Toprak Razgatlioglu admitted he is “angry” and losing motivation after struggling to get up to speed with his Yamaha MotoGP bike in the Sepang test.Reigning World Superbike champion Razgatlioglu has been accumulating miles in official pre-season testing in Malaysia over the past two weeks, gathering vital information for his highly anticipatedContinue Reading
MotoGP riders used the closing day of the Sepang test in Malaysia to focus on race simulations, and among Ducati’s contingent it was Alex Marquez who posted the strongest sustained pace, ahead of both Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez. In terms of outright times, Ducati once again appeared strong, with fourContinue Reading
Alex Marquez ended MotoGP’s Sepang pre-season test at the top on Thursday, as Yamaha returned to action after resolving its recent engine concerns.Gresini rider Marquez set a best time of 1m56.402s on his factory-spec Ducati GP26, comfortably eclipsing Joan Mir’sWednesday benchmark of 1m56.874s.His effort was also just a fraction shyContinue Reading
Lando Norris’s battle to become Formula 1 world champion was one of the most fraught with challenges in recent years. The 26-year-old did the job in 2025 after a season-long battle with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, while Max Verstappen entered the frame across the final rounds – but it wasContinue Reading
The 2026 Williams Formula 1 car finally hit the track for the first time with a shakedown at Silverstone just a week after the British squad skipped the Barcelona shakedown.F1 hosted its first collective test of the 2026 season last week with five days of private running at the CatalanContinue Reading
Although every Formula 1 team has some degree of confidence that it has chosen the best platform for 2026’s new rules, it pays to build some leeway into the design – giving the engineers space to adapt to emerging trends.The best approach should become clear over the opening rounds. BackContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia is becoming increasingly comfortable on Ducati’s 2026 MotoGP bike following the second day of pre-season testing at Sepang.Having already been encouraged by an initial run on a prototype version of the GP26 in November, Bagnaia has largely been able to confirm those positive impressions in Malaysia this week.AsContinue Reading
George Russell is eager to contest a Formula 1 title battle against Max Verstappen in 2026 with the Mercedes driver heading into the campaign as the world championship favourite. F1 will introduce a new set of regulations this year meaning the car is completely new and with such wholesale changes, theContinue Reading
Yamaha has decided to suspend all on-track activity during the second day of the Sepang MotoGP test while it works to determine the cause of the issue that forced Fabio Quartararo to stop on Tuesday.The Frenchman crashed at Turn 5 of the Malaysian circuit on the opening day of theContinue Reading
Peter Falk should rightfully be remembered as a true Porsche legend. The engineer, who recently died aged 93, played key roles in the success of the Stuttgart marque’s two most famous racing sportscars, the 917 and 956/962.Falk was present as the lead engineer from Porsche at the Osterriechring test inContinue Reading