Miller ‘kicking himself’ after double Le Mans MotoGP DNF
Miller tumbled out of the sprint race at Le Mans last weekend and was fighting for the top six having led briefly in the grand prix when he crashed at Turn 4. It has seen the Australian slip 45 points back in the championship standings, with Miller “kicking myself” for not capitalising on bad days […]
Bagnaia admits MotoGP sprints helping his title defence after three DNFs
Bagnaia was wiped out in a collision with Maverick Vinales while the pair battled for third on the fifth lap of last Sunday’s grand prix at Le Mans. The incident marked Bagnaia’s third Sunday DNF in the first five rounds, having crashed out of second in Argentina and the lead in America. But the Ducati […]
Martin “studied” Marquez’s sprint battle for their Le Mans MotoGP duel
Martin won the sprint race at Le Mans and went on to finish second in the grand prix on Sunday to register his first main race podium of the season. It came after the Pramac Ducati rider locked horns with Marquez over runner-up spot on the podium, with the former winning out after the Honda […]
10 things we learned from the 2023 MotoGP French GP
Motorcycle grand prix racing’s 1000th event did not disappoint, as the 2023 MotoGP French Grand Prix at Le Mans delivered plenty of drama. Ducati enjoyed a stellar weekend in France, picking up victories in the sprint race and the grand prix courtesy of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, while it locked out the podium in […]
Alex Marquez explains “scary” Marini crash in Le Mans MotoGP race
Marquez was trailing the VR46 duo of Marini and eventual winner Marco Bezzecchi on lap six of Sunday’s 27-lap grand prix at Le Mans. As Bezzecchi and Marini battled for position, the latter touched the kerb on the inside of Turn 4 and lost the front-end of his Ducati. Though he was able to keep […]
Quartararo using 2021 set-up to battle Yamaha MotoGP problems
Quartararo has scored just one podium after the first five rounds of the season and admitted during last weekend’s French Grand Prix that he was ‘not confident’ his Yamaha team understood how to fix its troubled bike. The Frenchman’s woes continued at Le Mans, with Quartararo crashing out of the sprint and finishing seventh in […]
Marquez would rather crash fighting for MotoGP podium than «finish in 10th»
The Honda rider qualified on the front row for his comeback weekend at Le Mans and briefly led Sunday’s grand prix. Read Also: Marquez ultimately fought with Pramac’s Jorge Martin for second in the latter stages of the race, but crashed at Turn 6 on the penultimate tour while sitting in runner-up spot. It means […]
Bagnaia “not angry” with Vinales after Le Mans MotoGP clash
Vinales and Bagnaia were battling over third place on the fifth lap of Sunday’s grand prix at Le Mans when the Aprilia rider threw his bike up the inside of Bagnaia at Turn 11. Read Also: He ran wide and Bagnaia cut back to his inside, but as they changed direction for Turn 12 the […]
Bezzecchi wary of MotoGP title thoughts despite dominant Le Mans win
Marco Bezzecchi dominated Sunday’s Le Mans race on MotoGP’s 1000th grand prix weekend after he took the lead on lap 11 of 27 and took the chequered flag 4.2 seconds clear of the field. Read Also: It marked his second grand prix victory of the season, and with championship leader Bagnaia being taken out in a […]