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The Phillip Island track surface was brought up in last Friday’s safety commission meeting with a number of riders concerned about the current state of the track. That was despite lap record pace across the weekend, including in the premier class where Jorge Martin beat Jorge Lorenzo’s qualifying record set back in 2013. According to

The Aprilia rider struggled to ninth at Phillip Island on Sunday due to an apparent electronics issue, which has left him trailing 27 points in the championship to new leader Francesco Bagnaia with just two races to go. Espargaro has been in the title fight all season since he took his maiden MotoGP victory in

Making his first and only appearance on home soil as a factory Ducati rider, Miller was well-placed in the lead group when he was taken out on lap nine. The culprit was an out-of-control Alex Marquez, who out-braked himself into the hairpin before clattering into Miller’s Ducati and sending the Australian tumbling off the bike.

Suzuki announced earlier this year that it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of the year in a shock move that comes just two seasons after it won the world championship with Joan Mir. Since the announcement, Suzuki’s season has come off the rails, with Rins going without a podium since the Americas Grand

The Italian now leads the standings for the first time in his MotoGP career by 14 points after finishing third on Sunday at Phillip Island to capitalise on a disastrous day for his title rivals. Erstwhile championship leader Fabio Quartararo crashed out, while Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro could only ride to ninth at Phillip Island to

The Honda rider scored his first podium of the season on Sunday at Phillip Island when he narrowly missed out on victory to Suzuki’s Alex Rins in second. It marked the 100th of his MotoGP career and comes just four races into his comeback from the fourth major operation he had on the right arm

Suzuki made a shock announcement back in May that it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season just two years after it won the world championship with Joan Mir. From that moment, Suzuki’s season has fallen off the rails. But a stunning ride from 10th on the grid from Rins saw

The six-time MotoGP world champion missed out on pole at Phillip Island on Saturday to Pramac’s Jorge Martin by just 0.013 seconds. Marquez utilised a tow from Bagnaia on his final run to lift himself ahead of the Ducati rider and score his second front row start in the fourth race of his injury comeback.

The Frenchman has generally struggled more in time attack in 2022 compared to last season, when he scored five pole positions and 14 total front row starts. Quartararo has just five front row starts and one pole to his credit in 2022 on the underpowered Yamaha package and was left “frustrated” on Saturday at Phillip

The lap record at Phillip Island has belonged to three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo since 2013, but was finally toppled on Saturday when Martin fired in a 1m27.767s to tally up his third pole of the campaign. Having never ridden around Phillip Island on a MotoGP bike prior to this weekend, Martin was 0.013

Bagnaia begins this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix just two points behind Quartararo having overturned a 91-point deficit since June’s German Grand Prix. The Italian has only recently begun publicly to consider himself as a championship challenger but remains adamant that he will not change his approach in races right now. As a result, he admits

Espargaro is just 20 points back from championship leader Fabio Quartararo coming into this weekend’s Phillip Island round, with 75 points still on offer in 2022. The Aprilia rider hasn’t won since claiming his maiden MotoGP victory in Argentina at round three back in April, while his last podium came at Aragon three races ago.

Phillip Island was left under water following heavy rain on Thursday, but the weather had cleared by the time FP1 got underway and dry conditions would stick for the rest of the day. Pramac’s Johann Zarco led a Ducati 1-2 on his Pramac-run GP22 from factory counterpart Jack Miller, making his first – and only

The six-time MotoGP world champion will compete in the fourth race of his injury comeback this weekend at the Australian Grand Prix, having rode to fourth in Japan and fifth in Thailand over the last three weeks. Marquez’s points haul since he returned at Aragon has exceeded that which Honda scored during his six-race stint

The Yamaha test rider hurt his right ankle in a nasty crash in second practice for the Thailand MotoGP race a fortnight ago. While checks immediately following the accident revealed no bones were broken, Crutchlow has been managing significant pain since. That prompted the Brit to visit the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne earlier this week

Heading into the final three rounds of the season, beginning this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix, five riders are covered by 40 points. PLUS: The unique advantage Ducati must now use to win the 2022 MotoGP title Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo saw his championship lead cut to just two points after a dismal run to

Read – born Phillip William Read in Luton on new year’s day in 1939 – began his grand prix racing career in 1961, taking a first win in the 350cc class at the Isle of Man TT, which was then the British round of what we know today as the MotoGP world championship. This would

The eight-time MotoGP podium finisher switched from KTM to Honda last season, but has struggled throughout his tenure with the Japanese manufacturer. Scoring just two podiums across his two years with the team thus far, Espargaro’s only top five in 2022 was his third in Qatar at the start of the year and he currently

Miller has enjoyed a strong run of results since coming back from the summer break, scoring podiums in Britain and Austria before claiming victory at the Japanese Grand Prix. Last weekend in Thailand he added to his rostrum haul by taking second in the wet after a battle for the win with KTM’s Miguel Oliveira.

Zarco finished Sunday’s wet Thailand Grand Prix in fourth having piled pressure on Bagnaia in the latter stages for the final podium place. The Pramac rider was careful in how he approached the battle, given Bagnaia is Ducati’s leading championship hope and is now just two points behind Fabio Quartararo after the Yamaha rider struggled

Last Sunday’s race at Buriram had to be delayed by almost an hour due to a torrential downpour lashing the circuit. When the race did get underway, the level of spray was still very high but all bar Tech3 KTM’s Remy Gardner managed to make it to the chequered flag. Several riders were seen in

The double MotoGP race winner was called up to replace the injured Joan Mir at Buriram last weekend, coming straight from finishing second in the MotoAmerica Superbike championship the week before. Petrucci qualified last and finished the rain-lashed race 20th, having had to set-up his bike “blind” for the conditions. FEATURE: Petrucci’s Dakar odyssey  Admitting

Quartararo qualified fourth at Buriram, but was immediately dropped to 11th after being forced wide at the first corner in the wet contest. He plummeted to 17th after running wide exiting Turn 4 moments later and could make no further progress up the order, seeing his championship lead wiped out by Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia –

The Portuguese rider stormed through from 11th on the grid to battle Ducati’s Jack Miller for victory in the rain-lashed race at Buriram, making a decisive pass for the lead at the last corner on lap 14 of 25. Oliveira says Miller’s early pace forced him into pushing hard from the off and he couldn’t

The Honda rider pushed hard from the off in Thailand as he came to Buriram feeling like his recovering right shoulder could stand up to the strain. Fastest in FP1 and qualifying eighth, Marquez went on to finish the rain-lashed Thailand race fifth and only missing out on victory by 2.9 seconds. But he admitted

Sunday’s 25-lap Thailand GP was delayed by almost an hour due to torrential rain, which led to MotoGP’s second wet race of the year. The first one in Indonesia back in March saw Bagnaia struggle to a distant 15th, while he was over two seconds off the pace in a wet qualifying in Japan last

The Spaniard was battling with KTM’s Binder on the second lap of the delayed Thailand race when the pair made contact at Turn 3. Espargaro claims both were alongside each other under braking for the corner and Binder tried to hand on around the outside, with the Aprilia rider clattering into him and forcing him

Conditions took a turn at the start of the earlier Moto2 race, which was forced to be delayed as the field switched from slick tyres to wets. Shortened from 24 laps to 16, the Moto2 race didn’t get to the 2/3 cut-off distance to declare a result when heavy rain lashed the circuit. A five-lap

The VR46 Ducati rider had one front row start to his credit when he was second at the Italian GP in May prior to Saturday’s qualifying in Thailand. After stringing together a new lap record of 1m29.671s to snatch pole at the end of Q2, Bezzecchi has become a record 10th different polesitter in 2022

The Spaniard has been off the pace all weekend at Buriram as the stiffer carcass design of the rear tyres brough to cope with the heat demands doesn’t suit the RS-GP – with Espargaro struggling in Indonesia and Austria on the same tyre. Dropping into Q1 after practice, Espargaro was denied a place in Q2