With a 1m40.203s lap at the close of the session, Leclerc chalked up his first pole of the season – his 19th in F1 – to beat the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez to the punch. Leclerc admitted his surprise at beating the brace of RB19s to the front of the grid, […]
The one-hour afternoon session at Jerez saw little in the way of overall lap time improvements until the closing stages, when FP2 exploded into a frantic time attack. Espargaro was the best of the bunch with a 1m36.708s from Aprilia team-mate Maverick Vinales, while FP1 pacesetter Dani Pedrosa was third overall. A disastrous afternoon for […]
Helped by the arrival of a tweaked floor and wing changes as part of ongoing revisions to the MCL60, Norris banked the team’s best qualifying result of the year with seventh in Baku. His time of 1m41.281s left him behind only the Ferraris, Red Bulls, Mercedes and the sixth-placed Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso, who […]
The four-time race winner broke his shoulder after a collision with Luca Marini in the sprint race at the Portuguese GP last month. Having missed the previous two rounds due to the injury, Bastianini was cleared by doctors to race this weekend following a test on a Ducati superbike at Misano on Tuesday. However, Bastianini […]
The Red Bull driver experimented with a different approach to his final run in Q3 to get more heat into his tyres, as he aimed to hold on to the top spot he had secured earlier after the first runs. But the plan did not work as Verstappen struggled for grip on his last effort, […]
The 31-time MotoGP race winner is making a wildcard appearance this weekend at Jerez with KTM, marking just his second outing since retiring from full-time competition at the end of 2018. Though he tested recently at Jerez on the RC16, Pedrosa was still stunned when he topped FP1 with a 1m36.770s on Friday morning. This […]
As revealed by Autosport a loophole has emerged in the new sprint format regulations regarding the usage of tyres in the shootout. Drivers are obliged to use one set of new medium tyres in SQ1, another new set of mediums in SQ2, and then a set of new softs in SQ3. The intention was that […]
The Frenchman scored his first MotoGP pole at Jerez in 2019 as a rookie and took his first win at the track in 2020, was on course to do the same in 2021 before arm pump problems struck him, and was second in 2022. However, at the end of Friday’s running at the Spanish GP, […]
Allison has just returned to the role of technical director at Mercedes after the German manufacturer swapped Mike Elliott across to take his previous position of chief technology officer. With Mercedes working on an aggressive update package for the current W14, Allison has taken charge of working out how best to attack future development. While […]
The Honda rider has been absent since fracturing his hand in the controversial collision with Miguel Oliveira in the first grand prix of the season in Portugal that has led to a long-running appeal process to have a double long lap penalty overturned. Marquez underwent surgery at the Clinica Ruber Internacional in Madrid immediately after […]