The team has suffered more reliability problems than most rivals, costing valuable ground in the battle with McLaren for fourth in the constructors’ world championship. Alpine is currently in front by just seven points. In Mexico, Fernando Alonso lost seventh place in the closing laps after suffering a cylinder issue that obliged him to stop. […]
The Awards, which date back to 1982, celebrate the top drivers and competition machines each year. The nominees in the eight categories open to public vote in 2022 have now been revealed (below). Autosport.com subscribers and magazine readers are able to vote for the nominee they think performed best in each category. The categories open […]
Since the modern four-stroke era of MotoGP was introduced in 2022, four championship battles have been fought to the wire. For the first time since 2017, this year’s championship fight has been kept alive through to the Valencia decider, with Francesco Bagnaia and Fabio Quartararo squaring up against each other for glory. The scales are […]
Last weekend’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City attracted a sell-out crowd of 397,000 fans over three days, once again making it one of the best-attended races of the season. The continued strong fan presence in Mexico comes amid F1’s current boom in the neighbouring United States, which will host three races […]
The Ducati rider says there is “still a possibility” that Quartararo could clinch the title at this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix, despite the Yamaha rider needing to win to have a chance of retaining his crown. Bagnaia won last time out at the Malaysian Grand Prix, but Quartararo recovered from 12th to third to keep […]
The German manufacturer has endured a challenging 2022 campaign and, despite having got one pole position this year, is at risk of not winning a race for the first time since 2011. But its consistency, allied to recent improvements, has left it in contention to overhaul Ferrari for second place in the teams’ battle behind […]
The Spanish rider joined the team in 2019 before taking the team’s first riders’ championship in 20 years the following year. It was confirmed in May that the Japanese manufacturer would exit the championship at the end of 2022, despite having only made its return in 2015. Mir, who will move to Honda for 2023 […]
The Australian put in his best performance of the year in Mexico City last weekend, using a successful medium/soft tyre strategy that gave him the pace to charge up to seventh place – while negating a 10-second penalty for colliding with Yuki Tsunoda. The race came just a week after one of Ricciardo’s most disappointing […]
The reigning world champion comes into this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix finale 23 points behind Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and needs to win to keep his hopes alive. With Bagnaia only needing two points, and the continued power and grip problems Quartararo has faced on the Yamaha making his hopes of defending his title remote, the […]
Ferrari clearly lost form last weekend as the Italian team made compromises to ensure reliability at the high altitude track, leaving Mercedes clear to take the fight to Red Bull. However, while altitude is still an issue in Brazil it is not as extreme, and in addition the lower downforce levels won’t favour the W13 […]