Pedrosa won’t be tempted out of MotoGP retirement after «rewarding» Jerez sprint
Pedrosa won 31 grands prix and finished runner-up three times in the championship with Honda in a MotoGP career that spanned from 2006 to the end of 2018. Since retiring, Pedrosa joined KTM as an official test rider and has been instrumental in helping develop the bike into a race-winning package. Making his second wildcard […]
Nakagami “deserves nice present” for not hitting me in Jerez MotoGP crash
The Yamaha rider made contact with Gresini Ducati’s Alex Marquez at Turn 2 on the first lap of the sprint race on Saturday. The contact resulted in both crashing, with VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi also caught up in it as he struck Morbidelli’s errant Yamaha. Read Also: The sprint was red-flagged after this and all […]
Yamaha is “sleeping” on its troubled MotoGP bike, says Quartararo
Quartararo has spent the entirety of the Jerez weekend expressing his unhappiness at the 2023 Yamaha package, which he said on Friday had steadily lost all of its strong points at the Spanish GP venue over the last four years. The 2021 world champion, whose previous worst Jerez qualifying in MotoGP was second, struggled to […]
Binder wins wild sprint from Bagnaia
Binder locked horns with team-mate Jack Miller for victory in the sprint race, making a decisive move on the penultimate tour before scampering 0.428 seconds clear to the chequered flag. Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia was second after passing Miller on the last lap to close to three points off the championship lead after VR46 Ducati’s Marco […]
FIM announces new Women’s World Championship for 2024
In a special press conference on Saturday at the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix, Dorna Sports and the FIM unveiled this new championship. The FIM Women’s World Championship will take place over six rounds in 2024 in Europe and will be part of the World Superbike support bill. The series will be a single-make championship, though […]
MotoGP Jerez poleman Espargaro was “angry” when rain fell before qualifying
Espargaro snatched his first pole of the 2023 season in a dramatic qualifying at Jerez, the Spaniard beating KTM’s Jack Miller by 0.221 seconds with a final lap of 1m37.216s. Read Also: Light rain started to fall prior to the 15-minute pole shootout getting underway, with that precipitation carrying on for the first half of […]
Espargaro takes pole as Quartararo only 16th
Light rain prior to the start of the Q2 session turned qualifying on its head, with the sprinkling continuing as the riders headed out on track for the pole shootout. In a Q2 session that saw provisional pole change hands 14 times across 15 minutes, Aprilia’s Espargaro nailed his final run to be one of […]
Bastianini pulls out of MotoGP Spanish GP weekend with injury
The four-time MotoGP race winner suffered a broken shoulder blade after Luca Marini collided with him in the sprint race at the Portuguese GP in March. Though Bastianini didn’t require surgery on the injury, it forced him to miss the Argentina GP the week after Portugal and the third round in America. Bastianini completed a […]
Sprint podium “a lot to ask” after “unexpected” Jerez practice form
The 31-time MotoGP race winner is making a wildcard appearance this weekend at Jerez with KTM, marking just his second outing since retiring from full-time competition at the end of 2018. Though he tested recently at Jerez on the RC16, Pedrosa was still stunned when he topped FP1 with a 1m36.770s on Friday morning. This […]