Alvaro Bautista wins Misano Race 1
From pole, Bautista was once again unstoppable as he led a Ducati 1-2 from team-mate Michael Ruben Rinaldi, the pair of works riders sporting a special yellow livery for this weekend. Toprak Razgatlioglu completed the podium in third for Yamaha, but now sits a huge 78 points behind Bautista in the riders’ standings with two […]
Alvaro Bautista wins Misano Race 1
From pole, Bautista was once again unstoppable as he led a Ducati 1-2 from team-mate Michael Ruben Rinaldi, the pair of works riders sporting a special yellow livery for this weekend. Toprak Razgatlioglu completed the podium in third for Yamaha, but now sits a huge 78 points behind Bautista in the riders’ standings with two […]
«Needing to feel important» has motivated Miller in MotoGP 2023
Miller signed a two-year factory deal with KTM when Ducati elected to move him out of its works team set-up in favour of Enea Bastianini. The Australian was offered a chance to remain at Ducati, but only on a one-year deal at Pramac. Miller, who was runner-up in the 2014 Moto3 world championship with KTM, […]
Why Kawasaki and Yamaha’s ‘hands are tied’
Ducati and Bautista have won all of the 12 races held so far this year bar one, and the Spaniard has a comfortable lead of 69 points in the riders’ standings over Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu. Lead Kawasaki rider Jonathan Rea, meanwhile, is already a massive 136 points down on Bautista ahead of this weekend’s Misano […]
2023 MotoGP title fight “like last year on steroids”
With the addition of sprint races in 2023, after five rounds there have already been 10 races completed, with three different riders winning the sprints and the grands prix. Heading into next weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, Francesco Bagnaia’s points lead over Marco Bezzecchi stands at just one as the reigning champion has suffered […]
Ducati plays down Jorge Martin’s Yamaha MotoGP links for 2024
One-time grand prix winner Martin made his MotoGP debut with Ducati as a Pramac rider in 2021 and won the Styrian GP in his rookie year. Martin was locked in a battle with Enea Bastianini last season for a place at the factory Ducati squad, but was beaten to the seat by the four-time race […]
Tito Rabat replaces Sykes at Puccetti Kawasaki
Rabat takes over Puccetti’s sole customer ZX-10RR for the rest of the 2023 campaign, starting with next week’s Misano race, following the abrupt departure of 2013 WSBK champion Sykes four rounds into the season. A disappointing start to the season for Sykes, who had only scored one point on his return to WSBK this year, […]
Mir “scared” of repeating Lorenzo’s Honda MotoGP failure
The 2020 world champion switched to the factory Honda squad for this season after Suzuki quit the series at the end of last year. Mir is the fifth different rider in six years to partner Marc Marquez at Honda, following Dani Pedrosa in 2018, Lorenzo in 2019, Alex Marquez in 2020 and Espargaro in 2021/2022. […]
The timely result of an under-pressure MotoGP rookie
The reigning Moto2 world champion, Fernandez is the only rookie on the 2023 MotoGP grid, having been signed by Tech3 to join its KTM-backed, GASGAS-branded squad. Fernandez endured a tough first four rounds of the championship, scoring nothing in any of the sprints and achieving a best grand prix result of 10th in America. At […]