A multi-rider collision on the opening lap of Saturday’s 14-lap sprint contest was triggered when Martin, trying to recover from 12th on the grid, made contact with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo as he attempted to overtake on the inside of Turn 1. This forced Quartararo into Maverick Vinales, which then led to Marco Bezzecchi, Johann Zarco […]
The Milton Keynes-based squad has produced some eye-opening performances this year thanks to a huge advantage that drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez enjoy when the DRS is open. The opposition have been looking closely to try to understand if there is a clever trick that Red Bull has deployed to deliver the speed boost. […]
Rins elected to sign for the factory Yamaha squad for next season and exit a two-year works deal with Honda having felt a lack of support from the Japanese manufacturer this season. Over the British Grand Prix weekend, Zarco became linked to the vacant LCR seat and on Saturday morning at the Austrian GP, French […]
Verstappen has repeatedly voiced his concerns over F1’s growing calendar, which will peak at 24 races next year and involve nearly 200,000 miles of air travel despite modest efforts to reduce its footprint. A double-header in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will kick off F1’s record season, followed by four individual flyaway events in Australia, Japan, […]
Having felt a lack of factory support from Honda this season, Alex Rins announced a few weeks ago that he would be quitting his HRC deal with LCR a year early and join Yamaha for 2024. Over the British Grand Prix weekend, Zarco emerged as favourite to replace the Spaniard, with the Frenchman having contested […]
Vowles was headhunted by Williams owner Dorilton from Mercedes at the start of this year to oversee a total rebuild of the struggling squad. He soon impressed on the American investment firm that Williams’ overhaul would take years as it is lagging behind its midfield rivals in many areas of its Grove base’s infrastructure. Despite […]
The South African has been part of the KTM family since 2015, when he joined the Ajo squad in Moto3 – with whom he won the 2016 lightweight class world championship. Binder remained with KTM upon his step to Moto2 in 2017, finishing runner-up in the standings in 2019 before moving to MotoGP the following […]
McLaren, with 183 world championship grand prix wins, is the second-most successful team in Formula 1, behind only Ferrari. Like any team that’s been around for six decades, it’s had its ups and downs, but there can be no doubt that the British squad has produced some of the greatest racing cars of all time, […]
MotoGP’s Japanese manufacturers are enduring a torrid 2023 campaign as both occupy the last spots on the constructors’ table having enjoyed very little success this season. Honda scored a victory with Alex Rins at the Americas GP, but this has proven to be an outlier as no other HRC podium has come since, while Yamaha […]
Aston Martin shocked F1 this year with its AMR23, the potential of which was rumoured to be huge even before a wheel had been turned at pre-season testing. The whispers and murmurs up and down the paddock about its prowess were confirmed in Bahrain, with a rejuvenated Fernando Alonso taking the podium and an injured […]