Martin fastest, Marquez crashes in FP1
Martin, who comes to Australia 18 points adrift of title rival Francesco Bagnaia after his crash in Indonesia last weekend, set the pace in Friday morning’s opening 45-minute session with a best time of 1m29.039s. The Spanish rider commanded the timesheets for almost the entire session, becoming the first man to break the 90-second barrier […]
MotoGP must improve contract respect between teams and riders
Since Marc Marquez and Honda agreed to mutually part ways with a year left on his deal for 2024 so he can join Gresini Ducati, contracts have been the major talking point. Aprilia has spent the last two weeks insisting that all of its riders – including Miguel Oliveira, who is favourite to replace Marquez […]
Marquez «too far» to think about farewell Honda MotoGP win
Marquez, who will depart Honda for the Gresini Ducati team in 2024, made the remarks in the run-up to this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, the scene of his only podium finish of the 2022 season. Despite Phillip Island’s reputation as a track where the rider makes more of the difference than the […]
Johann Zarco rules out 2024 Repsol Honda move
The Frenchman instead expects to ride with LCR for the next two seasons, having signed to make the move to the satellite Honda team from Pramac Ducati earlier this year. Zarco admission follows the revelation that Honda is pursuing current RNF Aprilia rider Miguel Oliveira as Marquez’s replacement at the works Repsol squad. Ahead of […]
Iannone secures 2024 World Superbike seat with Go Eleven Ducati
As reported by Motorsport.com in August, Iannone will return to the Ducati fold to ride a Panigale V4 R in 2024, having previously spent four years with the Italian marque in MotoGP between 2013-16. Iannone has been absent from racing after he was handed a four-year ban for testing positive for taking illegal steroids at […]
The young MotoGP trailblazer striving to solve its age-old diversity problem
With no woman having ever competed in a full season of MotoGP or Moto2 – Gina Bovaird remains the only woman to have ever started a premier class race, albeit in the largely boycotted 1982 500cc French Grand Prix — and with just a handful having ridden in Moto3, top tier motorcycle racing can be […]
MotoGP should consider football-style approach to in-race incidents
The first-time poleman enjoyed a podium showing in the sprint race at Mandalika last Saturday but was unable to fight for another rostrum in the grand prix. A collision triggered by KTM’s Binder took Marini down on the second lap, with the Italian retiring a few tours later having remounted to serve a long lap penalty he […]
Why the Australian GP will define the race to the 2023 MotoGP title
With five rounds in six weeks concluding the 2023 MotoGP season, the battle for the world championship is fast boiling down to a two-horse race between Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin after VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi — albeit still not mathematically out of contention — slid 63 points adrift of the points lead last weekend […]
Rins’ first Sunday MotoGP finish since America «like a podium» in Indonesia
The LCR Honda rider made a strong start to life with the Japanese manufacturer, winning its only race so far in 2023 at the Americas GP in April. Since then, however, his season flew off the rails as back-to-back crashes in Spain and France gave way to a serious leg break in the Italian GP […]