On Wednesday afternoon, Honda announced that it had mutually agreed with Marquez to terminate his four-year contract a season early. He will now join Gresini to race a year-old Ducati, though the Italian outfit is yet to say anything publicly. This comes amidst a difficult year for Honda and Marquez, in which he has scored […]
F1 chiefs are eyeing a move to ban tyre warmers from 2025, even though previous attempts to push through on outlawing them have all fallen through late on. The belief is that removing the need for teams to transport the blankets, as well as run them on race weekends, will deliver significant sustainability benefits. Other […]
Life has a particularly cruel way of biting you on the arse. Pol Espargaro moved to the factory Honda squad for 2021, leaving behind a KTM project he in no small part was responsible for developing into a race winner, hopeful of taking the big next step in his MotoGP career. Two podiums aside, what […]
And while there remain some big challenges ahead, because Andretti still needs to agree a commercial deal with FOM to be allowed to race, it is the closest F1 has had to a new team entrant for a while. As Autosport’s sister site Motorsport-Total.com revealed over the Japanese Grand Prix weekend, Andretti was the last […]
Sargeant has six races left with which to secure his place on the F1 grid, and despite the public show of faith from team principal James Vowles, it’s obvious that he’ll have to improve his performance relative to team-mate Alex Albon while staying clear of trouble. Inevitably the knowledge that the clock is ticking will […]
This may yet be the most difficult challenge yet for Andretti; although it has proven to the FIA that it has merit on sporting, technical, and financial grounds, thrashing out a deal with FOM will be tough given that the existing 10 teams will put the championship under pressure. After all, the existing teams have […]
The Woking-based team has impressed greatly this season, having transformed its MCL60 from a midfield contender at the start of the campaign to fighting regularly for podium finishes. PLUS: How McLaren has revamped its F1 team to become a contender again McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said recently that it has not yet achieved half of what […]
Ever since the Italian Grand Prix last month, the FIA has been refining its approach to the inherent difficulties of slow cars in qualifying causing problems for cars on quick laps. In the past, the only demand placed on drivers was for them to maintain a minimum speed on their lap back to the pits […]
Rainfall prior to the start of Sunday’s grand prix at Motegi led to the entire field running the entire first lap on slicks as conditions rapidly deteriorated. Having started 14th, Yamaha’s Quartararo elected to carry on for another lap as the majority of the field pitted at the end of the first tour for their […]
Ricciardo, paid by McLaren to leave the team for this season, was called to replace sacked AlphaTauri driver Nyck de Vries from Hungary. But two rounds later, the Australian crashed in practice at Zandvoort, sustaining a broken metacarpal in his left hand and flew to Spain for immediate surgery. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner […]