MotoGP French GP: Martin wins sprint from Marquez; Bagnaia retires
Obliterating the lap record to take pole in qualifying earlier on Saturday, Martin seized the holeshot effortlessly off the line and led all 13 laps of the sprint race at Le Mans.Celebrating his 12th career sprint victory, Martin is now 28 points clear in the…
WRC Portugal: Ogier back in front after Tanak suffers puncture
Toyota’s eight-time world champion Ogier inherited the lead after Rovanpera’s Stage 11 exit, only to lose the advantage to Tanak on the next test. However, a slow puncture for Tanak in stage 13 helped Ogier open up a 13.6s lead at end of the loop. Rovanpera’s…
WRC Promoter sets “clear roadmap” for 2026 USA event
The World Rally Championship promoter held a meeting with the key stakeholder group that included Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Stellantis and Skoda alongside representatives from the FIA to deliver its vision for the future.The meeting largely centred on the championship’s promotional strategy which has attracted criticism…
MotoGP French GP: Martin smashes lap record for pole in crash-strewn qualifying
With Enea Bastianini setting a new lap record to get through Q1, the tone was set for the first sub 1m30s lap of the Le Mans circuit.Martin did so on his second flying lap with a 1m29.919s, which would ultimately cement him pole as the…
WRC Portugal: Rovanpera rolls handing Ogier the lead
Reigning world champion Rovanpera set a blistering pace in the morning’s opening test to extend his overnight lead from one second to 6.7s over Ogier, before drama struck on the following stage.Rovanpera lost the rear of his GR Yaris in fast right-hander and clouted a…
Evans: Driving to smartphone WRC pacenotes “almost as good as normal”
Evans was forced to drive to pacenotes read from a smartphone by his co-driver Scott Martin for three stages after the latter left his pacenote book at time control at the end of stage six.The unusual incident was triggered by a bottleneck at the end…
WRC Portugal: Rovanpera, Ogier split by a second, Evans suffers pacenote issue
Reigning world champion Rovanpera snatched the rally lead on stage six, but the margin never grew larger than a second as the part-time driver battled with a GR Yaris that wasn’t too his liking.The Finn, who ended Friday morning in third, held onto the lead…
Quartararo at a loss to explain Le Mans MotoGP Friday pace
For just the second time this season, Quartararo will make an appearance in the pole shootout qualifying session on Saturday after finishing Friday’s running at his home round in 10th.While Yamaha brought a raft of changes to its bike for the Jerez test after the…
Marquez explains worst Friday of 2024 MotoGP season in France
The Gresini Ducati rider crashed in the hour-long afternoon practice at Le Mans and struggled for pace through to the chequered flag.His penultimate flying lap in the session was thwarted by a yellow flag, before a mistake while fastest through the first sector on his…
MotoGP French GP: Martin tops second practice, Marquez into Q1
Setting the pace in FP1, Martin continued that form in the hour-long second session at Le Mans with a new lap record of 1m30.388s.The championship leader headed Francesco Bagnaia on the factory team Ducati from Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta, while Fabio Quartararo made it through…
