Podcast: Each F1 team’s key 2022 weakness

The design rules are very different, but the teams themselves aren’t. The Race F1 Podcast looks at all 10 Formula 1 teams’ potential weak points as the 2022 car launches looms

Beating IndyCar’s serial winner only ensures a fierce fightback

IndyCar’s most successful active driver had what some deemed to be a dire 2021 campaign by his standards. But not only was it better than it looked, the stats say to be ready for a fightback this year

Video: Will Verstappen really stay with Red Bull forever?

Max Verstappen said he wanted to stay at Red Bull forever after becoming Formula 1 world champion. But even team/driver relationships that seem unbreakable in their prime rarely last

MotoGP’s controversial rookie’s unlikely source of inspiration

When it comes to Darryn Binder’s surprising, scepticism-generating move from Moto3 to MotoGP in 2022, the one obvious comparison that crops up is Jack Miller doing the same to start his premier-class career. But Binder finds a different – more unlikely – source of inspiration

How Mercedes EQ’s Formula E weekend imploded

Friday: the works Mercedes team begins its last Formula E season with an imperious 1-2. Saturday: Its polesitter is bundled down to 10th and its other car only qualifies 12th. What went wrong?

Gary Anderson: 18-inch wheels will give F1 drivers surprises

One of the most obvious visual changes to Formula 1 for 2022 is the long-awaited introduction of 18-inch wheel rims. Gary Anderson explains what difference the bigger wheel rims will make to car handling and tyre wear

Winners and losers from Diriyah Formula E 2022

Hugely varied fortunes for the two teams that had been pre-season favourites, some positive surprises and a career low for a past champion – here is Sam Smith’s pick of the stars and flops from Formula E’s 2022 season-opener

What to expect from MotoGP’s 2022 shakedown

Before MotoGP’s 2022 pre-season gets properly underway, there’s a three-day shakedown at Sepang for the teams to utilise. Simon Patterson explains everything you need to know about the shakedown

Crane on track incidents alarm Formula E drivers

“There are people who crashed into each other because nobody told us that there was a crane on track” – Sam Smith got enraged drivers’ views and the race director’s apology after concerning recovery vehicle incidents in Formula E’s Diriyah opener

Formula E’s contentious safety car finish explained

A month after Formula 1’s controversy around a race that didn’t finish behind the safety car, Formula E’s facing questions over one that did. Sam Smith got the FIA’s take on the anti-climax in Diriyah

Mortara wins as Venturi upstages Formula E’s works Mercedes

Edoardo Mortara claimed victory in the second Diriyah Formula E race as defending champion Nyck de Vries was unceremoniously shuffled from pole to 10th

FIA reiterates ‘no decision’ taken after Masi exit comments

The FIA has reiterated that “no decision” has been taken on the outcome of its analysis of Formula 1’s controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, following comments made by the FIA’s new head of single-seater matters