Red Bull KTM Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal sees Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira as his own ‘dream team’ for 2020 after handing the South African his MotoGP debut Red Bull KTM Tech3 team manager Herve Poncharal has described adding Brad Binder alongside Miguel Oliveira as his own ‘dream team’ for the 2020 MotoGP world championship. Binder […]
Honda team boss Alberto Puig has hit back at comments made by Ducati which suggested the Japanese marque has only built its MotoGP bike for Marc Marquez. Marquez has won five of the last six premier class titles aboard the RC213V, and is well on course for his sixth in 2019 after a fifth victory of the […]
Brad Binder will join KTM MotoGP satellite squad Tech 3 for 2020 alongside Miguel Oliveria, replacing Hafizh Syahrin. The South African currently competes in Moto2 with the Ajo KTM team, and stands 8th in the riders’ championship off the back of two successive runner-up finishes in the Dutch TT at Assen as well as last weekend […]
VALENTINO ROSSI remains adamant that his bike is the problem – not him. The Doctor had another weekend to forget in Germany.He crossed the line in eighth having never looked capable of mounting a serious podium push.Rossi had previously failed to finish the last three races as his season badly hit the buffers. His team-mate, […]
Marc Marquez continued his sensational record at the Sachsenring with a dominant pole-to-flag victory in Sunday’s German Grand Prix. Marquez takes 10th straight Sachsenring pole, Dovizioso out in Q1 The Spaniard racked up a 10th consecutive victory at the circuit – seven of those now coming in MotoGP – as he stretched his lead at […]
Championship leader Marc Marquez has been stellar so far this season, with seven top two finishes out of the first eight races including four wins Assen was hard work for Marquez and the Repsol Honda team, as both Yamaha and Suzuki had a significant speed advantage over the course of the weekend. However, a supreme ride from the reigning champion saw him […]
VALENTINO ROSSI is still top dog at Yamaha, says Maverick Vinales.The Doctor had another weekend to forget yesterday and crashed out of contention.He clattered into LCR Honda star Takaaki Nakagami at Turn 8 and was sent careering into the gravel. It was the third race in a row where Rossi has failed to finish. Vinales, […]
Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team RC213V) increased his 2019 points advantage with a fine ride to second place at sun-blessed Assen today. The 26-year-old Spaniard fought a typically spirited battle for victory with eventual winner Maverick Vinales, finally making sure of the 20-point haul for runner-up spot in the closing stages. […]
Jorge Lorenzo will take no further part in the Dutch TT weekend held at Assen due to fracturing his back in FP1 on Friday morning. Lorenzo suffered a high speed crash at Turn 7 towards the end of the 45 minute session, banging his head on the tarmac as he landed. He was then forced […]
With an extended championship lead and a successful test, the Repsol Honda Team arrive in Assen with clear goals. Known at ‘The Cathedral’, Assen is steeped in history as the only circuit to have hosted a round of the World Championship every year since 1949. The fast and flowing nature of the 4.5km long circuit […]
The headlines in Barcelona were dominated by one incident, but looking ahead to the Motul TT Assen they certainly shouldn’t remain that way. The script for the Catalan GP was written early but if there’s one venue where the plan always gets a shake up, it’s Assen. Whether it’s final chicane drama, the incredible close […]
Valentino Rossi promises to drive DTM in the ‘not far’ future That’s according to BT Sport pundit and paddock insider Neil Hodgson who says The Doctor is cutting a frustrated figure. Rossi has been intermittently competitive during this campaign. But technical issues and bad luck have effectively ended his title charge.He crashed out of the […]
Marc Marquez capitalised on a crash that took out four of his rivals to win at the Catalunya circuit and extend his MotoGP title lead.Jorge Lorenzo slid on the second lap in Barcelona and, in the process, ended the races of Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales. Spaniard Marquez avoided the crash and took […]
Dr Helmut Marko has admitted he urged MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta to announce his candidacy to replace Chase Carey as CEO of Formula 1.73-year-old Ezpeleta is CEO of Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder of the two-wheeled F1 equivalent. Marko, a top official at Red Bull, thinks Ezpeleta would already have solved what he thinks […]
If you’ve been around racing long enough you mourn many things: most of all you mourn the riders who have lost their lives, but you also mourn the legendary race bikes of old and you mourn the awesome corners that have been lost in the quest for greater safety, so that we have to mourn […]
Danilo Petrucci secured his first ever MotoGP victory with a daring third-to-first move on the final lap of his home Italian Grand Prix.Petrucci, Ducati team-mate Dovizioso, Honda’s Marquez and Suzuki’s Alex Rins exchanged the lead throughout a thrilling 23-lap contest.The #9 was in front as the last lap began, but Marquez and Dovizioso instantly slipstreamed […]
Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) is on an undeniable roll as the Championship rocks into Mugello, but this is now unmistakably enemy territory. Not only for the banks of yellow that trim the circuit every race weekend, but also for the swathes of red crowding into the track to support home factory Ducati – the […]
Pol Espargaro says finishing the MotoGP French Grand Prix just 5.9 seconds from race winner Marc Marquez in sixth proves KTM’s rivals are “not gods”.Espargaro – who trailed Marquez by 32s in last year’s Le Mans race – was unable to set a lap in qualifying due to a crash in Q2, but leaped up […]
Victory by an RCV rider at this weekend’s French MotoGP would mark Honda’s 300th premier-class win. It would be the latest milestone in a 53-year journey which began with Jim Redman’s win on an RC181 in 1966. Back on top of the present world championship after banishing his Austin error with victory in Jerez, Marc Marquez is […]
VALENTINO ROSSI has warned Marc Marquez that anything can happen in the race for Championship glory. The Doctor had a weekend to forget at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. He started at the bottom end of the grid in 13th having failed to make the cut on Saturday for Q2. It was a tough […]
Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) bounced back from his Americas GP crash in phenomenal fashion to take a commanding victory at tJerez, beating second place Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and third place Maverick Vinales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) to take the championship lead by a single point. As the lights went green, Marquez and […]
Reigning world champion Marc Marquez will be hoping to get his title defence back on track when MotoGP’s 300th race takes place this weekend.Marquez’s crash and retirement at the Circuit of Americas last month meant the Honda rider left empty-handed and now trails Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, the leader in the standings, by nine points after […]
MotoGP’s Spanish king of Texas has been dethroned, replaced by his countryman. Six-time defending race champion Marc Marquez crashed his Repsol Honda halfway through the Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday, opening the door for Suzuki’s Alex Rins to snatch his first career MotoGP victory. “It was unbelievable,” Rins said. “I tried to stay […]
Repsol Honda Team ready to rumble in Austin Marc Marquez returns to happy hunting grounds in Texas as Jorge Lorenzo prepares to turn his bad luck around.Introduced in to the MotoGP World Championship calendar in 2013, the Circuit of the Americas offers an interesting mix of tight and technical turns in the first sector and […]
Marc Marquez dominated the MotoGP Argentine Grand Prix, while Valentino Rossi secure his first podium since last year’s Sachsenring race in second. Marquez led from the start and proved untouchable, cruising to victory by 9.8 seconds aboard his Honda to take a slender lead in the championship. The Honda rider seized the advantage off the […]
Jorge Lorenzo in better shape for this weekend’s Argentina MotoGP – a track he doesn’t have a great record at, however ‘the Honda presents a new opportunity’. Following a 13th place finish on his Repsol Honda debut in Qatar, it was discovered that Jorge Lorenzo had a cracked rib in his nasty Losail practice highside. It was […]
Bengaluru, March 26: From the desert to the Andes, the MotoGP Championship heads from the Middle East to Latin America for the second round, but it is more than simply a change of scenery. The ArgentinaGP will be held on Sunday (March 31) at 3pm local time (11.30pm IST). Heat is now partnered by humidity, […]
The FIM will soon make its decision about Ducati’s alleged aero device, but there is only one sensible way out of this mess MotoGP’s Court of Appeal will sit at the end of this week to decide the fate of Ducati’s alleged swingarm aerodynamics device and the 25 points that Andrea Dovizioso scored in Qatar. What […]
While the protest against Ducati at the Qatar Grand Prix was quickly dimissed, it’s easy to see why its MotoGP rivals are appealing the decision. The case centres around a winglet on the bottom of the Ducati, in front of the rear tyre, that was trialled by factory rider Danilo Petrucci and then used by […]
Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso beat Marc Marquez to win the opening round of the 2019 MotoGP season by just 0.023 seconds at the end of a typically frantic affair in Qatar. In a repeat of last year’s Qatar race, Dovizioso fended off a last-corner lunge from Honda man Marquez for victory, having been at the […]
But Marquez today delivered the news none of his MotoGP competitors wanted to hear – he is going to be almost 100 per cent ready for Qatar. The current world champion has been battling to be fully fit for the season’s curtain raiser. Throughout testing his injury has clearly been holding him back, with the rival Yamahas particularly […]
MOTOGP legend Valentino Rossi has revealed he regrets not winning a 10th world championship after a number of near-misses in recent years.The Italian has won nine championships throughout his illustrious career and is deemed one of the greatest in MotoGP history. But Rossi is without a title in 10 years after watching the likes of […]
VALENTINO ROSSI’S mother has offered her son a few words of advice about his future. The nine-time world champion has a year remaining on his current Yamaha contract heading into the 2019 season.Last year he failed to win a race for the first time since returning to the Japanese team in 2013.Despite that Rossi’s mother […]
HRC boss Tetsuhiro Kuwata sees new signing Jorge Lorenzo as a ‘true champion’ for joining Repsol Honda but doesn’t expect any changes inside the team HRC director Tetsuhiro Kuwata sees new signing Jorge Lorenzo as a ‘true champion’ for taking on the challenge by joining Repsol Honda but doesn’t expect working processes within the team to alter at the reigning MotoGP […]
The 2019 pre-season has been different to any other before it for reigning MotoGP™ World Champion Marc Marquez after a substantial shoulder operation in early December. Surgery was performed by Dr. Xavier Mir, Dr. Victor Marlet and Dr. Teresa Marlet at the Hospital Universitari Dexeus in order to resolve a recurring dislocation of Marc Marquez’s left […]
At 39-years old, Valentino Rossi has once again hushed any rumors of retirement from MotoGP. The nine-time World Champion extended his contract with the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team for another two years, Rossi remaining on the factory YZR-M1 through 2020 MotoGP. Upon successful completion of MotoGP racing through 2020, the Italian will compete in a record 24 seasons of […]
by Mat Oxley on 23rd January 2019 Márquez and Lorenzo make the most successful team in premier-class history… shame they’re unlikely to be fully fit for the first raceMost team launches are a bit, well, meh, because the future is like looking for Eldorado: it’s easy to promise all kinds of gold and glory before the journey […]
New Repsol Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo ruled out of opening 2019 test after surgery for scaphoid fracture. Jorge Lorenzo‘s Repsol Honda preparations have been dealt a blow after it was confirmed that the triple MotoGP champion will miss the opening 2019 test at Sepang due to his recent left-wrist injury. Lorenzo broke the small but notoriously slow-to-heal scaphoid […]
Ducati is disappointing in MotoGP despite three race wins. The sporting ‘return’ of Jorge has penalised Dovi. Now the pair are to all effect rivals.After the 2017 season and Andrea Dovizioso’s fantastic six race wins, ducatisti the world over expected a real title fight come 2018, but alas it never came. On the contrary, the red bikes’ current season […]
Ahead of a mouth-watering inter-team duel in 2019, three-time MotoGP world champion Lorenzo, who boasts 47 top-flight race wins to his name, spoke about his toughest challenge yet two months out from the season start. How excited are you for the 2019 season? I am very excited as everything has changed again. Two years ago, […]