The start to Quartararo’s title defence in 2022 was difficult last time out in Qatar, as the Frenchman struggled to ninth at a track he won at one year ago. As the championship battle moves onto round two of 21 at the new Mandalika International Street Circuit, Quartararo will be hoping for a much better […]
Off the back of an encouraging two pre-season tests for Ferrari, the Italian outfit has been widely tipped to start the campaign fighting with Red Bull and Mercedes for victory. But the team has been eager to play down expectations, even though there have been some more optimistic noises coming out of Maranello in recent […]
MotoGP last raced in Indonesia in 1997 at the Sentul circuit, while FP1 on Friday marks the Mandalika track’s first world championship racing action since November’s World Superbike finale. The grid already has experience of Mandalika, having completed the final three days of pre-season testing at the track just over a month ago. Since the […]
Hamilton heads into the new season aiming once again to win a record-breaking eighth world championship and pull clear of fellow seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher. Hamilton missed out on his eighth title last year after being overtaken by Red Bull rival Max Verstappen on the last lap of the Abu Dhabi season finale in […]
The Honda has been radically overhauled for 2022 after several years of problems for the marque, with the new bike being more rear-biased to cure its traction issues. The new RC213V made a splash in the season-opener in Qatar at the start of the month, with Pol Espargaro fighting for victory before emerging third in […]
The Aston Martin reserve driver has been called in to deputise for his fellow German Sebastian Vettel. The former world champion had returned to his home in Switzerland after last weekend’s running at Sakhir, and took a PCR test before he travelled back to Bahrain as part of Aston Martin’s regular COVID protocols. When the […]
MotoGP returns to Indonesia for the first time since 1997 this weekend at the newly built Mandalika street track on the island of Lombok. The series staged its final pre-season test at the venue, though that weekend was plagued by issues with the track which prompted a partial resurfacing of the circuit ahead of the […]
Williams has been competing at car racing’s pinnacle for more than four decades and 16 drivers have won world championship races with the team, which makes selecting the top 10 Williams F1 drivers a challenge. For this list we’ve taken into account the amount of success the drivers scored with Williams, the impact they had […]
The 2013 Moto3 world champion is a nine-time race winner in MotoGP, but has endured a wildly inconsistent career since switching from Suzuki to Yamaha in 2017. Though taking eight of his nine wins with Yamaha between 2017 and 2021, Vinales never came close to challenging for the title and his relationship with the marque […]
Red Bull and Ferrari came away from testing in the strongest shape, but neither team is convinced that Mercedes is truly in trouble despite Lewis Hamilton’s fears it may not be able to win a race at present. Everyone will start from zero in Bahrain, making it the perfect time to make some predictions ahead […]