Current Moto2 championship leader Acosta is set to step up to the MotoGP world championship next year with KTM, though where remains a mystery. KTM has four bikes spread across the factory team and the GasGas-branded Tech3 satellite squad, but all riders occupying those seats have contracts. FEATURE: Why the hype around MotoGP’s next generational […]
The Ferrari driver’s interest in the endurance classic was piqued this year, when he attended the event to see the Prancing Horse’s Hypercar squad triumph. And having said during his appearance there that he was open to the idea of competing at the Circuit de la Sarthe in the future, he has now opened up […]
The eight-time world champion has scored just 15 points in the opening nine rounds of a torrid 2023 campaign for Honda, with rumours continuing to swirl about a potential early exit from HRC for 2024. While he stated at the British Grand Prix that “my intention” is to honour his current contract with Honda, which […]
In April Massa signalled his intention to take legal action against the results of the 2008 F1 world championship, which he lost out to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton by a single point. Massa acted on information from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who suggested that knowledge of the controversial 2008 Singapore GP ‘crashgate’ was available early […]
The 2020 world champion signed a two-year deal with Honda to join its factory squad from this season after Suzuki elected to quit the championship at the end of 2022. Mir’s season so far has been miserable, with the Spaniard scoring just five points in total and hasn’t seen a chequered flag on a Sunday […]
Velo is one of the brands McLaren sponsor British American Tobacco has created to pivot away from cigarettes towards tobacco-free nicotine products, such as Velo’s flavoured nicotine pouches or the Vuse brand’s e-cigarettes. In April this year, the Dutch government joined a growing list of European countries to ban the sale of all types of […]
McLaren has been slipping backwards in recent years, which led to wholesale changes to the technical structure and to its Woking infrastructure, projects overseen by incoming team boss Andrea Stella and by CEO Zak Brown. While the benefits from its new wind tunnel and other facilities won’t be tangible until next year, McLaren has already […]
In fact, providing Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez aren’t derailed by a dose of bad luck over the second half of the season, it could become the first F1 challenger ever to deliver a season clean-sweep. But while the RB19 is leaving others in its wake, Red Bull’s own perception of the car is markedly […]
“It all started with a problem.“ This is how track manager Niek Oude Luttikhuis describes the first talks with Formula 1 about a possible return to Zandvoort. And that is the story of this problem, an extraordinary idea and its implementation. Or in a nutshell: How the F1 track in Zandvoort got its steep curves. […]
The pair have not always seen eye-to-eye this season, and there have been a number of times when radio messages have highlighted disagreements about their approach. In Australia, Leclerc was unhappy that he did not get the tow that he had been expecting to get from Sainz in qualifying. At the Austrian GP, Sainz came […]