On Thursday evening ahead of the 2022 season beginning with the Qatar Grand Prix, Autosport reported that Bagnaia and factory Ducati team-mate Jack Miller had gone to a 2021-spec engine. In testing in Malaysia Ducati brought three different specification of engine for Bagnaia to test: a 2021, a 2021 evolution and the 2022 version. With […]
As the F1 season-preview issue of GP Racing magazine hits the shelves, GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to examine the unexpected controversies already embroiling a season which promised to be revolutionary. Whenever F1 adopts new rules there are winners and losers – and unexpected twists. Our panel […]
Aprilia has shown good form all winter with its new RS-GP, with a number of riders – including reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo – praising the performance of the Italian marque’s bike. And across the Qatar weekend, Espargaro was strong throughout, qualifying fifth and getting stuck into the podium battle. Though he ultimately came up […]
The German manufacturer revealed a radical new concept ahead of the start of the Bahrain test, using the Side Impact Structures (SIS) as separate fins to help shrink its sidepod bodywork further back to be much smaller than anyone else.Red Bull team boss Christian Horner was quoted as saying by German publication Auto Motor und […]
Unlike in previous years, there was no testing held on the Losail International Circuit ahead of this weekend’s season-opener. And with FP1 being held in daylight, FP1 was largely an exercise in track cleaning – though lap times were fairly solid for the conditions. There was early drama for RNF Racing rookie Darryn Binder – […]
The German was the most outspoken at the Barcelona test a fortnight ago over Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, as he made clear he would boycott the country’s race if it went ahead. In the end, F1 and the FIA acted swiftly to drop the Russian Grand Prix from the calendar and cancel its contract under […]
After just five days of pre-season testing in February, the 2022 MotoGP season gets underway with the first of a record 21 rounds beginning this week under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit. Yamaha’s Quartararo won in Qatar last year, but has had a difficult winter on the 2022 M1. While the bike itself […]
While having no sidepods at all is somewhat detached from reality, there’s good reason to suggest that Mercedes will introduce a new package that shrinks the car’s sidepods considerably more those the team benchmarked for performance in Barcelona. In order to imagine the direction Mercedes might be travelling in, we only have to look as […]
The second 45-minute session of the Qatar weekend took place under more representative conditions for the race, as dusk had fallen and the floodlights came on. With the temperatures also cooler, lap time improvements on the combined order were quick to come in as the opening moment ticked away in FP2. Gresini’s Enea Bastianini guided […]
The as-yet-unnamed project will be directed by British filmmaker Matt Kay. It will be produced by Hamilton and his media talent manager Penni Thow, One Community and Box to Box Films – the producers of Netflix’s F1 series Drive To Survive, as well as the critically-acclaimed Senna and Maradona. The documentary has had full access […]