Pedro Acosta on KTM MotoGP chain issue: ‘These things shouldn’t happen’

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally underlining that it will only be workable if it is embraced by all.

When Lotus became the first Formula 1 team to harness ground-effect aerodynamics in the late 1970s, it went to remarkable lengths to keep the secret even though the hardware was almost in plain sight. When removing the 79 car from its transporter and working on it, the mechanics would routinely conceal the differential under a blanket.This rudimentary piece of misdirection worked, assisted by ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo said the V4 Yamaha felt "worse" than the Inline bike after Session 1 at the Misano MotoGP test.

Fabio Di Giannantonio achieved “every goal of the weekend” at the San Marino MotoGP.

Max Verstappen is now officially licenced to race GT3 cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, paving the way for the Dutchman to tick off one of his bucket list items.Verstappen raced a Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 CS at last weekend's four-hour ADAC ACAS Cup, in a car that was detuned as the four-time world champion hadn't yet earned a Permit A that is required to race with high-powered GT3 or GT4 ...Keep reading

Brad Binder believes that striking Misano’s high kerbs at the wrong moment may have caused the unusual chain failures that struck both him and KTM MotoGP team-mate Pedro Acosta over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend.KTM endured one of its worst-performing weekends of the 2025 MotoGP season at Misano, with Binder ending up as the only rider from its four-strong stable to finish the race and ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff is said to regret how he handled the F1 title battles between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Formula 1 racers, GTs and touring cars all provided some fine moments in what has been one of the biggest events of the racing calendar since 1998.It’s not all about the frontrunners, which were covered in our main report, so here we pick out some of the cars and moments that you might have missed…Read Also:Historics​​Ingram defends Goodwood crown in thriller as Huff ...Keep reading

Tom Ingram is at the top of his game. The 2022 British Touring Car champion did not need to hound down 2012 world champion Rob Huff – stymied by a 10.75-second penalty for too short a pitstop – in torrential rain, but pure racer’s instinct kicked-in at the 27th Goodwood Revival meeting’s RAC TT Celebration’s climax.Equally, Huffy yearned to be first past the chequered flag and just ...Keep reading

Aston Martin's recent progress has left Fernando Alonso encouraged.

Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s V4-powered M1 won’t solve all its troubles in MotoGP after admitting that he feels “worse” on the new bike than its predecessor.The 2021 world champion made the comment after finishing 17th in the morning test session in Misano, just over a second off the pace of Gresini’s Alex Marquez.This was Quartararo's second outing on the new V4 bike Yamaha ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s V4-powered M1 won’t solve all its troubles in MotoGP after admitting that he feels “worse” on the new bike than its predecessor.The 2021 world champion made the comment after finishing 17th in the morning test session in Misano, just over a second off the pace of Gresini’s Alex Marquez.This was Quartararo's second outing on the new V4 bike Yamaha ...Keep reading

By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...Keep reading

By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...Keep reading

By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...Keep reading

Ai Ogura has suffered multiple bruised bones after a crash at Misano

Aston Martin reserve Felipe Drugovich set to move to Formula E.

Brad Binder believes that striking Misano’s high kerbs at the wrong moment may have caused the unusual chain failures that struck both him and KTM MotoGP team-mate Pedro Acosta over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend.KTM endured one of its worst-performing weekends of the 2025 MotoGP season at Misano, with Binder ending up as the only rider from its four-strong stable to finish the race and ...Keep reading