Aprilia Racing Team Gresini’s Stefan Bradl labelled his Saturday at MotorLand Aragon as a “great day” for himself and the team after the German made it into the second part of qualifying for the first time this season. The Italian team have enjoyed a strong weekend thus far in Aragon. Bradl ended yesterday’s running 13th […]
Marc Marquez took his 64th career pole position after a stunning performance in qualifying in Aragon, the Honda rider dominating for top spot. The Spaniard has demonstrated some seriously strong pace throughout practice, both over a single lap and in race simulations. Marquez wasted no time when QP2 started to assert his authority, taking top […]
French youngster Fabio Quartararo will make the step up to the intermediate class next season with the Pons team, it has been confirmed. Quartararo came into the Moto3 World Championship last season having built up quite a reputation during his time in the CEV Repsol Championship. A double champion of the series, Quartararo’s move into […]
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez continued to cement his and Honda’s position as the ones to beat this weekend at MotorLand Aragon after topping a third practice session stricken with crashes. Conditions, though sunny, were a lot cooler this morning and this caught out a number of riders. Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi was on his first out-lap […]
LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow had a promising first day at MotorLand Aragon despite struggling with his bike on corner entry, finishing third fastest overall and mixing it with the Repsol pairing in FP2. The British rider came into the weekend reckoning that the Honda riders may suffer with Aragon’s numerous low-gear acceleration points. Though a […]
Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa ended the first day of proceedings at MotorLand Aragon as the man to beat after setting the fastest time of the weekend so far in free practice two. The Spaniard has come into a bit of form lately, changes to the set-up of his RC213V allowing him to extract more from […]
Marc VDS Racing Team’s stand-in for the weekend Nicky Hayden held no illusions that his return to the MotoGP World Championship at Aragon would be easy, and indeed Friday was a tough one for the American rider. Hayden was given the call-up after Jack Miller was declared unfit to ride due to several fractures in […]
Idemitsu Honda Team Asia’s Takaaki Nakagami ended the second Moto2 free practice session at Aragon fastest after pipping Gresini’s Sam Lowes right at the death. Nakagmi was quick this morning, finishing third on the time sheets and just six hundredths adrift. With the humidity having risen for FP2, big improvements from FP1 were hard to […]
Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa has come into a real purple patch of late, and once again looks like a force to be reckoned with after topping the second MotoGP free practice session at MotorLand Aragon. The Spaniard was a lowly 11th this morning, but sat atop of the time sheets for much of this afternoon’s […]
Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Brad Binder ended the first day of track action at MotorLand Aragon, ahead of what could be the title-deciding race on Sunday, fastest after topping FP2. The South African didn’t have the best of mornings, a few excursions beyond track limits seeing some of his best times cancelled and leaving him […]
Factory Ducati rider Andrea Iannone will sit out this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix due to severe neck pain, a hangover from his FP1 crash at Misano two weeks ago where he fractured his T3 vertebra. Iannone was forced to miss the San Marino race because of the vertebra fracture, but was declared fit to ride […]
Federal Oil Gresini rider Sam Lowes ended the first session at MotorLand Aragon for the Moto2 World Championship fastest, but only by a tiny margin in what was a highly competitive FP1. Lowes comes into this weekend with his championship challenge all but gone after crashing out of the San Marino Grand Prix, his focus […]