The 2021 Moto2 runner-up was one of several riders to crash on Saturday in Indonesia, though his was a particularly nasty one. The Spaniard pushed too hard on used rubber and slid off his KTM at around 200km/h, leaving him with bruising to his face and his head. Upset that he couldn’t fit a fresh
But as teams and drivers have begun digging deeper into the new cars, the reality of an entirely different handling model has come to the fore. For after years of teams having fine-tuned complex suspension systems to improve the ride, help tyre degradation and roll nicely over the kerbs, F1 drivers could face a more
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With the team out in Germany last weekend, our friends at Estrella Galicia 0,0 thought it was the perfect opportunity to test Carlos and Lando’s knowledge of all things beer (with some help from their trainers). Learn more about McLaren and Estrella Galicia 0,0’s partnership here: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/estrella-galicia-00/ Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which
The nine-time motorcycle grand prix world champion retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 campaign and will switch to a career in GT racing in 2022. Last month Rossi announced he had signed with leading endurance squad WRT to race one of its factory-backed Audi R8s in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint
After taking a fourth-place finish at the first Diriyah race, Bird’s crash in qualifying for race two left him on the back foot – resulting in the British driver only managing to find a 15th-place finish. Bird says that Jaguar’s data was actually more encouraging from the second race and felt it was a “different
Quartararo ended last weekend’s Sepang test unhappy as Yamaha failed to make any top speed gains with its bike compared to its 2021 challenger, while little has changed this weekend at the Mandalika test. The Frenchman already said back in November he would not sign a 2023 Yamaha deal until he saw tangible progress with
McLaren unveiled its new car for the 2022 season in a launch at its Woking headquarters on Friday, sporting a revised aerodynamic design and a tweaked papaya and blue livery. It was only the second team after Aston Martin to provide a true look at what the 2022 grid will look like by presenting a physical
3:42 PM ET WOKING, England — McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo said F1 race director Michael Masi needs support in his role to avoid a repeat of the farcical finish to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi’s future in the job is currently in question after he botched the finish of the title decider between Max Verstappen
A winner on the famously tricky street track in touring cars and GTs, with Alfa Romeo and BMW, Augusto Farfus is well-qualified when it comes to Macau. “Either you love it or you hate it,” he says. And Farfus is firmly in the former camp. “I am a guy who likes flowing high speed tracks,
The Racing division of the McLaren Group assembled an ambitious four-part launch on Friday evening at its Technology Centre as it took the covers off its MCL36 Formula 1 challenger plus unveiled its IndyCar, Extreme E and Shadow Esports programmes. Under the leadership of McLaren Racing chief executive Zak Brown, and independently of the Automotive
The six-time world champion returned to action last weekend at the Sepang test having spent three months on the sidelines with a double vision issue, which ruled him out of the last two races of 2021. Having only resumed his bike training two weeks before the Sepang test, Marquez admitted he was drained at the
Ricciardo experienced a rollercoaster first season with McLaren in 2021 that saw him initially struggle to match team-mate Lando Norris for pace, enduring a difficult run to the summer break. But Ricciardo took a memorable victory at Monza as he scored McLaren’s first win since 2012, leading Norris home for a 1-2 finish. The Australian’s
4:02 PM ET WOKING, U.K — Daniel Ricciardo probably had the best view of anyone in the world of Max Verstappen’s title-winning pass — and the defensive moves which followed — on Lewis Hamilton at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ricciardo was sat in the next car back. Controversially, in fact. Ricciardo’s very presence
The Austrian, who took four DTM victories with the German manufacturer in 2015-18, has been named as an Mercedes-AMG performance driver for this season. The move follows Auer’s return to the cockpit of a Mercedes in the new-look DTM last year after a season with BMW in 2020, which followed a brief return to single-seaters
Let’s get one of the obvious things out of the way first, seeing as there has already been speculation regarding the design of the car’s front suspension. As was hinted in the team’s fire-up video, the car features a pull rod layout at the front, which we’ve seen it use as recently as 2013 but
The final pre-season test ahead of the 2022 campaign got underway on Friday as MotoGP returned to Indonesia for the first time since 1997. The Mandalika International Street Circuit is the first ‘street’ circuit to be used in the modern MotoGP era – though it is purpose-built venue that will eventually be used by local
O’Ward, who scored his first two IndyCar victories last season will continue in the #5 bearing the branding of team title-partner Arrow Electronics, with the black and Fluro Papaya color scheme now including splashes of blue. Rosenqvist’s #7 car will continue to be backed by Vuse, RJ Reynolds’ e-cigarette brand, and its livery will heavily
The Woking-based team unveiled its new MCL36 at its factory on Friday, and the new Mercedes-powered car features more fluorescent orange and blue colours than it had in 2021. The team said that the decision to tweak its traditional papaya was made as it wanted to do something special for F1’s new era, and it
2:33 PM ET WOKING, United Kingdom — McLaren has launched its new car for the upcoming Formula One season. The team’s drivers, Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris, took the covers off the McLaren MCL36 at a launch event at the team’s factory on Friday evening. The new McLaren, which has been built to F1’s overhauled
Five crews battle for #IGTC’s drivers’ crown in South Africa later today. Set a reminder at youtu.be/EcvKyz4lGmA and watch the race live from 13:00 SAST (GMT +2).
The Italian single-seater powerhouse announced last year it would branch out into sportscar racing as part of a new alliance with the Iron Lynx outfit, confirming an assault on the FIA World Endurance Championship last month. Now it has committed to fielding a second Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 car in the ELMS, with Correa also making
Friday’s first MotoGP action in Indonesia since 1997 was halted for well over an hour in the morning due to the amount of dirt on circuit following earlier rain. The stoppage was called to allow for track workers to sweep the surface, while a meeting was held between riders, Dorna Sports and the FIM’s safety
BWT has been heavily linked with a switch to Alpine in recent months, but the deal was finally announced by the team on Friday ahead of the new season. The team will be known officially as ‘BWT Alpine F1 Team’ with immediate effect and the “renowned pink colour of BWT will be incorporated into Alpine’s
9:25 AM ET Aston Martin has launched its 2022 Formula One car, the AMR22, which will be driven by Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll this year. The team made clear that the car it revealed on Thursday is the actual car that will race this year, making it the first genuine look at a car
The Frenchman has travelled to M-Sport’s UK base this week to lend his support to the staff as they work on building up a new Puma from scratch in time to compete on the snow of Rally Sweden at the end of the month. Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria are lucky to emerge unhurt after
MotoGP’s pre-season running got underway last weekend with two days of official testing at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, preceded by three days of shakedown for test riders, rookies and concession riders at the same venue. PLUS: The Marquez risk Honda has taken with its 2022 MotoGP bike Gresini Racing rider Enea Bastianini was fastest
And while the car will clearly evolve fast for testing and the first races, so details on the AMR22 will change, there was enough on display to offer us some proper insight in to what we can expect from F1’s new era. The AMR22’s front wing is four elements, which is the maximum possible under
9:46 AM ET Sebastian Vettel was surprised to hear Formula One has removed the pre-race ceremony which allowed drivers to take a knee before races, saying the gesture “was getting a bit too strong for the business side of things”. F1 launched the ‘We Race As One’ initiative in 2020 in solidarity with the anti-racism
According to a report in Variety, Star Wars alum Driver – who recently starred as Maurizio Gucci in the Oscar-nominated House of Gucci – will replace Hugh Jackman in the lead role of long-planned movie, which is based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races. The story follows Ferrari’s