By mutual agreement, Marquez and Honda will break one of the most fruitful alliances in the history of MotoGP, which has yielded a total of six world titles over eleven seasons between 2013 and 2023. The Spaniard made his debut with Honda in 2013 and won the championship, before adding a second in 2014. Marquez […]
GP Racing editor Stuart Codling is joined by Matt Kew and Mark Gallagher, who has been to see how the Las Vegas street track is coming along. Whilst there’s still work to do, he was left feeling impressed. Also this month, Andrew Benson has written an excellent analysis for GP Racing looking at McLaren’s renaissance. […]
Honda announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had agreed by mutual consent with Marquez to terminate his four-year contract a season early at the end of 2023. This follows a miserable year for Marquez and Honda as an uncompetitive RC213V has caused him numerous injury issues, and has allowed him to score just one grand […]
Pierre Gasly was left angry after the Suzuka race, having been told on the final lap to slow down and let team-mate Esteban Ocon through to take ninth place. Alpine had put in the request because it had swapped its drivers around in a bid to see if Gasly could close down and chase Fernando […]
On Wednesday afternoon, Honda announced that it had mutually agreed with Marquez to terminate his four-year contract a season early. He will now join Gresini to race a year-old Ducati, though the Italian outfit is yet to say anything publicly. This comes amidst a difficult year for Honda and Marquez, in which he has scored […]
F1 chiefs are eyeing a move to ban tyre warmers from 2025, even though previous attempts to push through on outlawing them have all fallen through late on. The belief is that removing the need for teams to transport the blankets, as well as run them on race weekends, will deliver significant sustainability benefits. Other […]
Life has a particularly cruel way of biting you on the arse. Pol Espargaro moved to the factory Honda squad for 2021, leaving behind a KTM project he in no small part was responsible for developing into a race winner, hopeful of taking the big next step in his MotoGP career. Two podiums aside, what […]
And while there remain some big challenges ahead, because Andretti still needs to agree a commercial deal with FOM to be allowed to race, it is the closest F1 has had to a new team entrant for a while. As Autosport’s sister site Motorsport-Total.com revealed over the Japanese Grand Prix weekend, Andretti was the last […]
Sargeant has six races left with which to secure his place on the F1 grid, and despite the public show of faith from team principal James Vowles, it’s obvious that he’ll have to improve his performance relative to team-mate Alex Albon while staying clear of trouble. Inevitably the knowledge that the clock is ticking will […]
This may yet be the most difficult challenge yet for Andretti; although it has proven to the FIA that it has merit on sporting, technical, and financial grounds, thrashing out a deal with FOM will be tough given that the existing 10 teams will put the championship under pressure. After all, the existing teams have […]