The Swiss outfit has managed just nine points over the opening 12 races of the season, having managed 51 points at the same interval last season. Bottas’s eighth place at the season opener in Bahrain remains the high water mark this year. Explaining where the team has fallen short, Bottas felt that the team started […]
MotoGP’s new tyre pressure rules, enforced from the British GP, have been met with widespread criticism from riders. In a dry race now, riders must complete 50% of a grand prix distance and 30% of a sprint inside the minimum pressures set by Michelin – which was 1.7 bar on the rear, and 1.88 bar […]
And he reckons as much despite the “visceral unpleasantness” that it can entail, especially during a spell of ground-effects grief for the Silver Arrows. The former Lotus and Ferrari engineer first punched in at Brackley in early 2017, meaning he was on board for five of the eight consecutive constructors’ championship crowns. But in April […]
The deal comes after Pramac confirmed Zarco’s departure over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, with Rins’ move announced before the British GP. Zarco has been a Ducati rider since 2020, when the Italian marque signed him to a deal to join the Avintia satellite squad. He will move to the Honda team next season, though […]
Over the winter, newly promoted team principal Andrea Stella led a thorough review of the Woking design department. It subsequently let go of technical chief James Key, restructured its leadership, and hired David Sanchez from Ferrari and Red Bull veteran engineer Rob Marshall. With elements of that revised set-up in place, McLaren upgraded its current […]
The Pramac Ducati rider was handed a long lap penalty for last Sunday’s Austrian GP after he was deemed to have been at fault for triggering a multi-rider pile-up on the opening lap of the sprint contest. The incident was investigated for several hours after the sprint race on Saturday, with Martin insisting he was […]
The ballooning weight of current-era F1 cars has become increasingly unpopular with drivers and teams, with this year’s minimum weight of 798kg well over 200kg higher compared to cars from 15 years ago. It is one of the key aspects FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem wants to tackle for the next 2026 regulations cycle, even though […]
Starting from pole at the Red Bull Ring, Bagnaia fended off the fast-starting KTM duo of Brad Binder and Jack Miller on the run to Turn 1 to take the holeshot. Quickly pulling a gap to Binder in second, Bagnaia on his factory Ducati increasingly came under less threat as the 14-lap contest ticked away, […]
The FIA rules specify that every race driver has to give up an FP1 session for a rookie who has started no more than two grands prix. However, a race driver who is a rookie at the start of the season is deemed to qualify, which means that Oscar Piastri with McLaren, Logan Sargeant with […]
Double grand prix winner Bezzecchi is at the centre of the key rider market moves for 2025, with the VR46 rider torn between remaining at his current squad or moving to Pramac. A move to Pramac is Bezzecchi’s only chance of riding a works-spec Ducati in 2024, with VR46 to continue running year-old Desmosedicis. Speaking […]