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Joan Mir admitted that he was “angry” with Honda after Tuesday’s MotoGP test in Barcelona, as the Japanese manufacturer failed to bring any new upgrades to the beleaguered RC213V.With Honda ending the season at the bottom of the manufacturers’ championship and 49 points behind its nearest rival Yamaha, expectations were high from HRC during the all-important end-of-season test in Spain.But while …Keep reading

Arrow McLaren has confirmed the departure of Gavin Ward, who served in the role as Team Principal with the IndyCar team over the last two seasons. While the announcement came on Tuesday morning, the team shared that Ward’s status was effective on Monday, November 18. Per the release, this was a “mutual and strategic decision as the team positions itself for growth and performance” heading …Keep reading

Gresini rider Alex Marquez set the pace in the post-season MotoGP test in Barcelona on Tuesday, as his elder brother Marc Marquez completed his first outing with the factory Ducati team.The younger Marquez led the times for the majority of the seven-hour session at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after jumping to the top of the leaderboard early on with a 1m40.006s flier.New factory KTM rider Pedro …Keep reading

RFK Racing hasn’t run three full-time cars in the NASCAR Cup series since 2016, but that changes in 2025 when the team will enter the No. 60 car alongside the No. 6 driven by team co-owner Brad Keselowski and the No. 17 of Chris Buescher.This newly announced entry will be piloted by none other than Ryan Preece — the last of the four Stewart-Haas Racing drivers to find a new seat after the team …Keep reading

The streets of Monte Carlo, with their mythical aura which are steeped in history and a touch of glamour, remain a daunting prospect for even the most grizzled racing drivers to tackle at speed, let alone a teenager with just 20 minutes in which to prepare.It was an unenviable challenge that Taylor Barnard faced earlier this year and, in the process, made him the youngest starter of a Formula E …Keep reading

Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was able to exchange spoken messages with team manager Davide Tardozzi over radio during Tuesday’s MotoGP test in Barcelona.In the first minutes of the official test at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, an intercom that Dorna had been developing was installed in Pirro’s helmet before he went out on track. On the other side, Tardozzi was given a headset with an …Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia joined an elusive club of just five riders to have won 11 or more grands prix in a single season in the premier class when he triumphed in last weekend’s MotoGP finale in Barcelona.Yet when he returned to the Ducati garage after taking the chequered flag, he was forced to take off the #1 sticker that has adorned his Desmosedici for the last two years.While Bagnaia magnanimously …Keep reading

Formula 1 has been accused of “stifling competition” after insisting all tickets resold through third parties for the F175 event at London’s O2 next year will be invalid.Tickets for the 18 February event, where all 10 teams will unveil their liveries for 2025 with all 20 drivers set to be present, sold out in just 45 minutes when the general sale window opened last Friday.Soon after, tickets were …Keep reading

It was about to be a busy few weeks for James Hinchcliffe. When we met in Austin, he was just starting off a triple-header, having joined the F1 TV team for the series’ North American swing. In between filming spots, he roamed the paddock picking up information he could put to good use, then picked up a microphone the moment any on-track action — practice, qualifying, the race — wrapped up …Keep reading

Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala believes it could take “an almost perfect” Rally Japan to wrestle the World Rally Championship manufacturers’ crown from Hyundai.The Japanese marque heads into the season finale on home soil sitting 15 points adrift of rivals Hyundai in the fight for the constructors’ honours.Toyota has claimed a manufacturers’ and drivers’ title double in each of the last …Keep reading