Valentino Rossi has spoken out against the tight Turn 10 left-hander of the Barcelona circuit where he was taken out in the Catalan Grand Prix, dubbing it “supermarket parking”. Rossi, along with Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales and Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, was collected by the crashing Jorge Lorenzo at Turn 10 on the second lap of
Andrea Iannone says Aprilia test rider Bradley Smith, who collided with team-mate Aleix Espargaro on lap one, was “really dangerous” in the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix. Smith was making his third wildcard race appearance of the 2019 season for Aprilia, and was attempting to move his way up from the last row of the grid
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Sebastien Loeb took a rally car back to his home region of Alsace and won for the first time since 2012 last weekend. The nine-time world champion was competing in the Vosges Rally – the event which used to form the basis for France’s mainland round of the World Rally
Pirelli Formula 1 boss Mario Isola says it is wrong to assume that switching to last year’s tyres would help teams struggling with the 2019 specification. Amid Mercedes’ dominant start to the season, Pirelli’s thinner-tread 2019 tyres have been criticised by several teams for being too difficult to get to their optimal working temperature. That
Andrea Dovizioso believes Jorge Lorenzo was not thinking clearly when he made his “big mistake” and caused the Barcelona MotoGP multi-bike pile-up. Dovizioso was battling championship rival Marc Marquez for the lead of the Catalan Grand Prix when he was wiped out by former Ducati team-mate Lorenzo, who lost control of his Honda while trying
Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo has avoided a penalty for causing the crash that took three other riders out of the Catalan Grand Prix on Sunday. Lorenzo lost control of his bike when trying to overtake Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales for third place at the inside of the sharp Turn 10 left-hander on the second lap.
Honda’s Jorge Lorenzo accepts the blame for causing the multi-bike pile-up that also eliminated Maverick Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso from MotoGP’s Catalan Grand Prix. Lorenzo said he was “too excited” after making a strong start to the race as he was running fourth behind Vinales on lap two and is yet to finish
Catalan Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez says his Honda MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo “was not out of control” when he caused a multi-rider crash on lap two of Sunday’s race. Lorenzo launched from 10th on the grid to run fourth at the start of the second lap, and was going for a move on the
Aprilia test rider Bradley Smith has been given a three-place grid penalty for his next MotoGP appearance for causing his collision with team-mate Aleix Espargaro in the Catalan Grand Prix. Smith was making his third of five scheduled wildcard appearances on the RS-GP in 2019 this weekend at Barcelona, and was following Espargaro at the
The Toyota World Rally Championship team has explained that a steering problem cost Ott Tanak Rally Italy victory. Tanak led Sardinian event by nearly half a minute going onto the final stage and looked set to collect a fourth win of the season and third in a row. Instead, he suffered a heartbreaking final-stage failure
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez dominated the Catalan Grand Prix at Barcelona, after a crash for his Honda team-mate Jorge Lorenzo took Andrea Dovizioso and the two factory Yamahas out. Lorenzo, who had charged from 10th on the grid to join the lead battle, fell at the sharp Turn 10 left-hander while trying to pass
Ferrari’s Formula 1 engine has a power mode that Mercedes cannot match at the moment, reckons championship leader Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes has won all seven grands prix so far this season and Hamilton has taken five of those victories, with the most recent coming in controversial circumstances last weekend in Canada. Sebastian Vettel’s lost victory
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo sensationally won Rally Italy, as Toyota’s Ott Tanak appeared to lose his power steering on the final stage of the rally. Tanak headed onto the powerstage 26.7 seconds ahead of Sordo, but plummeted down to fifth after spinning his Toyota and losing two minutes as he wrestled with
Romain Grosjean says time spent driving a 125cc gearbox kart reiterated how Formula 1 needs to change, because it left him “more tired” than racing in a grand prix. The Haas driver and Grand Prix Drivers Association director has been a key advocate of F1’s rules changing so drivers can push more during races. While
Toyota driver Ott Tanak is two stages away from a third consecutive World Rally Championship event victory as he leads Rally Italy by 28.7 seconds over Dani Sordo. The battle between Tanak and Hyundai driver Sordo was fierce throughout Saturday, but the contest defused on Sunday morning. Tanak was quicker than his rival through both
Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak has pulled clear of Hyundai rival Dani Sordo to lead Rally Italy by 25.9 seconds with four stages remaining on Sunday. Tanak began Saturday 11.2s shy of Sordo, but won all three of the morning’s tests to rocket into a 6.4s lead heading into the afternoon loop. He
Valentino Rossi was among a number of MotoGP riders puzzled by an “incredible” loss of grip at the Barcelona circuit compared to the year before. Catalunya was resurfaced in 2018, and Jorge Lorenzo recorded both the new all-time MotoGP lap record and the fastest race lap at the circuit during that year’s Catalan Grand Prix
Jorge Lorenzo says his Catalan Grand Prix weekend is “the most consistent” of his debut Honda MotoGP season so far, after he secured 10th in qualifying on a modified RC213V. The triple premier class champion went Honda’s Japanese factory following the Italian Grand Prix to work on ergonomic solutions to allow him to ride the
Petronas Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo secured the second pole position of his first MotoGP season in Catalan Grand Prix qualifying at Barcelona. Quartararo, who bagged his sole Moto2 win at the same venue last year and had arm pump surgery in the lead-up to this weekend, beat Honda’s championship leader Marc Marquez by 0.015 seconds.
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton believes he hit a “sweet spot” in form during 2018 and has managed to maintain it ever since. Hamilton has won five of this season’s grands prix so far and is now 29 points clear of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the championship battle. In 2018 he took control
Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak surged past Hyundai’s Dani Sordo on Saturday morning as the pair’s Rally Italy lead battle intensified. Tanak selected a different tyre strategy to his immediate rivals Sordo and Teemu Suninen, who both chose five hard compound tyres for the loop. Tanak went with three mediums and two hards,
Making Formula 1 cars more physical would not guarantee modern drivers end races exhausted because they are so much fitter than those in previous decades, reckons Franz Tost. F1 switched to more aggressive, faster cars in 2017 but world champion Lewis Hamilton has spoken out more than once this season about drivers needing to face
The FIA has confirmed the introduction of a new generation of hybrid powered cars for the 2022 World Rally Championship. In a raft of decisions coming from World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris on Friday, the governing body has also raised the potential for the reintroduction of C segment World Rally cars, as well
Formula 1 practice sessions will count towards a driver’s bid to gain a superlicence from 2020, while W Series is to be formally added to the list of qualifying categories. To race in F1 a driver must earn 40 ‘superlicence points’ across three seasons in order to be eligible for a superlicence. The list of
Formula 1 practice sessions will count towards a driver’s bid to gain a superlicence from 2020, while W Series is to be formally added to the list of qualifying categories. To race in F1 a driver must earn 40 ‘superlicence points’ across three seasons in order to be eligible for a superlicence. The list of
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo has inherited the lead of Rally Italy after a number of drivers were given notional times. Sordo began the afternoon loop 0.7 seconds behind Toyota’s Ott Tanak in third, and duly beat his rival by that same 0.7s to draw level with Tanak heading into stage seven. But
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo is expected to inherit the lead of Rally Italy when nominal times from a stage cancellation are finalised. Sordo began the afternoon loop 0.7 seconds behind Toyota’s Ott Tanak in third, and duly beat his rival by that same 0.7s to draw level with Tanak heading into stage
KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco has labelled rumours linking him to Honda in World Superbikes for 2020 “bulls**t”, and says the person who started them should “lose his job”. The double Moto2 champion has struggled to adapt from the Tech3 Yamaha to the KTM so far this season, with a rise in tensions between Zarco
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff wants a discussion with Formula 1 stakeholders to establish new rules for 2021 that allow drivers to engage in “harder racing”. Wolff’s driver Lewis Hamilton won last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix because on-the-road victor Sebastian Vettel was slapped with a five-second time penalty after going off the circuit while leading,
MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix Friday pacesetter Fabio Quartararo says he “didn’t expect” to be so quick having undergone surgery on an arm-pump issue just over a week ago. The Petronas SRT rider underwent the operation last Tuesday in Barcelona, having experienced arm-pump problems during his run to 10th at the Italian Grand Prix. Quartararo was