Bagnaia insists Ducati “will never have” team orders to aid his MotoGP title bid
Bagnaia lost the world championship lead for the first time since the Spanish GP in April after struggling to eighth in Saturday’s sprint at Mandalika as title rival Jorge Martin won. It capped off a generally difficult day for Bagnaia, who failed to get out of Q1 and qualified 13th, battling rear grip issues on […]
Marquez ‘betting’ on Martin for the 2023 MotoGP title
Martin started from sixth on Saturday at the Indonesian Grand Prix to win the sprint race, marking his fourth half-distance contest success in a row. With reigning world champion Bagnaia only eighth after qualifying down in 13th, Martin now leads the standings heading into Sunday’s grand prix by seven points. Marquez – who crashed on […]
Martin seizes championship lead with sprint win
Martin has now won four sprint races on the bounce to head Bagnaia in the standings for the first time in 2023. The Spaniard beat poleman Luca Marini by 1.131 seconds having started sixth on the grid following a crash in qualifying, and now leads the championship by seven points. A late error for Marini […]
Marini crushes lap record to take pole, Bagnaia 13th
Having already set a new circuit record to get through Q1, VR46 rider Marini found yet more time in the final segment of qualifying as he became the first rider to break the 1m30s barrier with a time of 1m29.978s. He beat Aprilia duo Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro, both of whom having been rapid […]
Marquez admits MotoGP crew chief change “will be strange” at Gresini
The eight-time world champion has spent his entire stint in MotoGP working with Santi Hernandez as his crew chief, who stepped up to the premier class with him from Moto2. As part of his one-year deal to join the Gresini Ducati squad and break contract with Honda a season early, Marquez will only be able […]
Bagnaia “not scared” of facing Q1 battle in MotoGP Indonesia qualifying
The world champion comes to the Mandalika track on the island of Lombok just three points ahead of Jorge Martin in the standings, having seen a 66-point lead eroded since the Catalan GP. Bagnaia looked out of sorts on Friday in Indonesia and could only manage 16th after making a mistake on his final flying […]
Bezzecchi ‘burnt my ass to save my arms’ in MotoGP practice crash days after surgery
Bezzecchi, third in the championship, fractured his right collarbone in a crash while training at Valentino Rossi’s ranch last Saturday. The Italian underwent surgery on Sunday to have plates fitted to the collarbone and was cleared to race this weekend in Indonesia having only made it to Mandalika on Friday morning ahead of FP1. In […]
Espargaro leads Aprilia 1-2 in second practice
A hectic hour of running to end Friday at the Mandalika track concluded with Espargaro firing in a new all-time lap record of 1m30.474s in the closing seconds. This deposed VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi, who underwent surgery on a broken collarbone five days ago and only turned up to Lombok this morning, after the […]
Gresini reveals Marc Marquez’s MotoGP crew chief for 2024
The Ducati satellite squad announced on Thursday ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix that it had signed eight-time world champion Marquez for 2024, ending weeks of speculation. The path to this move was paved last week when Honda revealed it had agreed to mutually part ways with Marquez with a year left on his contract […]