The six-time MotoGP world champion has been a Honda rider throughout his entire career in the premier class, making his debut with the marque in 2013 and winning the title on his first attempt. The Marquez-Honda tie-up has yielded six premier class titles, 59 race wins, 100 podiums in total and 63 poles. At the start of 2020, Marquez signed a four-year extension with Honda to take him ... Keep reading
Sainz became an F1 race winner this year with Ferrari by taking victory at the British Grand Prix, as well as scoring pole positions in Belgium and the USA to mark his most successful season in F1 to date. But Sainz also fell 62 points short of Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc's tally over the year, his efforts not helped by six retirements - including in Austin after being hit at the first ... Keep reading
Mercedes announced last week that it signed Schumacher as its new reserve driver for the 2023 season, marking a return of the iconic family name to the team 11 years after his father Michael made his final F1 start. It marks the next step in Schumacher's career after losing his F1 seat with Haas last month following two seasons with the team, as well as ending his partnership with Ferrari after ... Keep reading
The #5 Mother Chassis machine shared by Reiji Hiraki and rookieYusuke Tomibayashi was terminally damaged in the season finale when Tomibayashi was rear-ended along the start-finish straight by the apr Toyota Prius of Yuhki Nakayama during a safety car period. Although Tomibayashi was unharmed, subsequent inspection of the car's standard Dome tub indicated that it was unrepairable ... Keep reading
Ocon led Alpine's efforts in F1 this year, narrowly outscoring teammate Fernando Alonso as the team took fourth in the constructors' championship, finishing at the head of the midfield. The Frenchman regarded it as his best F1 season to date, having returned to the grid with Renault in 2020 before the team was rebranded as Alpine the following year. As well as going through different names ... Keep reading
But the German car manufacturer certainly would never have predicted the kind of difficulties it faced with its W13. Having suffered the most extreme porpoising on the grid, Mercedes found itself enduring some pretty painful moments in trying to get to the bottom of what had gone wrong. Despite a few false dawns along the way, Mercedes steadily got to grips with its concept, unleashed more ... Keep reading
Mercedes topped the times at the Spanish Grand Prix venue with what was an early development phase package, an achievement that required significant ride height changes and metal floor stays not originally designed to be run nor considered legal under F1s original technical rules to be added. But Shovlin, Mercedes director of trackside engineering, has revealed that although the teams ... Keep reading
The British squad endured a difficult 2022 campaign as the team fell behind its WRC rivals, recording only one victory and a total of three podiums across 13 events with its Ford Puma Rally1. However, M-Sport has reshuffled its pack for 2023, signing 2019 world champion Tanak to lead its attack alongside Pierre-Louis Loubet, who has received a promotion to a full-time seat after an impressive ... Keep reading
In a wide-ranging interview with Motorsport.com's Spanish edition which covers MotoGP's new sprint race format, calendar changes and Dorna's operation of the series, Ezpeleta gives his take on F1's spike in interest and how MotoGP works concurrently alongside its four-wheel counterpart. Ezpeleta has given credit to F1's recent rise but feels these trends come in "waves", having previously see
The British racer spent two seasons in the Far East, one in 2007 in All-Japan Formula 3 with TOMS, and a second in 2014 in SUPER GT with SARD. But both times, he was tempted back to Europe for the following season by Audi. Jarvis was approached by TOMS to race in F3 in 2007 following his appearance in the Macau Grand Prix the previous autumn, which capped off a season in which he finished ... Keep reading
The 2021 series runner-up endured a trying first season with the one-car Drago squad following his off-season move from Dandelion Racing, scoring points just once all year with eighth place at Sugo. In a bid to bring more set-up ideas to the table, Drago opted to run ex-Team Goh driver Atsushi Miyake for the opening day of the Suzuka test, before Fukuzumi took over the #12 car for the second ... Keep reading
As reported by Motorsport.com earlier this year, KTM which shares a title sponsor in energy drinks giant Red Bull with the reigning F1 champions has been working closely with the team to develop its aerodynamics packages for 2023. PRIME:How MotoGPs underachiever is working to reverse its fortunes in 2023 KTM managed two victories in 2022 courtesy of the now RNF ... Keep reading
Ricciardo left the team at the end of this season after two difficult years that saw the high of victory in the 2021 Italian GP, but which generally left both parties frustrated as he tried to come to terms with the car. Stella insists that Ricciardo, who is returning to Red Bull Racing as reserve driver, had a positive impact on McLaren. "One point I would highlight from a race team point ... Keep reading
After taking over the former Force India outfit owner Lawrence Stroll launched a major recruitment drive, taking Fallows and other key names from Red Bull Racing, as well as deputy technical director Eric Blandin from Mercedes, and engineering director Luca Furbatto from Alfa Romeo. Fallows says the combination of newcomers from teams across the paddock and long-time members of the Silverstone ... Keep reading
Gasly led AlphaTauri to its highest points total in an F1 season through 2021, scoring 142 points en route to sixth in the constructors standings to mark the outfits best campaign including its time operating as Toro Rosso. But the team struggled to capitalise on the new regulations as it slipped back to ninth in 2022, picking up just 35 points between Gasly and team-mate Yuki ... Keep reading
Zhou became the first Chinese driver to race in F1 this year, joining Alfa Romeo alongside Valtteri Bottas to form an all-new driver line-up for the Swiss-based team. Ahead of his F1 debut, Zhou faced criticism and even racist abuse online as trolls claimed he only got the nod for the seat due to his nationality and the associated sponsorship. But Zhou hit back on debut in Bahrain ... Keep reading
Following the DTMs takeover by the ADAC, as the Gerhard Berger-led ITR organisation that previously promoted the series announced it would be disbanded, it was announced that DTM will run on Pirelli rubber next year. That brings it in line with the ADAC GT Masters series, which has subsequently been rebranded as DTM Endurance and realigned as a support series, and championships run by the ... Keep reading
Alonso finished his second season since returning to F1 ninth in the championship, but rued a number of missed opportunities due to recurring reliability problems that emerged throughout the season. The Spaniard was open in his frustration about the problems Alpine faced at times, believing it had cost him dozens of points that resulted in a head-to-head loss to teammate Esteban Ocon in ... Keep reading
In his third season of racing in Super Formula, and only his second full campaign after a 2021 season disrupted by visa problems, Kondo Racing driver Fenestraz emerged as defending champion Tomoki Nojiris strongest rival in the championship fight. While Nojiri ultimately claimed a second title with a round to spare, Fenestraz beat Ryo Hirakawa to the runner-up spot, winning at Sugo and ... Keep reading
The races in question are Rounds 6 and 7, to be held at Sugo and Autopolis respectively. Predictably, SUPER GT has moved to avoid a clash between the Sugo race and the Fuji round of the FIA World Endurance Championship by shifting its annual trip to Japan's Tohoku region back a week to September 16-17. The Autopolis round was previously scheduled for September 30-October 1, but will now ... Keep reading
The team, branded as Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport, will begin its partnership with two entries in the 2023 Roar Before the 24, the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 LMDh car in the GTP class and the #93 Harrison Contracting Company Acura NSX Evo22 in the GTD class. The newly formed team will also compete in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series. The announcement ... Keep reading
After ending last year ninth in the standings, Williams slumped back to 10th place as it struggled to match the midfield teams for form across the course of the season. Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and one-race stand-in Nyck de Vries all managed to pick up points for Williams, but the total of eight for the season still left it well adrift of ninth-placed AlphaTauri, which finished on 35 ... Keep reading
However, a combination of poor reliability, strategy and driver errors, and rapid progress from Red Bull, meant that the team was unable to sustain its championship challenge for long enough. But although its title hopes faded, that did not stop it trying to continue to eke out performance from its 2022 challenger. Ferrari airbox detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola As the F1-75 was ... Keep reading
Porsche has built its 963, which it will use to return to top-level prototype racing for the first time since 2017, to LMDh regulations the prototype GTP rules set for the American IMSA series. Along with Cadillac, it will race LMDh-homologated cars in the WEC against machinery built to Le Mans Hypercar regulations from manufacturers that include giants Ferrari, Peugeot and ... Keep reading
The Dutchman, a Formula E champion in the 2020-21 season with the Mercedes outfit, has earned a move to the AlphaTauri F1 squad to partner Yuki Tsunoda at the team. After impressing in his one-race cameo at Williams in 2022 as a late call-up to substitute for Alex Albon, de Vries sufficiently turned heads among Red Bull's higher-ups to earn the race seat vacated by Pierre Gasly. James, de ... Keep reading