The Yamaha rider qualified as the top non-Ducati rider in sixth at the Circuit of Americas and displayed strong race pace throughout practice. However, Quartararo was unable to mount a challenge for the podium and took the chequered flag in seventh after a late battle with Honda’s Marc Marquez. The Frenchman sits fifth in the […]
Ducati dominated the action at the Circuit of the Americas, with factory rider Jack Miller taking third place. The result poses questions for Ducati, who are yet to decide on their rider line-up for next year, with Miller and Bastianini both in contention for the second seat alongside Francesco Bagnaia. Elsewhere, Marquez made a stunning […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion was making his return to action following his double vision-induced Argentina absence at the Circuit of the Americas and was pegged by many of his rivals as a favourite to take victory in Sunday’s race even from ninth on the grid. But a technical issue meant he barely pulled away […]
The Honda rider is a seven-time polesitter and seven-time race winner at the Circuit of the Americas and was expected to have a strong return to action this weekend having missed the Argentine round with vision problems he suffered as a result of a violent crash in Indonesia. But Marquez could only qualify ninth on […]
The Spaniard made history for Aprilia in last week’s Argentina Grand Prix when he guided the marque to its first win in the modern MotoGP era. It also ended a 200-race drought in the premier class for himself, with Espargaro first making his debut in MotoGP in 2009 and has been a mainstay on the […]
The Gresini rider passed long-time leader Jack Miller on the factory team Ducati late on and cleared off by two seconds to return to the top of the standings with his first podium since his debut win in Qatar and win the 500th race of the Dorna Sports era of MotoGP. Miller grabbed the holeshot […]
The Gresini rider passed long-time leader Jack Miller on the factory team Ducati late on to take his first podium since his debut win in the season opener in Qatar. He is MotoGP’s first repeat winner in 2022 and takes a five-point lead in the championship. Miller took the lead from poleman Jorge Martin off […]
The problem of riders backing off and waiting for faster competitors to come by, before latching onto the back of them and taking profit of the slipstream, has been a constant problem in Moto3 and prompted the introduction of harsh sanctions to combat this. But the problem has also plagued many MotoGP sessions, including Q1 […]
Quartararo had just moved into fourth in the early stages of Saturday’s Q2 pole shootout session and was on course to better his lap when he slid off his Yamaha at the Turn 19 left-hander. He was able to get back to his Yamaha box and get his second bike, with the reigning world […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion was ruled out of last weekend’s Argentina GP after his violent crash at the previous round at Mandalika, which left him with concussion and forced him to miss that weekend’s Indonesian GP. Marquez was left suffering vision problems, which also sidelined him for three months late last year, but made […]