Last week, Honda announced that it had reached an amicable agreement with eight-time world champion Marquez to part ways at the end of the 2023 season with a year left on his contract. On Thursday morning, Gresini Ducati announced that it had signed Marquez for 2024. Mir, who joined Honda this year from Suzuki, says […]
McLaren has teamed up with the specialised company V Carbon to pioneer the use of recycled carbon on its MCL60. The recycled material will first be used on the cockpit branding panels of the cars driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. McLaren intends to keep the material on its cars for the remainder of […]
After 11 years together and six world titles, Marquez and Honda will part ways at the end of the current campaign after both parties mutually agreed to do so. This follows an immensely difficult season for Marquez on the RC213V, which has yielded just one grand prix podium in 15 rounds so far. He will […]
Multiple drivers had times deleted in Friday’s qualifying, and that continued in the Saturday shootout after the white lines had been moved at Turns 12 and 13 – where many of the offences occurred – in order to protect tyres from kerb damage. Along with Lance Stroll, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was one of two drivers […]
After Honda announced it would be parting ways with Marquez by mutual agreement at the end of 2023 last week, Gresini confirmed on Thursday morning that it had signed the eight-time world champion. While it was a move rumoured for some time, Marquez revealed ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix that he only made his […]
Around the halfway mark of a sweltering Losail race, Alonso urged the team to come up with a solution after feeling a burning pain in his seat. “The seat is burning, mate,” he said on the team radio. “Anything we can do at the pit stop? Throw me water or something!” The team couldn’t do much to provide some […]
On Thursday, Gresini announced it had signed the eight-time world champion for 2024, a week on from Honda agreeing mutually to part ways with him at the end of the season. Marquez will ride a year-old Ducati next season, taking over the machine that is currently leading the championship in Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin’s […]
Ecclestone, who owned the championship-winning Brabham team from 1972 to 1987 as he rose to overall power in F1, led the series for more than four decades before its 2017 takeover by current owner Liberty Media. He then took on the ‘chairman emeritus’ and an advisory role. But in July last year, the Crown Prosecution […]
Honda announced last week that it had reached a mutual agreement with eight-time world champion Marquez to terminate his current contract at the end of the 2023 season. Marquez will move to Gresini Ducati, which was announced on Thursday morning, to try to once again to fight at the front of the field having struggled […]
Last week, motor racing’s governing body approved Andretti Formula’s application to join the F1 grid from 2025 at the earliest, as its entry was moved forward to the final stage of needing to sort a commercial deal. However, getting such an agreement across the line is far from guaranteed, with FOM having been clear that […]