Aprilia has shown good form all winter with its new RS-GP, with a number of riders – including reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo – praising the performance of the Italian marque’s bike. And across the Qatar weekend, Espargaro was strong throughout, qualifying fifth and getting stuck into the podium battle. Though he ultimately came up
As the F1 season-preview issue of GP Racing magazine hits the shelves, GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to examine the unexpected controversies already embroiling a season which promised to be revolutionary. Whenever F1 adopts new rules there are winners and losers – and unexpected twists. Our panel
12:22 PM ET Kevin Magnussen said a Formula One return felt impossible until Haas boss Guenther Steiner asked him to come back as Nikita Mazepin’s replacement. Magnussen, who left Haas and F1 at the end of 2020, was confirmed back at Haas on Wednesday, ahead of this week’s preseason test in Bahrain. It was a
Verstappen is the 34th driver to win the world championship and will bring #1 back to the Formula 1 grid for the first time since fellow Red Bull champion Sebastian Vettel’s final title defence in 2014. The Dutchman claims being champion makes no difference, that he won’t change. That’s in keeping with his public persona
The Australian started Sunday’s 22-lap season-opener from fourth, but lost ground immediately and began to experience power problems. Miller says he was getting power from the engine in “very strange points” of the Losail circuit, while exiting onto the main straight he had none and was scared about “getting run up the arse” by bikes
The German was the most outspoken at the Barcelona test a fortnight ago over Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, as he made clear he would boycott the country’s race if it went ahead. In the end, F1 and the FIA acted swiftly to drop the Russian Grand Prix from the calendar and cancel its contract under
4:49 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain – Mercedes has brought a significant upgrade to its 2022 Formula One car in time for the second pre-season test in Bahrain. Driven by seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton on Thursday morning, the car featured tiny sidepod inlets and a completely redesigned engine cover. Sidepods have become a big differentiator
The new design appears to be influenced by those already seen elsewhere, whereby the outermost mirror stay (red arrow) acts as a flow conditioner that helps to reinforce the outwash being created by the angular bluff body of the sidepod below. Meanwhile, the other ‘mirror stay’ also serves as an aerodynamic appendage (blue arrow), framing
Beginning its longest season ever, MotoGP’s 2022 season started off by crowning a new winner, as Bastianini guided his 2021-spec Ducati to his first victory. The Italian converted his best-ever qualifying result of second into a strong start and took the lead with four laps remaining, fending off a late attack from KTM’s Brad Binder.
The as-yet-unnamed project will be directed by British filmmaker Matt Kay. It will be produced by Hamilton and his media talent manager Penni Thow, One Community and Box to Box Films – the producers of Netflix’s F1 series Drive To Survive, as well as the critically-acclaimed Senna and Maradona. The documentary has had full access
The seven-time MotoGP world champion took part in the second of the two days of the official pre-season GTWCE test at Paul Ricard on Tuesday aboard the Audi R8 GT3 LMS Evo II he will race for WRT this year in the Endurance and Sprint Cup legs of the GTWCE. Rossi completed a total of
Caroline, who beat Oscar Piastri and Logan Sargeant to win the 2017 British F4 title, made a successful switch to sportscars in 2020 by sweeping to the GT4 crown in a TF Sport Aston Martin alongside Dan Vaughan. He switched last year to the GT4 European series in a Mercedes, but returned to the British
The American boutique manufacturer has revealed that it proved impossible to put together a deal to field an additional Le Mans Hypercar in the WEC double-points round on 11/12 June in the 48 hours provided by race organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest when it reopened entries on Monday. Glickenhaus said that he had received
Former F1 driver, TV commentator and Motorsport UK board member Karun Chandhok joins the latest Autosport Podcast for a look ahead to the Bahrain test and to discuss what was learned from the Barcelona shakedown test. Should the teams have foreseen the porpoising issue? And can teams fix any issues completely within the timescale and
The entry for the race on 18 March is down on the 37 cars listed on the provisional entry published last month after Russian entrant G-Drive Racing’s withdrawal from international sportscar racing last week. The field for the second edition of the 1000-mile fixture on the undercard of the Sebring 12 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship
Honda has totally overhauled its RC213V for 2022 after several difficult seasons and has appeared to make the bike more user-friendly, with Pol Espargaro leading for 18 of Sunday’s 22 laps before finishing third. The new Honda is more rear-biased to cure traction issues it suffered before, but this has meant the front-end feels different
Suzuki has made big strides with its 2022 MotoGP bike over the winter and showed strong race pace across practice in Qatar, as well as topping the official speed charts with its more powerful engine. Despite qualifying down in eighth, Mir was expected to rise to the front of the field and battle for victory
The 15-time MotoGP race winner and three-time championship runner-up made his factory Yamaha debut with the RNF Racing team in last Sunday’s 2022 season-opener in Qatar. After eight years of riding Ducati machinery and with no Yamaha experience since 2012 when he was a Tech3 rider, Dovizioso has struggled since he returned to racing following
Marques, who made 24 starts in F1 between 1996 and 2001, is due to make his race debut at Road America on 3 July. His Chicago-based team, owned by entrepreneur John Stange Jr, has mostly competed in the fourth-tier ARCA series of the NASCAR pyramid, and partnered with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports on an Indianapolis
With F1 entering a new rules era, last month’s first pre-season test at Barcelona was less about unlocking performance from the 2022 cars and more about understanding systems and gathering data Furthermore, the week was partly overshadowed by the porpoising problems that all teams suffered through the week and compromised their ability to find the
The latest additions were published by the Council of the European Union on Wednesday. The news came shortly after Mazepin had told the media that neither he nor his father were subject to sanctions, and thus that couldn’t be used as a reason for the Haas F1 team to cancel both his contract and that
Haas had been evaluating a number of candidates for the 2022 season, after deciding that it could not continue with Mazepin and Russian title sponsor Uralkali in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. While experienced racers like Antonio Giovinazzi and Nico Hulkenberg were strongly linked with the seat, Haas has elected to go back
6:46 AM ET Formula One testing gets back underway this week in Bahrain for the final three days of track running ahead of the first race. The test will take place on the same circuit that will host the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, meaning teams will have no excuse for turning up unprepared when the
5:12 AM ET Russian company Uralkali has demanded a full reimbursement from Haas after being dropped as the team’s title sponsor ahead of the coming Formula One season. Haas cut ties with Dmitry Mazepin’s company Uralkali and dropped his son, Nikita, as driver following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. Uralkali signed a deal with Haas
12:56 PM ET Kevin Magnussen has completed a stunning return to Formula One with former team Haas as Nikita Mazepin‘s replacement, it was announced on Wednesday. Magnussen, a 29-year-old from Denmark, raced at Haas for four seasons between 2017 and 2020 before he and Romain Grosjean were dropped in favour of Mazepin and Mick Schumacher
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series will serve as the official safety car for half of this season’s races, as Mercedes continues to share duties with Aston Martin. The Black Series replaces the Mercedes-AMG GT R that was supplied by Mercedes as the safety car last year, while the previous C 63 S Estate that had
Reigning Moto2 world champion Gardner battled hard with RNF Racing Yamaha rider Binder, who steps up to MotoGP directly from Moto3 in 2022. Gardner got the better of the South African, beating him to the final point in 15th by just 0.012 seconds. However, the Australian was unhappy with Binder’s riding style, which he
Both Norris’ McLaren team and Ferrari stole the early headlines two weeks ago across three days of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Norris topped the first day of running and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc headed the second, before Lewis Hamilton and George Russell put Mercedes on top on the third and final day of testing.
2:28 AM ET Associated Press Chip Ganassi Racing and PNC Bank marked International Women’s Day with the launch of a campaign to drive gender equality in motorsports. Women in Motorsports will feature both a video content series showcasing female industry leaders and an internship program designed to create opportunities in motorsports for women. “While women