, Vinales rallied to fight his way through to the front of the pack by the 15th tour. From there, he opened up a gap of over a second to come under no threat through to […]
The world champion took victory in the F1 season opener as he eked out his tyres for a long final stint at Sakhir and held off pre-race favourite Verstappen for the win. Although Verstappen briefly managed to take the lead a few laps from home, he had the give the place back after running wide […]
The 15-time MotoGP race winner was ousted from his Ducati seat at the end of 2020 and has taken a sabbatical in 2021 having turned down a race seat offer from Aprilia. But, earlier this month, Aprilia announced it would undertake a three-day private test at Jerez on 12-14 April with Dovizioso riding the RS-GP. […]
The four-time F1 world champion, preparing for his Aston Martin debut after switching from Ferrari over the winter, was knocked out in the first session of qualifying in 18th place ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix after aborting his final flying lap due to two separate yellow flag incidents. Vettel, who was initially cleared in […]
Bagnaia smashed the Qatar lap record on Saturday with a 1m52.772s to score his first pole position in the premier class on his debut as a Ducati factory team rider. The Italian’s pace during testing made him one of the favourites for the race, but he doesn’t believe he will be able to copy the […]
For in a year that had the risk of being a stale repeat of 2020, with teams carrying over their chassis, the performance swings shown at the Bahrain season opener have been quite dramatic. All teams have been slowed by the changes to the floor, brake ducts and diffuser regulations, but some have suffered much […]
Rins was the only Suzuki rider to make it into the second part of qualifying directly from practice having felt like he’d made an improvement on one-lap pace on Friday. But the three-time race winner admits he found it “harder” on Saturday to be as strong in time attack mode and could only manage ninth, […]
While team-mate Max Verstappen claimed pole at the Bahrain International Circuit, Perez will start Sunday’s season-opener from 11th on the grid. Running on the slower medium tyres, the Mexican missed the cut by 0.035s to Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll in a tightly-contested Q2 battle to reach the top 10. Perez admitted he was disappointed by… […]