Pirelli hopes to test its new MotoGP tyres with 2027-spec prototypes and full-time riders “halfway through” next year’s calendar.With just over a year remaining before Pirelli replaces Michelin as the official tyre supplier in the premier class, none of the regular riders on the grid have yet been able to sample the Milan-basedContinue Reading
With the 2025 Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi, the regulatory cycle of the ground-effect cars has come to an end. The regulations introduced in 2022 had three aims: improving racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely, closing up the field, and creating a sustainable championshipContinue Reading
The 2025 MotoGP world championship concluded last month in Valencia, with Marc Marquez clinching his seventh premier class title. Now, during the winter break before 2026 begins with the Sepang test in early February, it’s time to look back at the season that just ended.One way to gauge how comfortableContinue Reading
Outgoing Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko said his “most intimate” relationship with a Formula 1 driver has been with Max Verstappen, whom he believes to be improving even further.Marko is ending a 25-year stint as Red Bull’s lead talent scout, having headed its young driver programme since 2001. Over thatContinue Reading
The governance agreement forms the second part of the Formula 1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signed ahead of March’s Australian Grand Prix and will cover the period between 2026 to 2030.Governing body the FIA and FOM jointly announced the agreement in the margins of thisContinue Reading
Formula 1 management, governing body the FIA and all 11 teams have signed the latest 2026 Concorde Governance Agreement, which sets out how the series is run for the next five seasons.The governance agreement forms the second part of the F1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signedContinue Reading
Ai Ogura says it “kills” him that a fifth-place result on his MotoGP debut was an outlier in a rookie season that he described as “nothing special”. The Trackhouse rider turned heads when he stepped up to MotoGP at the start of the year in Buriram, qualifying his satellite Aprilia onContinue Reading
After standing unopposed, Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected for another term as FIA president – ahead of the motorsport governing body’s prize-giving night in Uzbekistan on Friday.The 64-year-old Emirati will thus remain as the FIA’s leader for another four years, having succeeded Jean Todt at the end of 2021. AlthoughContinue Reading
Kondo Racing has come out in defence of Jack Doohan following the ex-Formula 1 driver’s troubled maiden Super Formula test blighted by three crashes at the same corner.Driving for the Toyota-powered Kondo squad in this week’s Suzuka post-season test ahead of a likely switch to Japan next year, Doohan hitContinue Reading
Lancia has unveiled its driver line-up ahead of its long-awaited return to the World Rally Championship next year.The Italian brand that won a record 10 WRC manufacturers’ titles named Yohan Rossel and Nikolay Gryazin as its drivers for its comeback, which will see the automaker contest the second tier WRC2Continue Reading