MotoGP
Despite the pain of forfeiting a 91-point lead over Pecco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo earned great praise just for keeping an underserving Yamaha in the 2022 MotoGP title fight. But where does his campaign rank among the great ‘losing seasons’?
Formula 1
Ferrari’s 2022 Formula 1 car had prodigious pace, particularly early in the season. That raised expectations – which only made its ultimate shortcoming more difficult to swallow
Formula 1
As his McLaren struggle neared its end, Daniel Ricciardo opened up with typical honesty in an exclusive interview with The Race. He tackled two years he still can’t quite understand and why he fell so far short of Lando Norris, but added: “give me the car to win, and I’ll f***ing win”
Formula E
Andre Lotterer will contest two campaigns with Porsche power in 2023, but he’ll only be racing for Porsche in one of those disciplines. Still, he doesn’t expect that will change how he races against his manufacturer employer in Formula E
Formula 1
Edd Straw ranks the 2022 Formula 1 field from worst to best purely based on the driver ratings he dished out after each race weekend this year
MotoGP
Pecco Bagnaia is a proper outlier among champion riders as far as his path from premier-class debut to the title is concerned. That’s a great thing, both for him and for MotoGP
Formula 1
Aston Martin wasn’t a regular Formula 1 points threat in 2022, especially at the beginning of the season. But there were still opportunities to be had, and when they arose Sebastian Vettel was more often able to convert them
WEC/Le Mans
A Le Mans run alongside Heinz-Harald Frentzen, fifth in 1991 World Sportscars and raising a Formula 3 team-mate of Lewis Hamilton’s were one side of Charles Zwolsman Sr’s life story. Drug-related prison time and a behind-bars demise were the other
Formula 1
After winning eight successive Formula 1 constructors’ titles, Mercedes was faced with midfield obscurity in the early part of a 2022 Formula 1 season where things went very wrong with the design of its W13. Edd Straw explains how it recovered and what it means for 2023
Formula E
We asked now former Formula E team boss Mark Preston what every Formula E team boss is thinking about over the Christmas break
Formula 1
Max Verstappen’s crushing 2022 Formula 1 championship success featured a unique ratio that was especially deceptive in the early months of the season
Formula 1
Adrian Newey is the subject of the 10,000th article to be published on The Race. In a candid interview with Mark Hughes, the Formula 1 technical guru opens up on a range of topics, including retirement, his aborted Ferrari switch and why he likes Max Verstappen’s approach