Cal Crutchlow made amends for his Qatar DNF at Termas de Rio Hondo on Sunday, the LCR Honda rider valiantly claiming third after a scrap with Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi. The British rider, along with the rest of the Honda runners, found the going tough all weekend in Argentina, the RC213 proving to be an incredibly […]
In just its third race as a MotoGP factory entrant, KTM leave Termas de Rio Hondo with three points after both Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro finished inside the top 15 on their RC16s. The Austrian manufacturer endured a tough start to its racing life in MotoGP. Mika Kallio failed to finish on their debut […]
Aspar Ducati’s Alvaro Bautista prevailed in an aggressive midfield battle to claim his first top five finish since 2014, whilst Karel Abraham completed the top 10. The Spanish rider has been signing the praises of the Desmosedici GP16 all winter, and came into the season expecting a regular challenge for the top five. A crash […]
The factory Ducati team will be glad to see the back of the 2017 Argentina Grand Prix, as an already difficult weekend ended in a disastrous double DNF. Both Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso had to go through the first part of qualifying having failed to make the top 10 at the end of FP3. A […]
Valentino Rossi ended his milestone 350th grand prix appearance on the second step of the podium, after the Yamaha rider got the upper hand on LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow in a race-long duel. The Italian came into Sunday once again with fairly bleak prospects, as his issues with the front-end of his YZR-M1 reappeared in […]
Honda’s Marc Marquez leaves Termas de Rio Hondo pointless, after the Spaniard crashed out whilst commandingly leading the Argentine Grand Prix. Marquez’s dominant pole position on Saturday ahead of Karel Abraham set the Honda rider up nicely for a third Argentina victory, especially with both Yamahas and the factory Ducatis starting out of position. At the start, […]
The World Superbike Championship will visit Argentina next year to the new, under-construction El Villicum circuit in San Juan. A press conference, attended by Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta and representatives from the San Juan Government, was held on Sunday at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit to announce the event, which will join the WorldSBK […]
Franco Morbidelli made it back-to-back wins in the 2017 Moto2 World Championship with victory in a tense Argentine Grand Prix. The Italian rider has been on stunning form all weekend, and took the holeshot at the start after carving past pole man Miguel Oliveira at the second corner, with Marc VDS team-mate Alex Marquez following […]
Leopard Racing’s Joan Mir charged through the field to take his second win of the season ahead of John McPhee and Jorge Martin. The Spanish rider was caught out by the change of weather in the final stages of qualifying yesterday and was left with work to do from 16th on the grid. At the […]
Valentino Rossi managed to brush of a difficult opening day of running in Argentina with a seventh position in a damp qualifying having come from QP1. The nine-times world champion Italian struggled once again yesterday with a lack of feeling on the front-end of his YZR-M1, and this stopped him from setting a time good […]
Monster Tech 3 Yamaha’s Johann Zarco says he is expecting to have a strong race tomorrow despite qualifying in a lowly 14th. The French rider had to go through the first part of qualifying after failing to run the correct tyres at the right time in Friday practice. With rain affecting FP3 on Saturday morning, […]
Marc Marquez battled through tricky conditions to claim a sensational fourth straight pole position at Termas de Rio Hondo by over seven tenths of a second. The Spanish rider has been the benchmark at the Argentinian venue since 2014, though remained largely in the shadow of Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales throughout practice and came into qualifying […]