Following Marc Marquez’s decision to quit Honda in favour of Gresini Ducati for the 2024 season, Oliveira emerged as HRC’s preferred option to replace him. The RNF rider is contracted to Aprilia for next year but had an option in his contract that allowed him to leave if a factory team offered him a deal. […]
Perez is coming off the back of a difficult spell with Red Bull that prompted speculation his place alongside Max Verstappen at the squad could be in doubt for 2024, despite him having a contract. Those theories were further fuelled after the Mexico Grand Prix where Horner said it was the team’s “intention” to keep […]
Espargaro raced with Honda in 2021 and 2022 having spent four seasons with KTM prior, before returning to the Austrian marque this year with the GasGas-branded Tech3 outfit. FEATURE: What compels a MotoGP rider to return to something that almost killed them? The eight-time podium finisher has lost his race seat at Tech3 for 2024 […]
McLaren has emerged as Red Bull’s closest challenger since the summer after bringing a raft of highly effective upgrades to its MCL60 since Austria. Norris has taken five podiums across the past six races, with two for rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri, as McLaren is reaping the rewards of a technical restructure under team boss Andrea […]
The 18th round of the 2023 season marks the beginning of the final run to the end of the campaign, with three grands prix coming up to decide the fate of the championship. Pramac Ducati’s Martin trails reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia by 13 points coming to the Sepang round, and kicked off the weekend fastest […]
Haas launched a formal ‘right to review’ that, if successful, stood to elevate its driver Nico Hulkenberg into the points at Austin after identifying cases of cars exceeding track limits that were not identified by the stewards at the time. Its case was based around onboard footage showing Alex Albon, Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll and […]
Maverick Vinales lamented on Thursday at the Malaysian Grand Prix that he could no longer use the latest starting system introduced by the Noale brand. “That is hurting us. But I can’t say anything more,” the Spaniard limited himself to saying. Asked afterwards by Aleix Espargaro, his team-mate, put his foot in his mouth: “Did […]
This damning verdict from the stewards follows an investigation into the results of the recent United States Grand Prix after a right of review protest was launched by the Haas team. Haas might have elevated its driver Nico Hulkenberg into the points after drawing attention to cases of Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant, Sergio Perez and […]
With Marquez off to Gresini Ducati next season, Honda is in the midst of securing a replacement for its factory squad. Five-time MotoGP race winner Miguel Oliveira was its first choice, but HRC’s apparent unwillingness to sign a rider for longer than one year closed this door. This placed Fabio Di Giannantonio – who will […]
Alonso took his first podium in seven races in last week’s Brazilian Grand Prix after coming out on top of a thrilling battle with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez on the last lap. PLUS: Brazilian Grand Prix Driver Ratings With team-mate Lance Stroll fifth, it was a return to form for Aston Martin after impressing with […]