On Saturday at the Spanish Grand Prix, Lorenzo was inducted into MotoGP’s hall of fame in a ceremony at Jerez. Lorenzo won 47 races in a premier class career that spanned from 2008 to 2019, with the Spaniard winning the world championship three times with Yamaha and scoring victories for both the Japanese marque and […]
Month: May 2022
McLaren wary of F1 moving towards having B-teams structure
The strong form of both Ferrari and Haas in 2022 has put a renewed focus on the co-operation between teams that supply power units, gearboxes and other technology to their customers. Aside from using the Mercedes power unit, McLaren doesn’t have any relationships with other teams, although it has been mentioned in connection with a […]
Marquez “not disappointed” in Honda’s 2022 MotoGP bike
After a few tough years, Honda elected to radically re-design its bike for 2022 in a bid to cure the rear grip problems it had suffered before and make it more useable – something borne out of Marquez’s serious arm injury in 2020. But the shift in character of the bike to make it […]
Top 10 American F1 drivers ranked
The arrival of the Miami International Autodrome means that the 2022 season will be the first F1 campaign to have two races in North America since 1984. Adding to that, next year welcomes a third stateside race with the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Michael Andretti also hopes to enter F1 with his own American team, […]
Bagnaia hails “best lap ever” after dominant Jerez MotoGP pole
Bagnaia romped to his first pole of the 2022 season by 0.453 seconds from world champion Fabio Quartararo after setting a new lap record of 1m36.170s at Jerez. Having topped both of Saturday’s practices ahead of qualifying, it vindicated Bagnaia’s claims coming into the weekend that he’d rediscovered the feeling on the front-end he’d been […]
Alonso motivated to stay in F1 “because I feel better than the others”
Two-time F1 world champion Alonso made his return to the series last year with Alpine after spending two seasons away from it to explore other racing categories. Alonso scored his first podium since Hungary 2014 at last year’s Qatar Grand Prix, and has been left frustrated by poor luck so far this year, believing he […]