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The Yamaha rider sits 23 points behind title rival Francesco Bagnaia heading into Sunday’s race, with the pair lining up fourth and eighth respectively. Quartararo must win the race to have any chance of clinching the title, while Bagnaia just needs to finish 14th. Marquez, who starts second, says Quartararo will be “aggressive” and that

The session was red-flagged just over a minute in when VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi crashed at Turn 7 on an out-lap and his bike burst into flames. The scene was quickly cleared and the session resumed a few minutes later at 10am local time, with Miller leading the way at the chequered flag by

The six-time world champion, who finished Friday’s FP2 fourth-fastest, went down at Turn 2 in FP1 before crashing at Turn 1 in FP2. But Marquez put the crashes down to his willingness to take risks, and said he will do the same on Saturday for FP3 and qualifying even if it means a third crash.

On Friday at the Valencia Grand Prix, MotoGP held a press conference to announce that 1982 500c world champion Uncini would be retiring from his role as official safety officer at the end of this season. His place will be taken by Bartolome Alfonso Ezpeleta, nephew to Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta and formerly head

Quartararo comes into this weekend’s title decider in Valencia 23 points down on Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and must win on Sunday to have any hope of retaining his world championship. The Frenchman has been lavished in praise by some of his rivals – including Bagnaia – for the job he has done in keeping the

The Ducati rider says there is “still a possibility” that Quartararo could clinch the title at this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix, despite the Yamaha rider needing to win to have a chance of retaining his crown. Bagnaia won last time out at the Malaysian Grand Prix, but Quartararo recovered from 12th to third to keep

The Spanish rider joined the team in 2019 before taking the team’s first riders’ championship in 20 years the following year. It was confirmed in May that the Japanese manufacturer would exit the championship at the end of 2022, despite having only made its return in 2015. Mir, who will move to Honda for 2023

Ducati rider Bagnaia stands on the precipice of an historic first world championship coming into this the final round of the season on 4-6 November, as he aims to become the first rider to have overturned a 91-point deficit and brush aside five DNFs to win the title. Bagnaia has won seven times so far

The Ducati rider won last weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, but with Fabio Quartararo finishing third it was not enough to wrap up the title. As a result, Bagnaia heads to next week’s Valencia GP in need of just two points to win the championship in what will be just the fifth final round title-decider in

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The 2020 world champion was running inside the top six in the early stages of the 20-lap race at Sepang before he started to drop off the pace. With three laps to go, Mir ran off track at Turn 1 and dropped out of the top 10 to 19th, which he later explained was down

Morbidelli was involved in a last-lap clash with Aprilia’s Espargaro at the penultimate corner of last Sunday’s race at Sepang. The Yamaha rider finished 10th, but was handed a three-second time penalty, which dropped him back behind Espargaro to 11th. This was the second penalty Morbidelli received at Sepang, having been hit with a three-place

They say time heals all wounds, but the day Marco Simoncelli’s young life was tragically cut short in a horrible accident during the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2011 is a scar that still stings MotoGP a decade on. Motorsport is often subject to ‘what-if’ scenarios, and one many MotoGP fans often ponder is: what would

Espargaro came to Sepang 27 points behind championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and needed to lose no more than three points to the Ducati rider to keep his title hopes alive going to Valencia. But the Aprilia rider endured a tough Malaysian GP, taking the chequered flag in 11th and 21.5 seconds off of race winner

The six-time MotoGP world champion qualified on the front row for Sunday’s race at Sepang, but admitted at the time that he had no idea how he achieved this as he spent the weekend “fighting against the bike”. Anticipating a difficult race, Marquez slid out of the podium battle early on and ended up 14.3

Bagnaia needed to outscore Quartararo by 11 points to secure the world championship at Sepang, but Quartararo recovered from 12th to third to keep the door ajar to set up just the fifth season finale title decider in the MotoGP era. Poleman Jorge Martin converted pole to the holeshot on his Pramac Ducati, while Bagnaia

Bagnaia could have won the championship in Sunday’s 20-lap Malaysian GP if he outscored Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo by 11 points. The Ducati rider did win the race, but Quartararo finished third to keep his title hopes alive going to the final round in Valencia, with 23 points now the gap. In recent races it has

The Yamaha rider salvaged third in Sunday’s tense 20-lap Sepang race having qualified down in 12th to ensure the championship battle goes down to the final round in Valencia in two weeks’ time. With Bagnaia winning the race, Quartararo’s gulf to the Ducati rider has grown from 14 points to 23, meaning he has no

The Honda rider had to come through Q1 after failing to get into the top 10 at the end of FP3, but looked very uncomfortable on the RC213V in time attack mode. Despite this, Marquez produced a 1m58.454s lap at the end of Q2 to put his Honda third on the grid but admits he

The reigning world champion endured a tough afternoon at Sepang, with a crash in FP4 hindering his race preparations ahead of a difficult qualifying. Quartararo was only 11th after his first run and was unable to pull himself any further up the grid when he had a moment at Turn 8 – where he crashed

The Ducati rider was forced to go through Q1 on Saturday at Sepang after a late crash in FP3 trailing nearest championship rival Fabio Quartararo left him outside of the top 10. Easing through the first part of qualifying, Bagnaia was on course for a front row lap in the latter stages of Q2 when

Late spots of rain transformed the critical final timed practice ahead of qualifying into a tense shootout in the latter stages as the field made their bids to grab direct spots into the Q2 session later this afternoon. Having taken over top spot early on with a 1m59.167s on the combined order to lift himself

The six-time premier class world champion scored his first podium of the season last time out at the Australian Grand Prix, after narrowly missing out on victory. Marquez urged caution on the result, however, as he noted Phillip Island’s fast and flowing nature – combined with its anticlockwise layout – masked the main issues of

The Ducati rider has his first match point in the 2022 championship battle this weekend at Sepang, as he leads by 14 points and only needs to outscore Fabio Quartararo by 11 to win the title. But Bagnaia risks having to go through Q1 in qualifying on Saturday after a sudden heavy downpour on Friday

This weekend’s return to Sepang marks the first match point in the championship battle, with Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia able to wrap up the title as he comes to Malaysia 14 points clear in the standings. Bagnaia needs to outscore reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo by 11 points and ensure he only loses two points to

Quartararo comes into this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix trailing Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia by 14 points and must not cede any more than 10 if he is to keep his fading title hopes alive. The Yamaha rider has endured a torrid second half of the season, failing to score three times in the last four races

Ducati rider Bagnaia stands on the precipice of an historic first world championship coming into this weekend’s penultimate round of the season, as he aims to become the first rider to have overturned a 91-point deficit and brush aside five DNFs to win the title. Bagnaia has won six times so far this season, five

The reigning world champion has lost the lead in the standings for the first time since the Portuguese GP back in April, with Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia 14 points clear at the top and able to win the title next week in Malaysia. Quartararo was running inside the top eight when his race at Phillip Island

Earlier this year the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, which runs both the Australian F1 and MotoGP events, inked a new deal with F1 that runs until 2035. As part of the deal the Albert Park race is set to be one of the first three races of the season including a minimum of five season-opener

The Spaniard started on pole for last Sunday’s 27-lap Phillip Island race and led for the first 13 tours before being shuffled out of the podium battle. Martin admits he struggled under braking once he began to fight other riders, which led to him taking the chequered flag in seventh. “Well, I was first [for