MotoGP Bagnaia demolishes Portimao lap record as MotoGP testing ends Reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia obliterated the Portimao lap record on the final day of 2023 pre-season testing, which featured seven Ducatis in the top eight
MotoGP ‘Massive’ final day step eases Yamaha’s 2023 MotoGP fears A day after saying Yamaha faced an uncompetitive start to the 2023 MotoGP season, reverting to some key 2022 parts transformed Fabio Quartararo’s winter
MotoGP Yamaha raises MotoGP aero stakes with triangular rear wing An extremely distinctive rear spoiler has appeared on the Yamaha on the final day of MotoGP 2023 pre-season testing, in the latest turn in the series’ fast-accelerating aero development war
MotoGP No more ‘big concepts’ – Marquez ends winter where he started After a winter of trying new Honda packages, Marc Marquez looks set to start the 2023 MotoGP season with a spec not too different to what he first rode last November – and he’s not very optimistic about its potential
MotoGP Yamaha ‘won’t be ready’ for 2023 MotoGP opener – Quartararo Fabio Quartararo has acknowledged Yamaha is in strife approaching the 2023 MotoGP season-opener at Portimao, with a major weakness still on display and just one day of testing left
MotoGP Ducati and Aprilia dominate crash-strewn MotoGP test day Reigning champion Pecco Bagnaia was fastest on the penultimate day of MotoGP 2023 pre-season testing at Portimao, as Ducati and Aprilia continued to set the pace
MotoGP Aprilia escalates MotoGP aero war as ‘F1 wing’ reappears Aprilia has taken the MotoGP aero race up a notch with a host of new wings at the final pre-season test, including the reappearance of a Formula 1-style winglet at the rear that was briefly trialled last year
Formula 1 Can ahead-of-schedule Williams stay in a fight with its F1 rivals? Williams headed to F1 2023’s opener believing it would be the slowest team but it ended up beating three teams to score a point – without much intervention from good fortune. Can Williams stay ahead of its rivals or is it destined to slip back?
Formula 1 The silver lining in AlphaTauri’s fruitless 2023 start AlphaTauri walked away from F1’s 2023 season-opener point-less but its new potential team leader’s performance was promising
MotoGP What’s made Oliveira ‘even more confused’ about his 2023 prospects Miguel Oliveira’s Aprilia test debut was sensational at the end of last year but his first 2023 tests have confused expectations for his first year in MotoGP’s premier class not on a KTM
Formula 1 Bring Back V10s: Minardi’s greatest day and the end of Prost The famous Australian GP 2002 start crash paved the way for beloved F1 minnow Minardi’s day of days with Mark Webber
Formula 1 F1 2023 adds new angle to Alpine’s Piastri ‘grudge’ dilemma Can Alpine really resist drawing motivation from an F1 rivalry against McLaren and Oscar Piastri that it clearly has the upper hand in early in 2023?
Promoted How AVL RACETECH Aided Ducati’s 2022 MotoGP Title Success For over five years now AVL RACETECH and Ducati Corse have enjoyed a partnership in engine development that has helped to reach success
MotoGP MotoGP’s great giantkiller appears to have joined the giants Aprilia used to be reliably last in MotoGP. Then it became a shock title contender. Can it make a habit of that? The early omens for 2023 are quietly good
MotoGP A radical idea to solve MotoGP riders’ sprint unease VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini believes MotoGP may need to look at reducing the lap counts for its main event Sunday races now that Saturday sprints have been introduced
MotoGP Rossi’s MotoGP team looks – and sounds – ready to win Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP team can and should target a milestone first premier-class win in the opening rounds of the 2023 season
Formula 1 The MotoGP master who made Stroll’s heroics possible Lance Stroll says he wouldn’t have raced in the Bahrain GP without Dr Xavier Mir – a name much better-known to MotoGP fans than F1 fans
Formula 1 Q1 exit and Norris gap do ‘impressive’ Piastri a disservice Oscar Piastri qualified some seven places down on team-mate Lando Norris for his debut – but McLaren is convinced this was deceptive
Formula 1 Alonso fastest again in final Bahrain GP practice Aston Martin F1 driver Fernando Alonso was quickest again in the final practice for the Bahrain GP, once more outpacing the Red Bull duo
Formula 1 Alonso splits Red Bulls in first F1 2023 practice in Bahrain Fernando Alonso split the two Red Bull drivers in the opening Formula 1 practice session of 2023 at the Bahrain Grand Prix
MotoGP The blunt post-KTM joy of Aprilia’s MotoGP reclamation project In his honeymoon phase with RNF Aprilia, Raul Fernandez is frank – maybe too frank – about how much better he’s feeling compared to his time at KTM
Formula 1 Bahrain GP will exaggerate ‘league of its own’ Red Bull’s lead Ferrari and Mercedes drivers expect Red Bull to be “in a league of their own” in Formula 1’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, but there’s a faith the track may be exaggerating the gap
Formula 1 ‘Existential threat’ – FIA’s six-point plan against online hate A six-point plan for combatting the “existential threat” of online toxicity has been published by the FIA, which includes the results of an AI trial conducted using its social media accounts and those of president Mohammed Ben Sulayem
Formula 1 Stroll intends to race in Bahrain GP, explains accident Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll intends to race in the 2023 season opener in Bahrain, saying he has sufficiently recovered from a “minor surgery” on his wrist
Formula 1 Video: The big question that still hangs over AlphaTauri’s future AlphaTauri insists Red Bull has no plans to sell its second F1 team – but what about moving it away from Faenza?
Formula 1 Nine questions F1 teams want answering in F2 this year F1’s primary feeder series will start alongside the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend – we pick out the nine key storylines to watch
MotoGP Just how far off is Honda heading into MotoGP 2023? The mood surrounding Honda’s 2023 preparations has not exactly been ebullient so far – but just how far off the pace is it going to be?
MotoGP The MotoGP career Superbikes’ new king could’ve had As Alvaro Bautista makes a dominant start to his World Superbike title defence, is there evidence that MotoGP let him go too soon? Was he a Andrea Dovizioso/Aleix Espargaro style late bloomer waiting to happen?
Formula 1 Drugovich will replace Stroll if he can’t race in Bahrain GP Aston Martin has zeroed in on Felipe Drugovich as its favoured Lance Stroll replacement for Formula 1’s 2023 season opener in Bahrain – but is still hoping Stroll can make the race
Formula 1 Aston cagey on Vettel as Stroll Bahrain GP stand-in option Aston Martin will only settle on a definitive ‘Plan B’ if it’s sure Lance Stroll can’t race in the F1 season opener in Bahrain – but it won’t rule out its former driver Sebastian Vettel as a potential candidate to be said ‘Plan B’
Formula 1 Alonso’s AMR23 ‘concern’ – and why Stroll absence ‘hurt a lot’ Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso says the feedback of injured team-mate Lance Stroll was “missed a lot” by Aston Martin during the pre-season test in Bahrain
Formula 1 Perez and Red Bull end 2023 pre-season F1 testing on top Champion team Red Bull concluded 2023 pre-season Formula 1 testing by setting the fastest time of the Bahrain week with Sergio Perez on Saturday evening
Formula 1 De Vries wowed his new F1 boss as much as Verstappen in karts While he hasn’t made the same impact as Max Verstappen in cars, Nyck de Vries’s new AlphaTauri Formula 1 boss found him just as impressive in karts
Formula 1 8 things we learned from F1 testing’s 2023 debut From one team’s floor secrecy being overplayed to the disappearance of another’s worst nightmare last year, there was plenty to learn from the opening day of F1 2023’s sole pre-season test in Bahrain
Formula 1 Alonso to get full day of F1 testing, Drugovich ‘on standby’ Fernando Alonso will have the Aston Martin AMR23 all to himself on the second day of pre-season Formula 1 testing in Bahrain, with reserve driver Felipe Drugovich placed “on standby if needed”
MotoGP Ducati’s Marc Marquez stance may come back to haunt it Ducati says it doesn’t need Marc Marquez in its MotoGP line-up. It’s technically absolutely right. But if Marquez does want to leave Honda, Ducati would be taking a risk if it ignored him
Formula 1 Aston gives Drugovich first morning of F1 test in Stroll’s place Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich will stand in for the injured Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll on the opening day of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain
MotoGP Marquez finally fires back at Rossi (+ more Amazon revelations) Marc Marquez has kept something of a poker face around his feud with Valentino Rossi. Amazon Prime Video’s new ‘Marc Marquez: All in’ documentary series changes that, and reveals plenty more too
MotoGP MotoGP podcast: Marquez doc, his epic past and cloudy future As Amazon deploys its new Marc Marquez docuseries, The Race MotoGP Podcast looks at what it reveals about Marquez and what his future holds
Formula 1 The real significance of ‘Valtteri, it’s James’ New Williams F1 boss James Vowles’ calling card is a famous and somewhat blush-making Mercedes team orders catchphrase. But he had a far bigger impact on Mercedes than the reasons for that famous meme
