Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was able to exchange spoken messages with team manager Davide Tardozzi over radio during Tuesday’s MotoGP test in Barcelona.In the first minutes of the official test at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, an intercom that Dorna had been developing was installed in Pirro’s helmet before heContinue Reading
The talk ahead of this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will be about Max Verstappen being set to win his fourth consecutive Formula 1 world championship. He can seal it in the race on Saturday night by finishing ahead of nearest challenger Lando Norris and it is absolutely right that theContinue Reading
Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala believes it could take “an almost perfect” Rally Japan to wrestle the World Rally Championship manufacturers’ crown from Hyundai.The Japanese marque heads into the season finale on home soil sitting 15 points adrift of rivals Hyundai in the fight for the constructors’ honours.Toyota has claimedContinue Reading
Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola will become the new president of the MotoGP World Championship Constructors’ Association (MMSA), Autosport has learned.The Italian was chosen in a vote that took place on Monday during preparation for the official post-season test at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.With his election, Rivola will replace KTM CEOContinue Reading
The FIA’s prototype method for its new Formula 1 cooling device involves cooled water being pumped around driver overalls, with different design approaches permitted in future rules, Autosport can reveal.Last week, the results of the latest meeting of the F1 Commission declared that a new driver cooling provision will beContinue Reading
The latest episode of the Autosport podcast reviews a 2024 British GT season that went down to the wire at Brands Hatch.In the GT3 division, Rob Collard became a champion for a second time with the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini squad, but this time the 2020 title-winner’s success was a familyContinue Reading
Susie Wolff is certain that F1 Academy will one day stand on its own two feet as a symbol that motorsport is no longer exclusively a man’s world.The 2025 calendar has now been announced as the female-only series continues to build, with a culminating race in Las Vegas set toContinue Reading
Marc Marquez will make his debut as a factory Ducati team rider in Tuesday’s official MotoGP test in Barcelona wearing an all-red suit without personal sponsorship branding on a one-off basis.The Spaniard will start a new chapter in 2025 and will once again have all the muscle that drives a factoryContinue Reading
The Las Vegas Strip Circuit will host the 2025 finale of the F1 Academy season – which will once again consist of seven rounds.The street track is one of three new additions for the female-only series, with Shanghai and Montreal also joining the calendar from next year.The seven rounds willContinue Reading
As Jorge Martin stood in parc ferme at the Barcelona circuit wearing the Terminator overalls that commemorated his first MotoGP championship title, a figure watched him from afar, diluted in the people who crowded the pitlane, standing next to Jorge Lorenzo.Xero Gasol is a psychologist who is used to workingContinue Reading