Formula 1

The weakness that’s left Stroll struggling to run with Vettel

Lance Stroll wasn’t a million miles away from his four-time world champion team-mate in 2021, but he’s struggling to match him this year, and as Edd Straw explains, that’s partly down to a weakness of Stroll’s F1 career so far

MotoGP

Ducati’s most doubted rider adds to its year of breakthroughs

Ducati probably won’t claim its long-awaited riders’ title this year – but it can now say all eight of its riders have started delivering on their potential

Formula 1

A warning for Max Verstappen’s 2022 F1 rivals

Despite only starting from pole position twice, Max Verstappen has won six races and has a 46-point lead in 2022, and that’s something that should worry his title rivals, says Scott Mitchell

Formula 1

Red Bull suspends F1 junior Vips for using racial slur

Formula 2 race winner Juri Vips has been suspended from Red Bull’s junior programme and will face a “full investigation” after a video emerged of him using a racial slur on a Twitch stream

Motorcycle racing

The positives amid a bleak 2022 Isle of Man TT

Overshadowed by a particularly harrowing edition of the historic event, there was still a key positive to take from the 2022 Isle of Man TT as event boss Paul Phillips tells Simon Patterson

Formula 1

Mazepin says he’s suing Haas F1 over unpaid 2022 salary

Former Haas Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin is suing the team over “salary arrears” he says are owed to him for the 2022 season

Formula 1

Gary Anderson: Two quickfire changes for F1’s bouncing crisis

As the FIA and the teams continue to row over bouncing, ex-F1 technical director Gary Anderson highlights a couple of problems and some solutions

IndyCar

Podcast: Newgarden on his wild 2022 IndyCar season so far

Penske driver Josef Newgarden joins The Race IndyCar Podcast to discuss the highs and lows of a 2022 season in which he’s won three times yet is still 30-plus points off the championship lead

MotoGP

Vinales is finally hitting his stride at Aprilia – despite DNF

Maverick Vinales has been talking the talk for some time about doing big things with Aprilia in MotoGP without the results to show for it. Do his recent performances show he’s starting to walk the walk?

Formula 1

How Leclerc handled a big test of his patience and judgement

Charles Leclerc had to put one virtue that’s not always been a strength of his to the test in the Canadian GP. It was a race in which he needed to keep a sense of perspective, so how did he fare?

MotoGP

Espargaro says Quartararo’s lead ‘not so much’ – is he right?

Can Aleix Espargaro really overturn Fabio Quartararo’s current MotoGP lead if he finds more speed – or does he need outside help?

Formula 1

Horner: FIA order on floor stay ‘overtly biased’ to Mercedes

Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner says the FIA’s decision to allow teams to run secondary floor stays is “overtly biased to sorting one team’s problems out”, in a thinly-veiled dig at Mercedes