Zarco would be «proud» to help Honda transform MotoGP fortunes
The Frenchman has been linked to replace Yamaha-bound Alex Rins at LCR Honda for the 2024 season, as VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi looks set to take his place at Pramac Ducati. Zarco rode three races for Honda at the end of 2019 replacing the injured Takaaki Nakagami at LCR, and was heavily linked to a factory […]
Alex Marquez to remain at Gresini for 2024 MotoGP season
The younger brother of six-time series champion Marc Marquez first entered the MotoGP ranks in 2020 with Honda but it was at the British Grand Prix last weekend that he scored his first premier class victory, topping the sprint race. The result marked his first win since his title-winning Moto2 campaign in 2019 and followed […]
Bastianini’s Ducati MotoGP bike feels like he is ‘riding a chopper’
The Italian, who graduated to the factory team from Gresini this season, missed the first five races of 2023 after suffering a broken shoulder blade in the Portuguese Grand Prix sprint race. Bastianini returned at Mugello, finishing ninth in the grand prix, with a best result of eighth next time out at Sachsenring. He failed […]
The forgotten trooper of Honda’s MotoGP misery
After nine rounds of the 2023 MotoGP season, Honda’s haul of points in the constructors’ championship – in which only the leading rider from each brand contributes – is 89. Of that 89, 27 of those have been scored by LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami. Alex Rins has contributed the most at 47 and Marc Marquez the […]
Ducati’s view of Japanese rivals’ struggles
The dominance of Ducati and Alvaro Bautista in particular has caused concern in the paddock, as Yamaha and Kawasaki struggle to keep up with the all-conquering V4 R Panigale with their ageing packages. Ducati introduced an updated version of the V4 R for this season, which Bautista has used to devastating effect with 18 wins […]
Quartararo to decide Yamaha MotoGP future at Misano test
Last season, the French rider narrowly missed out on the world title despite making up for the shortcomings of his Yamaha, losing out to Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia at the final round in Valencia. It took until Bagnaia and Ducati’s engineers unlocked the full potential of the Desmosedici GP22 to turn it into the almost perfect […]
Mir «in a another phase» mentally in Honda MotoGP struggles
The Spaniard joined Honda’s factory team for 2023 alongside Marc Marquez after Suzuki’s shock exit from the series at the end of last season. The 2020 world champion has only finished one grand prix, the season opener in Portugal, where he took all five of the points he has scored so far this season. Mir […]
«Cooked» Pol Espargaro needed «bad moment» MotoGP British GP return
The Tech3 GasGas rider had been out of action since suffering multiple back and jaw fractures in a crash during FP2 for the Portuguese GP, making his return at Silverstone last weekend. At the end of a mentally and physically draining weekend, Espargaro finished both races and scored points in the grand prix after taking […]
Bagnaia ‘never thought about proving a point’ to not crash in tricky MotoGP races
The Ducati rider led for much of Sunday’s 20-lap Silverstone grand prix, holding his nerve when rain fell in the latter stages while Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales, and KTM’s Brad Binder bore down on him. Bagnaia was ultimately beaten by Espargaro after a last-lap move into Maggotts. In MotoGP’s last wet contest in […]