Part of the agreement for the three experimental sprint races held last year was an allowance within the new the budget cap framework for competing in the extra events. Teams were given an allowance of $150,000 per event or $450,000 in total just for taking part in the three sprints. The teams were also given […]
Coming into his second season in the premier class, Bastianini has switched from the defunct Avintia squad to Gresini Racing as it returns to being a true independent outfit following seven years as Aprilia’s factory entrant. PLUS: Ranking the top 10 MotoGP riders of 2021 Bastianini – who began his grand prix career with Gresini […]
The Woking outfit is the third team to reveal a launch date this far, with Aston Martin opting for 10 February and Ferrari naming 17 February. All three dates announced thus far suggest that the teams concerned are planning to run shakedown “filming days” ahead of the start of official testing at Barcelona on 23 […]
Mercedes offered Grosjean the chance to test its 2019 W10 car following the French driver’s departure from F1 at the end of 2020, where the horrific accident he endured at the Bahrain Grand Prix proved to be his final race in the championship. To allow Grosjean to sign off on a higher note, Mercedes had […]
The veteran Italian squad, which has raced in the premier class full-time since 2002 – having made its debut in 1998 – returns to running as a truly independent team in 2022 after a seven-year stint starting in 2015 as Aprilia’s factory entrant. The team was rocked in February of last year when founder and […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion has been out of action since suffering concussion in a motocross training incident in November which triggered a return of a double vision – or diplopia – he previously had in 2011 after a Moto2 crash. After missing the final two rounds of the 2021 MotoGP campaign and the post-season […]
Ferrari F1 chief Mattia Binotto said in December the team was planning to launch its new car in mid-February prior to the start of pre-season testing. But Ferrari has now formalised its plans by announcing on social media that it will unveil the 2022 model on 17 February, one month from today. Ferrari […]
The Canadian believes that learning to focus on those qualities was the biggest lesson he took from the 2021 season. Latifi showed clear signs of improvement during his second year with the Grove team, and was closer to team-mate George Russell in qualifying. He scored his first points with seventh in Hungary, finishing a place […]
A resurgent Ferrari enjoyed a much more competitive 2021 season after finishing a lowly sixth the year before and challenged McLaren to third place, which the Woking team claimed in 2020. A tight battle between McLaren and Ferrari ebbed and flowed for most of the season until the Scuderia surged clear in the final third […]
The Spaniard turned 40 last July, and with his contemporary Kimi Raikkonen now retired he is the oldest driver on this year’s grid, ahead of 37-year-old Lewis Hamilton. Alonso made his Grand Prix debut with Minardi in 2001. He missed the 2002 season while serving as Renault test driver and took a break from F1 […]