The Spaniard suffered his worst-ever weekend as a MotoGP rider at the Sachsenring, qualifying second-to-last in 21st and finishing the race 24.715 seconds off the victory in 19th – last of the classified runners. It follows a difficult run for Vinales since winning the Qatar GP at the start of the campaign, with the Yamaha […]
After Red Bull rolled the dice on an aggressive two-stop strategy, Verstappen charged through to pass Hamilton on the penultimate lap of the race – serving as payback for his late defeat in similar fashion at the Spanish Grand Prix last month. It marked Red Bull’s third win in a row, but by defeating Mercedes […]
Marquez stormed to his and Honda’s first win since the 2019 Valencia GP in last Sunday’s Sachsenring race, while Espargaro ended up 14.7 seconds in arrears down in 10th. Up until last Sunday Honda has endured a tough 2021, with its difficult RC213V – which has been hampered by a lack of rear grip – […]
During Sunday’s French Grand Prix Norris branded Gasly “an idiot” on the McLaren team radio after the Frenchman forcefully passed him and then slid wide himself. “It was hard racing, but I really enjoyed it,” Gasly commented when asked about the Norris incident by Autosport. “You can’t expect to go around the outside and the […]
Marquez is unbeaten at the Sachsenring since 2010 but admitted on Saturday that he couldn’t think about extending that run. However, 581 days after his last victory at Valencia in 2019, Marquez resisted a strong charge from KTM’s Miguel Oliveira to end Honda’s win drought in the premier class. Aleix Espargaro transformed Aprilia’s first front […]
Bottas was looking strong in the opening stages of the race at Paul Ricard, shadowing Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in third. Leader Verstappen came in for a second stop for medium tyres on lap 32, which proved the optimal strategy for the race. Knowing it would lose the race by default if […]
Marquez badly broke his right humerus in a crash during last year’s Spanish GP, which necessitated three operations and ruled him out of the entire 2020 season. He has struggled since his comeback in Portugal in April with fitness in his right shoulder, but felt the Sachsenring – where he has gone unbeaten since 2010 […]
Sainz qualified as the leading midfield driver in fifth place on Saturday, and was able to retain the position through the opening stint of the race on the soft compound tyre. But after being undercut by team-mate Charles Leclerc and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo in the pits, Sainz began to slip back as he struggled with […]
The Honda rider resisted pressure from KTM’s Miguel Oliveira in Sunday’s 30-lap Sachsenring race to claim his and Honda’s first MotoGP victory in 581 days since the 2019 Valencia GP. It comes after Marquez was forced to sit out the 2020 season with a badly broken right arm, which required three operations and has severely […]
Verstappen executed an aggressive two-stop strategy to win the French GP ahead of one-stopping Mercedes driver and title rival Lewis Hamilton, with the circumstances of the race playing out along similar lines to the season opener in Bahrain and the Spanish GP. Hamilton won both of those events after Verstappen botched his late passing… Continue […]