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The July event at Silverstone is to be the first to feature a 100km sprint qualifying race on the Saturday, that will decide the grid for Sunday’s main event. The introduction of the sprint race means that the normal qualifying session that takes place on the Saturday is now moving to Friday – with there […]
Honda has had a tough start to the 2021 campaign, with none of its riders so far having made it to the podium in any of the opening four races. HRC put most of its riders through a busy testing schedule at the post-race test following the Spanish GP, having recently admitted it is facing […]
Having switched to IndyCar after his F1 career was abruptly ended by a fiery crash in last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, the Frenchman had been due to get two outings with Mercedes in June as part of a special final run in F1 machinery. He was originally due to demo a Mercedes W10 over the French […]
Thick grey clouds enveloped the sky above Le Mans ahead of Friday’s second practice, prompting a rush out of pitlane at the start of FP2 from the field to get some banker laps in just in case rain did arrive. Aleix Espargaro set the early pace with a 1m35.466s on his Aprilia in a session […]
F1 will stage ‘sprint qualifying’ at three races this year, running a 100km race on a Saturday to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday. Sprint qualifying is set to debut at the British Grand Prix in July, with the current plan being to run the tweaked weekend format in Italy and Brazil, […]
The Le Mans weekend is set to be disrupted by wet weather for the duration of the three days, with the opening session taking place in damp conditions. That meant lap times improved significantly across the opening stages, with Spanish Grand Prix winner Miller annexing top spot at the start of FP1. The Ducati rider […]
The Frenchman qualified fifth in both Bahrain and Imola, and then subsequently started ninth at Portimao and only 12th in Barcelona. In Spain last weekend he made his life more difficult by overshooting his grid box when he lined up before the start, which led to a five-second time penalty being applied at his pitstop. […]
Having failed to crack the top six at any point in 2020, Espargaro has been sixth in the last two races and has finished inside the top 10 in all four grands prix so far in 2021. This has left Espargaro convinced Aprilia will see the podium in 2021, while the progress of the RS-GP […]
On the one side are the teams who are constantly trying to push the boundaries of the regulations when it comes to flexible bodywork. Then, fighting them is the FIA which is constantly having to find ways of policing the matter to ensure that teams aren’t exploiting the rules. The FIA’s latest move, to impose […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion felt the 2021 RC213V was lacking in mid-exit of corners last time out at Jerez compared to the bike he last rode in 2020. Admitting the base bike he is riding as he continues his comeback this weekend at the French Grand Prix is “not bad”, he conceded again it […]