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After two pre-season tests in February, our first proper answers as to the true pecking order of the 2024 MotoGP season will be given this weekend at the Losail International Circuit. Francesco Bagnaia comes into the season as the reigning double world champion and enjoyed a dominant pre-season, topping both tests outright with new lap […]
Mercedes driver Hamilton endured a frustrating weekend in Jeddah, qualifying eighth and then finishing ninth after a gamble to stay out and gain track position under the safety car failed to pay off. The track layout highlighted the car’s below-par performance in fast corners, as Hamilton and his team-mate George Russell were both outpaced by […]
Following his switch from Yamaha over the winter, Morbidelli was preparing for the new season on the Ducati V4 Panigale road bike when he had a crash at Turn 9, suffering a big blow to his head. The Italian rider had to be taken to a hospital for check-ups, where doctors discovered a small clot […]
Bearman deputised for Carlos Sainz from third free practice onwards at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after the Spaniard required surgery for appendicitis. Despite getting only a single one-hour practice session on a high-speed circuit that is difficult to master, the 18-year-old was immediately on the pace and just missed out on reaching Q3. From […]
Espargaro was seen by many as the favourite for Sunday’s full-distance race at the Losail International Circuit, with six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez leading the praise for the Aprilia rider after he showed stunning pace in the closing laps of the sprint to finis third. But the 34-year-old’s hopes of adding a fourth premier class […]
Magnussen’s own Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was ruined by incurring an initial 10-second penalty for contact with Alex Albon in the Williams. His focus then shifted to holding up others so team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who hadn’t stopped under an early safety car, could pull out a gap and claim 10th. Crucial to that strategy was […]
Marc Marquez’s first MotoGP outing on a Ducati went about as well as it could have. That might not seem like much when taken at face value. Fifth in the sprint and fourth in the grand prix last weekend under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit are not perhaps the results many were hoping […]
The South African driver won 10 world championship races from 111 starts during a topflight career that spanned from 1972 to 1980. Scheckter, 74, has entered 12 cars from his personal collection into RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale on 11 May. The headline lot is his ground-effect 1979 Ferrari 312 T4 – the final car to […]
The reigning double world champion took the lead in the standings after putting in a controlled performance on Sunday to win the season-opening grand prix at Losail. It marked the second season in a row that Bagnaia has won the first grand prix of the year and came after a tricky sprint in which he […]
On Monday, representatives of Massa confirmed that action has been lodged in the High Court of Justice against the three parties as the Brazilian, who missed out on the 2008 F1 drivers’ title to then-McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton by one point, believes that the result of the Marina Bay race should be voided. Infamously, Renault […]