Quartararo secured his first MotoGP title at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano, after championship rival Francesco Bagnaia’s crash from the lead made it mathematically impossible for the Ducati rider to stay in the battle. As a result, Quartararo became the first French top-class grand prix motorcycle champion, completing the feat in only his
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Bastianini claimed his maiden MotoGP podium five weeks ago when MotoGP last visited Misano for the San Marino GP having come from 12th on the grid. A repeat looked unlikely after he suffered three crashes on Saturday and qualified down in 16th. However, the 2020 Moto2 world champion once again climbed up the order and
The nine-time MotoGP race winner scored his best result since joining Aprilia in last weekend’s Misano race, with Vinales coming from 19th to narrowly be beaten by team-mate Aleix Espargaro eighth. But Vinales insists he could have cracked the top three for the first time on the RS-GP but for losing “a minimum 10 to
The KTM rider endured a wretched weekend at Misano having failed to crack the top 16 across practice and going on to qualify a disappointing 19th while team-mate Miguel Oliveira was fifth. Binder crashed at the Turn 10 right-hander on his way to the grid ahead of the race start having elected initially to run
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia spectacularly crashed out of the lead, handing the Yamaha rider the crown, while his team-mate Jack Miller suffered the same fate while running in second. In the latest Tank Slappers Podcast, Autosport’s Megan White and Motorsport.com’s Oriol Puigdemont discuss Quartararo’s title win and Marquez’ victory. Uri is fresh off the phone to
Espargaro’s KTM exit and signing to the factory Honda squad for 2021 was one of the biggest rider market shocks of the 2020 campaign, especially when KTM emerged as a race winner last season. Affected by limited testing this year due to the COVID pandemic, Espargaro has largely struggled to adapt to the RC213V –
Quartararo became France’s first-ever MotoGP world champion when he claimed fourth in Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after sole title rival Francesco Bagnaia crashed out late on, handing the race victory to Marquez. Over the course of 2021, Quartararo has won five races and scored a further five podiums, and is the only rider to
Mir had to start from 18th after a bad qualifying in tricky conditions on Saturday and was slapped with a double long lap penalty for jumping the start. The Suzuki rider’s race only lasted two laps anyway, after a collision with Tech3’s Danilo Petrucci ended both of their afternoons early. Mir explained that his jump
Bagnaia and factory Ducati team-mate Jack Miller were the only two riders to use the hard front in Sunday’s cold race at Misano, with the latter crashing out on the fourth lap. Leading the race for the first 22 of 27 laps, Bagnaia was making his choice work and resisting pressure from eventual race winner
Bagnaia trailed Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo by 52 points coming into this weekend’s Misano race and only needed to be outscored by three for the championship to go to Quartararo. The Ducati rider led for the first 22 of 27 laps on Sunday from pole and was on course to keep the championship rolling to Portugal,
The Honda rider was one of seven riders to crash during the FP4 session ahead of qualifying, which was run on slick tyres on a Misano track that was still damp in places and incredibly cold. As he pushed for his first time attack lap in Q2, Marquez was almost thrown from his bike at
The Ducati rider claimed his fourth consecutive pole position by progressing through Q1 and storming the pole shootout in tricky conditions to take top spot by 0.025s from team-mate Jack Miller. It was a nightmare qualifying for MotoGP world championship leader Fabio Quartararo as he failed to progress from Q1 and then had his best
Avintia rookie Marini has endured a largely difficult rookie campaign in MotoGP aboard the VR46-backed two-year-old Ducati, but in recent rounds has started to show flashes of speed. Marini took advantage of the cold and tricky conditions in qualifying at Misano to put his GP19 third on the grid, missing pole by just 0.085 seconds
The wet weather that affected Friday remained for the start of Saturday’s running at Misano, but it didn’t take long in FP3 for riders to begin finding good lap times to make significant improvements on the combined timesheets. After 10 minutes Marc Marquez had made the biggest jump up to fourth overall with a 1m42.305s,
Zarco, who topped the wet FP1 session, edged out Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro as Tech3 KTM’s Iker Lecuona impressed in the tricky conditions with fourth place ahead of factory KTM rider Miguel Oliveira. Luca Marini also caught the eye at the end of FP2 for Avintia Ducati by taking sixth place, with Aprilia wildcard Lorenzo Savadori
On Friday the FIM and Dorna Sports announced a new set of regulations for its junior series to increase the minimum age limits and cap grid sizes in a bid to improve safety in the wake of three teenage deaths in FIM-sanctioned events this year. One of the most significant changes is the raising of
Marquez comes into this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano fresh off the back of a dominant win at a stronghold for the Honda rider at the Circuit of the Americas. The Texan venue’s anticlockwise layout suits him better generally, but more so in 2021 given the limitations he has in his recovering right
On Thursday ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano, Yamaha announced it had agreed a deal with RNF Racing – which is rebranding from Petronas SRT in 2022 – for it to continue being its satellite team in MotoGP next year. At the same time Yamaha also announced it had agreed a deal
RNF Racing will take over from the outgoing Petronas Sepang Racing Team, which announced last month that it would be quitting all three classes of the MotoGP world championship. Current team boss Razlan Razali will remain at the helm, while it was thought team director Johan Stigefelt would continue also – though a rift between
After a three-week break following the Americas MotoGP in Austin, Fabio Quartararo will have his first opportunity to clinch a maiden world title given his 52-point lead going into the Emilia Romagna GP over Francesco Bagnaia. Put simply, if the Yamaha rider finishes the second Misano round with a championship lead of 51 points or
Redding raced in MotoGP from 2014 to 2018, scoring two podiums in that time as he rode satellite Honda and Ducati machinery, before spending a final year in 2018 on the factory Aprilia. The 2019 British Superbike champion and 12-time WSBK race winner has been very vocal about his dismay at the situation he encountered
The reigning world champion’s GSX-RR blew up as he tried to accelerate out of Turn 11 early in FP4 on Saturday, bringing him to a sudden halt and bringing him close to a collision with KTM’s Miguel Oliveira who was directly behind. Mir was able to get back on track on his second bike and
MotoGP legend Rossi said during the Americas Grand Prix weekend that Rea not getting a full-time ride in MotoGP was “a great shame”, and feels he could still be fast in the premier class of grand prix racing. Rea contested two grands prix with Honda as Casey Stoner’s injury stand-in at Misano and Aragon in
Northern Irishman Rea has been the all-conquering force in WSBK with Kawasaki for over half a decade, winning six titles on the spin from 2015 to 2020, while also tallying up over one hundred race wins. Rea competed in two MotoGP races in 2012 with Honda in place of the injured Casey Stoner at Aragon and Misano,
Milan tragically died in a multi-rider incident in July during the European Talent Cup round at Aragon. He was the second of three teenagers to have been killed this year in junior motorcycle races, following 19-year-old Jason Dupasquier’s passing after a crash during Moto3 qualifying at Mugello, while 15-year-old Dean Berta Vinales died in a
The reigning Moto2 world champion showed flashes of speed in the early part of maiden campaign in MotoGP, but has taken a giant leap in form since the Aragon Grand Prix. Scoring his first top-six result at Aragon, Bastianini followed that up with a stunning ride to third from 12th at Misano, and scored sixth
Martin was battling with factory Ducati counterpart Francesco Bagnaia in the latter stages of the race at Austin over the final spot of the podium when he cut the track at Turns 3 and 4. He was hit was a long lap penalty by race stewards, which ultimately dropped him to fifth behind Suzuki’s Alex
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced MotoGP to radically alter its 2020 and 2021 schedules, with the current campaign featuring 18 races instead of the originally planned 20 – with the majority taking place in Europe. But MotoGP has finalised a normal schedule for the 2022 campaign, which will feature a record 21 races and two
Bagnaia has enjoyed a purple patch of late, scoring back-to-back wins at Aragon and Misano, while adding a third-successive podium appearance to that run with third in last Sunday’s Grand Prix of the Americas. However, with Quartararo finishing second to extend his championship lead to 52 points over Bagnaia, the Yamaha rider will have his
The Petronas SRT rider was forced to work his way from 20th on the grid after a crash in qualifying, and managed to score a point in 15th in the race on his final visit to the US as a MotoGP rider before his retirement. But the veteran Italian admits the race was one of the toughest