April 9, 2025

Can Verstappen challenge McLaren again?Max Verstappen made the difference in a race he shouldn’t have won given the pure pace of the McLaren. But the weekend at Suzuka was atypical in many ways. Most of it was down to qualifying, and that’s where Verstappen shone with a special pole lap.The Bahrain weekend is different for a number of reasons. The abrasive tarmac at Sakhir makes tyre …Keep reading

Everything appeared crystal clear regarding the 2025 MotoGP championship… until lapnine of the Grand Prix of the Americas.It had seemed like the script was written in Marc Marquez’s favour: brother Alex would challenge but not quite have the pace, while Francesco Bagnaia would be thereabouts but ultimately fall short.Then, on that fateful lap at COTA, Marc went down. Bagnaia managed to …Keep reading

Seldom has it been more important in Formula 1 to seize the moment. While the first three grands prix of the season have been at outlier venues which have relatively little in common with most circuits on the calendar, all of them have been won from pole position.A small sample size, granted, but a consensus is forming among the teams and drivers that ‘dirty air’ – the problem the …Keep reading