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Alex Marquez, younger brother to four-time MotoGP champion Marc, ended two days of testing with the Marc VDS team at Jerez pleased with the progress he made and grateful for the experience. Triple Moto2 race winner Marquez joined team-mate Franco Morbidelli – who will make his MotoGP debut with Marc VDS next year – at […]
Finland’s Niki Tuuli will join Britain’s Andrew Irwin at the CIA Landlords Insurance–backed PTR Honda team for the 2018 World Supersport Championship. Tuuli made his WorldSSP debut towards the end of the 2016 season, taking a Kallio Racing–backed Yamaha R6 to podiums at the Lausitzring, Magny–Cours and Jerez. The Finn was retained by Kallio Racing […]
Loris Baz says returning to the World Superbike Championship is like stepping into ‘another world’, after completing a successful first test on the Althea BMW at Jerez this week. 24-year-old Baz will make his first appearance in WorldSBK since departing for MotoGP at the end of the 2014 season next year, joining forces with the […]
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez praised the new 2018 prototype engine Honda brought to the Valencia test, but admits he still has ‘doubts’ about the chassis upgrade he also tried. Marquez had three bikes to work with during the two–day test at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit: the bike he raced in Valencia, a 2017 bike […]
Loris Baz will return to the World Superbike Championship in 2018 after signing a one-year deal with the Althea BMW squad, who will scale back its effort to a one-bike entry. Frenchman Baz last rode in WorldSBK in 2014 with the factory Kawasaki team alongside 2013 world champion Tom Sykes, before signing a deal to […]
World champion Marc Marquez signed of the 2017 MotoGP season with the fastest lap of the two–day Valencia test, the Spaniard 0.403 seconds clear of Honda team–mate Dani Pedrosa. Pramac’s Jack Miller – who was fifth fastest on Tuesday – was the first to register a laptime after 40 minutes of the session had passed – the […]
LCR’s Cal Crutchlow labelled the first iteration of Honda’s 2018 RC213V ‘special’ after turning 30 laps on the new bike on the first day of the Valencia test. HRC brought three of its new RC213Vs, one for both factory Repsol riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, and one for Crutchlow – who is now riding […]
Valentino Rossi admitted he is able go faster on the 2016 MotoGP Yamaha chassis than he is on the 2017 version, though still does not think the older frame ‘is enough’ to be competitive. The Italian and team-mate Maverick Vinales reverted to the 2016 frame for the season-ending Valencia race – something they had planned […]
Maverick Vinales topped the times at the end of the first day of pre–season testing for the 2018 season in Valencia, while Yamaha team–mate Valentino Rossi recovered from a heavy early fall to finish fourth. The day got off to a typically low-key start as most waited for track temperatures to ride before venturing out. […]
The brother of four-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, will test the Marc VDS RC213V Honda at a test in Jerez next week according to team boss Michael Bartholemy. The Marc VDS MotoGP team will field an all-new line-up in 2018 in the form of 2017 Moto2 champion Franco Morbidelli and the series’ […]
Honda’s team boss Livio Suppo will leave his role and MotoGP altogether effective immediately just a day after Marc Marquez was crowned 2017 world champion. Suppo came into MotoGP with Ducati in 2002, and had been with the company since the 1990s. The 53-year-old oversaw Ducati‘s rise to world champions with Casey Stoner in 2010 before […]
Jorge Lorenzo does not feel he hindered MotoGP team–mate Andrea Dovizioso’s Valencia race, and instead reckons he helped the Italian to improve his pace despite being ordered to let him overtake. Dovizioso needed to win Sunday’s MotoGP finale and hoped eventual world champion Marc Marquez finished outside of the top 11 to overturn his 21–point […]