Hawkins tested the Silverstone team’s two-year-old AMR21 in Hungary a fortnight ago, becoming the first woman to drive a near current car since 2018. Team principal Mike Krack has praised Hawkins for the job she did on the day, while noting that “Jess is 28, so she’s realistic about her career direction.” Hawkins accepts that […]
With Wednesday’s announcement confirming the Spaniard’s departure at the end of this season, Honda now faces the very complicated scenario of having to find a replacement for the most successful rider in its history. If we take into account that pretending to win with the change is an impossible mission, the reality is that it […]
The inaugural event in 2021 came towards the end of the thrilling campaign as the title battle intensity between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen ramped up. Since then F1’s cars have changed dramatically, with the new generation of ground effect machinery having little in common with the older era of machines. But if teams had […]
The folk who create the F1 world feed are always looking for new camera angles with which to entertain the fans, and the latest owes a debt to MotoGP. First tried in F1 on the nose of Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari at Zandvoort last year, and seen again on Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes over the Japanese GP […]
The India/Japan double-header provided a welcome boost for Marquez and Honda amidst an otherwise dire campaign. Marquez scored his first podium since the season-opener in the India sprint when he was third, and was fighting in the rostrum battle in the grand prix at Buddh before crashing out. In Japan, Marquez was able to fight […]
The company has already made an impact during its first year in the sport as F1’s official airline partner, and that will only become more apparent if Max Verstappen clinches the World Championship at Lusail this weekend, drawing further attention to the race title sponsor. For decades airlines studiously avoided F1, and it was always […]
By mutual agreement, Marquez and Honda will break one of the most fruitful alliances in the history of MotoGP, which has yielded a total of six world titles over eleven seasons between 2013 and 2023. The Spaniard made his debut with Honda in 2013 and won the championship, before adding a second in 2014. Marquez […]
GP Racing editor Stuart Codling is joined by Matt Kew and Mark Gallagher, who has been to see how the Las Vegas street track is coming along. Whilst there’s still work to do, he was left feeling impressed. Also this month, Andrew Benson has written an excellent analysis for GP Racing looking at McLaren’s renaissance. […]
Honda announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had agreed by mutual consent with Marquez to terminate his four-year contract a season early at the end of 2023. This follows a miserable year for Marquez and Honda as an uncompetitive RC213V has caused him numerous injury issues, and has allowed him to score just one grand […]
Pierre Gasly was left angry after the Suzuka race, having been told on the final lap to slow down and let team-mate Esteban Ocon through to take ninth place. Alpine had put in the request because it had swapped its drivers around in a bid to see if Gasly could close down and chase Fernando […]