The Canadian driver has been outperformed by new teammate Alex Albon so far this season, with the Anglo-Thai driver 11-2 up on their qualifying head-to-head and 10-3 in front on their race head-to-head while he has also scored all of the team’s points. Latifi appeared to struggle to adapt to the new F1 cars and […]
The series is enjoying one of its most competitive eras ever, but the interest has waned in recent years. This is largely driven by the retirements of big names like Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo, while the new crop of riders haven’t been marketed as well and the series’ biggest draw in Marc […]
The Ferrari reserve driver will take the wheel of the VF-22 at both Monza and the Circuit of the Americas, with current drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen taking it in turns to hand over their cars to the Italian. Giovinazzi last competed in F1 in 2021 before making the move to Formula E with Dragon […]
Espargaro has emerged as a surprise championship contender in 2022 aboard the vastly improved RS-GP after taking a maiden win at the Argentine Grand Prix earlier this season. After 12 races he is just 22 points behind reigning world champion Quartararo and has consistently been a podium contender this season. What has typified the 2022 […]
MotoGP will introduce sprint races to its grand prix weekends from 2023, as first reported by Autosport almost 24 hours ahead of the official announcement, in a move that has caused quite a stir – but which was entirely predictable. MotoGP, for all of its fire-fighting exercises in recent months, is facing a decline it […]
Having been 91 points down on Quartararo in the championship after a fourth DNF of the season in Germany, victories at Assen, Silverstone and now Red Bull Ring have put Bagnaia just 44 points behind in the standings. Bagnaia, who only lost the lead briefly in a fight with team-mate Jack Miller before controlling from the […]
The reigning world champion was expected to struggle at the Austrian venue owing to the emphasis it puts on horsepower. But the Yamaha rider came away with a second-place finish and was just 0.492 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati at the chequered flag. Quartararo is now 32 points clear in […]
The Italian led every lap of Sunday’s Red Bull Ring race to claim his fourth victory of the season and third on the bounce to keep his championship hopes alive. Bagnaia, who grabbed the holeshot from second on the grid, took the soft front tyre as he expected cooler conditions and possibly rain to affect […]
Albon was promoted from Toro Rosso to Red Bull halfway through the 2019 season at the expense of Pierre Gasly, but just like the Frenchman he struggled to make an immediate impact alongside team leader Max Verstappen. At the end of the 2020 season Albon was pushed aside in favour of Sergio Perez and spent […]
The 2021 Moto2 championship runner-up stepped up to MotoGP in 2022 with Tech3 and KTM in a move he didn’t want to make in the first place. Fernandez had been keen to join Yamaha’s satellite squad RNF – formally Petronas SRT – but was unable to when KTM held him to a contract despite there […]