The short nature of the Sachsenring led Bagnaia to employ a three-run strategy in qualifying, but exited pitlane a few seconds too late on his last fresh soft rear to get his third time attack run in. Despite this, no one challenged the 1m19.931s he’d already set to claim his third pole of the 2022 […]
Hamilton achieved the best Saturday result of his troubled 2022 season after what he called a “disastrous” Friday when his Mercedes team tried a revised floor in FP1, which was quickly discarded. It also came after he had just a few days to recover from the battering that his back took in the Azerbaijan GP, […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion is currently out of action for the foreseeable future having undergone a fourth major surgery on his broken right arm at the start of the month following the Italian Grand Prix. No recovery time has been set for Marquez, but Honda boss Puig says his rider has “started to move […]
The Red Bull driver dominated qualifying to secure his second pole position of the season in mixed conditions, beating nearest rival Fernando Alonso, who clinched his first front-row start in F1 in 10 years. Alonso’s impressive feat saw Carlos Sainz shuffled back to third place for Ferrari, as he led the charge for the Italian […]
The Spaniard crashed twice in FP1 on Friday, with the second one at Sachsenring’s Turn 1 a highside which knocked the wind out of him. Espargaro took a blow to his ribs and says he felt “quite a lot of pain” in this area when he woke up on Saturday for qualifying. Failing to get […]
Verstappen claimed pole for F1’s first race in Montreal since 2019, as he topped all three segments of a wet-but-drying qualifying session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, while his title rivals Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc qualified down the order – the former due to a crash and the latter because he did not need […]
In the early stages of the delayed FP4 session on Saturday at the Sachsenring, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro crashed at the final corner and brought out yellow flags. Just moments later, Miller crashed at the same corner. Luckily nobody was at the scene of the crash as the marshals concluded clearing the Espargaro incident, but Miller […]
The final hour of practice before qualifying started in cold and wet conditions after heavy rain, which had hit Montreal regularly over the past few days, arrived early enough on Saturday to disrupt proceedings. At the start of the session on a soaked Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the four cars from Haas and Alfa Romeo gingerly […]
The Yamaha rider admitted on Friday that he needed a Barcelona-style turnaround in grip levels at the Sachsenring to be more competitive, but was still outside the top five come the end of FP3. But Quartararo went on to qualify second on Saturday and only missed out on pole by just 0.076 seconds to Ducati’s […]
Ferrari F1-75 front detail A look at the packaging at the front end of the Ferrari F1-75, including steering assembly, brake master cylinders and some of the inboard suspension elements. Ferrari F1-75 nose detail A look under the vanity panel on the F1-75’s nose reveals the inner body which sits on the second wing element […]