Pramac rider Danilo Petrucci does not think Ducati stablemate Andrea Dovizioso needs his help in his bid to become the 2017 MotoGP world champion. Dovizioso comes into this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island trailing standings leader Marc Marquez by 11 points after beating him in a hard–fought duel at Motegi last weekend. Petrucci […]
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez admits he still has ‘half an eye’ on Maverick Vinales in the title battle despite the Yamaha rider slipping 41 points adrift at Motegi. Marquez left the Japanese Grand Prix with an 11-point lead after just missing out on victory in a titanic tussle with Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso. The Spaniard […]
Yamaha’s Alex Lowes hopes to add to his 2017 podium tally as the World Superbike Championship heads to Jerez for the penultimate round of the season. Lowes scored a third podium of the year last time out in the second race at Magny–Cours and, alongside team–mate Michael van der Mark in third, ended a six–year […]
MotoGP standings leader Marc Marquez says the 2017 world championship battle with Andrea Dovizioso is one of the most difficult he has ever experienced. The Spaniard transformed a 33–point deficit after the Italian Grand Prix to take a five–point championship lead at the Sachsenring. He briefly slid behind Ducati’s Dovizioso after the Silverstone race, but retook it by 16 […]
The winter testing schedule for the 2019 MotoGP season has been reduced to just two pre–season outings, the Grand Prix Commission has announced. The 2019 calendar is expected to see the schedule extend to 20 races with the addition of the first Finnish Grand Prix since 1982 at the new KymiRing circuit, with Thailand coming […]
2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli will wildcard at the Jerez and Qatar rounds with Puccetti, while Ant West will move over to the World Supersport team. Guintoli left WorldSBK after a tough year on the Pata Yamaha in 2016 to join the Bennetts Suzuki outfit in British Superbikes this season. Despite a largely difficult return […]
Maria Herrera will return to Moto3 action at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix as the injured Albert Arenas’ replacement at Aspar, and will continue to ride in his place at Sepang next week. Spaniard Arenas suffered a fracture to his right hand in a crash during qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix, and was forced […]
Jorge Lorenzo has branded Johann Zarco’s overtake on him at Turn 9 in the early stages of the Motegi MotoGP as a ‘Playstation‘ move and ‘very aggressive’. The pair were debating fourth place on the fourth lap of a rain–lashed Japanese Grand Prix when Zarco went for an overtake on the Spaniard at the V […]
Australian Broc Parkes will deputise for the unwell Jonas Folger at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix from Phillip Island, the Tech3 team has confirmed. Folger was forced to pull out of the Motegi race to undergo tests at home in Germany for a suspected case of Epstein Barr virus. Yamaha test rider Kohta Nozane took Folger‘s […]
Maverick Vinales concedes that his MotoGP championship tilt is ‘not in my hands’ after slipping to 41 points adrift of standings leader Marc Marquez in the Japanese Grand Prix. The Yamaha rider struggled all weekend – just as he has done for the entirety of this season in wet conditions – with rear grip, and […]
Valentino Rossi admits to feeling pain ‘everywhere’ after suffering a nasty highside in the early stages of the Motegi MotoGP race, and was lucky to avoid aggravating his right leg injury. The Yamaha rider had a similar incident during the fourth free practice session at Turn 8, which left him with just one YZR-M1 for […]
Marc Marquez hailed his Japanese MotoGP battle with Andrea Dovizioso as ‘amazing’ despite coming out second-best after a failed last-gasp move at the final corner. The Spaniard took the lead of the race on the 13th laps after moving ahead of Danilo Petrucci, but soon found nearest title rival Dovizioso close behind him. The Italian […]