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Although Mercedes won the F1 season opener in Bahrain, the pace shown by Red Bull throughout the weekend points to the RB16B being the quickest car on the grid right now. But rather than Mercedes being downbeat about the task it now faces to close the gap to Red Bull, Wolff says the German manufacturer […]
As previously reported by Autosport, F1’s desire to run Saturday sprint races at three grands prix this year had hit a snag with teams not happy about the extra costs involved. Beyond some teams wanting a bigger financial compensation from F1 chiefs for the extra money it would cost to add three more races, the […]
Verstappen and Mercedes rival Hamilton were engaged in a race-long battle for the win in F1’s season-opener, which was ultimately settled in the dying moments of the race. Verstappen caught Hamilton in the final stint and overtook him with four laps to go, but completed the move off-track and was forced to hand back the […]
After a rough patch, McLaren worked its way back up the grid under team boss Seidl and technical director James Key. Drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz proved to be a competitive pairing, ultimately handing McLaren third place in the 2020 championship. With Sainz leaving McLaren to join Ferrari, the Woking team moved quickly to […]
The Yamaha rider stormed to victory in last Sunday’s Doha GP in Qatar ahead of Pramac’s Zarco, securing the first ever French 1-2 in the modern MotoGP era and the first in the premier class of grand prix racing since the 1954 French GP at Reims – when Pierre Monnerret won on a Gilera and […]
His son Sebastian is now on the racing ladder in the Italian and German F4 series. Juan Pablo spends a lot of his time today thinking about the education of young drivers and how the sport needs to adapt to attract younger fans. He also believes that Esports plays a vital role in the future […]
Bagnaia made a shocking start from sixth on the grid after his holeshot device didn’t work, dropping down to 11th by the end of the first lap of last Sunday’s second Qatar outing. He was able to charge forward again back into the podium places by lap 13, but ran wide at the first corner […]
It wasn’t so long ago that Formula 1 found it was having to work hard to defend itself from the critics. Rampant costs were out of control. The screaming V8 engines made it an obvious target for those who felt it was just a gas guzzling waste of resources, and sponsors did not seem interested in a […]
Despite spending winter testing at the same Losail circuit where the first two rounds of the 2021 calendar are being staged, Mir came into his title defence admitting he was only “70%” ready after a useless final day of the test denied him crucial track time on the GSX-RR’s new frame. Mir’s troubles continued into […]
Bastianini emerged from the Qatar GP as top rookie in 10th on his two-year-old Ducati and put in another impressive display in last Sunday’s Doha race. The Avintia rider came from 19th on the grid to finish 11th, and was in the group fighting for seventh headed by Suzuki’s Joan Mir covered by 0.662 seconds. […]