After spending the winter hoping it would be able to close the gap with Red Bull, Mercedes instead found itself further adrift in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, slipping to being the fourth quickest team behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Aston Martin. But, while Russell still qualified behind a car from each of those teams […]
Marini will begin his third season in MotoGP next weekend in the Portuguese Grand Prix and remains with the Ducati satellite squad owned by his brother, Valentino Rossi. The 25-year-old finished 12th last season in the standings with a best result of fourth on two occasions. With his rookie team-mate Marco Bezzecchi scoring a podium […]
The high-speed nature of the track, with a series of flat out bends, means that drivers sometimes come across a rival who is touring round on an out-lap or in-lap and doesn’t have the time or space to get out of the way. There were several close calls in Friday’s practice sessions, and things are […]
D’Ambrosio appeared in the Mercedes garage in Bahrain and is present in Jeddah this weekend wearing team kit for the first time. He is involved in the team’s young driver programme, taking over one of the roles previously occupied by James Vowles before his switch to Williams, and working alongside longtime Mercedes driver management guru […]
Since making his MotoGP debut in 2017, Zarco has scored 15 podiums but has yet to breach the top step of the rostrum. The double Moto2 champion has made it to the podium at least once in the three seasons he has been a Ducati rider, first with Avintia in 2020 and then with Pramac […]
Former New Zealand national team hockey player Cullen has worked as Hamilton’s dedicated performance coach since 2016 via the renowned Hinsta coaching organisation. However, on the Friday ahead of the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, both Cullen and the seven-time world champion took to social media to announce their parting of ways. Neither alluded to […]
Although the Dutchman led the way in both sessions around the Jeddah circuit, he said that the early long-run pace pointed to things being much closer this weekend. In particular he reckoned the different nature of the track, and especially the fact that it was not so punishing on tyres, allowed Red Bull’s rivals to […]
Despite missing the Thursday activities in Jeddah due to a stomach bug, Verstappen showed no signs of it impacting his performance as he took a clean sweep of top spots in both practice sessions on Friday. Fernando Alonso kept pace with the Red Bulls to take second place in the second practice session, demonstrating Aston […]
Max Verstappen delivered another hammer blow to his rivals’ hopes of challenging Red Bull after his clean sweep of Friday practice sessions ahead of Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Having spent the last few days struggling with a stomach bug, Verstappen was absent from Thursday’s media sessions after arriving in Jeddah late, but any […]
In the Bahrain season opener Yuki Tsunoda started 14th and Nyck de Vries 18th, and neither driver made it into the points. In first practice in Jeddah on Friday, Tsunoda was a respectable 10th fastest, three spots ahead of his team-mate. Despite that apparent sign of improvement, Tost complained that over the winter his technical […]