With 148 points available from the remaining four rounds, Ducati has almost sealed the 2023 MotoGP riders’ title, with KTM’s Brad Binder just about mathematically in play – albeit 142 points adrift of Francesco Bagnaia. Ducati has already wrapped up the constructors’ title, doing so courtesy of Jorge Martin’s sprint win in Indonesia, and one […]
Norris jumped Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc at the start to lead the first half of Sunday’s United States Grand Prix. But he was powerless to keep Red Bull’s Max Verstappen from a 15th season win and also had to let Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes past in the closing stages. Afterwards Norris was promoted back to second when […]
Threats of extreme winds, which ultimately came to pass on Sunday and forced the sprint to be abandoned, forced MotoGP to bring the Australian Grand Prix forward to Saturday. But it proved a memorable one for a paddock stalwart who celebrated his long-awaited maiden win. Since making his MotoGP debut in 2017, 119 grand prix […]
The anticipation of seeing adrenaline-fuelled F1 racing in the entertainment capital of Las Vegas has sent the sport into overdrive and when the lights go out and the cars roar down the world-famous strip, it will be the place everyone wants to be. The US has become so infatuated by Formula 1 since the success […]
Having fallen just 2.2 seconds behind Austin race winner Max Verstappen, Mercedes racer Hamilton plus sixth-placed Leclerc were then thrown out for running with excessively worn floor planks. They had contravened the FIA Technical Regulations which states that the plank assembly measured at designated holes can only wear by 1mm down to 9mm across a […]
Running an upgraded Mercedes floor, US GP runner-up Hamilton proved particularly rapid during the final stint at the Circuit of The Americas to close to within 2.225 seconds of winner Max Verstappen at the flag. Meanwhile, Leclerc was hamstrung by being the only finisher to undertake a one-stop strategy across the 56 laps, which left him […]
Polesitter Leclerc was jumped by the faster-starting Lando Norris, who dived up the inside into Turn 1. He then lost out to Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen during the opening stint. Ferrari opted to keep the Monegasque out on his medium tyres until lap 23 of 56, when he made his sole pitstop for hard […]
Mercedes racer Russell, who was handed a three-place grid penalty for blocking Charles Leclerc during Saturday qualifying to line up 11th, attempted to pass Piastri for seventh on lap three of 19. He eventually made the move stick with a superior burst of acceleration out of Turn 18 but ran with all four wheels straying […]
Pramac Ducati rider Martin eclipsed his own benchmark set in qualifying at the same track last year as he demolished the field with a time of 1m27.246s at the end of second qualifying. That was a massive 0.416 seconds ahead of nearest rival and Friday pacesetter Brad Binder on the KTM, who along with third-placed […]
All teams are obliged to run a rookie in each car at one FP1 session, and this year they have faced a difficult schedule, with Qatar, Austin and Brazil all sprint events, and Suzuka, Singapore and Las Vegas not regarded as practical choices. Most teams have thus left their FP1 running for Mexico and Abu […]