Quartararo has spent the winter complaining about the lack of development Yamaha has made with its engine, with its top speed deficit from last year remaining. On Friday in Qatar, Quartararo was last on the speed traps and is over 10km/h slower than practice pacesetter Alex Rins on the Suzuki (which has an inline four-cylinder […]
That year’s Chinese Grand Prix marked his 91st career Formula 1 victory and surely firmly cemented the seven-time world champion as the de-facto greatest of all time. Except it didn’t. Schumacher retired at the end of that season – although he would return with Mercedes for three further (rather fruitless) campaigns – having laid down […]
The six-time world champion ended Friday’s running for the first grand prix of the 2022 season second overall behind the Suzuki of Alex Rins. Honda has radically overhauled its RC213V for the new season after several years of problems with rear traction, with Marquez admitting on Thursday that the changes are so drastic that it […]
The reintroduction of ground effect-style aerodynamics for the 2022 season has resulted in the return of a phenomenon known as porpoising, at which the heave movement of the car is excited by the oncoming airflow and causes up-and-down oscillations in the car. This was a problem for F1 cars back in the early 1980s when […]
The holeshot device has been a feature of the MotoGP grid since Ducati first started testing the device on Jack Miller’s Pramac bike in the back half of the 2018 campaign. The first evolution of the device was purely a start tool: a rider would engage a switch to hydraulically lower the rear of […]
Motor racing’s governing body announced earlier this week that, while it was cancelling all sanctioned competitions in Russia and Belarus, it would allow the country’s drivers to continue if they did so in a neutral capacity. In a document sent out on Friday, the FIA outlined exactly what drivers from those two countries would and […]
The six-time world champion comes into 2022 having full recovered from the vision problems which ruled him out of the end of the 2021 campaign. However, the true physical state of the right arm he broke in 2020 and the resulting shoulder issues he suffered in 2021 remains unknown – with Honda boss Alberto Puig […]
The fourth season of the popular series, covering the epic battle for the 2021 World Championship between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, is set to debut on the streaming service on March 11. Domenicali acknowledged that the series has had a positive impact on F1, but cautioned that it would have to continue to do […]
Ducati confirmed last week that it had re-signed Bagnaia to a new two-year contract, taking the four-time MotoGP race winner through to the end of 2024 at its factory squad. By the end of his new contract, Bagnaia will have been tied to Ducati for six years having first signed an agreement with the […]
The former BMW motorsport boss officially started work this week, following the official announcement of his hiring on January 14. He also admitted that the scale of the Aston Martin facility is “overwhelming”, with a larger staff than he was used to in his previous roles at BMW and Porsche. A huge new campus is […]