Alex Marquez: First factory Ducati a long-overdue reward for underrated Gresini
Alex Marquez believes getting a factory-spec Ducati MotoGP bike is more of a reward for Gresini than him, saying the team doesn’t get the respect it deserves for its achievements in the paddock.Last week, it was announced that Ducati will expand its allocation of factory bikes from three to fourContinue Reading
Marc Marquez targets ‘closing the circle’ with comeback MotoGP title
Marc Marquez believes winning the 2025 MotoGP title would ‘close the circle’ for him after years of despair due to injuries and uncompetitive machinery.A crash at the start of the COVID-delayed 2020 season in Jerez forced Marquez to undergo four surgeries over the subsequent years and contemplate an early retirementContinue Reading
Bagnaia: I “threw away” 2025 MotoGP season as Marquez charges to title
Francesco Bagnaia feels he has “thrown away” the 2025 MotoGP season, conceding that lacking solutions for his troubles on the Ducati GP25 left him powerless to challenge Marc Marquez for the title.While Marquez has been in dominant form ever since he jumped on the factory Ducati this year, Bagnaia hasContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia “threw away” 2025 MotoGP season as Marc Marquez closes in on title
Francesco Bagnaia feels he has “thrown away” the 2025 MotoGP season, conceding that lacking solutions for his troubles on the Ducati GP25 left him powerless to challenge Marc Marquez for the title.While Marquez has been in dominant form ever since he jumped on the factory Ducati this year, Bagnaia hasContinue Reading
Grosjean to make Haas F1 return in TPC outing at Mugello
Romain Grosjean will drive Haas’ 2023 Formula 1 car at Mugello on Friday, marking his first run in F1 machinery since his horrific Bahrain Grand Prix accident in 2020.A stalwart of the team in its early years, Grosjean joined Haas in 2016 and scored 104 points during his five seasonsContinue Reading
Why DRS has been even more ineffective at Monza and Baku in F1 2025
It’s amazing to think that the drag reduction system has been a part of Formula 1 for 15 seasons.Developed as a way to mitigate the chances of processional races, it’s become a part of the furniture – but in the eyes of many, only akin to a mismatched chair stuckContinue Reading
NASCAR TV ratings from New Hampshire
National Football League TV ratings continue to set what the networks state as records on Sundays, three weeks into the 2025 season, and NASCAR continued a corresponding swoon.The Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday drew an average of 1.29 million viewers for a 0.70 share onContinue Reading
‘More to life’ than Cup for Rodney Childers in JR Motorsport move
This past summer has been a sort of personal revelation for Rodney Childers.When the veteran crew chief parted ways with Spire Motorsports and driver Justin Haley after just nine races in April, Childers felt like getting back to the Cup Series and winning races and contending for the championship wasContinue Reading
Rodney Childers to join JR Motorsports as a crew chief in 2026
Rodney Childers will be back atop the pit box in 2026, working as a crew chief for JR Motorsports and the No. 1 Chevrolet.Childers brings with him the experience of over 600 Cup races, including 40 race wins and the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series championship with Kevin Harvick. He joined SpireContinue Reading
JA on F1 Podcast: Immortalising the man who made Ferrari great again
This week James Allen welcomes Manish Pandey, the film maker and master storyteller who shot to prominence with the award-winning 2010 documentary Senna, which he made with Asif Kapadia and James Gay Rees of Drive to Survive fame. Since then Manish has followed up, gaining exclusive access to F1’s ringmasterContinue Reading