The South African came through Q1 in qualifying to put his RC16 seventh on the grid, and used this to springboard himself into podium contention at the start of Sunday’s 22-lap race. Though pressuring eventual winner Enea Bastianini on the final lap for victory, Binder had to settle for runner-up spot – only by 0.347 […]
The home of the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari returned to the F1 schedule in 2020 when it helped the series as it managed to put on a full calendar during the COVID-19 pandemic. The track, which hosted the Italian Grand Prix in 1980 and the San Marino GP from 1981 to 2006, proved […]
The four-time race winner came into the new campaign as hot favourite to challenge for the championship after finishing 2021 runner-up, while declaring in November’s Jerez test that Ducati had improved on an already “perfect bike”. But the pre-season for Ducati was difficult, as a problematic 2022 engine – with an aggressive power delivery – […]
F1 Manager 2022 will be developed by Frontier Developments, which revealed a launch trailer for the new game on Monday as part of its announcement. It is the first management game as part of a “long term, multi-title agreement” according to F1, and is a first official foray into the genre since F1 Manager was […]
Beginning its longest season ever, MotoGP’s 2022 season started off by crowning a new winner, as Bastianini guided his 2021-spec Ducati to his first victory. The Italian converted his best-ever qualifying result of second into a strong start and took the lead with four laps remaining, fending off a late attack from KTM’s Brad Binder. […]
Ricciardo endured a challenging 2021 campaign with McLaren as he struggled to get as comfortable with the handling of the Woking-based team’s car as team-mate Lando Norris. While both squad and driver made a decent amount of progress over the course of the year, they still did not reach a point where they could think […]
The Australian started Sunday’s 22-lap season-opener from fourth, but lost ground immediately and began to experience power problems. Miller says he was getting power from the engine in “very strange points” of the Losail circuit, while exiting onto the main straight he had none and was scared about “getting run up the arse” by bikes […]
There has been a boom in involvement of crypto sponsors in F1 over recent years, with the vast majority of the grid now sponsored by digital currency companies. Most recently, Red Bull signed what is believed to be the biggest crypto sponsorship contract in sport with a $150 million deal with exchange Bybit – which […]
Bastianini took his first win in MotoGP for the Gresini squad in its first race back as an independent team just over a year on from team founder Fausto Gresini’s death after his long battle with COVID-19. The Italian kept clear of a late charge from Brad Binder on the factory KTM, who had a […]
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has called the new deal a “real statement of intent” as the Milton Keynes outfit maps out its future. The Dutchman already had a contract that covered the 2022 and 2023 seasons after a previous extension was announced in January 2020. The seven-year total duration of the new arrangement […]