Pedro Acosta explains what KTM needs to close the gap to Aprilia in MotoGP
Pedro Acosta believes cornering remains the key area where KTM’s MotoGP bike is falling short of pacesetter Aprilia in the early part of the 2026 season. Aprilia dominated the opening three flyaway rounds across Asia and the Americas, with factory rider Marco Bezzecchi extending a winning streak that began with the Portuguese GP at the tail […]
Ott Tanak lands 2027 WRC car testing role with Toyota
Ott Tanak has taken on a test driver role at Toyota to help develop the Japanese marque’s all-new car for the 2027 World Rally Championship. As first reported by Dirtfish, Toyota has since confirmed to Motorsport.com that the 2019 world champion has joined the team to help with the development of its 2027 WRC challenger, […]
bringing Glastonbury glam to Silverstone
For many years the finest comestible one could look forward to at the British Grand Prix was a greasy bacon sandwich. The home of the first world championship race spent a long time running on the fumes of former glories, slipping ever further behind the times, arguably reaching its nadir in PR terms in 2002 when […]
‘With the BoP hidden, part of the race story will be missing’
Ferrari says the decision to keep Balance of Performance data secret in the 2026 World Endurance Championship will take away a key element of the ‘race narrative’. Earlier this week, it emerged that the WEC will no longer publish BoP figures in 2026, with any information kept private between the teams and the series. Previously, […]
The weakness behind Marco Bezzecchi’s dominant MotoGP start
Few would dispute that Marco Bezzecchi is the rider to beat in the 2026 MotoGP season, with Aprilia now having the reference bike on the grid ahead of Ducati. The numbers speak for themselves. Riding the factory Aprilia RS-GP, the Italian has won the last five full-length races in the premier class, taking victory in the final […]
“We don’t fully understand the car yet”
Following the postponement of the Qatar 1812km, the 2026 World Endurance Championship season gets underway at Imola. It was at the Italian circuit that factory BMW driver Robin Frijns secured his best Hypercar result in 2025, finishing second. During this week’s Prologue — also held at Imola due to the war in the Middle East — the […]
Red Bull shakes up its F1 technical team
Red Bull has promoted its long-time head of performance engineering Ben Waterhouse into a more senior role, grabbing Racing Bulls’ deputy technical director Andrea Landi as his replacement. On Friday, Red Bull announced Waterhouse would move to the role of chief performance and design engineer, bridging the design and vehicle performance departments and reporting to technical […]
Maiden WEC victory at last or another transitional year?
There is a massive sense of anticipation at Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship squad for the coming 2027 season. That is when further Evo jokers are finally expected to eliminate the remaining weaknesses of the 9X8 — remnants of an unfortunate timeline of events from the project’s early phases in 2020, including the LMH-LMDh convergence. But before […]
‘We’re protecting ourselves from speculation’
The Balance of Performance in the World Endurance Championship will no longer be made public in 2026, in a move aimed at preventing speculation and misinterpretation, the FIA and ACO officials explained during a media briefing at Imola. As teams were still arriving at the circuit on Thursday morning, a small group of media outlets – […]