Marco Bezzecchi stuns to take pole for Aprilia
Marco Bezzecchi dethroned Alex Marquez at the last moment to claim pole position for the San Marino Grand Prix, while MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez qualified outside the front row in fourth. Gresini’s Alex Marquez laid the initial marker in Q2, lowering the benchmark to 1m30.222s to take provisional pole after the first run. As […]
Why promoting Hadjar for F1 2026 would be Red Bull repeating the same mistake
“Isack is different,” Helmut Marko told journalists after Isack Hadjar finished a sensational third at Zandvoort, answering a question about whether he believes the Frenchman can withstand the pressure of potentially being Max Verstappen’s team-mate. Of all the Faenza team’s podiums, Sebastian Vettel’s Monza win excluded, this was probably one of the most solid. Yes, […]
Pirelli buoyed by MotoGP tyre test ahead of 2027 takeover
New 2027 MotoGP rubber supplier Pirelli has pronounced itself pleased after its first on-track test with premier class prototypes went ahead at Misano on Tuesday. The Italian company, which replaces Michelin as the control tyre manufacturer after next season, completed a sprint simulation, among other experiments. In the interests of fairness within the broader testing […]
How the WEC driver market stands ahead of 2026
It’s a seller’s market out there. Genesis, McLaren and Ford are on their way into the World Endurance Championship and the Hypercar driver market has been blown wide open. It’s not even the end of the season yet and the merry-go-round has started. Stoffel Vandoorne will drop out of the Peugeot line-up for the 2025 […]
Honda brings new fairing and ‘spoon’ to Misano test
Honda focused on aerodynamics in Monday’s Misano test, with LCR rider Johann Zarco appearing on track in the morning session with a new carbon fibre fairing. The main addition was the new inlet, which is easily recognisable because it is made from ‘rapid-prototyping material’ and is therefore white in colour. The assumption is that the […]
Why Verstappen doing the Nurburgring 24 Hours would be good for F1 – and him
Max Verstappen’s efforts on the Nurburgring Nordschleife have rightly attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks – and it’s good for Formula 1 and motorsport as a whole, as well as the Dutchman himself. Now that he has the required DMSB Permit A, Verstappen can contest a Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie race in a full-house GT3 […]
Adrien Fourmaux takes WRC Rally Chile lead on Friday
Adrien Fourmaux leads Hyundai team-mate Thierry Neuville, after a dramatic Friday afternoon headlined by a suspected engine issue for World Rally Championship title contender Ott Tanak. Fourmaux inherited the rally lead after Tanak hit trouble in stage six to end the day with a one second lead over Neuville, who launched an impressive fightback after […]
“It’s hard to accept that I’m a passenger on the bike”
Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales says he is still “a passenger” on his MotoGP bike as he continues to recover from the shoulder injury he sustained at the German Grand Prix in July. Vinales missed the Czech GP entirely followed the crash, then attempted to return to action, following the summer break, at the Austrian […]
Toprak Razgatlioglu set for early test debut on Yamaha’s V4 MotoGP bike
New Pramac Yamaha signing Toprak Razgatlioglu will get an early opportunity to sample Yamaha’s V4-powered 2026 MotoGP bike ahead of the official post-season test in Valencia, Motorsport.com understands. Razgatlioglu is currently chasing his third World Superbike crown, and his second with BMW, as the 2025 season runs to a close with the finale at Jerez on […]