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The six-time world champion’s return last month from a fourth major arm operation is as much about getting himself into shape for 2023 as it is helping to steer development of next year’s Honda. Trying several updates already since the Misano test, Marquez debuted a new aerodynamic package on Friday at Phillip Island which features […]
In Singapore, Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel finished sixth and eighth, propelling the team from ninth to seventh in the constructor’s championship, ahead of Haas and AlphaTauri. Then, during the rain-interrupted Japanese Grand Prix, Vettel put in a storming drive to sixth after winning a final-lap tussle with Fernando Alonso, edging the team closer to […]
Bagnaia begins this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix just two points behind Quartararo having overturned a 91-point deficit since June’s German Grand Prix. The Italian has only recently begun publicly to consider himself as a championship challenger but remains adamant that he will not change his approach in races right now. As a result, he admits […]
Norris has said several times in recent races that he believes Alpine has made heavy weather of the fight that his McLaren squad and its closest rival are having over fourth place in the F1 world constructors’ championship. The Briton reckons that considering the pace Alpine has shown with its A522 car this season, it […]
Espargaro is just 20 points back from championship leader Fabio Quartararo coming into this weekend’s Phillip Island round, with 75 points still on offer in 2022. The Aprilia rider hasn’t won since claiming his maiden MotoGP victory in Argentina at round three back in April, while his last podium came at Aragon three races ago. […]
There seems little doubt that some of F1’s previous great wet weather drives – think Ayrton Senna at Portugal in 1985, Michael Schumacher at Barcelona in 1996 and Damon Hill at Suzuka in 1994 – would not have happened these days because the races would never have been allowed to start. This has led to […]
Phillip Island was left under water following heavy rain on Thursday, but the weather had cleared by the time FP1 got underway and dry conditions would stick for the rest of the day. Pramac’s Johann Zarco led a Ducati 1-2 on his Pramac-run GP22 from factory counterpart Jack Miller, making his first – and only […]
Steiner is weighing up his options for next season on whether to keep Schumacher at the team alongside Kevin Magnussen or replace the German. Earlier on in 2022 doubts arose over Schumacher’s future at the team – and in F1 at large – due to several crashes and a lack of results, but after the […]
The Yamaha rider went to Thailand 18 points clear in the championship standings, but a disastrous run to 17th in wet conditions saw his advantage cut to just two ahead of Francesco Bagnaia with three races remaining Quartararo refused to speak to any media following the Thailand race, instead simply making one post on social media […]
After over 50 years of working with racing engines, there are few better qualified than Richard ‘Dick’ Langford when it comes to the art of extracting horsepower. Having begun his career at Cosworth just as the world-beating DFV was beginning to build its formidable reputation, and serviced much of the Formula 1 grid during the […]