Category: Sports

Five months in and 14 grands prix down, the longest Formula 1 season in history has reached its mid-season break. That pause in the action offers a great opportunity to reflect on how each driver has performed so far in 2024. So here’s Edd Straw’s verdict – with this year’s F1 field ranked from worst […]

Nyck de Vries will make a surprise Super Formula debut at Motegi later this month, the first of two appearances in the Japanese single-seater series. The former Formula 1 driver with Williams and AlphaTauri, who finished 18th in his debut season in Formula E with Mahindra, will become the third non-Japanese driver to race in […]

When Pierre Gasly drove the Alpine Formula 1 car for the first time in post-season testing in Abu Dhabi in 2022, he was very happy. “I couldn’t have wished for a better first day with Alpine,” he enthused after enjoying driving a car that was faster and more responsive than the AlphaTauri AT03 that had […]

Surely someone traveling over 4,000 miles to jump into a car they’ve only driven five times, after only four hours of sleep, to drive it in a street race qualifying session on a track they’ve never driven before isn’t ideal? That’s what Theo Bourchier did for the McLaren IndyCar team in Toronto last month, and […]

The British Grand Prix at Silverstone has once again been widely praised by fans in attendance, but as attendance continues to decline, the question arises: why can’t a race so beloved by those who attend regularly each year attract more of the UK’s passionate motorsport fan base? If we ignore the somewhat complicated figure for […]

Is Oscar Piastri’s brilliant form causing trouble for McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, and is George Russell completely comfortable at the front? These are just two of the questions we tackle in the latest episode of the Race F1 Podcast. Mark Hughes and Glenn Freeman join Ed Straw to work on a variety of questions from […]

After a difficult start to the 2024 MotoGP season, Michael Ruben Rinaldi has spoken about his possible plans for 2025. Between the two MotoGP World Championship rounds in the Czech Republic and Portugal, Michael Ruben Rinaldi spoke about his quest to get his bike ready for next season. After racing with the Factory Ducati team […]

Coming into this weekend’s British Grand Prix, there was certainly the usual anticipation given that Silverstone tends to produce a different winner each year – but even with that in mind, an absolutely dominant double win (including a first ever podium) for Enea Bastianini was certainly not what many were expecting. And that’s exactly what […]

Over the weekend, Davide Tardozzi announced VR46’s plans to field Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli in MotoGP next season. However, Pablo Nieto insisted that no agreement has been reached yet. Despite David Tardozzi’s comments over the weekend at Silverstone, the VR46 team’s driver line-up for next season has yet to be confirmed. VR46 team […]

Just when some thought it was over and that Becco Bagnaia would win the 2024 MotoGP World Championship, the British Grand Prix rewrote the script once again. Bagnaia’s fast crash and a very reasonable weekend from Jorge Martin have created a new championship leader – but has Enea Bastianini’s double now made it a three-way […]