Just over 100 days after the 2023 championship – in which Martin finished runner-up – concluded, the 2024 campaign began under the Losail lights on Saturday with the 11-lap sprint.Starting from pole, Martin – last year’s most successful rider in the sprints – led all 11 laps of the half-distanceContinue Reading
Marko’s future at the F1 squad had been the subject of speculation after it emerged that he was at risk of suspension amid an investigation into the alleged leaking of information surrounding the recent Christian Horner investigation.Speaking to Austrian television on Friday night, Marko had said there was a chanceContinue Reading
Herta lapped the 1.8-mile, 14-turn street circuit in his Honda-powered machine in 1m00.1331s, recording the fastest time of the weekend so far.This was a regular format session after yesterday’s trial of quickfire multiple split-format sessions, with all cars running throughout the 45 minutes this time.Kyle Kirkwood set the early paceContinue Reading
Maini started the feature race from pole position and with two points in his pocket, by virtue of Oliver Bearman’s withdrawal from the weekend in order to replace Carlos Sainz at the Ferrari Formula 1 outfit with the Spaniard rendered unfit through appendicitis.While the Invicta driver made a perfect start,Continue Reading
Bearman was called in after Sainz was ruled out of the rest of the Jeddah event due to appendicitis, with the Spaniard requiring surgery.The 18-year-old had to abandon his Prema F2 seat, having secured pole position for Saturday’s feature race, and only had FP3 in which to find his feetContinue Reading
Andretti Global driver Jamie Chadwick is adamant that podium results are possible in her sophomore Indy NXT campaign, which gets under way this weekend in St Petersburg. Chadwick finished 12th in last year’s drivers’ standings and was the fourth-best-placed rookie, recording a best finish of sixth in Portland towards theContinue Reading
Pramac rider Martin posted a sensational 1m50.789s flying lap on his first run in Saturday’s afternoon qualifying session to take the spot by 0.083 seconds over the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro.The Spanish rider, runner-up in the championship to Francesco Bagnaia last year, was on course to better his time onContinue Reading
The ex-grand prix racer is a former team principal at the Venturi Formula E team, until he joined Mercedes at the start of 2023 as its driver development director.Since then, the Belgian has been tasked with looking after Mercedes’ young driver programme alongside Gwen Lagrue.However, beyond those responsibilities, it wasContinue Reading
On Friday it emerged that Marko was under investigation by Red Bull’s parent company for alleged leaks to the media relating to the investigation into team boss Christian Horner’s behaviour.Marko and Red Bull director Oliver Mintzlaff are set for key talks on the matter on Saturday ahead of the SaudiContinue Reading
Bearman impressed the whole F1 paddock by jumping into Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari in Jeddah on Friday and qualifying 11th, having come close to bumping Hamilton out of Q3.At age 18 Hamilton won the 2003 Formula Renault UK title, before making his F3 debut in the Macau and Korea events atContinue Reading