The 2021 world champion ended Friday at his home race outside of the Q2 qualifying spots in 12th as he continued to struggle for pace on the 2023 Yamaha. After four rounds, Quartararo has just one podium and is 47 points off of the championship lead. Quartararo has faced hard times already with Yamaha since […]
A difficult start to the 2023 season for the Faenza outfit was followed by critical comments from team boss Franz Tost and the sudden departure of head of aerodynamics Dickon Balmforth. The team is pushing on with a substantial development programme as it tries to find more performance from its car. Last weekend’s Miami GP […]
This weekend’s French GP at Le Mans marks the 1000th grand prix event in the championship’s history. After a fairly anonymous start to the opening 45-minute practice of the weekend, Miller wound things up on fresh soft rubber in the closing stages of FP1 to produce a 1m31.449s. This cemented him top spot as the […]
Team boss Andrea Stella reckons despite the floor damage sustained by Lando Norris and a brake-by-wire failure for Oscar Piastri, a Miami result of 17th and 19th is a “reality check”. The ‘supertimes’ metric, which compares the fastest lap set by each team during a full race weekend, listed McLaren as the slowest of the […]
The first sector of the circuit, which includes eight turns, is largely comprised of a run of high-speed kinks. Horner says in that particular area of the track Verstappen had an edge that ultimately enabled him to outpace Perez and claim victory. The Dutchman started the race from ninth place after a red flag ended […]
Honda has endured a torrid few years, with the 2023 season so far proving just as difficult despite LCR’s Alex Rins ending its victory drought dating back to 2021 in April’s Americas GP. Since late last season, Honda has been working with German chassis manufacturer Kalex on bike development, with that first manifesting itself in […]
For the second edition of the Miami round, the pre-race procedure was amended. All 20 drivers were revealed to the crowd through a temporary gantry on the main straight and were accompanied by an introduction from American rapper LL Cool J. PLUS: How Verstappen won the Miami GP As the championship leader, Red Bull driver […]
Petrucci has been drafted in to replace the injured Enea Bastianini at Le Mans, who is continuing to recover from a broken shoulder that has ruled him out of every weekend since Portugal. The double race winner competed with Ducati from 2015 to 2020, spending his last two years with the factory squad, where he […]
Red Bull has dominated the season so far, with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez sharing in four one-two finishes, and only missing out on another in Australia, where problems for the Mexican in qualifying saw him recover to fifth at the flag. Horner says that Red Bull made the progress “that you would expect” from […]
The eight-time world champion was handed a double long lap penalty for colliding with Miguel Oliveira at the opening grand prix of the year in Portugal. This penalty was to be served at the Argentina GP, as deemed by the FIM stewards in writing and verbally to Marquez, but was later applied to the next […]