Pramac Ducati rider Martin was never truly threatened at the head of the field, easing away from the chasing pack over the course of Saturday’s 12-lap contest to record his fifth sprint race win of the season. It means the gap between Martin and works Ducati man Bagnaia is now down to just eight points […]
In the four races held since the summer break, Ferrari has passed Aston Martin for third place in the constructors’ championship, and cut the deficit to Mercedes in second from 56 points to 20, while Carlos Sainz became the first non-Red Bull winner of the season in Singapore. Like other teams, Ferrari has already switched its […]
Quartararo led home the Yamaha charge as he dropped one place from his grid slot of 14th, having failed to escape the first part of qualifying earlier in the day. Team-mate Franco Morbidelli was a place further back in 16th, while wildcard Cal Crutchlow capped off a miserable day for the Iwata firm in 18th […]
Analysis by Buzz Radar, a social intelligence company of social media patterns, has highlighted how the 2023 campaign has triggered a dramatic U-turn in F1’s impressive growth in recent years. In a case study that it published on Thursday, titled Have we reached Peak F1?, Buzz Radar’s analysis suggested that the boom of 2022 – […]
Espargaro was in the fight for a top-five position when his RS-GP suddenly slowed on lap eight of Saturday’s 12-lap race, won by Jorge Martin’s Pramac Ducati, forcing him into the pits and retirement. It follows a similar episode in last weekend’s Indian Grand Prix but, while Espargaro put that problem down to the intense […]
Piastri secured the first podium of his F1 career with third at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, joining team-mate Lando Norris on the rostrum, but admitted after the race that it was not his finest performance. Reflecting on why he felt that way, the Australian rookie explained that, on a day when there was a […]
Going through its worst-ever phase in grand prix racing, Honda has had to resort to changes in its technical line-up in a bid to keep hold of star rider Marquez. Ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, it emerged that long-time technical chief Shinichi Kokubu has been moved aside as part of the reshuffle, with […]
Red Bull clinched its sixth constructors’ title with six races to spare in Japan, which is another entry for the Milton Keynes squad into the series’ record book that it has been steadily rewriting this year. Team principal Horner conceded that losing its streak of consecutive race wins in Singapore was inevitable. And while the carrot of […]
Martin posted a 1m43.198s on his first run in Q2 on Saturday morning to beat Brad Binder’s Friday benchmark, which in turn surpassed Jorge Lorenzo’s 2015 record, by almost three tenths of a second. It gives Martin a second pole in the last three races, as well as a 10th in a row for Ducati. […]
The team made a bigger loss despite upping its turnover from sponsorship and prize money by over £32m, with the numbers reflecting an overall increase in costs in the first year of the new regulations. Following a reorganisation, the team now operates under the banner of AMR GP Limited, which is a subsidiary of AMR […]