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A damp FP1 session was topped by six-time world champion Marc Marquez, who led Suzuki’s Joan Mir by almost four tenths of a second. Lap times improved across the opening 45-minute session as riders grew more confident in the damp conditions, with Marquez leading the way on a 1m50.666s. Honda stablemate Takaaki Nakagami was caught

The Japanese rider is out of contract at the end of 2022 and his place is currently under threat from young Moto2 star Ai Ogura. Ogura has scored three podiums since stepping up to Moto2 in 2021 with Honda Team Asia and is currently second in the standings. Nakagami’s Idemitsu-backed side of the LCR garage

The Italian manufacturer is one of only two brands on the current grid without a satellite structure, with Suzuki also only fielding its two factory bikes. Currently, Honda fields four bikes across its factory squad and LCR; Yamaha fields four M1s across its factory team and RNF Racing; KTM has its own factory squad and

The nine-time MotoGP race winner will contest his 10th race as an Aprilia rider in this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix, having joined the marque midway through a tumultuous 2021 campaign after his relationship with Yamaha spectacularly soured. Vinales is currently 14th in the standings having scored 19 points with a best result of seventh in

The 31-time MotoGP race winner and three-time world champion across the 125cc and 250cc classes made his car racing debut at Imola earlier this month in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe series. Pedrosa finished ninth in the Pro-Am class in his FFF Racing-run car in the first race before finishing fourth in the second. The

After four races overseas since the start of March in Qatar, MotoGP returns to its spiritual homeland of Europe for the first of 12 straight races on the continent and 13 in total. The Algarve International Circuit near Portimao was brought onto the calendar in 2020 to help make up for the lack of travelling

The Australian – son of 1987 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner – beat Ajo KTM team-mate Raul Fernandez to an enthralling Moto2 crown last year and earned a promotion up to the premier class with the Austrian manufacturer. Placed at Tech3 on factory-backed machinery alongside Fernandez, both riders have struggled for form at the start

The six-time world champion has had a fraught start to the 2022 campaign and struggled to understand the radically revised Honda MotoGP bike, which is now more rear-biased to improve traction. Finishing fifth in the 2022 Qatar curtain-raiser, his first race since winning the 2021 Emilia-Romagna GP after a pre-Portugal training crash left him with

Last weekend at the Grand Prix of the Americas, the MotoGP paddock saw a different Marc Marquez. He was more serious than usual, more thoughtful and subdued, with less spark. His brother Alex declared that “he had never seen him so low in morale”. Despite celebrating the possibility of returning to racing after missing the

The Spaniard’s title defence last year proved difficult, as a lack of development on the GSX-RR meant he could do no better than third in the standings and failed to add to his victory tally. While Mir is yet to score a podium in 2022 while team-mate Alex Rins has two – including last weekend

The former MotoGP rider, who competed in the premier class from 2012 to 2021 and won twice with Ducati, will contest the 2022 MotoAmerica Superbike season for the Warhorse Ducati squad. He made a stunning debut in the series at the Circuit of the Americas on the support bill to MotoGP, qualifying third and winning

The Australian has been part of Ducati’s stable since the 2018 campaign when he joined Pramac from Marc VDS Honda, and has been under a factory contract – first at Pramac, and then the factory squad – since 2019. PLUS: How ‘Beast’ mode is putting Ducati into 2022 MotoGP title contention During last week’s Americas

Bastianini has made a storming start to his second season in MotoGP, securing a maiden win in Qatar last month and returning to the top of the standings last weekend after claiming victory in the Americas Grand Prix. PLUS: How ‘Beast’ mode is putting Ducati in 2022 MotoGP title contention The Gresini rider – who is

The Argentina race winner went from qualifying on pole and scoring victory at Termas de Rio Hondo to qualifying 11th and finishing there in the Circuit of the Americas race the week after.   Espargaro owned up to his crash in Q1 which hindered his weekend as he allowed traffic frustrations to boil over, but

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 Suzuki rider has enjoyed a consistent start to the 2022 campaign after a year plagued by crashes in 2021 ruled him out of title contention early on. But after four races this season, Rins sits second in the championship and is the only other rider aside from double winner Enea Bastianini who has scored

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

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

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 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 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 Pramac ace – who same through Q1 – snatched the front spot from fellow Ducati rider Jack Miller, with Francesco Bagnaia in third. The Italian manufacturer secured the top five spots in Q2, with Martin’s team-mate Johann Zarco in fourth and Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini in fifth. Martin’s pole time of 2m02.039s was enough

With cooler conditions greeting the riders for the start of Saturday’s action, lap time improvements on the combined order pivotal to deciding who goes straight into the pole shootout in qualifying later were few and far between. After 15 minutes of the 45-minute session, only three riders had gone quicker than their Friday bests –

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

The Frenchman set a 2m02.542s to beat Ducati’s Jack Miller to the top spot by over 0.2s in FP2, with reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo leaping up to third late on with a 2m02.837s. The second 45-minute session of the weekend took place under perfect conditions at the Circuit of the Americas, with lap times

The second 45-minute session of the weekend took place under perfect conditions at the Circuit of the Americas, with lap times instantly surmounting the best from FP1. Ducati’s Jack Miller was the first to break Alex Rins’ benchmark from this morning with a 2m03.567s, having set the early pace with a 2m04.121s. It wouldn’t be

The three-time race winner has been a stable of Ducati’s line-up since he joined Pramac in 2018, with the Australian earning a step up to the factory squad last year. He finished fourth in the points having scored two wins in 2021, albeit 61 points adrift of runner-up team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. Miller’s future with Ducati

The Honda rider was thrown from his bike during warm-up at Mandalika last month and suffered a concussion, which ruled him out of the Indonesian GP. He then started to suffer from diplopia – or double vision – which ruled him out of two races in 2021, and was forced to sit out the Argentina

Quartararo currently sits fifth in the championship after a mixed start to 2022, with a lack of grip in Qatar and Argentina – married to the M1’s lack of horsepower relative to its rivals – leaving him ninth and eighth. He had hoped that a strong run to second in the wet Indonesian GP after