MotoGP

On Monday evening Autosport revealed Suzuki is set to quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season in a shock decision made by the Japanese marque, which was communicated to the team during the post-race test at Jerez. Suzuki was expected to make an official announcement of its exit this morning, but so far

It’s not been the start to 2022 anyone expected of Bagnaia on the GP22, as he struggled in the early races to find the same form he has last year. But steady progress in rediscovering his missing front-end feeling put him back to the front of the pack at Jerez, the Italian dominating for pole

The Japanese manufacturer was a mainstay in MotoGP through the 500cc era, winning world titles with the likes of Barry Sheene, Marco Lucchinelli, Franco Uncini, Kevin Schwantz and Kenny Roberts Jr. Suzuki continued in MotoGP when it switched to the four-stroke formula, but would withdraw at the end of the 2011 season due to financial

The Honda rider was battling Ducati’s Jack Miller and Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro for much of Sunday’s Spanish GP at Jerez over the final podium place. Marquez made a move on Miller at Jerez’s final corner on lap 21 of 25 but lost the front-end under braking and nearly crashed out. But the Spaniard managed to

The Italian crashed heavily during qualifying for the Portimao round last weekend and had to go to hospital for checks on his right shoulder. Though no fractures were found, Bagnaia still battled through the pain to eighth place in that race and continued to be hampered by the injury this weekend in Spain. He fended

Both Quartararo and Bagnaia were the strongest riders of the Jerez weekend, with the pair starting 1-2 on the grid – Bagnaia taking pole ahead of Quartararo – and showing the strongest race pace in FP4.   The pair got off the line evenly, but Quartararo was edged out by Bagnaia and sat behind the

On Saturday at the Spanish Grand Prix, Lorenzo was inducted into MotoGP’s hall of fame in a ceremony at Jerez.  Lorenzo won 47 races in a premier class career that spanned from 2008 to 2019, with the Spaniard winning the world championship three times with Yamaha and scoring victories for both the Japanese marque and

The Frenchman’s management is locked in negotiations with Yamaha over a new contract for 2023, with several news outlets reporting on Saturday that a deal had been signed.   Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis denied this to Autosport when asked about the negotiations with Quartararo, the Briton stating that he expected a deal to be signed

Making his debut in MotoGP in 2008 with Yamaha as a double 250cc world champion, Lorenzo would go on to win 47 races and three premier class world titles in 2010, 2012 and 2015. Lorenzo switched to Ducati in 2017 and joined an elite list of riders to have won races for multiple manufacturers when

The perfect conditions on Saturday morning at Jerez allowed lap time improvements on the combined order to come in almost immediately in the third and final 45-minute practice of the weekend.   Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro was the first significant rider to make an improvement on the combined times with a 1m37.732s which put him top

The reigning world champion had just gone to the top of the order around 15 minutes into the opening session at Jerez on Friday when he was flicked from his bike at the final corner having touched a damp patch. He got back onto his bike and rolled it into pitlane, but was seen visibly

Just a week after the previous round in Portugal, won by Quartararo, MotoGP rolled into Jerez on Friday for the opening day of the sixth round of the 2022 campaign. Overnight rain left damp patches on track for FP1, but the session was still run on slicks, with Suzuki’s Joan Mir leading his team-mate Alex

Heavy rain on Thursday evening left some damp patches on track for the start of Friday’s running at the sixth round of the 2022 campaign at Jerez, but the entire field headed out on slicks to get some laps under their belts. Reigning world champion Quartararo, who is twice a winner at Jerez in MotoGP,

On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, MotoGP governing body the FIM announced testing for the 2023 season would be reduced to just eight official days across the year. Five days of running will be had in the pre-season spread across a two- and three-day test – as was the case

The six-time MotoGP world champion was the first Honda across the line last week at Portimao, but was 16 seconds off the win down in sixth spot having been expected to fight for the podium. All Honda riders have made complaints about the marque’s radically overhauled challenger for 2022 in recent rounds despite the bike

The veteran Spaniard currently sits third in the championship and just three points from joint leaders Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins, after claiming his second podium of the campaign in third in last weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix. Espargaro stormed to his first grand prix victory and Aprilia’s first in the modern MotoGP era in Argentina,

Quartararo hadn’t won a race since Silverstone 2021 last August, but surmounted early leader Joan Mir on the fourth lap and romped to a crucial first win of a so far difficult season. Mir streaked away off the line from second on the grid to lead a race for the first time since his title-winning

The Yamaha rider passed early leader Joan Mir on the fourth lap and romped to a crucial first win of a so far difficult season, having failed to win a race since Silverstone last year. Mir streaked away off the line from second on the grid to lead a race for the first time since

Ducati was expected to hit the ground running in 2022 with its new challenger having gone into the winter with the best bike on the grid.   But the changes to the Desmosedici have required a much longer adaptation period for its riders in the opening races, with its new engine leading to problems putting

Honda overhauled its RC213V for the 2022 season after several lean seasons prompted by Marc Marquez’s serious arm injury in 2020 and a lack of results for HRC’s other riders. The new bike was met with glowing praise by most Honda riders in the pre-season, as the more rear-biased motorcycle delivered the rear grip it

The Yamaha rider now has 69 points, joint with Suzuki’s Alex Rins, who made a stunning charge from 23rd to finish fourth. Elsewhere, Honda had a difficult weekend, with all their riders struggling for pace. Read Also: Marquez led his brother Alex Marquez in sixth, while Espargaro was ninth – all three HRC runners over

A strategy blunder in the wet-to-dry Q1 qualifying session at Portimao last weekend left Rins at the back of the grid in 23rd, but a stunning start in Sunday’s race led to him jumping up to 10th on the opening lap. Rins march continued in emphatic fashion as he carved through to fourth by the

The reigning world champion stormed to his first win since the 2021 British GP on Sunday at Portimao, having taken the lead from Suzuki’s Joan Mir on the fourth lap of 25. Quartararo proceeded to streak clear of the field to a winning margin of 5.4 seconds to take the lead in the championship for

Mir led the 25-lap race early on, but was soon swallowed by eventual winner Fabio Quartararo and dropped to third late on as he battled with a lack of feeling on his medium front tyre.   On lap 19 Miller lined up a pass on Mir into the first corner, but lost the front-end of

The six-time world champion was expected to be one of the main combatants in Sunday’s race at Portimao despite qualifying down in ninth. But Marquez failed to make inroads at the start and could only manage sixth, some 16 seconds from race winner Fabio Quartararo, after battling with Honda team-mate Pol Espargaro and his LCR

Qualifying at Portimao on Saturday was hectic as Q2 was the first session of the weekend to be run in fully dry conditions. This meant lap times improved throughout the 15-minute session as the track evolved, with top spot changing hands constantly. Marquez was on a lap in the dying stages of Q2 that was

The 2020 title winner took his first ever front row qualifying result in last year’s Algarve GP at Portimao, and was in the fight for pole on Saturday for the 2022 Portuguese GP. Mir in the end lost out to Pramac’s Johann Zarco by 0.195 seconds, but still held onto a career-best second. Speaking after

The three-time MotoGP race winner made his debut with LCR back in 2015 when he was signed to a three-year contract by Honda to come directly from Moto3, where he finished runner-up in the championship in 2014. After a difficult debut aboard the underpowered RC213V-RS open class bike, Miller moved to Marc VDS for the

The Ducati rider was one of several caught out by the wet conditions on Friday at the Algarve International Circuit, with Bagnaia falling from his bike at Turn 3 early on in FP2. The Italian was seen scooping up some of the gravel into his hands and delivered it to Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi

The reigning world champion ended Friday’s running 20th on the combined standings and 1.395 seconds off pacesetter Marc Marquez on the Honda. The Yamaha has typically struggled in wet conditions in previous years, though the high-grip nature of the Mandalika circuit helped Quartararo to second in the wet Indonesian GP. Despite his lowly position after