To help reduce the dirty air produced and allow cars to follow one another more closely, the design rulebook was reset for 2022 to move to ground-effects and away from complex top surfaces. Aerodynamic development for this year has reduced the effectiveness of the shake-up, with reports it is again harder to chase through corners, […]
Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to the MotoGP final practice and qualifying sessions being run in extremely difficult conditions. Numerous riders crashed across both qualifying segments, including poleman Marco Bezzecchi, third-placed Alex Marquez and championship leader Francesco Bagnaia. As a result, the riders have… Continue Reading on Autosport
It emerged early last month that the Faenza squad is to undergo a rebrand for next year. Selling the naming rights will enable the outfit to become more financially sustainable. This comes after new Red Bull management – led by Oliver Mintzlaff after the death of company co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz – opted against a total […]
Having qualified last, Yamaha rider Quartararo could do no better than 21st in the 10-lap sprint on Saturday at Silverstone. For much of the contest, all of the six riders on Japanese bikes occupied the bottom six places in the field, with only Franco Morbidelli marginally sparing blushes by taking the chequered flag in 15th. […]
Despite setting a pre-season target to retain fourth place in the 2023 constructors’ championship while closing the gap to Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, the Enstone team has fallen to sixth behind midfield rivals McLaren and Aston Martin come the summer break. Given the drop off, Alpine owner Renault Group has sought to replace company […]
The Gresini rider went from third on the grid in the damp 10-lap sprint at Silverstone on Saturday to claim his first MotoGP victory after fending off a late charge from poleman Marco Bezzecchi. It marked Alex Marquez’s first grand prix win of any kind since 2019 in Moto2, and the first for the Marquez […]
Just as Red Bull’s rivals appeared to be closing in on F1’s benchmark squad, Max Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez were gifted a step forward in pace with an overhaul of their RB19 for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The winning margins since the update landed have been above 30 seconds over the nearest non-Red Bull […]
The Ducati rider lined up fourth for Saturday’s race before dropping five positions on the opening lap. He then ran wide at Turn 15 to drop more positions, eventually finishing the race behind team-mate Enea Bastianini as the lowest-running Ducati. Reigning world champion Bagnaia said he felt like “something was not working well” during the […]
A few weeks ago Ricciardo was first touted as a possible post-shutdown replacement for Nyck de Vries at the Faenza team, with the Dutchman expected to have a last chance to prove himself with the run of European races up to Spa. But de Vries was dropped after the British Grand Prix, and Ricciardo was […]
The Gresini Ducati rider lined up third and despite briefly falling back off the line to fifth, took two positions in as many corners to run second. He snatched the lead from KTM rider Jack Miller at Stowe the following lap and despite VR46 rider Bezzecchi’s late charge, Marquez took his maiden win. Bezzecchi’s second […]