Under a rule introduced for 2022, both race drivers have to give up a free practice session for a driver who has made two or fewer starts. Early in the season, most teams were in no hurry to field rookies as they felt their race drivers needed all the mileage they could get in the […]
The three-time MotoGP race winner and Yamaha test rider has been drafted in at RNF to replace the retired Andrea Dovizioso through to the end of the season. Having not raced since the 2021 Aragon GP when he was replacing Maverick Vinales at Yamaha, Crutchlow managed to score two points in 14th last Sunday and […]
Herta, who has scored seven wins in his first four seasons of IndyCar racing and finished third and fifth in the 2020 and ’21 championships, has only 32 of the required 40 points to be granted a superlicence. Thus he would have been relying on the FIA making him a special case in order to […]
Marquez made his long-awaited grand prix weekend return on Friday after a 110-day absence while he recovered from a fourth major operation on his right arm. Ending Friday eighth overall, Marquez admitted he was likely to “suffer” come the race with his physical condition and was yet to find his true limit as he hadn’t […]
Shwartzman will take over one of the F1-75 cars of either Charles Leclerc or Carlos Sainz in Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas as part of the team’s obligation to have two FP1 sessions run by rookies. Ferrari’s race director Laurent Mekies earlier revealed Shwartzman, who turns 23 on Friday, would be at […]
Making his MotoGP race return after a 112-day absence following surgery on his broken right arm, six-time premier class world champion Marquez leaped from 13th on the grid to sixth off the line. The Honda rider swooped around Quartararo – who started sixth – at Turn 1, but exiting Turn 3 suffered a big moment […]
The 23-year-old, who is now running under his Israeli passport and licence in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will undertake the two mandatory FP1 rookie sessions for Ferrari at the US and Abu Dhabi GPs. Shwartzman won the 2019 FIA Formula 3 title before spending two seasons in Formula 2, finishing fourth […]
The Yamaha rider was jumped off the line into Turn 1 by the returning Marquez, who hadn’t raced since he went for surgery on his right arm following May’s Italian GP. Marquez had a slide on the way out of Turn 3 on the opening lap and caught Quartararo unaware, with the Yamaha rider spearing […]
Fans and some teams were left in a state of confusion for nearly four hours after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix when nobody was sure how the FIA would implement a spate of grid penalties and settle on the final line-up. The uncertainty about the grid, and the length of time it took to […]
Quartararo was eliminated on lap one when he ran into the back of Marc Marquez after the Honda rider had a small slide exiting Turn 3. Bagnaia went on to finish second, 0.042 seconds behind Gresini’s Enea Bastianini after a thrilling duel, to reduce his championship deficit to Quartararo to just 10 points with five […]