The Ducati rider was involved in a terrifying incident on the opening lap of last week’s red-flagged Catalan GP in Barcelona. Bagnaia highsided violently exiting Turn 2 as he stormed into the lead from pole position and landed in the middle of the track as the rest of the pack raced towards him. KTM’s Brad […]
The deal also gives Liberty a foothold in other sports and major events on the hospitality and entertainment side, including NASCAR’s Chicago street race, the NBA, Australian Open tennis and the Kentucky Derby. The deal to buy “greater than 90%” of Quint, which is expected to be completed before the end of the year, values […]
The Belgian GP exposed the weakness of the MCL60 at high-speed tracks, and Norris found himself unable to defend in the race on his way to seventh place. At Monza, Norris qualified ninth and finished eighth having been stuck behind the Williams of Alex Albon for most of the race. Although the final outcome was […]
Both Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon were eliminated in Q1, qualifying 17th and 18th respectively for the Italian GP. They didn’t fare much better in the race, with Gasly just avoiding being lapped by winner Max Verstappen in 15th, while Ocon’s car was retired as a pre-caution after he started encountering a steering lock issue. While Gasly explained that Alpine had […]
Mercedes had another difficult weekend at Monza, where Ferrari was clearly a step ahead and the W14 was the third-fastest car. George Russell and Hamilton eventually finished fifth and sixth as they showed an obvious top-speed handicap. Hamilton’s life has been made harder of late by a couple of difficult qualifying sessions, with the seven-time […]
While the Italian Grand Prix featured a number of overtakes and plenty of wheel-to-wheel action to show what is possible with the current generation of cars, there is now some concern about the impact of development directions that teams are taking. As they probe ways to increase performance, this is inevitably resulting in the increased […]
Ducati rider Bastianini crashed under braking for Turn 1 at the start of last Sunday’s Barcelona race as he tried to recover from 14th following a grid penalty. He skittled a fleet of fellow Ducati that featured Johann Zarco, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez. Bastianini suffered fractures to his left ankle and hand, […]
Signing Perez was the latest attempt by Red Bull to find a driver who could be a good wingman for its undisputed leader Max Verstappen, someone who could back up the Dutchman’s success with enough podiums to land the Milton Keynes team the constructors’ championship. Its junior drivers Pierre Gasly and Alexander Albon did’t work […]
Takahashi, who was part of the works Honda team that won the Suzuka 8 Hours last month, is set to make his first MotoGP appearance since he made a wildcard outing at Motegi back in 2015. The 33-year-old Japanese rider will fill in for Rins, who is still recovering from the broken right leg he […]
Magnussen qualified only 19th at Monza and was one of only three drivers to take a gamble by starting on the hard rather than medium Pirelli tyres. However, while Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas used the strategy to have strong races and earn points Magnussen finished 18th and last, behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg. The intention had been to run a […]