A sprint winner twice in 2023, including on Saturday at the Sachsenring, Martin hasn’t won a grand prix since the 2021 Styrian GP in his rookie season. But he ended that drought in brilliant fashion, resisting immense pressure from reigning world champion Bagnaia to beat him in a run to the line by just 0.064 […]
The Australian had enjoyed an encouraging weekend in Montreal up until his accident, as he made it through to the final qualifying segment. However, he ended up against the barriers early on in Q3 as he spun on the exit of Turn 8. The incident briefly stopped the session and meant Piastri ended up ninth […]
The eight-time world champion has endured a miserable weekend at the Sachsenring, a venue in which he has never been beaten at in the MotoGP class. Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited the pitlane. Both riders were unharmed, but […]
Towards the end of Q1 Alpine driver Pierre Gasly was one a flying lap when he encountered a nearly stationary Sainz at the final chicane, as the Spaniard was creating space for himself to embark on a final lap attempt. The incident forced Gasly off onto the escape road, which meant that the Frenchman stayed […]
Martin took his first sprint win of the season at the French GP and added a second to his tally in Germany, taking the chequered flag 2.4 seconds clear. The Pramac Ducati rider took the lead on lap four with a daring double overtake and instantly opened a near-second gap to the chasing pack. It […]
The Haas driver was found to have gone faster than the minimum delta time set by the FIA ECU on his return to the pits when the session was red flagged in Q3, as Oscar Piastri put his McLaren in the wall at Turn 7 amid wet conditions in Montreal. Hulkenberg had set a lap […]
The Honda rider endured a bruising Saturday at the Sachsenring having crashed three times in qualifying on his way to seventh on the grid. Briefly running fifth in the sprint, Marquez faded to 11th at the chequered flag to end a MotoGP contest of any kind at the Sachsenring without a win for the first […]
In a wet and wild qualifying at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the Red Bull driver splashed to his 25th F1 career pole position, ahead of surprise package Nico Hulkenberg who secured a front-row start for Haas. But Hulkenberg faced a post-qualifying stewards hearing for a red flag infringement during Q3. Hulkenberg’s Q3 stunner saw Fernando Alonso […]
Many complaints have been raised by riders this year regarding the increased difficulty they are having in racing each other owing to the downforce modern MotoGP bikes are creating now. A much-maligned front tyre pressure rule, which was enforced properly from the Italian GP, has also added to this problem, with riders noting how difficult […]
Leclerc revealed his special helmet design on social media on Friday, but he hadn’t told the Villeneuve family what he was planning to do. While the gesture was obviously intended to honour one of his predecessors at Ferrari the helmet design is trademarked, and thus there were potential issues around the Italian team’s current sponsors […]