Formula 1 has announced Lenovo as its latest global partner in a deal that will see the technology company become the title sponsor of two grand prix from the 2025 season onwards.Having previously been an official partner of F1, Lenovo has now taken a step up to join the biggest sponsors in the series, including the likes of Aramco, Heineken, Qatar Airways and American Express.The deal sees ... Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia has said sorry for criticising Alex Marquez after they collided and crashed out of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix last weekend.Reigning MotoGP world champion Bagnaia was furious with the Gresini rider, claiming the accident was "dangerous" and said Marquez "didn't stop accelerating until he threw me off".Once the Italian had simmered down, the two had a private meeting in a Ducati .
Fabio Quartararo has said it has been a long time since I enjoyed the bike like today as he broke into Q2 directly for Yamaha for just the third time this MotoGP season.A result of recent testing mileage at Misano or are Yamaha finally making gains? This was the question after the 2021 MotoGP world champion roamed the top 10 of a MotoGP practice session in which the top 14 riders were split ... Keep reading
Bryn Lucas is joined again by Jake Boxall-Legge and Filip Cleeren as they continue their analysis of the Italian Grand Prix.On this episode, they discuss Kimi Antonelli's exciting F1 debut, with the 18-year-old showing scintillating pace until a crash at the Parabolica on his second hot lap put him in the wall. A promising sign for his talent, a reckless crash on debut, or something else entirely? ... Keep reading
MotoGP is still dealing with the after-effects of Francesco Bagnaia's collision with Alex Marquez in the Aragon Grand Prix.While Marc Marquez'sstunning comeback win in Spain after a 1000-day drought generated plenty of headlines, much of the weekend was dominated by reactions and public judgement over the crash between his younger brother Alex and world champion Bagnaia six laps from the ... Keep reading
How an organisation responds to criticism is always a true test of its leadership. And Motorsport UK has passed that assessment in recent days, following the uproar sparked by its consultation into plans to overhaul series regulations and place severe restrictions on their calendars and names.Yes, the furore was completely unnecessary and avoidable, but the governing body equally deserves credit ... Keep reading
Hyundais Ott Tanak has regained the Acropolis Rally lead while Adrien Fourmauxs pursuit of a maiden World Rally Championship victory has come to a halt.Tanak moved into a five-second rally lead when he took advantage of a mysterious issue for rally leader Sebastien Ogiers Toyota GR Yaris on stage five.Ogier had been running strongly before dropping time in the final split of the 21.67km ... Keep reading
Sacha Fenestraz's Formula E career hangs in the balance following confirmation that he will not be part of Nissans line-up for the 2024-25 season.Fenestraz first joined the all-electric series in 2022-23 with Nissan, but endured a difficult sophomore campaign in which he was comprehensively beaten by team-mate Oliver Rowland.While Rowland won two races and was an outside title contender ... Keep reading
The ambitions of any Formula 1 engineering project are always geared towards moving the team involved further up the grid.The Komatsu-Williams Engineering Academy is no different and has similar long-term aspirations but a whole lot more besides.The programme was launched on Thursday, with the aim of attracting new and previously untapped talent.A launch event was staged on the rooftop of the ... Keep reading
With a background in karting, F3 and F2, the German driver has been competing in the electric single-seater world championship since 2018. He was a regular with BMW i Andretti, Nissan e-dams and Maserati before joining the most successful team in the championship at the end of his sixth season. He becomes the new team-mate of Jean-Eric Vergne, a historic driver for DS Automobiles, who won his ... Keep reading
Renowned technician Alberto Giribuola has joined the Tech3 squad as the new crew chief to Augusto Fernandez, in a move the Spaniard says has restored his confidence.Giribuola was spotted in Tech3 colours at the Aragon Grand Prix as opposed to his usual KTM orange, having been the factory squads performance engineer since the start of 2023.But the Italian has replaced Alex Merhand as ... Keep reading
Porsche is not expecting a second team to join Proton Competition in running its 963 LMDh in the World Endurance Championship next year.Thomas Laudenbach, boss of Porsche Motorsport, has revealed that at present there are no other teams in the frame to purchase a 963 for 2025 when the marques customer contingent will be reduced on Jotas switch to Cadillac to become its factory team.It ... Keep reading
As is the nature of new motorsport deals that bind multiple parties together, it is the length of the contract which often generates the headlines.So when Dorna and the FIM announced that they had signed a new long-term extension until 2060, all the attention was on the duration of the deal.There was no mention of the money paid by Dorna to the FIM for the extension, or indeed that the previous ... Keep reading
Maximilian Guenther will race for DS Penske in the upcoming 2024-25 Formula E campaign alongside double champion Jean-Eric Vergne.The German will take the place of 2021-22 champion Stoffel Vandoorne, who was confirmed as having joined Maserati MSG back in July.The 27-year-old joins DS Penske having spent two seasons with Maserati MSG, during which time he won two races in Jakarta and Tokyo but ... Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier moved into the lead of the Acropolis Rally after an eventful opening loop where power issues struck his World Rally Championship title rivals Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans.A blistering effort on the final stage of a particularly arduous gravel loop helped Toyota driver Ogier regain the rally lead he held after winning the opening stage, to head to service with a 5.9s ... Keep reading
Often referred to as the European Safari given the arduous road conditions, this weekends World Rally Championship Acropolis Rally is likely to be even tougher than its African counterpart.WRC drivers are set to face possibly the roughest Acropolis Rally in recent memory thanks to series of contributing factors that has resulted in much rougher stage conditions.The Greek round of the WRC ... Keep reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says that its Formula 1 results since the summer break have been impacted by its car being more on the edge.The German manufacturer had gone into the shutdown period buoyed by three victories in four races with George Russell having triumphed in Austria and Lewis Hamilton adding wins in Britain and Belgium.But since F1 returned to action in the Netherlands ... Keep reading
1m31.447s. The fastest lap of the 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix, set by Pedro de la Rosa, remains the official lap record at the Sakhir circuit - something the Spaniard will boast about whenever the opportunity arises. And it doesn't take him even a second to name the McLaren MP4-20 his favourite car of all time.The McLaren of the 2005 season was a formidable weapon in the hands of Juan Pablo Montoya ... Keep reading
Red Bull is pretty open that it needs to quickly turn around the performance of its RB20 if it is to avoid losing both Formula 1 championships this year.But saying what it wants is one thing, doing it is another especially because it does not yet have a clear explanation on what has gone wrong.We can forget wild conspiracy theories about the FIA asking for devices to be removed from its car ... Keep reading
Drivers had plenty of adjectives to describe the opening round of the 2024 NASCAR Cup playoffs, and most were just synonyms for chaos.For the first time, the Round of 16 will feature a drafting track and a road course, just as in the Round of 12. That will likely factor into this being the most unpredictable playoffs yet, and the drivers are weary of what lies ahead.In the spring, a whopping 16 ... Keep reading
Jorge Martin was just over a second away from his MotoGP lap record at Misano and a slender 0.037s faster than Aragon winner Marc Marquez in opening practice for the San Marino Grand Prix.In hot and sunny conditions, Martin, who is struggling with the residue of a stomach virus and is at less than peak fitness, set his best effort on his 13th of 20 laps in the session to top FP1 ahead of Marc ... Keep reading
Williams Formula 1 team boss James Vowles says he was impressed with how the team's rookie driver Franco Colapinto managed a mid-season debut in Italy.Williams academy driver Colapinto was promoted to a race seat at the expense of Logan Sargeant in between a busy double-header of Zandvoort and Monza, making his debut at the Italian Grand Prix on the back of just a single free practice session in ... Keep reading
Im just going to check your neck for any soreness. Stood at the side of a race track with a medic gently massaging my neck was not what this writer had on his bingo card last month, but then neither was having my first proper crash in a racing car.I say crash because, although I did hit the barrier, it was perhaps the most uneventful collision theres ever been. The ... Keep reading
MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia has responded to recent form threats from Marc Marquez and Jorge Martin to set the fastest lap at Misano on Friday.Bagnaia was quickest in hot afternoon temperatures at the San Marino Grand Prix and his home circuit where he won MotoGP races in 2021 and 2022.The Italian is still struggling to change direction smoothly on the GP24, after his crash in Aragon ... Keep reading
One-time Formula 1 team-mates Ollie Bearman and Charles Leclerc share much common ground beyond their shared experience racing Ferraris SF-24 around Jeddahs high-speed city track blast.While racing full-time in the lower formulas, they both made several practice appearances for the Haas squad where Bearman is now set to make an unscheduled early debut in place of Kevin Magnussen at next ... Keep reading