The six-time premier class champion left Honda at the end of last year to join the Gresini team, which will run the 2023 bikes which dominated last season. Although the Italian manufacturer has repeatedly stressed that Dall’Igna has no influence over the choice of riders for the Faenza-based team, Marquez’s move would not have gone […]
Singapore’s transport minister S. Iswaran has just announced his resignation in the aftermath of facing 27 charges in relation to interaction with Beng Seng, who owns the rights to the Singapore GP and is chairman of the promoting company. The matter relates to alleged kickbacks that Singapore’s Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) believes Iswaran may […]
The American car company has tied up with the Milton Keynes-based squad to work on the new 2026 engine that is being prepared by the Red Bull Powertrains division. Ford has been tapped up because it offers the exact battery expertise Red Bull needs for the new engine regulations that are coming into play – […]
The American-owned outfit is coming off the back of the recent bombshell news that long-serving team principal Guenther Steiner will not be staying on board after his contract was not extended. Former director of engineering Ayao Komatsu has been promoted to the team boss job and is currently conducting a review of operations to work […]
As part of a push to improve the fortunes of the soon-to-be-renamed AlphaTauri squad, owner Red Bull has revamped its leadership and is making infrastructure changes. Part of that will involve AlphaTauri taking more customer parts from Red Bull, and a ramping up of its presence on its parent team’s Milton Keynes campus. Brown has […]
It was originally announced in July that Channel 4’s free-to-air contract, which ran to the end of the season, had been extended for another three years. Channel 4’s works in parallel with that of Sky, as it does in other sports such as cricket, but it has its own production team and talent. Despite being […]
Like them or lump them, sprint races are here to stay in MotoGP. Their introduction may have been sudden and overwhelming, but the primary aim of them was to get more people interested in the series. And a look at the trackside figures for 2023 reveals that was definitely the case. Of the 20 rounds […]
In a ringing endorsement of the Thai driver who almost single-handedly helped Williams secure seventh in the constructors’ championship last season, Vowles has opened up on the differences he saw in Albon throughout 2023. And he thinks the way Albon approached the job, with a car that wasn’t consistent in its performance at all tracks, […]
It came hot on the heels of a similar but higher profile investment in Alpine by a group that included Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds and a string of sporting legends, and it follows a pattern that has also seen the likes of Williams and McLaren receive funding from the US. The bottom line is that […]
2024 will mark the 30th year of Repsol’s sponsorship of Honda, a partnership that has made its orange livery one of the most recognisable in the history of motorcycle racing. However, in what is supposed to be a landmark year for their long-standing association, the Spanish oil giant will end up with limited exposure for […]