The Pramac ace – who same through Q1 – snatched the front spot from fellow Ducati rider Jack Miller, with Francesco Bagnaia in third. The Italian manufacturer secured the top five spots in Q2, with Martin’s team-mate Johann Zarco in fourth and Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini in fifth. Martin’s pole time of 2m02.039s was enough […]
Amid concerns that drivers had got slack with their race wear, which could compromise their protection in fiery crashes like that suffered by Romain Grosjean at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, new F1 race director Niels Wittich said that he would get tougher on the matter. Wittich informed drivers during a lengthy meeting on Friday […]
With cooler conditions greeting the riders for the start of Saturday’s action, lap time improvements on the combined order pivotal to deciding who goes straight into the pole shootout in qualifying later were few and far between. After 15 minutes of the 45-minute session, only three riders had gone quicker than their Friday bests – […]
Following consecutive Q3 appearances for the team in Bahrain and Jeddah, Magnussen failed to make it out of Q1 at Albert Park and only managed the 17th fastest time, while team-mate Mick Schumacher was the slowest in the Q2 session and will start 15th. But rather than the performance being a concern that the team has lost […]
Last year’s Americas Grand Prix was overshadowed by the track surface being dangerously bumpy, with riders raising safety concerns about returning to COTA if the problems were not addressed. A partial resurfacing from Turns 2-10 and Turns 12-16 was carried out over the winter ahead of this weekend’s race. Suzuki rider and 2020 world champion […]
For some teams, the removal of the fourth DRS zone made no immediate difference. But for others – notably Aston Martin – it led to some last minute scrabbling around to change the car set-up to suit, triggering a chain of events that led to a disastrous Saturday for the Silverstone team. How the loss […]
On Friday at the Americas Grand Prix, Quartararo’s manager Eric Mahe confirmed on the MotoGP world feed that he is in talks with teams outside of Yamaha for 2023. Quartararo – who was third overall after Friday’s Americas GP running – has made no secret of his unhappiness at a lack of progress made by […]
The Briton left it until the dying seconds of Q3 to deliver a lap that slotted him in behind McLaren’s Lando Norris, with there still a big gap to the Ferrari and Red Bull cars at the front. But, although the pace of the Mercedes appears to be better than it was at the Saudi […]
Quartararo is out of contract with Yamaha at the end of this season, having signed with the Japanese marque to join its factory squad for 2021 – replacing MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. The Frenchman went on to win the 2021 title, ending a six-year drought for Yamaha dating back to Jorge Lorenzo in 2015, with […]
In both Bahrain and Jeddah, Verstappen drew alongside Leclerc as they approached the final corners before the restart once the safety car had moved ahead to return to the pits. These moves have been repeats of the similarly forceful tactic the Red Bull driver used against Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton just before the final lap of […]