Quartararo made history in 2021 when he became the first French rider to win the MotoGP title, while ending a six-year drought for Yamaha in the process. Winning five races across the campaign, Quartararo wrapped up the championship with two rounds to spare. His title defence begins this weekend in Malaysia with the first two-day […]
It’s a constantly evolving list, impacted by the coming and going of senior executives, and by the relative importance of manufacturers and teams. Former FIA president Jean Todt and ex-F1 CEO Chase Carey were on the last list we compiled in 2019, and both have now gone. Some names have worked their way up through […]
Fabio Quartararo ended a six-year wait for Yamaha last season when he became France’s first MotoGP world champion having amassed five wins and wrapping up the title with two rounds to spare. But the Frenchman went into the winter break unhappy with an apparent lack of significant improvement with his YZR-M1 package at November’s Jerez […]
The Haas VF-22 car is the first produced by the American team out of its new design office in Maranello, and offers a sign of what the new cars will look like this year following the overhaul of the technical regulations. On the podcast today, Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas is joined by F1 reporter […]
Earlier this week, Stoner – the 2007 and 2011 MotoGP world champion – told the Gypsy Tales podcast that he battled with anxiety through his racing career, which was only recently officially diagnosed. Stoner revealed that for much of his racing career, the more successful he was during a weekend, “the more I wanted to […]
F1 trialled a new sprint race weekend format at three events in 2021, staging a 100km race on Saturday to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday. Plans were being formulated by F1 to expand sprints to six events in 2022 and revise elements of the format, such as points payout and the […]
The 2020 world champion is out of contract with Suzuki at the end of the coming campaign, having first signed with the Japanese marque back in 2019 and renewing at the start of 2020. PLUS: Why MotoGP’s recent champions’ 2023 options are scarce Mir expressed frustrations with Suzuki last year after a lack of development […]
The Haas VF-22 car is the first produced by the American team out of its new design office in Maranello, and offers a sign of what the new cars will look like this year following the overhaul of the technical regulations. Haas has retained the white, red and blue livery design it adopted last year […]
The Japanese marque enters its eighth season since it returned to MotoGP full-time and continues with the same line-up it has done since 2019. The 2021 season was a difficult one for Suzuki, with the marque failing to win a race for the first time since 2018. Mir ended the season third in the standings […]
Haas will be the first team to present its 2022 colours at 11am GMT when it drops a series of renders featuring its livery for the new season, starting a busy three-week period leading up to the start of winter testing in Barcelona. Launch season in 2021 was a strange affair given the continued impact […]