Avintia Ducati’s Hector Barbera topped the opening practice session ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix, after Andrea Dovizioso had his late benchmark time cancelled. Spaniard Barbera has endured a tough season aboard the 2016 Desmosedici, with only one top 10 finish serving as the highlight so far. As a result his future at Avintia and […]
Valentino Rossi has praised Marc Marquez’s consistency across the 2017 season so far, highlighting this as the main reason the Honda rider leads the standings ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix. Honda introduced a new engine configuration for this season in a bit to improve the acceleration issue that has plagued it since 2015, and […]
2015 Moto3 world champion Danny Kent will make his second appearance in the Moto2 class as a stand-in at the Dynavolt Intact team in place of the injured Marcel Schrotter. Kent – who returned to the Moto2 class in 2016 having previously contested one season in 2013 with Tech 3 – parted ways with the […]
The Pedercini Kawasaki World Superbike team has parted ways with Alex De Angelis and has announced ex-Guandalini Yamaha rider Ricardo Russo as his replacement. De Angelis moved to WorldSBK last season alongside the Ioda team he competed for in MotoGP in 2015. The San Marinese rider enjoyed a strong debut campaign on the Aprilia, which […]
Jorge Lorenzo is quietly confident of challenging for victory at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, the Spaniard stating the Red Bull Ring is a ‘theoretically’ better circuit for Ducati. Ducati dominated proceedings at the Red Bull Ring last season – the first race at the circuit since 1997 – with Andrea Iannone leading home team-mate […]
The Yamaha World Superbike team has confirmed its current line-up of Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark will remain with the Japanese manufacturer for 2018. The Yamaha-backed Crescent Racing team – run by Paul Denning – brought Lowes onboard for the 2014 season, then on Suzuki machinery. The 2013 British Superbike champion found the […]
The MotoGP World Championship sprung back into life last weekend at Brno, in the Czech Republic, after a four-week summer break. And for many, the resumption of action turned out to be a little underwhelming. Dodgy weather for much of the day leading up to the race cast a great cloud of doubt over the […]
Tom Luthi reignited his title challenge with a dominant victory in a fragmented Czech Grand Prix, while standings leader Franco Morbidelli struggled to eighth. The Swiss rider has not won a race since the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, and now leaves Brno having halved his gap to Morbidelli in the championship to 17 points. The […]
Leopard Racing’s Joan Mir held off a tense assault from championship rival Romano Fenati to take victory in a damp Czech Grand Prix. The championship leader’s sixth win of the 2017 season sees him extends his advantage over Fenati to 42 points ahead of next weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix – the scene of Mir’s maiden […]
Mattia Pasini will start on pole for the first time in 10 years after clinching top spot in a tight Czech Grand Prix qualifying. The Italtrans rider has been on strong form all weekend, ending Friday’s running fastest of all, while missing top spot in final practice by just three tenths of a second in […]
Marc Marquez heads into this afternoon’s qualifying for the Czech Grand Prix as the man to beat, after the Honda rider pipped team-mate Dani Pedrosa to top spot in third practice. The session was brought to an early pause to allow the air fences at Turn 10 to be repaired after Aspar’s Alvaro Bautista and […]
Nicolo Bulega recovered from a heavy highside in the early part of a crash-strewn third practice for the Czech Grand Prix to head into qualifying fastest of all. After Friday’s running was affected by poor weather, third practice presented the Moto3 field with its first dry session. From the off, the green track conditions caught […]