This project, still at an embryonic stage and with a lot of development ahead, is initially born with the spirit of playing in favour of safety, although other practical applications are not being ruled out depending on the outcome of future tests of the system. The idea is that Race Direction can communicate with the […]
Drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were reckoned to have lost 0.2s on the main straight in Baku during the Friday practice run and both the grand prix and sprint race qualifying sessions. The malfunction was primarily caused by an aerodynamic characteristic of the new low-drag wing specification, which meant the overtaking device was oscillating […]
The four-time MotoGP race winner suffered a broken shoulder blade after Luca Marini collided with him in the sprint race at the Portuguese GP in March. Though Bastianini didn’t require surgery on the injury, it forced him to miss the Argentina GP the week after Portugal and the third round in America. Bastianini completed a […]
Alongside Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg, Alpine driver Ocon had completed the entire race on the hard tyre, hoping for a late red flag to give him a free, mandatory swap to a different compound. When that red flag didn’t arrive, Ocon waited until the start of the final lap to dive into the pits and pick […]
Light rain prior to the start of the Q2 session turned qualifying on its head, with the sprinkling continuing as the riders headed out on track for the pole shootout. In a Q2 session that saw provisional pole change hands 14 times across 15 minutes, Aprilia’s Espargaro nailed his final run to be one of […]
Verstappen’s countryman Nyck de Vries clipped the inside wall at Turn 6 on the 10th lap which broke the front-left suspension on his AlphaTauri and left him stranded on the morsel of run-off available at the corner. Red Bull elected to pit Verstappen at the end of that lap but, as he was leaving the […]
The world champion crashed out of the lead of the Americas GP two weeks ago and fell from second in the wet Argentina GP prior to that. This raised doubts about his form after he suffered five DNFs in 2022 and was forced to recover a 91-point deficit to win the championship. He batted away […]