The Spaniard raced in MotoGP full-time from 2006 to 2018 with Honda, winning 31 grands prix and finishing second in the championship on three occasions. Pedrosa retired from full-time competition at the end of the 2018 season and signed for KTM as an official test rider. He continually turned down wildcard opportunities until 2021, when […]
Verstappen radioed his team on lap 11 of the Montreal event to notify the pit wall that he had struck a bird, but the Dutchman’s car did not appear to suffer any major damage and he did not report any subsequent loss of performance on his way to a sixth win of 2023. But during post-race […]
The Honda rider has endured a bruising weekend at the German GP, crashing five times so far – the latest of which in morning warm-up left him with a fracture in his hand. Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited […]
Norris was penalised for slowing down too much under the safety car on lap 12, thereby leaving a gap with team-mate Oscar Piastri, which gave McLaren more breathing space to perform a double pitstop. The FIA stewards gave the Briton a five-second penalty for “unsportsmanlike conduct” in their verdict: “The driver slowed under the Safety […]
The 2023 MotoGP season has seen both of the series’ Japanese manufacturers struggle for form, with Yamaha scoring just one podium in seven rounds and Honda’s Americas GP win with Alex Rins proving to be a fluke result. This coincides with a shift in balance on the grid towards the European manufacturers over the last […]
Senna collected his victories between 1985 and 1993 prior to his death in 1994. For years, the Brazilian’s record was dwarfed by only Alain Prost’s total of 51 wins but has since been surpassed by Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, and Lewis Hamilton. Verstappen has now reached that level with his win in Montreal, his sixth […]
Marquez withdrew from Sunday’s German Grand Prix after suffering his fifth crash of the weekend in the warm-up session. The crash left him with a small fracture on his thumb, though he was declared fit to race by the MotoGP medical team. Marquez missed three rounds through injury after a crash in Portugal, and has […]
The championship leader was unstoppable in his bid to secure Red Bull’s landmark victory, as the Anglo-Austrian outfit becomes the fifth team in F1 to score over 100 victories. He beat Alonso with a winning margin of 9.5s, as the Spanish driver overcame a fast-starting Lewis Hamilton to secure the runner-up spot in the race. […]
Martin was a winner in his maiden season in MotoGP in 2021 and was expected to add to this in 2022 with the Pramac Ducati team. But the 2022-spec Ducati he was on wasn’t as competitive as the factory team version, which ran a slightly older engine owing to the latest version being too aggressive. […]
The Mexican finished the session in 12th place and missed out on Q3 for the third race in a row. Like other drivers Perez opted to do a banker lap on intermediates before pitting for slicks, only to find the rain returning, and Valtteri Bottas in front of him. However, unlike Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who […]