In a move to improve safety in motorsport, most circuits have had grass, gravel and astro-turf track edges replaced by asphalt run-off over the last decade or so. In 2021 MotoGP deployed sensors in green painted run-off areas beyond circuit kerbs to police track limits, while riders in races are only allowed to exceed track
While Mercedes and Red Bull comfortably finished first and second in this year’s standings, McLaren and Ferrari both made considerable steps forward to cut the gap to the front of the field. McLaren scored a 1-2 finish at Monza, while Ferrari picked up five podiums and two poles across the year as the fight for
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The 16-year-old joins the Italian squad highly rated after becoming the first driver to win the German and Italian Formula 4 championships in the same season, during a successful 2021 campaign driving for Van Amersfoort Racing. In only his second year racing cars, Bearman notched up a total of 17 wins and 13 poles from
F1 teams are working flat out on the all-new ground effect cars that are arriving for 2022, and aimed at helping improve the racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely. A number of drivers who have tried the new concepts out in simulators have said that they will require a contrasting approach
The entry finished runner-up in the 2021 24 Hours of Daytona, and went on to finish seventh, fifth and fourth in the remaining three rounds of IMSA’s championship-within-a-championship, the Michelin Endurance Cup. Despite becoming the new team principal of the Toyota WEC squad, Kobayashi will return to join seven-time NASCAR champion Johnson in the Cadillac,
After a year on the sidelines Albon leaves the Red Bull camp in 2022 to replace George Russell, who has joined the works Mercedes team. However Capito says that Latifi will have an equal opportunity to help the team make further progress. Both men have completed two full F1 seasons, with Latifi having started 39
10. Aaron Cooke v Shaun Traynor The reigning champion took on the four-time title winner in Toyota MR2s, both mounted in the latest Roadster model. Aaron Cooke won the 2020 crown in a Mk2 but adapted quickly to the lighter car and took on Shaun Traynor in intense battles: more than half of the races
Schumacher made his debut in 2021 after taking the 2020 F2 title in his second season but struggled to shine in F1 with an underperforming Haas outfit. Schumacher and teammate Nikita Mazepin traditionally propped up the timesheets and finished the season without points as Haas put all its eggs in the 2022 basket, opting not
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The 2021 season was a highly successful one for national racing, with two-thirds of clubs enjoying increases in average grid sizes. That meant there was plenty of action to be keeping tabs on, and made it a tricky task to select the top 10 performers across the myriad series. Here are the drivers that made
The annual Monte Carlo curtain raiser will see the WRC embrace hybrid technology for the first time following the introduction of new Rally1 regulations. The new rules have required Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport Ford to construct all-new cars built around a tougher space frame chassis, while the 1.6 litre turbo charged engines are now coupled
Sainz linked up with Ferrari for the start of the 2021 season, joining from McLaren as a replacement for four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. Sainz and Leclerc quickly formed an impressive partnership both on-track and off-track as they helped Ferrari finish third in the constructors’ championship, bouncing back from its worst result in 40 years
Having switched from his longtime home at Racing Point, Perez struggled for much of the 2021 season to get fully up to speed with the RB16B. A win in Baku in June was a major boost, and he logged four third places on his way to securing fourth in the points table. However, new world
Bagnaia won four races in 2021 and finished runner-up in the standings to Fabio Quartararo, missing the championship by 26 points, in a breakout campaign for the factory Ducati rider. The Italian got the first win of his MotoGP career at the Aragon Grand Prix last September when he battled hard with six-time world champion
The Russian made his debut with the Haas team after having finished the 2020 Formula 2 season in fifth position, with a 14th-place finish in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix his best result of the year in F1. With the Haas proving the slowest car of the F1 field all season long, Mazepin struggled at the
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The Japanese manufacturer enjoyed an extremely successful spell with the Woking-based team in the late 1980s and early 1990s before it left the sport in 1992. The two companies were reunited in 2015, when Honda returned to F1 for the hybrid era. However, the partnership ended prematurely after three disappointing seasons, with Honda moving to
But it is not the only sport or pastime to enjoy such a surge. In October 2020, The Queen’s Gambit became a hit on Netflix, based on the 1983 novel about a female chess prodigy, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who rises to become the greatest player in the world. It resulted in a massive swell
Since the championship’s inception, the battery has been a single-spec component. It was first supplied by Williams Advanced Engineering [WAE] prior to a switch to McLaren Applied for Gen2, but WAE has won back the tender for Gen3 beginning in 2022-23. For the advent of the new 470bhp machines, the battery will again remain standardised.
A push by the FIA to cut back on downforce for this year, to help ease the stress on tyres, triggered some changes to the floor and bargeboard regulations. These alterations, which came during a phase when teams had to carry over their 2020 chassis, especially hurt the high rake cars like Mercedes and Aston
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As we take a look back at the IMSA Grand Touring Prototype era, let’s hear from one of the 50 Great IMSA Drivers, Bobby Rahal.
Ahead of this season, the American squad finished assembling its car in Bahrain ahead of the start of pre-season testing as the chassis was basically unchanged from 2020. But with a rules overhaul for next season meaning teams will have all-new cars, Haas will finish assembling it in the Dallara factory in Italy before flying
The Toyota driver has finished runner-up to team-mate Ogier in the last two seasons having taken the championship fight down to the wire in 2020 and 2021. With Ogier calling time on his full-time WRC career after lifting an eighth world title, Evans appears among the early contenders to challenge for the crown next year
With the overhaul of the technical regulations on the horizon for 2022 and limited car development allowed for this year, F1’s most successful and famous team was able to spend much of this season focusing on getting the basics right. It resulted in a season that showed impressive steps forward by Ferrari in pretty much
F1 witnessed a titanic battle between Red Bull and Mercedes this year as Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton went head-to-head for the drivers’ championship. The drivers entered the final race tied on points, and the title was settled on the last lap of the season following a controversial restart after Verstappen overtook Hamilton to clinch
F1 teams are currently working hard on their designs for the all-new ground effect cars that will come in to play in 2022. And, after an ultra-competitive 2021 campaign, there have been some fears voiced that the change of regulations could trigger more of a field spread with some teams having found better ways to