Unlike in previous years, there was no testing held on the Losail International Circuit ahead of this weekend’s season-opener. And with FP1 being held in daylight, FP1 was largely an exercise in track cleaning – though lap times were fairly solid for the conditions. There was early drama for RNF Racing rookie Darryn Binder – […]
The German was the most outspoken at the Barcelona test a fortnight ago over Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, as he made clear he would boycott the country’s race if it went ahead. In the end, F1 and the FIA acted swiftly to drop the Russian Grand Prix from the calendar and cancel its contract under […]
After just five days of pre-season testing in February, the 2022 MotoGP season gets underway with the first of a record 21 rounds beginning this week under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit. Yamaha’s Quartararo won in Qatar last year, but has had a difficult winter on the 2022 M1. While the bike itself […]
While having no sidepods at all is somewhat detached from reality, there’s good reason to suggest that Mercedes will introduce a new package that shrinks the car’s sidepods considerably more those the team benchmarked for performance in Barcelona. In order to imagine the direction Mercedes might be travelling in, we only have to look as […]
The second 45-minute session of the Qatar weekend took place under more representative conditions for the race, as dusk had fallen and the floodlights came on. With the temperatures also cooler, lap time improvements on the combined order were quick to come in as the opening moment ticked away in FP2. Gresini’s Enea Bastianini guided […]
The as-yet-unnamed project will be directed by British filmmaker Matt Kay. It will be produced by Hamilton and his media talent manager Penni Thow, One Community and Box to Box Films – the producers of Netflix’s F1 series Drive To Survive, as well as the critically-acclaimed Senna and Maradona. The documentary has had full access […]
The 2022 season is scheduled to be the longest in MotoGP history, with 21 races set to be staged between 6 March and 6 November. The opening round of the campaign takes place this weekend in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit, which has hosted MotoGP since 2004 and staged grand prix racing’s first-ever night […]
The new design appears to be influenced by those already seen elsewhere, whereby the outermost mirror stay (red arrow) acts as a flow conditioner that helps to reinforce the outwash being created by the angular bluff body of the sidepod below. Meanwhile, the other ‘mirror stay’ also serves as an aerodynamic appendage (blue arrow), framing […]
Ahead of the weekend, Ducati announced it would not be running full 2022-spec engines in the bikes of Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia, as the Pramac riders remained with the 2022 motor. But Martin made the full 2022 package work in a scintillating opening qualifying of the season to snatch his fifth MotoGP pole. Marc […]
Haas had been evaluating a number of candidates for the 2022 season, after deciding that it could not continue with Mazepin and Russian title sponsor Uralkali in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. While experienced racers like Antonio Giovinazzi and Nico Hulkenberg were strongly linked with the seat, Haas has elected to go back […]