Hirakawa replaces Doohan at Alpine for Japanese GP FP1 outing
Ryo Hirakawa will drive Jack Doohan’s Alpine in opening practice for this weekend’s 2025 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. The Toyota World Endurance Championship champion has joined Alpine as a reserve driver for the season after fulfilling the same role at McLaren last year. This is being done because of FIA rules which […]
What Tsunoda must do to become a success at Red Bull
The man himself frames it as fate. After an often frustrating four-year Formula 1 apprenticeship with Red Bull’s junior team, during which the prospect of promotion diminished and then seemed to vanish entirely, Yuki Tsunoda is now where he thinks he always should have been. Trouble is, that’s what the driver he is replacing thought. […]
Where did each Red Bull F1 driver finish on their team debut?
Yuki Tsunoda is set to become the 14th driver to start a Formula 1 grand prix for Red Bull when he competes for the team at Suzuka on the 6 April. It will be the third round of the 2025 F1 season and he will replace Liam Lawson as Max Verstappen’s team-mate after a point-less […]
Is Red Bull right to replace Lawson with Tsunoda after just two races?
The change is all but confirmed. As Autosport revealed on Sunday, Red Bull began considering a change to its driver line-up even before the Shanghai race — with Yuki Tsunoda emerging as the frontrunner to replace the struggling Liam Lawson. Discussions have since progressed following meetings in recent days, with the move now all but […]
Lawson’s Red Bull future in doubt as team eyes Tsunoda swap for Japan
Yuki Tsunoda is in line for a call up to Red Bull’s Formula 1 team for next week’s Japanese Grand Prix — just as Autosport exclusively reported last Sunday. Liam Lawson has come under pressure after making a difficult start to the season, crashing out of the Australian GP and was a lowly 15th place […]
Leg injury not the reason for poor results
Alex Rins has stressed that his lack of competitiveness at struggling Yamaha has nothing to do with the limp he has been walking with since his freak accident at Mugello over a year ago. Both Rins and Fabio Quartararo have voiced their disappointment with the lack of grip on the M1 increasingly loudly of late. […]
How Acosta is snatching the show from a lengthy MotoGP title duel
It’s hard to measure exactly what aspect of any given motor race excites punters the most. But if we use the tone of voice adopted by MotoGP’s various television pundits as a yardstick, the answer in Japan was clear: Pedro Acosta. And one suspects that the mixture of volume and reverence among the broadcasters when […]
What Honda must do next now it has its ideal MotoGP tech boss
The appointment of Romano Albesiano as Honda’s technical director for 2025 has a powerful symbolic charge for a company so faithful to Japanese philosophy. However, the key to the success of the Italian’s signing is no longer so much what he can contribute, but what he is allowed to do. Last year, a number of […]
Familiar faces will dominate MotoGP until Valencia
Japanese Grand Prix winner Francesco Bagnaia has warned MotoGP fans not to expect much of a break in the status quo between now and the last race of the season at Valencia. The reigning champion believes the main contenders will be the same ones that dominated the 24-lap race at Motegi on Sunday and currently […]