Max Verstappen and Red Bull winning Formula 1’s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix by a commanding 19.4-second margin might sound a very familiar tale, but this was coming one week on from their shock defeat in the Singapore race. There was therefore plenty of attention being paid to the potential true impact of the twin technical […]
In the final stages of last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, Gasly was asked to let Ocon by to repay the favour from earlier in the race, as the pair ran ninth and 10th. He initially refused to comply and only let Ocon through on the last corner of the final lap after repeated pleas by […]
Months of uncertainty marred the build-up to MotoGP’s inaugural Indian adventure at the Buddh International Circuit, as requested track works had only recently been completed. Homologation was made official only on the Thursday of the grand prix, while the riders had already decided to unite if they felt the safety standards of the venue were […]
Verstappen crushed the opposition in Suzuka by taking his 13th victory of the season from pole by 19.3 seconds over McLaren’s Lando Norris. The result secured Red Bull’s sixth constructors’ title on the home circuit of its power unit partner Honda and also moved Verstappen to the brink of a third straight drivers’ championship. The win came one […]
The 2021 world champion enjoyed one of his better weekends of an otherwise tough campaign at the Buddh International Circuit. Quartararo was sixth in the sprint on Saturday and scored his second grand prix podium of the year on Sunday after trailing a dehydrated Martin home. The Yamaha rider was able to close right in […]
The McLaren driver was around five seconds behind race-leader Max Verstappen early in the race when the VSC was called out because of debris on the track after Perez had collided with Haas driver Kevin Magnussen. As Norris approached Spoon Curve, he closed in on the very slow Perez, who was returning the pits to […]
Bezzecchi was a class apart from the rest of the field at the Buddh International Circuit last weekend, recovering from a sluggish start to win the grand prix by over eight seconds – the biggest victory margin seen in MotoGP this year. The Italian lost positions to fellow Ducati riders Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia […]
In the closing stages of the Suzuka race, one-stopping George Russell was running in fifth place, ahead of Hamilton, as the charging Ferrari of Carlos Sainz closed in on them from behind. While Hamilton was on fresher tyres, there was no immediate call for Russell to move aside for his team-mate – which prompted some frustrations […]
A slow-starting Perez hit an early setback after being caught up in a Turn 1 collision with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, with prompted a pitstop for a new front wing. After being handed a five-second penalty for overtaking Fernando Alonso ahead of his safety car stop, Perez then damaged another front wing – and collected another […]
For the first time in 2023, both factory Honda riders qualified inside the top six, with Mir fifth and Marc Marquez sixth. Marquez carried this form into Saturday’s sprint, scoring his second podium of the season in third, while in Sunday’s grand prix Mir ended his points drought with a ride to fifth as his […]