MotoGP
Our MotoGP correspondent Simon Patterson’s coverage of eventual champion Pecco Bagnaia’s drink-driving incident in the summer proved particularly divisive. Simon reflects on the controversy and how it was handled on all sides
Formula 1
Nicholas Latifi steps away from Williams and F1 with a record of three points finishes from 61 starts. An honest, insightful character, he is also a driver with a frustrating ability to show flashes of genuine pace yet very often end up right at the back
Formula 1
Nicholas Latifi steps away from Williams and F1 with a record of three points finishes from 61 starts. An honest, insightful character, he is also a driver with a frustrating ability to show flashes of genuine pace yet very often end up right at the back
Formula 1
Audi has already recruited one of McLaren’s key personnel for its F1 project. High up on its list of assets to secure next should be a driver Andreas Seidl has worked closely with – Lando Norris
Formula E
Alex Albon was, for a brief period, a Nissan Formula E driver – until Red Bull and Formula 1 came calling. That resulted in him electing not to get into the team’s car at pre-season testing, but he had driven it in secret beforehand, pictures of which The Race can share
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