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It’s a question that even the team itself can’t yet answer, despite the example of Mercedes providing some encouragement. This was supposed to be the year when, boosted by extra financial resources and the arrival of Sebastian Vettel, the Silverstone team broke away from the midfield pack. Instead, the team has found itself towards the… […]
Having unsealed a third engine from his allocation for the season following issues in FP1, Petronas SRT’s Franco Morbidelli set the benchmark lap at the start of the evening session with a 1m55.750s. This would be beaten by Qatar GP poleman Francesco Bagnaia with a 1m55.407s on the factory Ducati, before championship leader Maverick Vinales […]
The Japanese manufacturer introduced a new engine for this year ahead of its departure from F1 at the end of the season, before Red Bull takes over its development from 2022. The new engine is smaller and more powerful, and both Red Bull and AlphaTauri have taken a step forward judging by their performances in […]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the Argentine and US GPs to be postponed, MotoGP remains in Qatar for a second week for the first ever Doha GP. Morbidelli’s Qatar GP last Sunday was wrecked by a technical issue that he admitted on Thursday hasn’t fully been diagnosed by Petronas SRT and Yamaha. He set the […]
Mazepin’s F1 debut weekend went from bad to worse when he lost control on the Turn 2 kerbs at the start, veering into the barriers and ending his first race after less than a mile. Mazepin took full responsibility for his mistake, saying his team “deserved better”. Team principal Steiner said Mazepin was “pretty beat […]
Vinales qualified second for last weekend’s season-opener at Losail, but dropped to sixth at the end of the first lap after four Ducatis and Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo jumped him. Race starts were a prominent feature of Vinales’ Qatar test and practice programme, and though his launch wasn’t bad it simply wasn’t enough to counteract […]
After a disastrous 2020 season in which Ferrari dropped down to sixth in the constructors’ championship, Charles Leclerc qualified an impressive fourth and finished sixth in the season opener. Team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr also qualified in the top 10 and wound up eighth in the race to give Ferrari its first double points finish since […]
Ducati won the previous two Qatar GPs in 2018 and 2019 with Andrea Dovizioso, while the Italian managed runner-up spot on his works team Desmosedici from 2015-2017. Having topped the Qatar test outright, Miller was expected to continue Ducati’s run last weekend, but tyre issues dropped him to ninth while Pramac’s Johann Zarco ended up […]
Hamilton beat Verstappen to victory in F1’s 2021 opener despite the Red Bull driver’s pace advantage, by hanging on after Mercedes’ aggressive strategy calls got the world champion ahead and Verstappen went too wide at the Bahrain track’s controversial Turn 4 right-hander as the pair went wheel-to-wheel in the closing stages. … Continue Reading on […]
The entire MotoGP field were forced into running the soft front tyre during last weekend’s season-opener at Losail due to the dropping temperatures of the evening race. This is a compound KTM has typically struggled on in the past, with its preferred hard option not viable for the conditions. Binder’s team-mate Miguel Oliveira took a […]