2024 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix – How to watch, session times & more
Pramac rider Jorge Martin leads the championship on 155 points heading to Ducati’s home race, with reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia his closest challenger on 116 points. Gresini’s Marc Marquez sits only two points further adrift in third, despite racing on a year-old bike. 2024 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix session timings Session GMT BST CEST ET […]
What is Marc Marquez’s next move in the Ducati MotoGP saga?
Early Thursday morning, it emerged that Ducati had finally decided to choose Jorge Martin to join Francesco Bagnaia in the official Borgo Panigale team from next season. As the hours went by, Marquez’s discourse hardened. At first, the multi-champion was asked about the news in question, and he was disoriented: «This is not the information […]
Gresini, factory team only options to stay at Ducati fold in MotoGP 2025
Marquez’s future had been of much speculation in recent months, as Ducati evaluates him for a possible promotion to the works team alongside Francesco Bagnaia on the back of his impressive adaptation to the Desmosedici at Gresini. However, championship leader Jorge Martin’s current form with Pramac, combined with his stance that he will not settle […]
“It’s not an option for me”
This comes following reports this morning, first from Gazzetta dello Sport, that Ducati has decided to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team seat for 2025. Ducati had already outlined this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix as the place to make its decision, though said earlier this week that it wouldn’t make an announcement. Over the […]
Martin set for factory Ducati MotoGP promotion over Marquez in 2025
On Thursday, Gazzetta dello Sport reported that the Borgo Panigale brand has finally decided on the Spaniard to join Francesco Bagnaia in the company’s official garage, starting next season. Talks have intensified in recent days with Albert Valera, Martin’s agent, who will be at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend — the event in which […]
The Ducati MotoGP number sequence Marc Marquez could extend at Mugello
At the Spanish Grand Prix this year, Marc Marquez scored his first grand prix podium aboard the Gresini-run 2023-spec Ducati he ditched the factory Honda for. As the Italian GP approaches, a sequence of win milestones throughout Ducati’s history corresponding to rider numbers could be added to by Marquez. Back at the second round of […]
Bezzecchi «not upset» to have fallen out of factory Ducati MotoGP seat talks
VR46 rider Bezzecchi was an outside contender for the title during his breakthrough 2023 campaign, where he eventually finished third in the standings to champion Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Jorge Martin after scoring victories in Argentina, France and India. But the Italian’s results have nosedived since he switched to last year’s GP23 bike, with the […]
Kazakhstan replaces cancelled Indian MotoGP round in 2024 schedule
On Tuesday the promoter of the Indian GP announced that this year’s MotoGP race was cancelled and it will look to reschedule the event in March 2025. Dorna had intended to slot the Kazakhstan GP, which was originally supposed to be held in June but had to be postponed due to severe floods in the […]
Vinales denies 2025 Aprilia deal done amid “open doors” on MotoGP grid
The 10-time grand prix winner has been with Aprilia since the latter half of the 2021 campaign, following his acrimonious split with Yamaha that year, and has become a firm favourite with management. Aprilia’s faith in Vinales paid off earlier this year in America when he scored his first grand prix win with the Italian […]