The Ducati satellite squad announced on Thursday ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix that it had signed eight-time world champion Marquez for 2024, ending weeks of speculation. The path to this move was paved last week when Honda revealed it had agreed to mutually part ways with Marquez with a year left on his contract […]
Massa believes he was the victim of a conspiracy to cover up the 2008 Singapore GP Crashgate scandal in which Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr crashed on purpose to let team-mate Fernando Alonso win. If the race result had been thrown out at the time, Massa would have claimed the drivers’ championship instead of losing it […]
A hectic hour of running to conclude Friday at the Mandalika track concluded with Espargaro firing in a new all-time lap record of 1m30.474s in the closing seconds. This deposed VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi, who underwent surgery on a broken collarbone five days ago and only turned up to Lombok this morning, after the […]
Norris saw both of his Q3 laptimes deleted in Friday’s qualifying at Losail, meaning he would start the race from 10th rather than second behind polesitter Max Verstappen. In Saturday’s sprint shootout, Norris then went off track in the final corner of his second flyer while on a pole-worthy run, instead getting demoted by team-mate Oscar Piastri. […]
The eight-time world champion has spent his entire stint in MotoGP working with Santi Hernandez as his crew chief, who stepped up to the premier class with him from Moto2. As part of his one-year deal to join the Gresini Ducati squad and break contract with Honda a season early, Marquez will only be able […]
Stroll appeared to shove his trainer Henry Howe after throwing his steering wheel out of his cockpit following his elimination from GP qualifying at last weekend’s event. The governing body had announced on Tuesday that its compliance officer was holding discussions with Stroll in relation to several incidents that may have contravened the FIA’s rules, […]
Bezzecchi, third in the championship, fractured his right collarbone in a crash while training at Valentino Rossi’s ranch last Saturday. The Italian underwent surgery on Sunday to have plates fitted to the collarbone and was cleared to race this weekend in Indonesia having only made it to Mandalika on Friday morning ahead of FP1. In […]
Lawson filled in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo for five events, scoring his first points at the Singapore Grand Prix with what remains the best Sunday result for any AlphaTauri driver this season. But with Ricciardo set to return for the United States Grand Prix in Austin, the New Zealander’s brief stint with the team […]
The world champion comes to the Mandalika track on the island of Lombok just three points ahead of Jorge Martin in the standings, having seen a 66-point lead eroded since the Catalan GP. Bagnaia looked out of sorts on Friday in Indonesia and could only manage 16th after making a mistake on his final flying […]
When Ricciardo broke a metacarpal in his left hand in a practice crash at Zandvoort, Horner initially suggested that the Australian was targeting a return for the Qatar round last weekend. But on the Monday ahead of the race, Ricciardo video called his substitute Liam Lawson to tell the Kiwi he would be required one […]