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The 2019 Circuit of the Americas winner made a lightning start from seventh on the grid to run fourth at the first corner, before scything into third later on the opening lap. But his charge for the podium didn’t last long as he quickly slid back, eventually finishing 11.098 seconds behind race winner Marc Marquez.

Espargaro and the Aprilia struggled more than most across the Circuit of the Americas’ vicious bumps, with the Spaniard left stranded in 19th on the grid after a crash in qualifying. The Aprilia rider’s woes continued into Sunday’s race and he only made it to lap nine of 20 before crashing out at Turn 13. That

Mir and Miller were debating sixth place when the Suzuki rider made contact with Miller at the Turn 15 left-hander on the final tour, forcing both out wide and allowing Avintia rookie Enea Bastianini to score sixth. Race Direction subsequently demoted Mir one position for the clash, dropping him to eighth behind Miller. Both Miller

The Honda rider has endured a tough campaign as he recovers from the serious right arm injury which ruled him out of the 2020 season. While an expert at the Circuit of the Americas and on anticlockwise tracks, Marquez’s dominant victory was not a guarantee pre-weekend. In the latest Tank Slappers Podcast, Autosport’s Lewis Duncan

The Yamaha rider followed runaway race winner Marc Marquez home at the Circuit of the Americas in second and crucially finished ahead of nearest title rival Francesco Bagnaia in third. This extended Quartararo’s championship lead to 52 points, meaning he can for the first time in 2021 win the title at the following round at

Having ended his six-year Circuit of the Americas victory streak with a crash in 2019, Marquez made amends for this in Sunday’s 2021 edition of the Austin race and led every lap to take a commanding win. The Honda rider leaped from third to the lead on the run up the hill into the first

Miller monstered the field in FP3 on Saturday morning by over six tenths, putting him in a firm favourite slot to take pole for the first time this season.  Having topped FP4 with a 2m04.028s on a hard rear tyre, Miller could barely improve on this by three tenths on his best Q2 lap on

Bagnaia stormed to his third-successive pole and fourth overall in 2021 with a lap 0.348-seconds clear of the field in Saturday’s qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas. The Ducati rider has converted his last two poles at Misano and Aragon into victories and has given himself an outside shot at the championship, having closed

The Circuit of the Americas in Texas has notoriously been a bumpy circuit, with numerous riders making calls the track to be totally resurfaced after a partial job in 2019 failed to solve the issues they’d previously been facing. COTA underwent another partial resurfacing ahead of the 2020 season, with Turn 1, Turn 9, the

Saturday’s MotoGP action is continuing as normal despite numerous comments from riders after Friday labelling the Circuit of the Americas’ track surface as dangerous. LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami set the early pace in the session with a 2m04.918s on his Honda, before HRC stablemate and Friday pacesetter Marc Marquez edged ahead. Marquez sat top after 10

MotoGP is making its first visit to COTA since 2019 after last year’s race was cancelled due to the global pandemic, with the circuit having been resurfaced in places since then. However, the notoriously bumpy Texan circuit has visibly developed much more vicious ripples in its asphalt – with many riders having major moments over

Six-time MotoGP world champion Marquez swept top spot on both Friday practice sessions at Circuit of the Americas, edging Ducati’s Jack Miller in each session, with the Spaniard’s advantage narrowed to just 0.015s at the end of FP2 by the Australian. After struggling in the damp conditions in the morning session, MotoGP points leader Fabio

MotoGP last visited America in April of 2019, having been forced to abandon last year’s US round due to the global pandemic. Ahead of this weekend’s 15th round of the 2021 season, the big news was Maverick Vinales’ brave decision to withdraw from the event following the death of his 15-year-old cousin Dean Berta Vinales

During the Jerez round of the World Superport 300 Championship last weekend, 15-year-old Dean Berta Vinales – cousin to Maverick Vinales – died in a multi-rider accident. He is the third teenager to die in an event at European and world championship level, following 14-year-old European Talent Cup racer Hugo Millan in July and Moto3’s

World Supersport 300 rider Vinales – the 15-year-old cousin of MotoGP race winner Maverick Vinales – tragically died in a horrific incident during the Jerez World Superbike round last weekend. He is the third teenager at world and European championship level to die in incidents in 2021, following 14-year-old European Talent Cup rider Hugo Millan

The MotoGP paddock ventures outside of Europe for the first time since the Qatar double-header season opener, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions still gripping the world, as the championship returns to COTA for the first time since 2019. Fabio Quartararo continues to hold a healthy points lead at the top of the MotoGP

The Spaniard’s 15-year-old cousin Dean Berta Vinales tragically died following a horror incident during the opening race of the Jerez round of the World Supersport 300 Championship – a feeder category in World Superbikes. With not even a week passing since the accident, nine-time MotoGP race winner Vinales has elected to skip this weekend’s 15th

It is strange how quickly the phrase ‘they died doing what they loved’ loses its comfort. Death is an inescapable risk in motorsport. It is a spectre that doesn’t loom as large mercifully as it once used to, as advancements in safety continue to make motorsport a much safer place. But it remains omnipresent. During

Bagnaia stormed to a maiden victory in MotoGP two weeks ago at Aragon when he beat Honda’s Marc Marquez in a thrilling duel, and added a second to his tally after fending of championship leader Fabio Quartararo at Misano the following week. This was Ducatis fifth win in 2021, following back-to-back victories for Jack Miller

As first reported by Autosport, KTM has taken the opportunity to give 2022 Tech3 riders Fernandez and Remy Gardner an early MotoGP debut on Wednesday at the Misano in-season test. Both riders have replaced the current Tech3 line-up of Lecuona and Danilo Petrucci, as they will do in 2022.Lecuona ended Tuesday’s test day at Misano

Wednesday’s running at Misano was notable for the first outings on a MotoGP bike for Raul Fernandez and Remy Gardner on the Tech3 KTMs they will race in 2022. The current Moto2 championship leaders and team-mates took over from Iker Lecuona and Danilo Petrucci at Tech3. Fernandez was 0.726 seconds quicker than Gardner in 22nd

Bagnaia has won back-to-back MotoGP races in 2021 at Aragon and at Misano, beating Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in last Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix. Across his third season in MotoGP, Bagnaia has impressed many with his cornering ability on the GP21 and his braking – with Pramac’s Johann Zarco believing Bagnaia is the one making

Dovizioso made his MotoGP return in last weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix at Misano at Petronas SRT replacing Franco Morbidelli, and will remain with the team as a factory Yamaha rider in 2022 when it rebrands as RNF Racing. The three-time championship runner-up qualified last and finished a distant 19th in his first MotoGP race

The paddock has stayed behind at Misano for two days of official in-season testing following the San Marino Grand Prix, with 2022 developments and set-up work for October’s Emilia Romagna GP at the same venue the primary focus for teams. Rain in the morning left the circuit saturated for the first three-and-a-half-hour session to begin

Rossi has been instrumental in boosting the profile of MotoGP in his native Italy during his 26-season career, and in recent years has helped to build a renaissance in Italian talent in grand prix racing through his VR46 Riders Academy. The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion’s efforts in this area have been on full

Morbidelli has been out of action since June’s Dutch TT after undergoing surgery on a left knee injury, and made his return at Misano last weekend – which also happened to be his debut with the factory Yamaha team as Maverick Vinales’ replacement. The three-time MotoGP race winner qualified 16th and was 18th in the

Bagnaia stormed to his first MotoGP win at Aragon a week ago after a race-long battle with Marc Marquez, and resisted immense pressure from a charging Quartararo late on at Misano to seal a famous home win on his factory Ducati. Quartararo kept his championship lead at a healthy 48 points as he was spared

Bastianini came from 12th on the grid on his two-year-old Ducati to overtake Marquez for fourth by the sixth lap of Sunday’s 27-lap Misano race. The Avintia rider went on to finish third to claim his first podium in the premier class, later admitting passing Marquez – whom he called “the boss of MotoGP” – was

The reigning world champion finished Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix at Misano in sixth after being demoted a place for exceeding track limits on the final lap. But with Fabio Quartararo finishing second on his Yamaha, his advantage over third-placed Mir has extended to 67 points with four races to go – a bridge, the

Bagnaia stormed to his second-successive pole with a new lap record at Misano, while Miller shadowed him in qualifying in a repeat of Saturday at Aragon last weekend. The poleman appears to be one of the strongest on race pace coming into Sunday’s race and could give his title hopes a bit more of a