May 1, 2024

Last weekend Bagnaia produced one of his best MotoGP race wins to date as he held off Marquez late on in a spectacular battle to take Spanish Grand Prix victory.While Bagnaia has charged to back-to-back MotoGP world titles in 2022 and 2023, having stepped up to the factory Ducati squad in 2021, Marquez had suffered from a series of career-threatening injuries, the decline of Honda’s …Keep reading

The narrow barriers around the city-centre circuit, coupled with extreme climate that pushes the drivers to the limit of exhaustion, make it one of the toughest races of all and there has been plenty of action under lights over the years. As F1 prepares to return for this year’s race, here is a rundown of the biggest moments of the last 14 years and where they happened. Start line: Hulkenberg …Keep reading

During the three decades since the sickening image of the blue-and-white Williams striking the Tamburello wall was broadcast to a global audience of millions, Ayrton Senna has been transformed.On May 1 1994 he was already a racing superstar, regarded justifiably by many as the greatest of his generation, but since then the name Senna has grown into so much more. It’s a global brand, a name on …Keep reading

Ferrari revealed last week that its Miami livery would feature two tints of blue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its entry into the American market.In a limited tweak to its traditional red livery, the so-called Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino hues have been applied on the wings, engine cover, halo, rear-views mirrors, as well as on the wheel rims of the SF-24 driven by Charles Leclerc …Keep reading

You’re visiting Miami for Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix—congratulations! You probably know by now that, unlike in Vegas, the race doesn’t take place in the center of the city proper. The track weaving through Hard Rock Stadium’s parking lot—a.k.a., the Miami International Autodrome—is actually located in Miami Gardens, about 17 miles north of Miami. Depending on traffic (more on that in …Keep reading

“Ayrton Senna is joining Williams…” I have to say that even though I was the team manager at the time, I had a certain feeling of trepidation when I heard this news. It was pretty daunting, because he was Ayrton Senna… he was coming with a little bit of a reputation.I suppose we thought he might be difficult to work with – all of the top drivers were demanding, but it was something we’d got …Keep reading

For many, Ayrton Senna is the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time, and the passing of years since his death – at the peak of his powers aged 34 in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix – has only strengthened that conviction.To mark the 25th anniversary in 2019, Motorsport.com decided to pick out and rank the three-time world champion’s 10 finest race performances.Senna made 161 F1 starts and took 41 …Keep reading

Both Zarco and team-mate Takaaki Nakagami got to run the overhauled version of the RC213V at Jerez on Monday, after HRC test rider Stefan Bradl raced with the same bike in Spain last weekend.However, the initial impressions of the upgraded Honda challenger were poor across the board, with Zarco saying the bike had failed to deliver a step forward in performance.“We did a few runs on it and we …Keep reading

As revealed by Motorsport.com over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, teams discussed last week a tweak to the regulations to clear up an aspect of the regulations that had caused unease.Previously, jump starts were judged entirely on whether the FIA-supplied sensors fitted to cars had picked up movement before the start signal was given.However, there had been some occasions when cars had appeared …Keep reading

Following intense speculation about the future of the squad’s chief technical officer over the past week, the Milton Keynes-based team announced on Tuesday that Newey would be departing in the first quarter of 2025.A statement from Red Bull stated: “Adrian will focus on final development and delivery of Red Bull’s first hypercar, his highly anticipated RB17 set to be unveiled at Goodwood in …Keep reading