Earlier this week, Liberty announced that it had acquired 86% ownership of Dorna Sports and the MotoGP World Championship in a deal worth €4.2 billion.Under Liberty’s ownership, MotoGP hopes to replicate the success F1 has had in breaking through to a wider audience since the American media giant took itContinue Reading
During FP1, the only dry Friday session, Melbourne winner Carlos Sainz set the best time of the Ferrari duo during a short flurry of hot laps conducted on softs but was nonetheless 0.213s shy of Max Verstappen’s headline effort.In the meantime, Leclerc was eclipsed by both McLarens and stacked upContinue Reading
Coming into 2024, only three riders had contracts in their back pockets which guaranteed them a place on the 2025 grid.That number has now jumped to six with the latest announcement that Fabio Quartararo has signed on with Yamaha for two more years.Here is how the grid is shaping upContinue Reading
Watch the livestream of the 2024 WSK Open Series Round 1 action at Franciacorta Karting Track. SourceContinue Reading
Autosport understands that over the recent Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend, Stroll presented pre-eminent F1 designer Newey with a big-money bid to move.Although Newey has turned down opportunities to leave Red Bull since joining in 2006, most notably rejecting advances from Ferrari, such a statement signing would help Aston MartinContinue Reading
Before deciding to extend his contract with Yamaha – a deal announced on Friday – Fabio Quartararo had to choose between following two paths: to be competitive again as soon as possible, or to consider a more long-term and lucrative route. Yamaha’s lack of progress makes it very difficult forContinue Reading
Max Verstappen and Red Bull led the way in opening practice for Formula 1’s 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, but this was far from a repeat affair of the opening day from the 2023 event at Suzuka just six months ago.This time, in the cooler April climate, rain intervened to limitContinue Reading
A new way of allocating wet-weather rubber for 2024 meant teams were reluctant to use any intermediate tyres in Suzuka’s damp FP2 session because they wanted to save them for later in the weekend.It meant that drivers sat in garages for most of the session, with the only major runningContinue Reading
The F1 world champion led a Red Bull 1-2 in opening practice which was red-flagged midway through as Logan Sargeant crashed heavily, which ruled him out of FP2 as his Williams car was repaired.But the American driver missed relatively little running as damp conditions meant no representative running in theContinue Reading
If you’ve got an exciting new technology you’d like to see used throughout the varied world of sportscar racing, there are two organisations you need to be working with.The first of these, of course, is the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), the body behind the Le Mans 24 Hours andContinue Reading