The Other Side of F1 and MotoGP

Not lap times. Not podiums. The stuff that actually makes them interesting — pets, passions, hobbies, and the weird things they get up to when they're not racing.

Current Drivers

A multiple MotoGP race winner known for a memorable, chaotic wet-weather victory at the 2020 British Grand Prix

Alexander Albon

The London-born Thai driver whose comeback from motorsport's scrapheap became one of F1's best stories

Andrea Kimi Antonelli

The Bologna teenager named after Kimi Räikkönen who replaced Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes

Red Bull's teenage prodigy with a Swedish name and a pace that made the junior categories feel too small

Carlos Sainz Jr.

The rally legend's son who also loves skiing and genuinely enjoys cooking Spanish food

Charles Leclerc

The piano-playing Monégasque who writes his own music and grew up on a Grand Prix circuit

Danilo Petrucci

The emotional home winner of the 2019 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, the first Italian to win there on a Ducati in the modern era

Enea Bastianini

'The Beast' — a Moto2 world champion turned MotoGP race winner known for late-race charges from off the front row

The driver whose parents sold their house to fund his karting — and it worked

Fabio Quartararo

'El Diablo' — the first French rider to win the MotoGP premier-class world championship

Fernando Alonso

The triathlete who treats every sport like he's trying to qualify for the Olympics

Francesco Bagnaia

'Pecco' — the Ducati rider who delivered the manufacturer's first premier-class title in over a decade

Franco Colapinto

The Argentine who crashed his way into the world's hearts and ended a 23-year national F1 drought

Gabriel Bortoleto

The São Paulo teenager keeping Brazil's F1 flame alive — while being managed by a McLaren rival

The GPDA director who is obsessive about data and once won a race in someone else's car

The Parisian with Algerian roots who came through Red Bull's junior ranks with unusual quietness

The Australian racer known for a genuinely unusual dirt-track background and an easygoing, wisecracking public persona

2020 MotoGP world champion, delivering Suzuki its first premier-class title in two decades in a pandemic-disrupted season

A double Moto2 world champion who became the first French rider in decades to win in the MotoGP class

2024 MotoGP world champion, the first satellite-team rider to win the premier-class title in the modern era

The billionaire's son who actually has real talent and skis like an Olympic candidate

The gaming streamer who turned up to a race dehydrated after playing video games all night

The fashion-forward vegan who gave his bulldog a social media empire

The Kiwi who grew up in a town famous for motorsport and had to move to the other side of the world to race in it

The rider who won the world championship in his rookie MotoGP season — and has spent his career riding with a broken collarbone-defying commitment ever since

Maverick Viñales

A MotoGP race winner across three different manufacturers, known for blistering one-lap pace since his teenage debut

The man who races for real and then goes home to race in a simulator

Nico Hülkenberg

The man who won Le Mans and holds the record for most F1 starts without a podium — and keeps turning up

The teenager who stepped into a Ferrari with 30 minutes' notice and finished seventh

The dry-humoured Melbourne kid who denied his own F1 signing on Twitter

The Anthoine Hubert tribute driver who became an emotional leader in French motorsport

A Moto2 world champion who delivered KTM its first ever MotoGP podium, part of a rare racing pair with his brother Aleix

The Mexican national hero who turned F1 into a billion-dollar Mexican audience

Valtteri Bottas

The naked calendar cyclist who left Mercedes and started working on his personality

Legends & Past Champions

The Professor who played tennis, invested in football clubs, and calculated everything

The blunt 1980 world champion who spent decades afterward as Australia's most familiar F1 commentating voice

Álex Crivillé

The first Spaniard to win the 500cc world championship, opening the door to Spain's later dominance of the premier class

Andrea Dovizioso

'DesmoDovi' — three-time MotoGP championship runner-up and Ducati's closest challenger to Marc Márquez's dominant era

'12+1' — thirteen world championships in the smaller classes, and the rider most credited with building Spain's motorcycle racing culture

The mystic with a pilot's licence who prayed on the podium and cried watching rain

The two-time 500cc champion who became one of Britain's biggest sporting celebrities of the 1970s

Founded the team that carries his name at 26 — and never lived to see it become one of the greatest in motorsport

The first British rider to win a MotoGP premier-class race in a generation, known for a hard-charging, all-or-nothing riding style

The two-time world champion who retired at 27, still at the peak of his ability, saying he'd simply lost his love for the sport

The world champion who moonlights as a rock guitarist and rides motorcycles across remote continents

One of the most successful MotoGP riders never to win a premier-class world title, later reborn as a race-winning test rider

Daniel Ricciardo

The shoey-drinking wine enthusiast who can't stop smiling even when things are awful

David Coulthard

The quiet Scot who won thirteen Grands Prix and survived a plane crash

'The Bear' — 1967 world champion who helped steer McLaren forward after his close friend Bruce McLaren's death

Michael Schumacher's Ferrari teammate who came within two points of the 1999 world title, then became a shrewd property investor

'Steady Eddie' — a four-time 500cc world champion built on relentless consistency rather than flash

Emerson Fittipaldi

The pioneer who left McLaren to race for Brazil

Lost the 2008 World Championship by half a point in the final seconds of his home race — and spent the following decade trying to get it back

Freddie Spencer

'Fast Freddie' — the youngest 500cc world champion of his era and the only rider to win 250cc and 500cc titles in the same season

The rider whose tucked riding position changed how every motorcycle racer since has approached aerodynamics

Ayrton Senna's practical-joking McLaren teammate who later ran BMW's F1 programme and co-owned Toro Rosso

Giacomo Agostini

The most successful Grand Prix motorcycle racer in history, with fifteen world championships across two classes

Giancarlo Fisichella

The Force India pole-sitter whose shock 2009 form earned him a call-up to Ferrari mid-season

Gilles Villeneuve

The helicopter-flying snowmobile champion who treated every lap like it might be his last

The only driver to win motorsport's Triple Crown — and the only World Champion whose son also became one

The only driver ever to win a world championship in a car bearing his own name

The son of a five-time MotoGP champion who chose four wheels over two

The safety crusader in a tartan cap who changed Formula 1 forever

The six-time Le Mans winner who protested a dangerous start format by walking to his car — then won the race anyway

Jacques Villeneuve

The 1997 world champion who fronted a rock band and never stopped saying exactly what he thought

The shaggy playboy world champion who kept a pet fox named Humbert

The one-time Monaco Grand Prix winner who went on to run his own vineyard in Italy

F1's most beloved nearly-man, who waited six years for his only win — and got it on his 31st birthday

The triathlete model-racer who moved to LA and became a property developer

The sheep farmer widely considered the fastest driver who ever lived — and who never seemed to notice

Formula 1's only posthumous World Champion, crowned five races after his death

Ferrari's last World Champion for twenty-one years, who swapped the pit lane for pasture and became an organic farmer

The only person ever to win world championships on both two wheels and four

The driver who won Le Mans outright the year after a crash doctors feared would end his ability to walk

The three-time premier-class champion known for a smooth, precise riding style and an equally distinctive victory celebration

Juan Manuel Fangio

The kidnapped world champion who once drove the most perfect lap in history — aged 46

Juan Pablo Montoya

The F1 race winner who left to become a two-time Indy 500 champion and a NASCAR regular

Won the 1982 title with just a single race victory all season — then spent his retirement managing his son to a championship of his own

'King Kenny' — the flat-track American who arrived in Europe and won three straight 500cc titles

Kevin Magnussen

The Dane who finished second on his debut and never filtered himself

The 1993 500cc world champion whose rivalry with Wayne Rainey defined an era of American dominance

Kimi Räikkönen

The man who told his team to leave him alone and became a legend for it

Loris Capirossi

A three-class world champion whose 22-season career spanned the two-stroke 500cc era through to modern MotoGP

Marco Simoncelli

The rising MotoGP star, instantly recognisable for his distinctive curly hair, whose career was cut short at just 24

The only driver to win the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and a Formula 1 World Championship

The man who won nine Grands Prix and never won the title — and doesn't pretend otherwise

A four-time 250cc world champion whose rivalry with Valentino Rossi defined the sport's transition into the MotoGP era

1991–2005 (MotoGP); 2007–2012 (WorldSBK)

Michael Schumacher

The devoted family man who trained like an athlete thirty years before it was standard practice

The five-time 500cc champion who rebuilt a nearly amputated leg and came back to dominate the sport

The Flying Finn who cried in the bushes, survived a skull fracture, and then retired to fish

'Mike the Bike' — nine world championships across four classes, and the most celebrated Isle of Man TT comeback in the sport's history

The three-time champion who never cared what anyone thought of him

'The Kentucky Kid' — the 2006 world champion from a genuine American racing dynasty, remembered for warmth as much as speed

The trilingual world champion who retired five days after winning everything

The walrus-moustached golfing world champion who became an American legend overnight

The airline entrepreneur who borrowed money against his family's will to go racing

The first American World Champion, crowned in a race where his own teammate was killed

A seven-time world champion whose defiance of team orders in 1968 remains one of the sport's most famous controversies

Ralf Schumacher

Michael Schumacher's younger brother, a six-time race winner who built his own identity in F1 and after it

Four-time 500cc championship runner-up, remembered as one of the sport's most spectacular racers never to win the title

Riccardo Patrese

The most experienced driver in F1 history at his retirement, with a championship near-miss alongside Nigel Mansell

The driver who nearly lost his arm in a 2011 rally crash and made it back to a Formula 1 grid anyway

2006–2010, 2019

Romain Grosjean

The man who walked out of a burning car and drove again six weeks later

Ronnie Peterson

'SuperSwede' — the spectacular, sideways fan favourite whose death overshadowed his Lotus teammate's title celebration

Rubens Barrichello

The most race-started driver in F1 history who cried at almost every one

Sebastian Vettel

The beekeeper who collected vintage cars and quit F1 to save the planet

Twice runner-up to Valentino Rossi in MotoGP's championship, and one of the closest challengers Rossi faced during his dominant years

The greatest driver never to win the world championship

Valentino Rossi

'The Doctor' — nine-time world champion and the rider most credited with turning MotoGP into a global spectacle

1987 500cc world champion and the first Australian to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing title

The three-time 500cc champion whose career ended in a career-defining crash — and who returned to lead the sport from the paddock instead

The anime fan whose team radio messages have their own fan-edited compilation videos

China's first full-time Formula 1 driver — and a fashion enthusiast who survived a terrifying crash