Month: April 2022

30 Apr 2022

Quartararo “hasn’t signed anything” for 2023 MotoGP season yet

The Frenchman’s management is locked in negotiations with Yamaha over a new contract for 2023, with several news outlets reporting on Saturday that a deal had been signed.   Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis denied this to Autosport when asked about the negotiations with Quartararo, the Briton stating that he expected a deal to be signed […]

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30 Apr 2022

Important to continue Mission Winnow F1 sponsorship deal

Ferrari has enjoyed a relationship with tobacco giant Philip Morris dating back to the 1980s, with PMI brand Marlboro serving as the team’s title sponsor from 1997 until early 2008. A clampdown on tobacco advertising meant Marlboro branding had to be dropped from the car, but PMI revised its title sponsorship of the team through […]

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30 Apr 2022

Jorge Lorenzo inducted into MotoGP hall of fame

Making his debut in MotoGP in 2008 with Yamaha as a double 250cc world champion, Lorenzo would go on to win 47 races and three premier class world titles in 2010, 2012 and 2015. Lorenzo switched to Ducati in 2017 and joined an elite list of riders to have won races for multiple manufacturers when […]

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30 Apr 2022

Why key corners of Miami’s F1 track are “on the limits of design”

UK specialists Apex Circuit Design laid out the 5.41-kilometre anticlockwise circuit, which hosts its first Formula 1 Grand Prix next weekend, around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. Its most sinuous section is through Turns 13-16, which wind around the entrance and exit ramps and beneath the flyover sections of the Florida Turnpike, the main […]

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30 Apr 2022

Full qualifying result and starting grid

Topping all of Saturday’s practice sessions, Bagnaia looks to be back to his best after a difficult start to the year on the new Ducati. Having re-discovered the front-end feeling he has been missing in 2022 last weekend in Portugal, Bagnaia has been on top form at Jerez and carried that into qualifying. The Valentino […]

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30 Apr 2022

Bagnaia edges Quartararo to lead FP3

The perfect conditions on Saturday morning at Jerez allowed lap time improvements on the combined order to come in almost immediately in the third and final 45-minute practice of the weekend.   Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro was the first significant rider to make an improvement on the combined times with a 1m37.732s which put him top […]

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30 Apr 2022

Magnussen no longer has weight of F1 title dream on his shoulders

Magnussen and team-mate Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for 2021, largely for financial reasons. But after Haas terminated Mazepin’s contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, due to the Mazepin family’s links with the Russian Kremlin, Magnussen was brought back and given a second chance alongside Schumacher. […]

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30 Apr 2022

Dorna halts filming of Amazon’s MotoGP Unlimited series two

MotoGP Unlimited is the two-wheeled championship’s attempt at a Drive To Survive-style behind-the-scenes docuseries that was made by Spanish company Mediapro and aired on Amazon Prime Video. Unlimited began filming its first series at the start of the 2021 season and follows the events of the campaign, putting focus on world champion Fabio Quartararo, 2020 […]

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30 Apr 2022

The Alfa F1 philosophy shift that aided Bottas’s Imola charge

Valtteri Bottas has shone after his switch from Mercedes and put pressure on new Silver Arrows signing George Russell on his way to fifth at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The result puts Alfa fifth in the constructors’ championship after four races, with Bottas only four points behind Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship. […]

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