Red Bull have decided to continue with their experienced driver Sergio Perez for 2022. The team announced on Friday that the Mexican will continue race alongside Max Verstappen in an unchanged lineup for next season. This will mark the 31-year-old’s 11th season in Formula 1. Since joining from Racing Point at the beginning of this…
Max Verstappen set the fastest time during second practice for Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix before crashing out of the session. Verstappen clocked a time of 1:44.472s on Soft tyres in cool conditions at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, following earlier rain, to narrowly head Mercedes pair Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton. Bottas and Hamilton finished…
The Sepang Racing Team will quit MotoGP at the end of the year and be replaced by a start-up squad, its team principal has announced. The news follows a tumultuous period for the Yamaha satellite squad, which was preparing for the loss of naming rights partner Petronas and subsequently planned to axe its Moto2 and…
Marc Marquez led the way in opening practice for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone despite a nasty crash at Maggots that ultimately ended the session early. Marquez looked at ease around the fast curves of Silverstone from the get-go, swapping fastest times with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo throughout the early stages of the test before…
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will battle Red Bull Racing this weekend with new engines. Both drivers have put in their third and final power unit at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Logically, the changes are not accompanied by grid penalties. Hamilton and Bottas will drive this weekend with a new exhaust, MGU-H, MGH-K and turbocharger. The…
Valtteri Bottas posted the fastest time in first practice for the Belgian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton finished 18th. On Formula One’s return to action at Spa-Francorchamps following the sport’s four-week summer break, Bottas edged out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by 0.164 seconds. Hamilton, who leads Verstappen by eight points in his bid for a…
Mick Schumacher says he’s excited to take to track at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix because it is 30 years on from his father Michael’s Formula 1 debut, but also a track he has performed well at in the junior series’. Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher made his F1 debut at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix…
Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez are likely to face grid penalties before the end of the 2021 Formula 1 season with both Red Bull drivers losing a power unit due to crash damage. The pair lost the second of their three permitted engines for the season as a result of irreparable damage picked up in…
Maverick Viñales will begin his Aprilia career with a two-day test at the end of this month, the team has confirmed. The Spaniard, who was team-mate to MotoGP championship leader Fabio Quartararo at Yamaha until his contract was terminated last week, will test at Misano as he begins his preparation for the 2022 season with…
Formula 1 has announced that Netflix’s acclaimed series ‘Drive to Survive’ will return for a fourth season next year. The popular ten-episode docuseries will cover the drama of the 2021 season by relying once again on its behind-the-scenes approach to storytelling. Netflix has yet to set a date for ‘Drive to Survive’ Season 4, but…
This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix looks set to run in cool and generally damp conditions, with a risk of fog and rain showers. Temperatures will be consistently on the low side, climbing no higher than 17C at any point over the coming three days of track action.Although the race is still three days away, wet…
If Ferrari had not produced such a poor engine in 2020, Alfa Romeo may never have been “brave” enough to evolve. After a series of technical directives relating to engines in 2019 coincided with a drop in performance for Ferrari, their issues grew further as the Scuderia slumped to the lower reaches of the 2020…
Alpine has confirmed that Fernando Alonso will continue to partner Esteban Ocon in 2022. The extension of the Spaniard’s contract signals the continuation of an already strong collaboration, fresh off the back of its historic maiden victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, in which the two-time world champion played a pivotal role. In just six…
Aston Martin has struck another major blow when it comes to its recruitment campaign. This time, the British team has recruited Heath Cade who will be Chief People Officer for the team. What makes it so special that Cade has been recruited by Aston Martin is the fact that he previously worked as the Human…
Valtteri Bottas’ five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix is “not a real punishment”, Red Bull have claimed. The Finn was given the sanction by the stewards after causing the multi-car collision at the start in Hungary, which left Max Verstappen’s car damaged and wiped out Sergio Perez. However, given the usual pace advantage…
Marc Marquez admits that he is “not enjoying” his long recovery from breaking an arm in last year’s Spanish MotoGP round, more than a year ago now. Marquez crashed violently on July 19, 2020 at Jerez and, after an aborted comeback attempt just a week later, ultimately had three operations to correct his broken right…
