MotoGP

Light rainfall hit qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday, but the Q2 pole shootout session was still run on slick tyres. Quartararo could only manage eighth, one place ahead of nearest title rival Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia, but behind an armada of Ducatis headed by Jack Miller. His in-form team-mate Francesco

Bagnaia came into Saturday’s qualifying session carrying a three-place grid penalty for the race after impeding other riders in FP1 at Misano. The Ducati rider, who is 44 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo having won the last three races, qualified second in the iffy conditions at Misano and will drop to fifth for the

Gloomy but dry conditions greeted the field as the final timed practice of the weekend got underway at Misano. Though dry, conditions weren’t optimal for time attack laps, with three riders inside the top 10 on combined times failing to improve on their Friday best efforts. After 15 minutes of running only 15th-placed Fabio Di

Bagnaia has been handed a three-place grid drop for Sunday after he was deemed to have ridden irresponsibly towards the end of FP1 and forced LCR Honda’s Marquez to abort a flying lap – which also led to Gresini’s Enea Bastianini, who was fastest on Friday, lifting off too. The Ducati rider explained that he

The three-time race winner came off his GSX-RR at the penultimate corner at Misano during the second 45-minute practice session of the day. When TV cameras cut to him, the Spaniard was seen waving his arms at one of the marshals as his bike was hauled away. Rins told the media afterwards that the reason

The San Marino GP at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli marks MotoGP’s second visit to Italy following May’s Italian GP at Mugello. It marks the first Misano race since 2017 without home hero Valentino Rossi, who hails from nearby Tavullia, but the event is still expected to generate a big buzz in the surrounding area.

Ducati spent recent races since Jack Miller’s decision to switch to KTM for 2023 evaluating Pramac’s Martin and Gresini’s Bastianini to join its factory squad alongside Francesco Bagnaia next year. Three-time race winner Bastianini was ultimately chosen for the place, while Martin was signed to a new factory deal to remain at Pramac for 2023.

KTM will renew its line-up across its factory squad and Tech3 satellite teams in 2023, with Jack Miller joining the former while Pol Espargaro and an unknown replacement for RNF-bound Raul Fernandez will join Tech3. Reigning Moto2 world champion Gardner’s future with Tech3 has been in question for some time, but revealed on Thursday ahead

The Razlan Razali-run outfit, which was rebranded as RNF Racing in 2022 following Petronas SRT’s exit at the end of last year, will sever ties with Yamaha at the conclusion of the current campaign. RNF will field year-old Aprilia machinery next year, with outgoing KTM riders Oliveira and his Tech3 counterpart Fernandez refreshing the team’s

Mir had been linked to a move to Honda for much of this season, but that became a much greater probability when Suzuki announced it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of the 2022 campaign.   The 2020 world champion said during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that he was “very close” to agreeing a

For the second year running the MotoGP star will make a one-off start in the domestic series. He will once again do so at The Bend for the ASBK season finale on 25-27 November riding a Thriller Racing-run Ducati. “I am looking forward to heading back to Adelaide to race in the Australian Superbike Championship

KTM made its debut in MotoGP in 2017 with a factory entry before expanding to a satellite structure in partnership with Tech3 from the 2019 campaign. In its six seasons in the premier class, KTM has scored six victories between Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder. But KTM still languishes behind its European rivals in Ducati

Last week MotoGP announced a radical format shake-up for 2023 with the introduction of half-distance, half-points sprint races to the Saturday of every single grand prix weekend. It is an idea that has been gleaned from F1, which has run sprint qualifying races to set the grid line-up at select events over the past two

Ducati has spent the first 13 races of the 2022 season evaluating both one-time race winner Jorge Martin and three-time winner Bastianini as potential factory team contenders for 2023. With long-time Ducati runner Jack Miller signing a two-year deal to join KTM from next season, Ducati elected to make its decision on who will replace

The 2020 MotoGP world champion Mir fracture his right foot in a nasty highside crash on the opening lap of last week’s Austrian GP. The Suzuki rider was ordered to take 15 days of rest by doctors following a check-up on the Monday after the Red Bull Ring race, and has thus been forced out

After returning to the MotoGP paddock during the Austrian GP as a spectator, the six-time MotoGP world champion has been given the green light to intensify his training for his comeback. Marquez will be allowed to add more weight and more varied exercise to his training, while also ride a motorcycle to assess the condition

Aprilia has enjoyed a breakthrough season in MotoGP in 2022 in which it earned its first victory in the modern era – which began back in 2002 – with Aleix Espargaro at the Argentine GP. Espargaro currently sits second in the MotoGP standings 32 points adrift of reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo after the first

The Aprilia rider struggled all weekend at the Red Bull Ring and had to go through Q1 in qualifying for the first time since the Austin weekend at round four. Eventually qualifying ninth, a front holeshot device issue dropped him to 12th at the start before he ultimately ended the race in sixth. The result

The 2020 MotoGP world champion was thrown from his GSX-RR bike on the opening lap as the field descended into Turn 4, the Spaniard running slightly ride before the rear wheel came around and spat him into the air before landing hard in the gravel trap. X-rays performed at the track revealed a small fracture

The satellite Ducati rider ran in the podium battle for much of Sunday’s Red Bull Ring race, at the scene of his first MotoGP win in last year’s Styrian GP, and was fighting with factory counterpart Miller over the final rostrum spot. But Martin slid off at Turn 1 as he went for a move up

Bagnaia fended off a late charge from championship leader Fabio Quartararo in the Austrian Grand Prix to score his third-successive win. It marks the first time a Ducati rider has achieved the feat since double MotoGP world champion Stoner in 2008 when he won the British, German and Dutch GPs back-to-back. Bagnaia is now just

The three-time race winner started on pole for Sunday’s 28-lap Red Bull Ring race, but was jumped off the line by eventual victor Francesco Bagnaia and quickly shuffled back to third. Bastianini engaged in a tight tussle with Pramac’s Jorge Martin – with whom he is vying for a place at the factory Ducati squad

The series is enjoying one of its most competitive eras ever, but the interest has waned in recent years. This is largely driven by the retirements of big names like Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo, while the new crop of riders haven’t been marketed as well and the series’ biggest draw in Marc

The reigning world champion was expected to struggle at the Austrian venue owing to the emphasis it puts on horsepower. But the Yamaha rider came away with a second-place finish and was just 0.492 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati at the chequered flag. Quartararo is now 32 points clear in

The Italian led every lap of Sunday’s Red Bull Ring race to claim his fourth victory of the season and third on the bounce to keep his championship hopes alive. Bagnaia, who grabbed the holeshot from second on the grid, took the soft front tyre as he expected cooler conditions and possibly rain to affect

Having been 91 points down on Quartararo in the championship after a fourth DNF of the season in Germany, victories at Assen, Silverstone and now Red Bull Ring have put Bagnaia just 44 points behind in the standings. Bagnaia, who only lost the lead briefly in a fight with team-mate Jack Miller before controlling from the

First revealed by Autosport on Friday, MotoGP officially announced on Saturday at the Austrian Grand Prix that from 2023 it will add sprint races to every round of the season. The proposal was initially met with mixed views from riders on Friday, with Espargaro one of those who felt it was wrong for the championship

First reported by Autosport on Friday of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend and officially confirmed by MotoGP on Saturday, sprint races will take place at every event next year. These will be half-distance races with half-points on offer and will have no bearing on the starting grid for the main grand prix. Why is MotoGP

Already a three-time winner in MotoGP this year, Bastianini finally added a pole position in the premier class to his credit after beating Bagnaia by 0.024 seconds at the death of a tight qualifying. Having come through Q1 after an FP3 fall, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro set the early pace with a 1m29.255s, before Jack Miller

On Friday during the Austrian Grand Prix, Autosport revealed MotoGP owners Dorna Sports plans to introduce Formula 1-style sprint races to the weekend format next year. The proposal, which will be discussed this evening in the Grand Prix Commission and is due to be officially confirmed on Saturday in a press conference at the Red