The 25-year-old made his MotoGP debut last year with Avintia Ducati on a GP19 backed by VR46, before racing a 2022-spec Ducati this season with the VR46 squad. Marini was one of two Ducati riders not to score a podium in 2022 alongside Gresini rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio, but enjoyed a consistent campaign in 12th […]
Haas announced last Thursday that it had signed Hulkenberg for next year to replace Mick Schumacher as Kevin Magnussen’s team-mate. It will mark Hulkenberg’s first full season of racing since 2019 when he drove for Renault, having since made a handful of starts as a stand-in driver. To help Hulkenberg in his preparations for next […]
Vettel made his 299th and final grand prix start in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, ending his career with a 10th-place finish for Aston Martin. The weekend was filled with tributes to the outgoing Vettel, who announced back in July he would be retiring at the end of the season. Alpine driver Ocon spent the […]
Eight-time grand prix winner Ricciardo raced for the team between 2014-2018, scoring seven of his eight wins for the Milton Keynes squad and twice finishing third in the world championship. After his exit from McLaren was confirmed back in August, he was left without a full-time seat on the grid for next season, but will […]
GP Racing magazine editor and host Stuart Codling is joined by columnist Mark Gallagher and Autosport F1 editor Matt Kew to talk about the Dutchman’s incredible year, which included a record-breaking 15 wins in a season. But could his chances of a 2023 repeat be thwarted by a limitation on development following Red Bull’s cost […]
Ricciardo leaves the team after two disappointing seasons at McLaren, with the team deciding in the summer to end his contract one year early and move for rookie Oscar Piastri, who got his first run with the team in Tuesday’s post-season test at Yas Marina. The Australian’s struggles proved particularly costly in the constructors’ championship, as McLaren fell […]
The result of this slow-down in performance orientated parts arriving at the track inevitably leads to teams narrowing their focus further still, with teammates often running different setups and aerodynamic configurations during free practice sessions as they seek the balance required around the entirety of a lap. As qualifying approaches this usually leads to convergence […]
Gardner – son of 1987 500cc world champion Wayne – stepped up to MotoGP with Tech3 and KTM this season as reigning Moto2 champion. PLUS: How KTM failed one of its brightest MotoGP prospects But the Australian struggled all year aboard the RC16, scoring a total of just 13 points from 20 races and a […]
Verstappen first claimed #1 after winning last year’s world title in Abu Dhabi and used it for the 2022 world championship. Taking back-to-back world titles, the Dutchman again gets to choose between #1 and his personal race number 33, which he has used since his karting days, but has decided to honour the custom of […]
Alonso dropped a bombshell on the F1 driver market when he signed a deal in July to join Aston Martin for next year, leaving Alpine after two years. Although Alonso does not officially start with Aston Martin until the new year, the two-time world champion was able to take part in Tuesday’s post-season test running […]