Hamilton finished 2.2 seconds behind Verstappen in last Sunday’s main race in Austin, prior to being disqualified for an excessively worn plank. After both the sprint race and the grand prix in the US, Hamilton felt it had been a learning experience to see the RB19 at close quarters, and that he would “download” his […]
Maverick Vinales and Alex Marquez traded the fastest time in the opening quarter of the session, the Gresini rider setting the early pace on a 1m32.030s before Vinales moved the goalposts with a time of 1m31.657s. Marquez struck back with a 1m31.486s just after the 15 minute mark, before Vinales went 0.002s quicker to snatch […]
Leclerc’s SF23 was one of the four cars checked for plank wear after the finish and was found to be in breach of the regulations, alongside the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, meaning the Monegasque driver lost his sixth place. Ferrari was caught out by Austin’s bumpy Circuit of the Americas, with the added difficulty of the […]
The FIA only measured the planks of four cars after the race, and found that those of Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were illegal, leading to the disqualifications of the two drivers. The cars of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were deemed legal, but despite the 50% failure rate on the bumpy COTA track, the FIA […]
After 120 grand prix starts, 33-year-old Zarco finally scored his maiden MotoGP victory in a thrilling Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island last Saturday. The Frenchman had not won a race since the 2016 Valencia Moto2 finale, following his second title success in the class. He will move to LCR Honda next season on a […]
The number of fans and VIPs in the paddock in last year’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez led to security issues, with spectators crowding hospitality units and accosting drivers. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly noticed somebody had opened his backpack, while some of his peers had also flagged that the number of paddock dwellers had been […]
With exactly one month to go until the end of the 2023 season, the Repsol Honda team is the only one on the MotoGP grid that has not completed its line-up of riders for next year. This is an absolutely anomalous situation, but one that the Japanese manufacturer has been forced into as a result […]
He’s expecting to take further steps in front of his home crowd in Mexico City this weekend. Perez and his engineers dug deep in the sim running as they tried to get him back to the sort of pace he showed earlier in the season after a run of frustrating weekends. The sprint race format at […]
In an interview Italian outlet moto.it, Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti said it was his understanding that Marquez would be “racing on practically zero contract”, which is to say without a salary. Marquez announced after the Japanese Grand Prix that he would be breaking his current contract with Honda a year early, with his move […]
Dennis will make his first official grand prix weekend appearance for Red Bull when he drives the team’s RB19 in FP1 at the Abu Dhabi season finale next month. The 28-year-old, who won the Formula E title last season with Andretti Global, has been a Red Bull simulator driver since 2018 and completed two test […]