The home favourite ended FP1 sixth-fastest on his factory Ducati but was caught up in an incident late on with LCR Honda’s Alex Marquez. Bagnaia rolled off through the first sequence of corners and was riding slowly on the racing line through Turn 3 when Marquez approached at speed. The LCR rider was forced to […]
Mercedes bounced back from a difficult weekend at Spa to qualify fourth and sixth for the Dutch Grand Prix with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell, getting in the mix with the Ferrari and Red Bull cars. Hamilton ended qualifying four-tenths of a second off Max Verstappen’s pole position time, but was forced to abandon his […]
Gloomy but dry conditions greeted the field as the final timed practice of the weekend got underway at Misano. Though dry, conditions weren’t optimal for time attack laps, with three riders inside the top 10 on combined times failing to improve on their Friday best efforts. After 15 minutes of running only 15th-placed Fabio Di […]
Alonso, who had sailed through Q1 in ninth place and was eighth after the first runs in Q2, ended the session in 13th. The two-time champion found Perez’s Red Bull running slowly on an in-lap through the Turn 9 right-hander. The Spaniard was convinced that the had the potential to start well inside the top […]
Light rainfall hit qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday, but the Q2 pole shootout session was still run on slick tyres. Quartararo could only manage eighth, one place ahead of nearest title rival Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia, but behind an armada of Ducatis headed by Jack Miller. His in-form team-mate Francesco […]
After losing much of his FP1 session to a gearbox problem, Verstappen recovered in fine style to secure pole position at his home race for the second year in a row. Despite going quicker in the first and third sectors, a mistake at Turn 10 proved costly for Charles Leclerc, as the Ferrari driver trailed […]
Bagnaia came into Saturday’s qualifying session carrying a three-place grid penalty for the race after impeding other riders in FP1 at Misano. The Ducati rider, who is 44 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo having won the last three races, qualified second in the iffy conditions at Misano and will drop to fifth for the […]
Leclerc had led the way after the first fliers in Q3 and set an even quicker first sector time on his final run to conclude qualifying. But he could not then even better his personal best in sector two, let alone set a time that Verstappen could not match on the way to Q3’s quickest […]
Miller had gone without a pole since the 2018 Argentine GP when he took top honours on his Pramac Ducati in similarly changeable conditions, the Australian beating team-mate Francesco Bagnaia – who is carrying a three-place penalty – by 0.015 seconds. Spots of rain began to fall around the back of the Misano circuit in […]
It was announced before the Belgian GP that McLaren will be parting company with Ricciardo at the end of this season, with Oscar Piastri announced as his replacement on Friday. Alpine, having lost Piastri to McLaren, Haas and Williams all have open seats that could be options for Ricciardo. The Australian has indicated that he wants […]