The deal comes after Pramac confirmed Zarco’s departure over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, with Rins’ move announced before the British GP. Zarco has been a Ducati rider since 2020, when the Italian marque signed him to a deal to join the Avintia satellite squad. He will move to the Honda team next season, though […]
The Pramac Ducati rider was handed a long lap penalty for last Sunday’s Austrian GP after he was deemed to have been at fault for triggering a multi-rider pile-up on the opening lap of the sprint contest. The incident was investigated for several hours after the sprint race on Saturday, with Martin insisting he was […]
Starting from pole at the Red Bull Ring, Bagnaia fended off the fast-starting KTM duo of Brad Binder and Jack Miller on the run to Turn 1 to take the holeshot. Quickly pulling a gap to Binder in second, Bagnaia on his factory Ducati increasingly came under less threat as the 14-lap contest ticked away, […]
Double grand prix winner Bezzecchi is at the centre of the key rider market moves for 2025, with the VR46 rider torn between remaining at his current squad or moving to Pramac. A move to Pramac is Bezzecchi’s only chance of riding a works-spec Ducati in 2024, with VR46 to continue running year-old Desmosedicis. Speaking […]
This weekend’s 10th round of the 2023 season at the Red Bull Ring is sponsored by CryptoDATA, which is RNF’s title partner and part-owner. As a result, RNF is running a striking one-off light blue and pink livery for the RS-GPs of Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez. The livery, according to the team’s social media channels, […]
The KTM rider celebrated a brace of second-place finishes at the team’s home round at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, after following Francesco Bagnaia home in both the sprint and the grand prix. Binder ran Bagnaia close in the early stages of both contests but was quickly dropped by the Ducati rider, with the […]
Francesco Bagnaia’s total dominance of the Austrian Grand Prix was just one storyline in an eventful weekend for MotoGP. The Ducati rider now leads the championship by 62 points after registering his third sprint/grand prix double of the 2023 season. A decent challenge from KTM and Brad Binder wasn’t enough to throw Bagnaia off his […]
The eight-time world champion had not seen the chequered flag on a Sunday in MotoGP prior to Austria since the 2022 Malaysian GP, marking a near-year stint of 301 days without a grand prix finish. At all of the grands prix Marquez started in 2023 prior to Austria he had crashed out, with all of […]
Once again he nailed his start from pole position – just as he did in the sprint – in Sunday’s full-length race at the Red Bull Ring to keep the fast-launching KTMs behind him into Turn 1. Despite an early threat from Brad Binder, Bagnaia was never headed in Austria and stormed to the chequered […]
The Frenchman has been a Ducati rider since 2020, when the Italian marque signed him to a deal to join the Avintia satellite squad. This came after Zarco elected to quit his KTM deal a year early during a difficult season on the RC16 following his switch from Tech3 Yamaha, before the Austrian marque parted […]