Repsol has been Honda’s factory team title partner since the 1995 season, beginning one of the most enduring and successful tie-ups in motorsport. Together, Repsol Honda team riders have won 16 titles between Mick Doohan, Alex Criville, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden and Marc Marquez. PLUS: Why it won’t just be Marquez’s speed that saves Honda […]
Mercedes has just three races left to avoid its first winless season in 11 years after struggling to take the fight to Red Bull and Ferrari under the revised technical regulations for 2022. But the team has made decent progress over the season to get closer to the front runners. Lewis Hamilton came close to […]
“Everyone wants to find that edge in any way in the sport. When you are dealing with hundredths of milliseconds, you look for any advantage you can to help you go faster,” says Ed Green, Head of Commercial Technology for McLaren F1 team. Every area of race operations activity is scrutinised to try to find […]
These will be the last opportunities for any teams to run rookies this year, as Brazil is a sprint race and thus FP1 is followed by qualifying in the afternoon. It is understood than any formal confirmation of Doohan’s outings has been delayed by complications over formally finalising Oscar Piastri’s exit from the team. The […]
The Formula 1 constructors’ championship battle always plays second fiddle to the fight for the drivers’ crown. Not helping the end-of-2022 show, Red Bull was all but certain to land its first teams’ trophy since 2013 heading into the United States Grand Prix in Austin last weekend. Nevertheless, during an event where the death of […]
Espargaro came to Sepang 27 points behind championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and needed to lose no more than three points to the Ducati rider to keep his title hopes alive going to Valencia. But the Aprilia rider endured a tough Malaysian GP, taking the chequered flag in 11th and 21.5 seconds off of race winner […]
The team was named recently by the FIA alongside Red Bull Racing and Williams as having failed to fully comply with the 2021 financial regulations. However while Red Bull was deemed to have overspent and made procedural errors, Aston Martin and Williams were only guilty of the latter. The Williams case, involving the late submission […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion qualified on the front row for Sunday’s race at Sepang, but admitted at the time that he had no idea how he achieved this as he spent the weekend “fighting against the bike”. Anticipating a difficult race, Marquez slid out of the podium battle early on and ended up 14.3 […]
The double success came the day after Red Bull boss Mateschitz passed away, an event that Horner suggested made Verstappen even more determined to win. The Dutchman looked set to score a straightforward victory until an 11-second pit stop due to an issue with the left front dropped him back. He thus had a fight […]
Alonso recovered from his car going airborne in a crash with Lance Stroll to finish seventh at the Circuit of The Americas on Sunday. But the Spaniard was hit with a 30-second post-race penalty that dropped him to 15th after Haas lodged a protest, claiming the Alpine car was unsafe due to its moving right-hand […]