MotoGP

‘This is all for Fausto’ – Gresini’s bittersweet return to the top

Gresini Racing has had to cope with a lot of tragedy – Daijiro Kato, Marco Simoncelli, Fausto Gresini himself. Every time, it’s fought back and won again. Enea Bastianini’s 2022 Qatar Grand Prix victory adds to its poignant milestones

MotoGP

Ducati apologises to Bagnaia over awful start to MotoGP season

Ducati has accepted Pecco Bagnaia’s criticism that it mismanaged its build-up to the 2022 MotoGP season after a terrible Qatar Grand Prix for the works team

MotoGP

Tragedy and a ‘very hard’ dilemma – Gresini’s volatile year

In 2021, the Gresini MotoGP team had to handle the death of its founder, a split with its works partner and re-establishing itself as a Ducati customer. This is the inside story of that turbulent year

MotoGP

Bastianini ends Gresini’s 16-year MotoGP win drought

The newly-independent-again Gresini Racing took its first MotoGP victory since 2006 as Enea Bastianini’s old-spec Ducati triumphed in a shock-packed Qatar Grand Prix

IndyCar

Surprise win showed a big swing in IndyCar’s engine battle

There was plenty of focus on Scott McLaughlin’s winter leap forward after his St Petersburg IndyCar win, but there were also signs Chevrolet has attended to some key weaknesses

MotoGP

MotoGP stewards are still missing the point with penalties

The MotoGP stewards’ handling of dangerous Moto3 riding at the Qatar Grand Prix left our correspondent Simon Patterson baffled and frustrated

MotoGP

Front row ‘not the fastest’ – Qatar qualifying hid real form

The riders with the best Qatar Grand Prix race pace are a long way down the grid. So can the top qualifiers hang on?

Formula 1

Why weight is such a headache for F1 teams in 2022

Even top Formula 1 teams are struggling to get their 2022 cars down to the minimum weight. Edd Straw explains why

MotoGP

Poor qualifying hasn’t dented Suzuki’s MotoGP favourite status

The more powerful Suzukis lived up to their MotoGP pre-season favourite billing in Qatar Grand Prix practice, then promptly qualified badly yet again. But just wait for Sunday night

Formula 1

The signs Albon’s year out has improved a key weakness

At Red Bull in 2020 there was normally a haze of self-doubt or confusion around Alex Albon. So far in his Formula 1 return with Williams, that seems to be a thing of the past

MotoGP

Gresini and Bastianini aren’t wasting their fairytale chance

Enea Bastianini and the newly-independent-again Gresini have a short window to embarrass MotoGP’s big guns with their year-old Ducati. And they nearly snatched pole for the Qatar Grand Prix season-opener

MotoGP

Playing Ducati MotoGP team role has left Bagnaia on back foot

The pre-season 2022 MotoGP title favourite is only ninth on the Qatar Grand Prix grid and hasn’t looked especially quick all weekend. Should Pecco Bagnaia have been a bit less of a Ducati team player?