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Englishman Carchedi has worked with Mir since the Spaniard’s debut in MotoGP in 2019, with the pair winning the world championship last season. Mir will be without his right-hand man for this weekend’s third round of the 2021 season in Portugal after Carchedi failed a pre-travel COVID test. Carchedi has gone into isolation in Andorra […]
The event, scheduled for the 12-13 June weekend after the Azerbaijan GP as the second part of a flyaway double-header, has been in doubt for some time. Turkey, which held a race at short notice in 2020 and is conveniently located on the freight route home from Azerbaijan, is waiting in reserve as a replacement. […]
The six-time world champion will make his long-awaited return to racing this weekend in the Portuguese Grand Prix, following nine months on the sidelines with a broken right arm suffered in last July’s Spanish GP. In his absence, Honda failed to win a race for the first time ever since it returned to the premier […]
The new Mayor of Miami Gardens, Rodney Harris, sponsored the fresh bid to host the event. On Wednesday night, city commissioners heard nearly two hours of complaints from local residents, who opposed the plans for a race in their community, before voting in favour of going ahead with the project. The resolution will lead to […]
After making an aggressive move on the Ducati rider on lap 13 of the Doha race two weeks ago which resulted in contact, Miller and Mir clashed at close to 200km/h on the main straight of the Losail track. Mir slammed this action from Miller as “intentional” at the time, with footage from the incident […]
As part of a partnership with cloud platform Amazon Web Services, F1 has rolled out a number of statistics and graphics over recent years – but their presence has divided opinion among fans. While some have liked the added details and predictive nature of the information, others have scoffed at their accuracy or the way […]
Tsunoda became the latest member of Red Bull’s young driver programme to reach F1 after making his grand prix debut in Bahrain at the end of last month, moving up from Formula 2. Tsunoda impressed in his first race, charging through to ninth place to score two points for AlphaTauri with a series of impressive […]
As part of an evaluation on how to expand the calendar over future years, one proposal that was looked at was to make race weekends more compact. So rather than running over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, practice, qualifying and races would all be run over two days. The idea fell away a few years ago […]
Thrilling over 120,000 spectators and millions of television viewers, Stirling Moss in Rob Walker’s 1500cc Lotus-Climax fought off three Ferraris and the Porsche team to win the 19th Grand Prix of Monaco at the record-breaking speed of 113.787km/h (70.77mph). His was a miracle drive: Richie Ginther, Phil Hill, Jo Bonnier and Wolfgang von… Continue Reading […]
Renault rebranded its works F1 team under the Alpine brand for 2021 as part of the ‘Renaulution’ within the company that was instigated by new CEO Luca de Meo following his takeover last summer. But Renault is not currently supplying any other F1 teams with power units after its customer McLaren contract ended last year, […]