Not since the 2017 season has a MotoGP title battle gone down to the wire. In a thrilling year, Andrea Dovizioso pluckily kept his and Ducati’s outside hopes alive against Marc Marquez through to the final round in Valencia. Ultimately Marquez prevailed, and through 2018 and 2019 the Honda rider dominated. The COVID-delayed 2020 season […]
Amid all the dominant form that means he could capture the crown at next weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, it is easy to forget the dramas that overshadowed the start of the campaign. In fact, early on in the year, it appeared that his championship challenge could be over before it started, as a spate of […]
This weekend marks the first Japanese GP to be staged by MotoGP since before the COVID-19 pandemic enveloped the world in 2019. But Moto2 squad Marc VDS’ preparations for this weekend’s 16th round of the 2022 season were hindered when a fire erupted in its garage on Thursday evening at Motegi. The pit box – […]
The developments of cars throughout the 2022 campaign have been different to previous years, with teams having to balance the desire for update steps against the costs of building new parts. Some outfits like Alpine have elected to bring small changes to every race, while other squads have chosen instead to unleash new parts in […]
The Honda rider was making his MotoGP return after a six-race absence to recover from a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Qualifying 13th, Marquez leaped up to sixth at the first corner before his race unravelled at Turn 3 when he lost the rear and triggered a collision […]
AlphaTauri team boss Franz Tost had indicated for some time the plan was always to keep Tsunoda alongside Pierre Gasly – confirmation of whom was given back in June – pending sign-off from Red Bull. Tsunoda said a few weeks ago that his future depended on “things in the background”, but that he was satisfied […]
The Woking-based squad faces an intense fight with its Enstone rival over the remainder of the 2022 campaign for the best-of-the-rest slot in the constructors’ championship behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. While Alpine looks favourite to take that fourth position, especially after it revealed it is bringing a major new floor update to the […]
The Brackley-based squad is still hunting for its first F1 victory this season, with it having been on the back foot against Red Bull and Ferrari throughout much of the 2022 campaign. The design of its current challenger has proved to be not ideal for the new ground effect regulations, with it suffering from a […]
Although Szafnauer has endured some difficult weeks, after finding himself at the centre of F1’s driver market silly season when Alpine lost Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin and Oscar Piastri to McLaren, Rossi has nothing but praise for him. Rossi says that despite what happened on the driver front, with the team still upset about […]
F1 introduced all-new rules for 2022, aimed at both improving the racing and giving more teams a chance of success through closing the gap between the front and the back of the grid. This is being helped by a combination of a cost cap plus an aerodynamic handicap system that allows more windtunnel and CFD development time […]