A wet qualifying session after three dry free practices went wrong for the Mahindra riders at Le Mans today, leaving them with a back-of-the-grid start and a big task for tomorrow’s French GP. Both riders fell victim to very treacherous track conditions, slipping off on the ice-rink surface and as a result neither rider made [...]
With three races done and with the European season gathering pace, the Mahindra team is relishing the challenge of round four at France’s classic racing venue – Le Mans. It is the first visit to the challenging Bugatti circuit for the Moto3™ class, and the new-generation 250cc four-stroke racers have been setting new standards and [...]
Mahindra rider Danny Webb succumbed to a small but costly problem in in today’s Portuguese GP, forced to pull into the pits to retire after only eight of the 23 laps of the 4.182-km Estoril circuit. His problem was a split radiator hose – the most minor of peripheral components, but a heartbreak for the [...]
Mahindra rider Danny Webb proved the steady progress of the all-new all-independent Mahindra MGP-30 Moto3 bike at Estoril today, claiming his best qualifying position so far, putting him within sight of a points-scoring finish in tomorrow’s race. 21-year-old Danny Webb put the white-and-red machine 18th on the 34-strong grid, in spite of a niggling gear-shifting [...]
Mahindra Racing’s Danny Webb lost a possible top-ten finish with a technical issue in a thrilling Moto3 race at today’s Spanish GP, in which the weather played a big hand. After two days of bad weather, the race started in dry conditions but with the track strewn with wet patches from earlier rain. Schrötter was [...]
Changeable weather in a mainly fully wet qualifying session affected both Mahindra riders, but Danny Webb and Marcel Schrötter are qualified for tomorrow’s first round of the European season, and hoping for kinder and more stable conditions for the race. 21-year-old Webb placed 21st after a slow start to the session. Frequent showers have spoiled [...]
The Mahindra team has been hard at work in the break before this weekend’s start to the European season, seeking improved performance from their 250cc single-cylinder engine to take riders Danny Webb and Marcel Schrötter into the points in the all-new Moto3™ class. The new-generation four-strokes, built to strict technical limits and under cost-cutting rules, [...]
British racer Danny Webb took his brand-new Mahindra MGP30 to a solid finish in its first grand prix – also the first for the brand-new Moto3™ class – after overnight adjustments found a significant speed improvement. The 21-year-old rider had qualified 25th, but rode through from a bad start to finish 18th – just three [...]
The first ever Moto3 qualifying session at Qatar took place under floodlights on Saturday evening and the riders of the Indian-owned Mahindra machines put testing teething troubles behind them to qualify 23rd and 25th in a strong field in preparation for the opening race of the all-new category. German Marcel Schrötter was the faster one [...]