Each F1 driver is limited to using no more than three engines per season without taking a penalty, although it is rare for anyone to get through an entire campaign on that allocation. Many teams opted to use both Spa and Monza to take additional power unit elements, but it led to confusion over how […]
Month: September 2022
Marquez explains “unlucky” Aragon MotoGP incidents
The Honda rider was making his MotoGP comeback this weekend at Aragon having been absent since May’s Italian GP following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Qualifying 13th, Marquez leapt up to sixth at the first corner in Sunday’s 23-lap race but suffered a moment on the gas […]
How a gyro camera became latest F1’s latest TV innovation
F1’s TV department is always looking for new angles and fresh shots. This year has seen the return of the pedal cam two decades after the last experiment, while the Dutch GP opened up an opportunity to try something different in order to give a better impression of how steep the banked corners really are. […]
Full Moto2 and Moto3 results
Moto3: Guevara claims lights-to-flag victory to extend title lead The 19-lap Moto3 race kicked off Sunday’s racing action at Aragon, with poleman Izan Guevara leading every single lap to claim his fourth win of the 2022 campaign. Guevara kept the lead into Turn 1 on his Aspar GasGas ahead of Max Racing Husqvarna’s Ayumu Sasak […]
De Vries confirms Marko talks but F1 future “beyond my control”
In the wake of his F1 debut at Monza the Dutchman has potential opportunities with Alpine and Williams as well as the chance to join the Red Bull camp, but he insists that he is not in a position to choose where he goes. If he does join AlphaTauri then Pierre Gasly will be released […]
Full details of MotoGP’s sprint race weekend format revealed
As part of a push to boost interest in the flagging series, MotoGP will introduce half-distance sprint races on the Saturday of every grand prix weekend from 2023. The sprint contest will be for half points and will not have any bearing on the grid order for the main grand prix, as is the case […]
Alpine expects ‘massive’ downforce step from new Singapore F1 floor
The Enstone-based squad has had the fourth quickest car for much of the season, and in the constructors’ championship is currently 18 points ahead of McLaren in the fight to be best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. While the team missed out on the points in Italy last weekend, as McLaren’s Lando Norris took […]
Bagnaia snatches pole, Marquez 13th for comeback race
Having won 10 of the last 20 grands prix, Bagnaia is the rider in form at the moment as he looks to extend his run of four-successive victories in 2022 and make further inroads into championship leader Fabio Quartararo’s advantage. Firing in a 1m46.069s at the end to smash the existing lap record, Bagnaia celebrated […]
Herta case shows F1 superlicence system needs review
In the wake of Alpine’s driver drama, Red Bull was willing to release Pierre Gasly from his 2023 contract to join the Enstone team, but only if it could get multiple IndyCar race winner Herta to replace him at AlphaTauri. But with Herta on just 32 superlicence points out of the 40 needed to be […]
MotoGP qualifying has become like Formula 1
The Yamaha test rider will contest the final six races of the 2022 season replacing the retired Andrea Dovizioso at RNF, beginning this weekend at the Aragon Grand Prix. Crutchlow suffered a 300km/h crash in FP3 on Saturday morning, which stopped him from being able to challenge for a place in Q2. He believes this […]