Puig suggests Marc Marquez free to opt out of Honda MotoGP contract
Puig made the comments shortly after the team announced that Marquez will not take part in today’s Dutch GP as a result of the injuries picked up in a spate of crashes last time out in Germany. Marquez did contest yesterday’s sprint race at Assen, which he started and finished 17th following an accident with […]
Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results
Leopard Racing rider Masia came out on top of a 10-rider battle at Assen to win the Moto3 race. The Honda rider briefly lost the lead to Ayumu Sasaki (Intact GP Husqvarna) towards the end of the 20th and final lap, but was able to re-pass the Japanese rider under braking for the final chicane. […]
Quartararo confident he can defend any position in Dutch MotoGP race
The Yamaha rider enjoyed a morale-boosting podium in Saturday’s sprint race, despite finishing fourth on the road behind KTM’s Brad Binder. Quartararo was promoted to third following a track limits penalty for the South African. “That was the only way for me to overtake Brad,” joked the French rider after what was just his second […]
Marc Marquez ruled out of Dutch GP due to rib injury
The Spaniard was declared unfit to ride in the eighth round of the season on Sunday morning due to a rib fracture sustained over the course of a bruising German Grand Prix last weekend. Marquez crashed five times across the Sachsenring round, with his final fall in warm-up leading to a small hand fracture and […]
Marquez enduring «worst moment» of MotoGP career aside from injury
The Honda factory rider returned to MotoGP action at Assen after withdrawing from the last round at the Sachsenring following five crashes during the weekend that left him with multiple fractures. Marquez crashed into Enea Bastianini during Q1 in an incident he later apologised for, and was unable to progress from his 17th position on […]
Marquez apologised to Bastianini for strange MotoGP Dutch GP qualifying crash
The Italian wasn’t angry about the incident in Q1, which took place well off the racing line, where Bastianini was trying to stay out of the way after aborting his lap due to a mistake. Marquez was on a similar line and failed to spot the cruising Ducati in time to avoid ploughing into the […]
MotoGP riders agree MotoGP track limits “easy” to overstep at Assen
This follows Brad Binder’s demotion from third to fifth in today’s sprint race, after the KTM rider ventured just a fraction onto ‘the green’ exiting the right-hander at Stekkenwal. Due to the penalty being issued so late in the race, three seconds were added to his finishing time in lieu of a long-lap penalty. Asked […]
Bezzecchi wins sprint race, Quartararo on podium
Though Bezzecchi briefly lost the lead from pole position, the man who had dominated the entire weekend was soon back past Bagnaia. And the reigning world champion, who had started second, had no answer. The result allows Bezzecchi to close the gap to Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin in the title race to 10 points, after […]
Bezzecchi leads all-Ducati front row in qualifying
Having been fastest in all three practice sessions, he beat reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia and team-mate Luca Marini as Ducati sealed the front row. First up, though, Johann Zarco and Miguel Oliveira, arguably the favourites to make it through from Q1, did exactly that as they topped the session and joined the big guns in […]