Ducati celebrated a 1-2 in Japan on Sunday, with Francesco Bagnaia dominating from pole to return to winning ways and Marc Marquez finishing second to secure his seventh MotoGP title.Japanese fans were also treated to a Honda podium as Joan Mir crossed the finish line in third on the factoryContinue Reading
In four months, Formula 1 teams will bring their first iteration of the all-new 2026 cars to an end-of-January shakedown test in Barcelona. But to streamline the development process, predicting those pre-season performance levels has to be done right now.The vast scale of the regulation changes, with new rules onContinue Reading
While Matthew Ryder had already sealed the 2025 British Hillclimb Championship, the final wins of a mighty season fell to Alex Summers and Wallace Menzies as the campaign finished at Loton Park in Shropshire.The daunting schedule of 30 championship run-offs across 13 events came to a conclusion over the weekend,Continue Reading
The bond between Marc Marquez and Mick Doohan was forged out of two seemingly opposing forces: success and pain. Perhaps for that very reason, Marquez turned to the Australian’s advice when he found himself at his lowest, when the injury to his right arm – one that required four surgeries – broughtContinue Reading
It seemed only right to congratulate Bruno Famin, Alpine’s vice-president of motorsport, on the marque’s first World Endurance Championship victory with its A424 LMDh. Your correspondent stuck out his hand on seeing him after the race at Fuji on Sunday, and quipped: “I didn’t see that one coming!” His reply?Continue Reading
Sauber boss Jonathan Wheatley has dismissed any concerns over Nico Hulkenberg being regularly beaten by rookie Formula 1 team-mate Gabriel Bortoleto in qualifying.Bortoleto has a 13-7 record over Hulkenberg this year, 11-6 without sprints, in what has been an impressive campaign for the reigning F2 champion who has five Q3Continue Reading
Fernando Alonso has spent much of the second act of his Formula 1 career pondering his luck and, amid the swings between the better years and more common leaner spells, he has concluded that over a decade without an F1 win “doesn’t sound right”. The two-time champion’s last F1 victory remainsContinue Reading
Jose Luis Martinez, Marc Marquez’s assistant and confidant, reveals the keys to one of the most epic comebacks in sports history – one that almost never happened. “When we came back from Lombok, he told me he was done, that he couldn’t go on,” Martinez recalls.Martinez is much more than anContinue Reading
Gigi Dall’Igna, Ducati’s general manager and one of the main advocates for signing Marc Marquez, has praised the Spaniard’s vision in plotting his return to the MotoGP crown, which he secured this Sunday.Any doubts surrounding Ducati’s choice of Marquez over Jorge Martin as Francesco Bagnaia’s team-mate for 2025 vanished atContinue Reading
Marc Marquez bet on himself when he chose to carry on in MotoGP after years of pain, surgeries and lingering questions over whether his body could still endure the demands of elite competition.He had once promised his late grandfather that he would start again from scratch, and if he couldn’tContinue Reading