As part of a format tweak for the remainder of the 2023 season, Friday’s second practice session is the only one that now counts towards Saturday’s qualifying. The top 10 riders at the end of the session progress directly into the Q2 qualifying segment, while the rest go through Q1. Aprilia’s Espargaro fired in a […]
As the Dutchman roared away to a crushing victory in the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend, he joked with his Red Bull team that he had such a lead over the opposition that he might make an extra stop just to give his mechanics some extra pit stop practice. Red Bull boss Christian Horner later […]
Jake Dixon had a comfortable career in front of him in 2017. Having stepped up to the British Superbike Championship in 2016 for a part-campaign that was interrupted by a broken hip following a brake failure at Oulton Park, he bounced back with his first race wins in 2017. The youngest ever rider to make […]
The Aprilia rider pipped championship leader Bagnaia on the line by 0.215 seconds after an enthralling last-lap battle on slick tyres as rain fell in parts of the Silverstone track. Espargaro made his decisive move on the run into the first part of the Maggotts complex on the final tour, slicing through on Bagnaia to […]
Following the replacement of Laurent Rossi as Alpine CEO, team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane have left by mutual consent following last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. With chief technical officer Pat Fry also moving to Williams, the attention on Enstone has been squarely focused at the depleted senior-level structure. PLUS: Why ‘football manager’ […]
The eight-time world champion endured a torrid first half of the 2023 campaign, scoring just 15 points from eight rounds in which he missed races in five of them and crashed 14 times. It plunged his continued future at Honda into doubt, though he said during the Silverstone weekend that his “intention” is to see […]
Former Alfa Romeo team principal Vasseur took the reins at Maranello in January after the departure of Mattia Binotto. One of his main tasks was to strengthen the team with some key hirings, a task made harder by the time it takes to recruit key personnel who are tied down by gardening leave. The job […]
The Aprilia rider’s second career grand prix victory came after he threw his RS-GP up the inside of Ducati’s Bagnaia into Maggotts on the final lap and fended him off through the rest of the tour. A late rain shower turned the final laps into a five-rider battle for the win, with KTM’s Brad Binder […]
Verstappen and Lambiase raised eyebrows with a vocal disagreement over their run plan during Friday qualifying for last week’s Belgian Grand Prix. That was followed up by more fiery exchanges in the race, particularly when Lambiase asked his driver to “use your head more” in the final stint when Verstappen took too much life out of […]
Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to FP3 and qualifying being run in torrid conditions. Both sessions ran to length, with VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi claiming pole as Marquez put his Gresini Ducati third. Qualifying was filled with crashes, with both Bezzecchi and Marquez going down, as did Francesco […]