Maverick Vinales tops Friday MotoGP practice at Valencia as Jorge Martin uses mind games against Francesco Bagnaia. Setting a red hot pace, as he did in FP1, Fabio Di Giannantonio was the early pacesetter and second practice got lit up ...
VR46 still has two rider options on the table to replace Luca Marini for the 2024 MotoGP season. One of those is Qatar winner Fabio di Giannantonio and the other is not Fermin Aldeguer. VR46 team director Alessio Salucci told ...
Frederik Vesti is reportedly being considered for Williams’ 2024 F1 seat. The car currently belonging to Logan Sargeant is the only unconfirmed spot remaining in the 2024 F1 driver line-up. The American rookie has struggled at times and, even ...
Marc Marquez’s switch to Gresini Ducati has been labelled “a marketing operation” by Fabio di Giannantonio. Marquez will swap Honda, one of MotoGP’s most prestigious giants, for one of its smallest teams in 2024 because he wants to rediscover ...
The Valencia MotoGP will be shown live on ITV on Sunday November 26. The broadcast will be midday until 3.45pm, showing the season-finale grand prix. Every session of the entire weekend will also be live on TNT Sports, the ...
Charles Leclerc topped a truncated second practice at the F1 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after Carlos Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg both crashed. More than half the session was lost due to a lengthy stoppage while barrier repair works ...
Logan Sargeant has been handed a reprimand and Williams have been fined €5,000 over his near-miss with Jack Doohan in F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix opening practice. F1 rookie Doohan was left shaken after he was forced to take ...
Toto Wolff insists there is a serious message behind the amusement of his punishment for swearing. The Mercedes team principal and Ferrari’s Fred Vasseur were handed official warnings from the FIA for their conduct in a press conference last ...
Tarran Mackenzie completed his second WorldSBK test at Jerez on the ‘old’ Honda, which he hopes to change going forward. Like factory Honda riders Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona, Mackenzie was in action on both days although he used ...
Alex Lowes believes Kawasaki are in a great place heading into the 2024 WorldSBK season, after setting his best lap ever at Jerez on race tyres. Lowes was testing alongside new team-mate Axel Bassani, who also enjoyed a very ...
Red Bull F1 team boss Christian Horner has set the record straight on the specifics of his contact with Lewis Hamilton’s father. In the build-up to this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Horner told the Daily Mail there had ...
The FIA has confirmed that F1’s sprint format will be tweaked further for 2024, with changes set to be made to the schedule and parc ferme regulations. Following a meeting of the F1 Commission, a number of changes and ...
Fabio di Giannantonio overtook Fermin Aldeguer at the front of the queue to land the VR46 seat after a vital meeting and a decision over a huge cost. The only remaining seat in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up is ...
Xavi Vierge has joined Iker Lecuona in saying the new 2024 Honda bike has great potential in WorldSBK next season. Honda’s full factory project has struggled to reach the heights many expected in recent seasons, however, a new bike ...
Michelin have claimed that Jorge Martin’s rear tyre at the Qatar MotoGP had ‘no manufacturing or quality problem’. Martin finished arguably the most important race of his season, maybe even his career, in tenth spot while title rival Francesco ...
Friday practice results from the Valencia MotoGP at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, the 20th and final round of the 2023 world championship. TIMES TO FOLLOW 2023 Valencia MotoGP, Ricardo Tormo – Free Practice (1) Results Pos Rider Nat Team ...
Johann Zarco helped secure a Ducati top four lockout in FP1 at Valencia, after beating Fabio Di Giannantonio to first place on his final flying lap. Title contender Jorge Martin made the perfect start to FP1 as he led ...
George Russell set the pace in opening practice at the F1 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as 10 rookies filled in for full-time drivers including Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Russell was faster than Aston Martin reserve Felipe Drugovich, ...
Results from Friday practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Round 22 of the F1 2023 world championship. 2023 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Free Practice Results (1) Pos Driver Nat. Team Time 1 George Russell GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 1m26.072s 2 Felipe Drugovich ...
Toto Wolff insists he doesn’t know “what drives the guy” as he gave his first reaction to Christian Horner’s claims about Lewis Hamilton. Horner revealed that Red Bull received an enquiry about joining the team earlier this year from ...
Friday Practice results from the 2023 Valencia Moto2 Grand Prix at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. 2023 Moto2 Ricardo Tormo – Practice (1) Results Pos Rider Nat Team Bike Time 1 Pedro Acosta SPA Red Bull KTM Ajo (Kalex) 1m ...
Iker Lecuona is already waxing lyrical about the new Honda WorldSBK machine after just one test in Jerez. Lecuona, who just finished a very busy end to the season after continuing to replace Alex Rins in MotoGP, flew straight ...
Mercedes and McLaren have renewed their power unit agreement until 2030. The McLaren F1 team will continue to use Mercedes-AMG engines between 2026 and 2030, bringing their partnership to a 26th year. The extension of their agreement means that ...
Davide Brivio will reportedly replace Alberto Puig as Repsol Honda’s team boss. The sensational move is the latest step by Honda to rejuvenate their struggling MotoGP project, Speedweek report. The former boss of Yamaha and Suzuki is currently working ...
Friday Practice results from the 2023 Valencia Moto3 Grand Prix at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. 2023 Moto3 Ricardo Tormo – Practice (1) Results Pos Rider Nat Team Bike Time 1 Daniel Holgado SPA Red Bull KTM Tech3 (KTM) 1m ...
Lewis Hamilton’s father has been named as the “representative” who was in contact with Red Bull. Anthony Hamilton made contact with Christian Horner, a Red Bull spokesperson told the BBC. But Anthony Hamilton is not officially involved in his ...
FIA Formula 2 star Fredrik Vesti will replace Lewis Hamilton in first practice for the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – but who is he? And why is he driving the W14? As per the regulations, all teams must field a ...
Only three F1 teams have brought new upgrades for this weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Aston Martin, AlphaTauri and Alfa Romeo are the only three teams to bring updates to their cars for the Yas Marina season finale. ...
Leon Camier says he’s unsure whether Honda will choose to use super concessions for the 2024 WorldSBK season. Honda used super concessions in both the 2022 and 23 seasons, but have gone in a different direction to BMW who ...
This weekend’s Valencia title-decider is, infamously, not the first time the championship was up for grabs between an Italian and a Spaniard on the final day. Jorge Lorenzo has compared this year’s battle between Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin ...
Just 2 years and 8 months after his grand prix debut, Pedro Acosta will ride his first MotoGP laps at Tuesday’s Valencia test. Acosta’s MotoGP future has arguably been a question of ‘when’ not ‘if’ ever since he won ...
Alex Rins is confident he will finally be able to ride ‘pain free’ during his LCR Honda farewell at this weekend’s Valencia MotoGP. But the Spaniard, switching to Monster Yamaha for 2024, has been told it could take until ...
After 11 years, 59 wins and six world championships, Marc Marquez has plenty of fond memories from his time as a Repsol Honda MotoGP rider. But there have also been some dark moments and on the eve of his final ...
Christian Horner has insisted Lewis Hamilton’s camp did contact Red Bull about possibly driving for the team during the 2024 F1 season. Horner’s bombshell revelation in an interview with the Daily Mail that was published in the build up to this weekend’s ...
Fabio di Giannantonio is on the verge of clinching a deal to salvage his MotoGP career as Luca Marini’s replacement at VR46 Ducati next season. But with Marini’s own Repsol Honda move, in place of Marc Marquez, still to ...
Jorge Martin says Michelin have given him no answers as to why his rear tyre was not producing at the Qatar MotoGP. The title contender lost huge points to Francesco Bagnaia as a result and is now staring down ...
With the Valencia MotoGP test now just days away, Luca Marini’s expected Repsol Honda move is still to be officially announced. But, according to the Italian, everything is still on course to replace Marc Marquez in 2024. “News will ...
Francesco Bagnaia says it would be a ‘great goal’ of his to join the likes of Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez in becoming a back-to-back MotoGP champion. Since being introduced to the MotoGP paddock only Rossi and Marquez have ...
Logan Sargeant admits he remains unsure if he has done enough to retain his Williams F1 seat for the 2024 season. The American has endured a difficult up-and-down rookie season that has been overshadowed by several costly crashes, while ...
Aleix Espargaro revealed that he apologised to Franco Morbidelli for slapping his helmet last week. The Aprilia rider was fined and hit with a grid place penalty after angrily putting his hand on Morbidelli’s helmet during Saturday practice in ...