Pedro Acosta had the Austrian MotoGP sprint neatly folded into his pocket. He had escaped to a lead of nearly three seconds, the KTM crowd was enjoying the prospect of a home-venue celebration, and Jorge Martin’s race appeared to be slipping away after an early fight...
Replacing Lewis Hamilton was never going to be an ordinary driver-market exercise. Mercedes was losing a seven-time Formula 1 world champion to Ferrari for 2025, and team boss Toto Wolff had two obvious options: find another established star or hand one of the sport’s...
Kimi Antonelli may be the driver collecting the points, managing the tires, and threading a Formula 1 car through corners at speeds that make ordinary road traffic look mildly embarrassed. But former F1 race engineer Rob Smedley believes Peter “Bono” Bonnington has...
Pedro Acosta arrived at the Austrian Grand Prix carrying the sort of expectation that can make a home race feel less like a celebration and more like a job interview. KTM wanted its young star fighting for his first MotoGP victory on home ground. Instead, it was...
Pedro Acosta arrived at KTM’s home race carrying the attention, the expectation and the rather awkward burden of being asked whether this would finally be the weekend he claimed his first MotoGP victory. Then Jorge Martin turned up, produced the fastest lap in...
Championship leaders are often accused of being in the right place at the right time. Kimi Antonelli has apparently reached that stage already, because former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has felt the need to explain that Mercedes’ young star is not merely...
