MotoGP

The returning Marquez was rear-ended by championship leader Fabio Quartararo when the Honda rider had a small moment applying the throttle through Turn 3 on the opening lap. This sent Quartararo into a sickening crash while bits of his Yamaha got stuck in the rear of Marquez’s Honda. When the six-time MotoGP world champion engaged

The Yamaha rider long predicted Aragon to be one of the toughest races of the year for him, having typically struggled for form at the Spanish venue. Despite showing strong race pace in FP4 – which has convinced Quartararo that he is strong enough “to fight for the victory” – the 2021 world champion could

The Gresini rider beat future factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia by 0.042 seconds in a thrilling Aragon GP on Sunday. His fourth win of the season netted Ducati its third-successive constructors’ championship, but also put the Italian into an outside title challenger position after a crash for points leader Fabio Quartararo meant Bastianini’s deficit was

The three-time MotoGP race winner and Yamaha test rider has been drafted in at RNF to replace the retired Andrea Dovizioso through to the end of the season. Having not raced since the 2021 Aragon GP when he was replacing Maverick Vinales at Yamaha, Crutchlow managed to score two points in 14th last Sunday and

The Honda rider was making his MotoGP comeback this weekend at Aragon having been absent since May’s Italian GP following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Qualifying 13th, Marquez leapt up to sixth at the first corner in Sunday’s 23-lap race but suffered a moment on the gas

Quartararo was eliminated on lap one when he ran into the back of Marc Marquez after the Honda rider had a small slide exiting Turn 3. Bagnaia went on to finish second, 0.042 seconds behind Gresini’s Enea Bastianini after a thrilling duel, to reduce his championship deficit to Quartararo to just 10 points with five

Making his MotoGP race return after a 112-day absence following surgery on his broken right arm, six-time premier class world champion Marquez leaped from 13th on the grid to sixth off the line. The Honda rider swooped around Quartararo – who started sixth – at Turn 1, but exiting Turn 3 suffered a big moment

The Yamaha test rider will contest the final six races of the 2022 season replacing the retired Andrea Dovizioso at RNF, beginning this weekend at the Aragon Grand Prix. Crutchlow suffered a 300km/h crash in FP3 on Saturday morning, which stopped him from being able to challenge for a place in Q2. He believes this

Bagnaia qualified on pole on Saturday at Aragon with a new lap record to lead a Ducati 1-2-3 from team-mate Jack Miller and Gresini’s Bastianini. Bagnaia and Bastianini battled over victory in the last round at Misano, with the former only narrowly winning in a thrilling duel to the chequered flag. Sunday’s Aragon GP is

Having won 10 of the last 20 grands prix, Bagnaia is the rider in form at the moment as he looks to extend his run of four-successive victories in 2022 and make further inroads into championship leader Fabio Quartararo’s advantage. Firing in a 1m46.069s at the end to smash the existing lap record, Bagnaia celebrated

The Honda rider made his long-awaited MotoGP return on Friday at Aragon 110 days after last racing in the series at Mugello, before he took a leave of absence to undergo a fourth major operation on his badly broken right arm. Marquez ended Friday’s running at Aragon eighth overall having made a lap time gain

The three-time MotoGP race winner will see out the rest of the 2022 season in place of Andrea Dovizioso at RNF Racing, after the Italian retired from the series following the San Marino GP. Crutchlow has been Yamaha’s official test rider since the end of his own racing career at the conclusion of 2020, though

The second seat at the rebranded Tech3 GasGas squad for 2023 has been up for grabs for some time, with Fernandez – no relation to current Tech3 rider Raul Fernandez – strongly linked to the ride. This was only heightened when Remy Gardner told media at the San Marino Grand Prix that he was informed

The three-time MotoGP race winner and Yamaha test rider was announced as Dovizioso’s replacement from Aragon onwards during the British GP weekend, after the latter revealed he would be retiring after the San Marino GP. Crutchlow retired from MotoGP full-time at the end of 2020 to become Yamaha’s official test rider, but made four starts

Following the Italian GP, Marquez elected to take a leave of absence to undergo a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020, to have the bone rotate back to its original position after it had shifted 34 degrees after his three other surgeries. Having made his come back to riding

As part of Honda’s attempts to dig itself out of the dearth it is currently experiencing in MotoGP, having gone throughout 2022 without a victory so far and failing to come close to the title in the last three seasons, the Japanese brand is overhauling its line-up for 2023. At LCR, Alex Rins has signed

Marquez has been out of racing action since the Italian GP in May, after which he decided to undergo complex surgery on the right arm he injured in the 2020 Spanish GP at Jerez. “As you can see, I’m smiling, which means I’ll be at the Aragon GP – racing, of course,” he said in

Nakagami’s future had been thrown into doubt amid a difficult fifth season in the premier class aboard the troublesome 2022 iteration of the Honda RC213V. The Japanese rider lies 16th in the standings ahead of this weekend’s Aragon round with a pair of seventh-place finishes at Jerez and Le Mans standing as his best results

Quartararo has been very critical of Yamaha’s lack of development with its engine for 2022. Having lacked power for several years, it remains the slowest bike through the speed traps. But Yamaha has started to work in a different way for 2023 in regards to engine development, bringing in ex-Ferrari Formula 1 engine boss Luca

The plan is to construct a purpose-built FIM and FIA-accredited track at an undisclosed venue in the kingdom, which would make Saudi Arabia the second country in the Middle East to host a MotoGP race after the neighbouring Qatar. It is unclear if this track is the same as the one planned in Qiddiya near

The Australian led from pole on the opening lap but had his win hopes dashed when he crashed at Turn 4. Miller re-joined the race to finish 18th with one side of his aerodynamic fairing broken and his rear brake no longer working. While he considers Sunday’s race was potentially a missed opportunity for him,

Vinales and Bagnaia fought for victory at Misano in 2020 when the former was still at Yamaha, with long-time leader Bagnaia crashing out on his Pramac Ducati. In last Sunday’s San Marino GP, Vinales ran Bagnaia hard in the first half of the 27-lap race but couldn’t find a way through on the factory Ducati

The six-time MotoGP world champion made his highly anticipated return after 100 days away, following a fourth major surgery aimed to fix his badly broken arm suffered at the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix. Having returned to gym work in the last two weeks and motorcycle training in the last week, Marquez completed 39 laps for

Gresini rider Bastianini and his future factory Ducati team-mate Bagnaia engaged in a tense duel for the win at Misano last Sunday. The pair came close to a collision on the final lap into Turn 4, but both emerged unscathed and ran line astern into the last turn. Bastianini got a good run on Bagnaia

The Italian was 91 points adrift of reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo in the standings after registering a fourth DNF of the campaign at the German GP. But a run of victories through Assen, Silverstone, Red Bull Ring and last Sunday at Misano has put him up to second, 30 points behind Quartararo. Despite the

Over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend KTM signed the Spaniard to race for its GasGas Tech3 customer team, which will continue to employ the Austrian marque’s RC16.  The current Moto2 leader will be replaced at KTM Ajo by fellow Spaniard Albert Arenas.  Fernandez, who is currently competing in his sixth Moto2 season, signed a

The Ducati rider held off race-long pressure from future factory team-mate Enea Bastianini to take the win at Misano, his sixth in total this season, with championship leader Quartararo back in fifth place. It means Bagnaia has moved ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro as closest contender and is now 30 points off the top having

The Yamaha rider started eighth in Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix and made up no places at the start until two riders crashed out in front of him on the second lap. Quartararo made one overtake on Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro for fifth but could do no more than this. With Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia winning the

After a near-15-year career racing in the premier class, three-time championship runner-up Dovizioso has now retired from MotoGP following Sunday’s Misano race. Dovizioso announced during the British GP weekend that Misano would be his last outing, with Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow taking his place for the final six rounds of 2022. The RNF Racing

The six-time MotoGP world champion will return to riding for the first time in three months since his fourth major arm operation on Tuesday at the post-San Marino Grand Prix test. Declared fit by MotoGP doctors on Saturday at Misano, Marquez admits he’s not sure if he will do both days of the test and